-- Trannyshack's Siouxsie and the Banshees Night: Trannyshack icon and Scissor Sisters [NSFW] star Ana Matronic returns home to help Heklina host tonight's Siouxsie tribute. Also, we heard a rumor that Ana likes to watch live Broadway musical clips on YouTube. (i.e., str8-gay hipster suicide.) Is this true? We don't believe it. But if she does, she just landed herself a new stalker. Music starts at 10 p.m. and the show begins at midnight......

Think you'd rather see a movie than go hear Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the SF Symphony (opening tomorrow through Sunday in the Saint-Saëens Piano concerto, conducted by Simon Bychkov)? Why choose, when SFist is here to give away a copy of Thibaudet's The Movie Album, where you'll hear music from A League of Their Own (no vocals from Madonna, thank goodness, it's only a piano solo album), The Piano (of course), The Pianist (ibid.), the Royal Tenenbaums, and all time San Francisco favorite, Spartacus, by composers like Debussy, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin and Duke Ellington. Just fill in the form below and a lucky winner will be notified by e-mail tomorrow. ...

SFist interviews Michael Taylor from the Court and Spark...

A new neighbor has moved into an old house in the 'hood, renovated the place and promises to be part of the community -- going to PTA meetings, Little League games, community centers and talking to local activists. But the guy you know and love will still come back and visit. Vienna, Virginia's Backfence has acquired Dan Gillmor's Bayosphere, garnering further citizen-media cred and a new market! Susan Mernit scooped the blogosphere yesterday morning,......

As a short note, we wanted to welcome our new friends DCist to the Gothamist family. EssEffist has a bunch of talented friends from art school who graduated from Duke Ellington School for the Arts who tipped us off to DuPont Circle, GoGo jams and the sartorial elegance of Chocolate City fashions. If you're looking to hook up with congressional aides like Washingtonienne, we're sure DCist will let you know where to find 'em. We think DCist is going to take Washington like John Brown took Harper's Ferry....