Week Around The -Ists...

This week we bring you some journeys that don't require you to turn over your life savings to the oil companies. ...

We'd like to interrupt our Bay Area coverage to direct y'all over to Gothamist, which is providing awesome coverage of the New York transit strike. Our brother, who lives in Spanish Harlem and works in the Flatiron district, told us "I was actually depending on (Gothamist) last night, they were the only news after midnight." You guys already know that Gothamist f**king rulez, but it's especially exciting to see them in action at a......

What is there for us to point out about Paris is Burning, a 1990 documentary about Harlem drag balls, that hasn't already been said by far greater minds than our own? Between 1987 and 1989, filmmaker Jennie Livingston followed, interviewed, and created an intimate portrait of urban men -- mostly black, mostly poor -- who devoted a simply awe-inspiring amount of energy to creating competitions in which they could hone their imitations of realness.......

Matt Mullenweg is calling it the "Blogger" Harlem photo, and man, is that a bunch of beautiful geeks. We despatched one of the cuter SFists to the fete, but next time we'll have to give him a little media training -- lesson one: "How to elbow your way to the front of a group photo, babies be damned." Speaking of photography and blogging, local photobloggers are invading the Apple Store tomorrow at 6pm. Esteemed......

A roundup of this week's theater picks....