ROCK: Over at Edinburgh Castle, the aptly-titled indie-punk band Cupids headlines tonight along with Levator (Seattle) and Dazzling Strangers. *FILM: The film you all had to sit through in English Lit class goes up on the big screen, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. In addition to the gorgeous Shakespearean tragedy, KRON 4's Jan Wahl interviews Olivia Hussey ("Juliet") and the divine Connie Champagne performs. (Psst, Connie Champagne will be the highlight of the night.......

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More hijinks at the Lusty Lady, and this time, not union-related! A Cal football player has been suspended from the team after he got in a fight with a bouncer at the famed feminist strip club. Last weekend, the player allegedly entered into a video booth while his friend (whom the player called his "agent," even though the player's not currently represented) demanded they be given two prostitutes. When they were denied, Lusty Lady reps......

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"Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love. In 2006? Gavin let his hair down. As Peter Hartlaub wrote in the Chron: "Where Were You the Day Gavin Changed His 'do?" Well, we here at SFist were all over the story, giving you the breaking news that his hair was de-gelled and then giving you the breaking news when he became gelled again. Then, of course, there was the debate: did he look more like Matt Gonzalez or Nick Carter? How come nobody thought of the obvious Clay Aiken 'do? And for those of you who wondered why there wasn't anything else important going on, we covered that too-- the new do of Gav's 20 year-old girlfriend....

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Thanks to the Matier & Ross, who basically just cribbed a story in the Bay Guardian for today's column (hey, that's our job), the story about the Lusty Lady is becoming the topic du jour. It involves strippers, lawyers, and drunk horny guys-- how could it not? ...

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Last week's winner, the Guardian. The SF People's Organization is having a meeting this Saturday. Letters about guns in the Castro. Everything is better with strippers -- union woes, men against women, and a no-fatties proposal at the Lusty Lady. Hating on fixie bikes -- and big ups to SFist Sarah L for pointing out to us how awesomely combative the comments in response have gotten (typical comment: "My god man, do you have an......

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Remember those halcyon days of 2005 when it became apparent the Giants season was not going to go as expected and everyone on the team started in with the kvetching? Well, it's happening again. First up to start in with the kvetching is the Giants' closer, Armando Benitez. Benitez complained to a writer about the negative vibes in the clubhouse, boos from the stands, negative comments from the broadcasters, and disrespect from the manager. Other than that, he's doing fine. ...

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We just moved from the Mission to North Beach, and waiting for us on the step of our new place this weekend was a copy of the North Beach Journal. Sadly, the Journal doesn't seem to be doing much with their website, so we're going to have to quote and paraphrase a rather awesome front-page feature — apparently the chain of Deja Vu strip joints in The City have settled with their stable of......

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This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his gang of buddies who called themselves "Catholics," but we feel obliged to announce that the Gawker Media juggernaut has boldly set foot on the frontier outpost that is San Francisco de Asis. New Gawker site Gridskipper will be covering "urban travel," or, in other words, providing reviews of various attractions in cities across the globe -- including SFist land. While they've only got reviews of hotels, the Columbus Cafe, and the Lusty Lady for now, how long will it be before they start covering topics like caffeine, bars, local music, and our hott mayor? Well, readers! Will our beloved publisher open the can of cityblog whoopass on Gothamist alum and Gridskipper editor Andrew Krucoff? What will What our sibling -ist blogs do? (What, no Chicago or Toronto?) Tune in next week, on As The Blog Turns. ...

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Sipping our coffee and doing the morning blog rounds we stumbled on this short item in Gizmodo - it looks like the boss will finally be able to see through your lame "I'm sick and laid up in bed" excuse when in fact you're halfway to Palm Springs. How? With GPS TimeTrack technology from Mountain View's Xora Software Systems, that's how. Taking Big Brother to the next level, if you carry around a Nextel company......

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[Ed. Note: Labor Day is not just the cut-off point for wearing white shoes - it's a day to honor the workers who make this country great. In our honor (we're workers too!) we will have a special series of daily posts on working, unions and the labor movement here in the Bay Area.] San Francisco has long been a tourist destination - and not just for our cityscapes. Many come looking for an entirely different "beautiful view" - the men and women who practice "the world's oldest profession." While sex for pay is strictly illegal, the fact is that thousands throughout the Bay Area are employed as sex workers - be they porn stars, cabaret dancers, 'masseuses' or ladies of the night. And like any worker, they're fighting for their right to a clean, safe living. The Berkeley City Council is currently considering "Angel's Initiative," organized by the Sex Workers Outreach Project, which would basically decriminalize prostitution by making it the BPD's lowest law-enforcement priority. If the City Council does not ratify the initiative, it will have to be placed on the November ballot as Measure Q. Prostitution Research and Education is sponsoring a discussion this evening at the Julia Morgan theater to discuss this hot-button issue. If you're labor minded and looking for a good time in North Beach, might EssEffist suggest a trip to the Lusty Lady, the only worker-owned co-operative nude dancing venue in the country? That's right, in 2003 the "Live Nude Girls" united to save the business from closing the doors and to improve pay and working conditions for the dancers. While we haven't been, if we were planning a bachelor party, this would certainly be the first stop. "Live Nude Girls Unite!" chronicles the struggles of the dancers to organize in the face of both management intransigence and social stigmatization. When we were desperate for work during the dot-bomb, our craigslist searches for web designer and creative position showed us that there was one web enterprise that was recession-proof - that's right, porn. And yes, we sent in our resumes to see if we could get a job color-correcting photos of nude women. Look, we needed to eat, and a Photoshop levels histogram is about as asexual as it gets. Now, a change to a 1988 federal law requiring "primary producers" of pornography to document the ages of their subjects is being pushed by Attorney General John Ashcroft and would require "secondary producers" to provide the data as well. It also includes language that voids previously accepted forms of identification such as military and college IDs and would require that precise records of distribution, actor's stage names and a cross-indexed reference to other productions featuring an actor be maintained for random spot checks. This would have the power to cripple the small-time web site operators from the Valley to the East Bay in a state with little value politically to the Republicans in an election year....

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