Oakland Interfaith Gospel Ensemble: This awe-inspiring gospel ensemble from "the other side of the Bay," noted for its "interfaith, multi-racial, and multi-cultural" makeup -- will get you in the mood. The Christmas-y mood, that is. And if you can't handle all of the holiday joy abounding, there are plenty of bars around the neighborhood where you can get your joy on, booze-wise. The singing starts at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Slim's; $15.Midnight......

-- Brazilian Independence Day Celebration: Help celebrate Brazil's independence from Portugal by getting drunk, listening to master drummer Jorge Alabe, maybe doing a forbidden dance or two, and much more. The festivities start at 7 p.m. at Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding, Alameda; $15. -- Peaches Christ Retrospective: Not only does she liven up the stage at Trannyshack and host Midnight Mass, but Joshua Grannell (a.k.a. Peaches Christ) also makes those newfangled talking pictures,......

-- Bad Boys of Runway: Project Runway enfant terribles Santino Rice and Jeffrey Sebelia help host and judge a fashion show along with the fascinating Denise Hale and the hilarious Marga Gomez. Juanita MORE! performs an opening number that’s not to be missed. (Like, seriously, don't.) The pre-show prefaces a screening of The Women (1939), with a VIP reception afterwards. Partial proceeds benefit CUAV (Community United Against Violence), so…yay! Show starts at 7:30 p.m.......

-- Are you ready for the genius that is Peaches Christ and her Midnight Mass cult-film series? [Bay Area Reporter] -- Television -- glorious, warm, loving television! -- on BART cars? Hmm. [Inside Bay Area, Oakland Tribune] -- Matt Stroud takes a brief, much-needed break from his Rocky-like boxing bootcamp training. [The Snitch] -- Affordable housing advocates get pinched by the fuzz. Remember, purveyors of justice: don't drop the soap! [Fog City Journal] --......

Aw, yeah! Though the Midnight Mass film series has ended, Peaches Christ isn't done with us yet. This Saturday, she opens the doors of the Bridge Theatre for one last midnight extravaganza, The San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival. From their release: Filmmakers Peaches Christ and Vinsantos created the event as a direct response to their own films being rejected from "legitimate" local film festivals The programmers proudly present over-looked and underrated local talent.......

The summer, she goes so fast! It wasn't that long ago that we heralded the beginning of Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass film series, and here we are at the party's end. This final, fabulous* weekend, Peaches will be bringing us the canonical work Mommie Dearest, as well as the theatrical world premiere of Trannie Dearest!, "A fully original play written by Heklina and Peaches Christ." We're grinning just thinking about it. The film and performances......

Ah, yes, the year 2000. Remember how all the computers were going to crash, and we'd never have to make a student loan payment again? We weren't the only ones running around with a silly idea of what the future held, as this weekend's Midnight Mass screening of Deathrace 2000 will remind us. That's right, it's the year 2000, and the cool new sport is kill as many pedestrians and other drivers as possible (insert......

Our stomach flip-flops like that of a teenaged boy who's been noticed by the homecoming queen when we see an email from Peaches Christ in our inbox. Today was no exception, as Peaches emailed us to offer a couple of lucky SFist readers tickets for one of our favorite San Francisco traditions: Showgirls at Midnight Mass, at the beautiful Bridge Theatre. If you've never been to Midnight Mass, dive into the deep end with this......

We're so pleased with ourselves for coming up with this other Us-Weekly-style tagline for Kimberly Guilfoyle's bump-belly watch! Baby splashdown date around September. Ladies (and gents), if you want to land Baby Boy Guilfoyle-Villency, better get started now -- SFist Rain's got week 2 of your How To Get The Guy tips. But don't get too excited to plan that bachelor/ette party just yet -- there is now no sex in the city's champagne rooms.......

What to do before we hit Midnight Mass tonight? Absolute tops on our list is the most worthy fundraiser for San Francisco's best magazine, The Skinny. Running from 7-11 tonight at Candystore (3153 16th between Valencia and Guerrero), there'll be food, drinks, DJs, and giveaways galore. Admission is $5-$20 sliding scale (but we bet they'd accept more, if you offered it), with all proceeds going toward the production of the only SF-based magazine that actually......

Renaissance-woman entertainer Peaches Christ topped our personal dream list of SFist interviewees since before we started the site, but (and we're not kidding about this) we've always been too starstruck and intimidated to actually approach her. That's right, we'll march boldly up to Gavin and say all sorts of stupid s**T, but PC left us shaking in our flip flops. Hey, at least we have our priorities straight! But when we got a release on......

Our summer camp drama club fantasies were finally realized the day new friend of SFist Peaches Christ, (she of the infamous Midnight Mass series at The Bridge), offered us tickets to the Sing Along Truth or Dare this Saturday, November 12, at midnight. Then we realized she was offering the passes for us to give to our readers. Damnit! Why do you people get to have all the fun? And by all the fun......

Over here at SFist we have lavished the love on Peaches Christ, like the fans (stalkers?) that we are. It was like a dream come true when she offered us some tickets to give away to this weekend's Midnight Mass, Sing Along Purple Rain, the pre-show of which "features Peaches’ Prince performance spectacular with special guest star and celebrity hooker Putanesca. Also, audience members should dress to impress for the Totally 80’s Slut Pageant."......

Have a grey suit? How about some cake make up? A red bow tie? If you do, then we recommend you turn out for tomorrow's Paul Reubens Day celebrations. That's right, fourteen years to the week after Paul was arrested in a Florida porn theater loving himself as much as we love him. Teaming up with the kids at the Center for Sex and Culture and San Francisco Superstar Peaches Christ, this year promises......

We're bored silly just looking at most of the new releases this weekend, which have striken us with a malaise so severe we can't even summon the energy to make fun of Mick LaSalle. There's only one cure for the illness we're suffering from: the magical healing power of Madonna. That's right, folks, Midnight Mass at the Bridge Theater continues this week with Sing-Along Truth or Dare. (We can still remember sitting in the......

We are hopelessly addicted to Peaches Christ. The performer, filmmaker, movie curator, and cult mastermind is like San Francisco's own walking version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show: a strange, acerbic, glamorously aggressive drag queen protectress. Best known for her Midnight Mass series, her cable access show, and her occasional hosting of at Trannyshack, Ms. Christ (along with her dapper alter-ego, Joshua Grannell) has compiled four of her excellent horror films -- "Season of......

Finally, our holiday film season begins. There are so many great movies opening this weekend that we don't know where to begin. On the bigger-budgeted side of things, we are embarassed by the twin riches of The House of Flying Daggers, a Tang-dynasty-set police drama with all the breathtaking martial arts we've come to expect from any movie starring the lovely Ziyi Zhang, and the film version of San Francisco novelist Daniel Handler's A Series......

Because SFist is ready for simpler times, when perhaps the country wasn't shrill shades of read and blue, but rather a more velvety purple, we're quite excited about this weekend's Sing-a-Long Purple Rain in celebration of the film's 20th anniversary. Things get all Lake Minnetoka this Saturday at midnight, at the Bridge Theatre (3010 Geary at Blake, Inner Richmond). It's the last showing of the Midnight Mass movie series, a favorite of SFist Watches, and......

Even if this weren't Halloween weekend, we'd be a litle bit psyched about seeing Saw, a violent and gory thriller starring The Dread Pirate Roberts and Detective Murtaugh. Meta comedy aside, this movie about genius serial killers and hand saws looks seriously creepy. Then again, the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (interestingly enough, the original is also referred to as "Saw" by ardent fans) also had a kick-a** trailer, and we all know how......

There are so many reasons why Team America: World Police is our big budget pick of the week. Let us count the ways: 1)Dude, puppets. Who f**k. Yeah. 2)That pompous ass Sean Penn is lampooned in the film. We already thought his performance in Mystic River approached brilliant self-parody, but this takes the extra step into genius. Finally, there's 3) Our sworn Nemesis Mick LaSalle who gives it an empty chair. Given that our (and......