. Meredith ventures back to the Mission to try that place that opened in the old KFC (she had the lobster). Minnie Driver uses the word love 54 times on her album. And former SFist Violet Blue guests in the Savage Love. more ›

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Sure, we write about Muni a lot, but a lot of the reason for this is that Muni just gives us so damn much material! more ›

While the rest of us will most likely weeping into our Jell-O shots at the Mint while wailing "Fighter" into the Karaoke machine this weekend in preparation for another Valentine's Day spent lining the catbox with our exes' silk boxers, there's no reason you shouldn't be having more fun than we are. more ›

We'd like to take a moment to break from our usual schedule of links to Gavin Newsom gossip, Web 2.0 snark and other Frisco-centric blog boosterism to highlight the plight of Survival Research Labs. Apparently a quarter-century of creating literally bleeding-edge art from the electro-mechanical detritus of the modern world isn't enough to keep the bulldozers at bay. That's right, having already been blacklisted by the San Francisco Fire Department from ever performing in their home town, SRL is being booted from their compound to make way for f**king condos. more ›

Beth Spotswood pops ten questions for Gavin Newsom, and we want answers. Speaking of interviews, Shout Magazine raps with local MC Paris. And a crop of top local writers weigh in on the JT Leroy fracas, including Thomas Roche, Mark Pritchard and our own SFist Violet. more ›

We're starting to think that the Haight's Red Vic Movie House, a worker-owned theater with comfy couches and yummy popcorn, is hitting that age (you know that age) when they think about sex like, all the time. Sure, the Red Vic is 25 now and all grown up, and we feel really bad we didn't buy the Vic a beer four years ago, but we remember reaching 25 and suddenly getting all sex crazy again. Or maybe it never went away. Regardless, a look at this month's coming (ahem) attractions at one of our favorite movie houses is very revealing, indeed. As in hardcore, 100-year-old porn and two weekends of unintentionally hilarious 3D porn classics. more ›

The week between Xmas and New Year's always makes us into shut-ins. Plus, it's raining, like, all the time. We're broke. We're pervs. And there's nothing on TV. more ›

The holiday parties and dinners are adding up, but we can't let that slow us down, even if we're, uh, having an interesting time fitting into our jeans. But here at SFist, we cannot allow carb counting, calorie obsession or shallow breathing in our 501s prevent us from all the cocktails the holiday has to spare, no sir. Which is why we're thanking our lucky stars, bombshells and cherry-bomb pinup idols for Bombshell Betty and her Burlesquercise classes. more ›

The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability. Today, the users of Tribe.net were one of the first groups on the internet to feel that cool breeze, as Tribe have instituted their new Terms of Use with amendments to the provisions regarding mature public content, and presumably, any content deemed offensive by a Tribe user. more ›

Because many people celebrate some version of a gift-giving holiday this time of year, it seems like a responsibility of ours to cough up some kind of locally focused sexy shopping guide. No problem there. But we're feeling conflicted, and not just about what kind of ball gags to get Uncle Bobby and Aunt Whitney. It seems like this is a year when everyone and their autofellating office mate is churning out some kind of sex toy shopping guide, which all feel about as hot as warmed over press releases from the sex toy companies themselves. more ›

With San Francisco as the home of Survival Research Laboratories, the birthplace of Combots and Robolympics, and the location of Fucking Machines secret lair, we have to wonder just what is in that good old SF tap water... more ›

Wednesday: Share your oral diatribes with the world through the magic of the Internet! San Francisco podcasters are meeting at 7 p.m. at Sauce (131 Gough Street) to talk iPod XML feed turkey. (We have absolutely no idea what that means!) Or share oral diatribes of another sort at the Best Sex Writing of 2005 reading at Modern Times (7:30), hosted by contributor SFist Violet and featuring friend of SFist Annalee Newitz's nerd convention erotica. (We think that's Annalee's piece, anyways!) Thursday: The Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad troupe bring their comedy/burlesque pro-Semitic act to the Red Devil Lounge. Show's at 8, $10/$5 students. They promise "a rendition of L'Chaim with a fist in the mouth;" what's not to love? Friday: The latest issue of Asian-American glossy-zine Hyphen is out! Come celebrate the release of Hyphen's Body Issue with electronica DJs and a raffle, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the Social Club (1751 Fulton, at Masonic). Articles include: transgender Asian fetishists, the sartorial tragedy that is Bai Ling, and the results of the sex survey. RSVP on the evite -- sliding scale admission, but if you pay $10, you get the new issue. more ›

When a man puts something in a condom, it's difficult not to stare. We think that it's even more difficult when he takes a picture and puts it online, which may explain the popularity of San Francisco based site Things in Rubbers, run with sticky fingers by Sean Kelly, the former proprietor of (former, much loved) gallery Spanganga—possibly known more for its debauched wet and messy parties than art. At any rate, we caught up with busy Mr. Rubbers in between stuffings, and he had a few things to say about his slippery, and sometimes explosive, new vocation. more ›

Though New Orleans was spared the worst of Katrina, it doesn't mean that's it's all coming up roses for the Big Easy. A levee has broken, folks who evacuated may not be able to return for days, and looting has broken out. Of course, as you all know, for breaking news and the personal stories behind the tragedy, check out Technorati's Katrina page, search Flickr for photos or drop in on New Orleans Metblogs. Our hearts go out to folks all over the gulf coast and inland who have lost homes, friends and relatives. SFist Violet is doing her part, filling in for the sopping wet Jonno over at Fleshbot. You can pitch in, too, by donating to the Red Cross disaster relief fund. more ›

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There's an uprising starting in San Francisco, and it's exactly the kind we like: it's in our pants. And our panties. Proving that a dildo is never just a dildo, local silicone sex toy manufacturers Vixen Creations might just be poised to turn the dildo world on its proverbial head with their super-secret, two-years-in-the-making formula for a shockingly realistic skin-like material—a material that unlike all other "realistic" toy materials, is nonporous and can be easily sterilized for absolute cleanliness. more ›

Far be it for us to resist any opportunity to rock out with our cocks out around town, but when we read about the Penile Sensitivity Touch-Test Evaluation to be conducted in San Francisco from July 30 to August 14, we knew we could rock this study harder than Judas Priest. But so many lingering questions remained; could we borrow a friend's member for the study if, say, ours was at the cleaners? Would our favorite Rocco Siffredi Realistic Super Ballsy Suction Cup model make the, er, cut? more ›

When we were a kid growing up in Seattle, we remember when Washington State tried to pass a law barring minors from purchasing music with Tipper Gore's infamous Parental Advisory stickers on them. Our grandmother, an honored member of the local ACLU chapter, even offered us up as a potential litigant in a class action suit if the law was passed -- we agreed, figuring we might get a free copy of "Straight Outta Compton" out of the deal. Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic even staged a protest on the capitol steps, and thankfully, cooler heads prevailed. more ›

San Francisco holds many distinctions you'll never find touted in the latest "best of" issue of a certain magazine, but while one of those unique experiences is surprising pairs and trios of men hooking up in the bushes by the windmills (and laying pipe on sailboats in the Bay), it's equally as possible to see the guys getting it on around town with a full camera crew in tow. It's true that San Francisco holds court as gay porn's reigning queen of the world, especially with all the glitz, beefcake (and controversy) that can be found in hometown, world-famous gay male houses such as Falcon, Raging Stallion and even Treasure Island Media. But it ain't all just about the boys--nor is it about the mustachioed days of yore, as in . And why isn't it now called "The Mitchell Brother"? more ›

While we can think of about fifty places in the Mish to practice your Downward Dog without even trying, it's nice to find places where we can practice our favorite set of postitions without looking like we were stranded by our dates in the Cow Palace parking lot after Exotic Erotic. Since none of those Yoga Tree joints will let us practice our California Roll and the Metereon threw us out after our last Popcorn Bucket, we have to look a little further afield, like, at those places where people are to have sex in public -- sex clubs. more ›