Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Releases 'Tales of the City' Musical on Streaming, for Pride Week In celebration of Pride and the 10th anniversary of the world premiere of Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City, the Musical,' ACT is releasing it on streaming.
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin's 'Tales Of the City' Premieres On Netflix, With Victor Garber, Molly Ringwald and More Surprises Following its world premiere at the Castro Theatre in April, when one audience got to see Episode 1 of the rebooted series, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City dropped all its 10 new episodes on Netflix on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Armistead Maupin Says SF's New Culture Is 'A Bit Dull' At ‘Tales of the City’ Premiere SFist talked to Armistead Maupin, Laura Linney, and a whole gang of characters both old and new as the Netflix ‘Tales of the City’ reboot premiered Wednesday night.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Drops Gorgeous Trailer For 'Tales Of The City' Featuring Bob the Drag Queen San Francisco looks stunningly beautiful and gloriously kooky and bohemian in the newly released trailer for Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, the Netflix reboot of the ensemble tale that began with a 40-year-old serial column in the Chronicle, and a PBS miniseries based on those columns.
Arts & Entertainment 'Tales Of The City' Is Coming Back, Via Netflix Reboot Cue the sound of angels. Something is finally going right. Are you sitting down? Variety has reported that Netflix is developing a 10-episode "present-day continuation of San Francisco author Armistead Maupin's Tales of
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Full Frameline Schedule for 2017 The Frameline LGBTQ film festival, which serves as the unofficial kickoff of SF Pride proceedings when it begins its ten-day run from June 15-25, posted its full 2017 lineup of 147 films from
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Breaks Out A Preview Of Its 2017 Festival Schedule We do not yet have the full schedule for this year’s Frameline, a.k.a the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival that is set to run its 41st annual iteration June
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones' Birthday Honored With Moving Speech By Dustin Lance Black, 'Hair' Number By Jonathan Groff There was a big party Saturday night at The Café in the Castro in honor of the 60th birthday of longtime gay-rights activist Cleve Jones. He said all he wanted for his birthday
SF News Armistead Maupin Returns To San Francisco For Good Famed chronicler of a semi-fictitious San Francisco of the late 70s and 80s, Armistead Maupin, has moved back to the city with husband Christopher Turner after two years of trying to make a
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin Thinks We Should All Ease Off On The Techies In a new interview, novelist and chronicler of the San Francisco we all think was way cooler than it is now, Armistead Maupin, gives some choice quotes about how lame it is to
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin Has A 'Stalker' Tales of the City author - and therefore San Francisco's unofficial novelist laureate - Armistead Maupin, as you may recall, relocated full-time with husband Christopher Turner to Santa Fe last summer. Well, he's
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin's Home: 'Gandalf Slept Here With Magneto' The Chronicle's coffee-and-a-paper Sunday edition led with a nice easy reader on "only-in-SF" homes currently for sale. Besides namechecking Zynga CEO Mark Pincus' Russian stripper stalker, yesterday's piece offers a look inside Armistead
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin, Chronicler of '70s City Life, Leaving the City Sad news! Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales of the City novels among others and a writer more fully identified with San Francisco than any other living writer we can think of (don't
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin's Husband Unleashes New Social Site for Bears Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City, just announced on his Facebook page that his husband, Chris Turner, has a new(ish) social site for bears -- i.e., hairy and/or
SF News Armistead Maupin Denied Restroom in Australia for Not Being a "Real" Man San Francisco-based writer Armistead Maupin, creator of the iconic Tales of the City series, was in Australia last week for a book tour when he visited Alice Springs with his husband Chris Turner.
Arts & Entertainment A.C.T. Announces Their 2010-2011 Season, Incl. the Premiere of the <em>Tales of the City</em> Musical The American Conservatory Theater announces their upcoming season today, which includes a couple of exciting highlights: master clown Bill Irwin brings his adaptation of Molière's Scapin first thing in the fall; and come
misc Kicking It at Barbary Lane Senior Communities What the hell? We're no where near 40 yet. So why are we receiving the following flyer in our mailbox for assisted independent retirement living? Still, we love the idea of queer-littered retirement
Arts & Entertainment Literary Fest Litquake Opens With Lovely Laura Linney Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until many
misc Win Passes To <i>The Night Listener</i> We were surprised to see that Williams (whose eternally FRESH and HILARIOUS mincing simp impression makes us want to kick puppies) had taken on the lead role in the film version of local
Arts & Entertainment Viva Boulware! It feels like truly local coverage -- and SFist means that as a compliment. Boulware included punk culture, the literary scene, talk about when the Mission and Potrero Hill were affordable, the sex
Arts & Entertainment Howl Turns Fifty It's almost exactly fifty years later, and it still smacks you upside your beret-wearing cool-cat bongo-beating head, man -- Allan Ginsberg debuted his classic poem "Howl" on Friday, October 7, 1955, at a
Arts & Entertainment Oh For The Gossip Of It All Our New Yorker finally made the arduous trek from the Conde Nast building and across the high Sierra mountains to our little hinterlands mailbox, exhausted. We opened it up, and to our shock,
