Arts & Entertainment Gallery: San Francisco Gay Bathhouse History, In Fliers [NSFW] San Francisco was once a thriving haven for sexual deviants, didn't you know? It still is, but in a somewhat more tame way than in the 1970s heyday of leather bars, hanky codes,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kids In The Hall's 'Terriers' The Canadians have gotten a handful of things right in the last hundred years, and Kids in the Hall were certainly one of them. Please observe this video from archive for the original
SF News 330 Ritch Closed Permanently After Saturday Shooting SoMa nightclub 330 Ritch, which has played host to a wide array of musical acts and dance parties over the last decade and change, is shutting its doors following the very serious shooting
SF News Chief Justice John Roberts' Lesbian Cousin To Attend SCOTUS Hearings On Gay Marriage Chief Justice John Roberts has an openly lesbian cousin from San Francisco, 48-year-old Jean Podrasky, and she's in D.C. this week to sit in on the Supreme Court hearings on the Prop
SF News Thieves Stealing iPhones, iPads Off Of Downtown Office Desks During Daylight Hours Two's a trend, and the Examiner reports on two recent incidents of brazen office thievery by crooks wandering in off the street during work hours. To be clear, your phones are no longer
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Lady T, A Lower Haight Legend Lady T, center, with Cockfight go-go boys. Photo: Georg Lester S.F. is a town full of characters, and today we bring you the sad news that one of them has passed away.
Arts & Entertainment 'On the Road' Debuts In Wide Release; Why Did It Take So Long? Yesterday we showed you the trailer for Big Sur, but there were actually two films made in the last two years of Jack Kerouac novels, the other of course being director Walter Salles
SF News Wackjob Twitter Stalker Convicted Some of you may recall the tale of 48-year-old DUI suspect Khalil Jaser, who went on a Twitter rampage and made multiple death threats against his arresting officer in Brisbane and subsequently tried
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For 'Big Sur,' Shot In And Around S.F. At long last, and after the rather sad reception that the On the Road movie received in its narrow release in December, we have the trailer for the film of Kerouac's last good
SF News Two Oakland City Council Members Accused In Auditor Probe Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby is out for blood, it seems, or perhaps just widespread reforms in the corrupt "culture" she sees in Oakland's city government. In a scathing new report, Ruby alleges
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Tense Standoff With Police Ends In One Dead Vallejo is back in the news with a bizarre shootout and standoff situation involving a (possibly disturbed) man, a shotgun, and armored police van, and a house that didn't belong to him. Vallejo
SF News SFPD Sued By ACLU And Homeless Advocate Over Cell Phone Search The ACLU filed suit today against the City of San Francisco and its police chief over what they say was an illegal search of a man's cell phone in the Castro's Jane Warner
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Wisdom of Shoshanna from 'Girls' How can we quantify our love and admiration for dear Shoshanna, the smart, naive, fast-talking, uptight-in-a-good-way character portrayed by Zosia Mamet (who happens to be the daughter of playwright David Mamet)? She's everything
Arts & Entertainment Gay Men's Chorus To Join Beach Blanket Babylon Next Week At Davies For the first time in its three-plus-decade history, San Francisco's Gay Men's Chorus is joining forces with the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon for two nights of rollicking, campy wonderment. The show is
SF News Ammiano Suggests Marijuana Industry Be Policed By Alcohol Board [Updated] There are now rumblings in Sacramento about how the state might start regulating the largely unregulated medical marijuana industry, and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has an idea: Let the ABC do it. The state's
Arts & Entertainment Is Michelle Shocked Just Crazy, Screwing With Us, Or Both? [Updated] Whether Michelle Shocked is indeed as homophobic as she seemed to be to everyone present at Yoshi's San Francisco on Sunday, or whether she was just trying to be provocative in an albeit
SF News Arrest Made In Attack On Elderly Montgomery Station Newspaper Vendor The SFPD have made an arrest in the January attack on 77-year-old Dallas Ayers, a longtime newspaper vendor at the Montgomery BART/Muni station, which later led to his death. Tenderloin officers recognized
SF News 31-Year-Old Shot In Broad Daylight In The Bayview A 31-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon while sitting in his car near 1300 Thomas Avenue in the Bayview. The incident happened around 3:30 p.m., and the victim was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Fallaci' At Berkeley Rep In their valiant efforts to produce new work, Berkeley Rep occasionally has some misses, and their latest mainstage play, Fallaci, is one of them. The play centers on the life and provocative persona
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Lied To Borrow Boy Scout Uniform She Wore To GLAAD Awards Good old Madge lied to the Boy Scouts of America, telling them she needed a Boy Scout uniform for her son Rocco, and then wearing it to present Anderson Cooper with GLAAD's Vito
SF News A New Law Might Uber-ize S.F.'s Entire Taxi Fleet You know how local cab drivers have been bemoaning the hit their business is taking from services like Uber and Lyft? Well, new legislation proposed by the SFMTA would require all 1,700
SF News Michelle Shocked Launches Into Anti-Gay Rant On Stage at Yoshi's [Updated] Alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked, who gained wide fame on college radio and MTV in the late 80s and early 90s but has more recently become a born-again Christian, literally shocked audiences on Sunday
SF News Campos Hopes to Expand Beer and Wine Sales in Mission Markets [Update] 24th Street watchdog Uptown Almanac alerts us to a statement made by Supervisor David Campos last week with regard to the sale of small liquor bottles (pints and half-pints and such), and single
Arts & Entertainment Sigh: Photographer Insists On Meeting All Of His Facebook 'Friends' "We all have these so-called friends out there..." begins twee, earnest photographer Ty Morin in his Kickstarter pitch for an art project we hope none of you gave money to. "So I thought,
SF News Is the Job Economy To Blame For More Homeless Youths On the Streets? Yesterday we mentioned the growing issue of gutter punks in the Castro, something which may or may not have anything to do with the Sit/Lie ordinance and its enforcement in the Upper
