Arts & Entertainment What It's Like To Be Gay, Out, Or In Drag At Mission High School For decades, Mission High School has had the reputation as one of the roughest, toughest high schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. But the place has been safe-spaced up significantly for
Arts & Entertainment <i>Last Tiger In Haiti</i> Eats You Up With Suspense At Berkeley Rep You ever see a show that just seems like a bunch of random, disparate plot points, but then those random, disparate plot points all come together to form an unexpected, harrowing climax that
SF News Recall Ed Lee Petitions Approved, Hit The Streets Today HOT OFF THE PRESSES! The Official Petition to #RecallEdLee is ready for 60,000 signatures so we can #SweepEdLee #EvictEdLee #SaveSF #EDXIT pic.twitter.com/BHA8rZ619f— RecallEdLee2016 (@RecallEdLee2016) October 8, 2016 A nearly
SF News Kim And Wiener Kissing Rings For Drag Queen Endorsements It’s an old rule of politics that “endorsements don’t matter." But the old rules are getting served some new San Francisco realness by an emerging constituency of unexpected political power brokers
Arts & Entertainment 16 Best Litquake Events To Book On Your Calendar The annual literary phenomenon known as Litquake is now held in 13 cities around the world, but just like with Major League Baseball teams — the best one is in San Francisco. Litquake was
Arts & Entertainment GaymerX Conference To Power Queer Gamers Into Multiplayer Mode Add to the list of the too many things to do this week the groundbreaking annual queer gamer conference GaymerX in San Jose (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2). The world’s first LGBT
SF News Folsom Street Fair 'Ask First' Campaign Rankles Some Photographers On the Saturday morning before this year’s Folsom Street Fair, while most of us were still blacking our boots or rigging our pony carts, a social media skirmish broke out regarding the
Arts & Entertainment Aerial Dance Grapples With Domestic Violence In <i>Grace and Delia Are Gone</i> You may not expect an acrobatic, circus-style aerial performance to explore the topic of violence against women. But this improbable concept achieves great heights in Grace and Delia Are Gone, a new dance
SF News Condoms In Porn Measure Ahead In Polls, But Support Slipping Depending on who you ask, the Prop. 60 ballot measure mandating the use of condoms in adult films either has strong majority backing, or its support “has fallen dramatically”. One interpretation of last
Arts & Entertainment Twitter To Livestream NFL <i>Thursday Night Football</i> For Free, Starting Tonight For NFL fans, Twitter has mostly just been a platform for issuing death threats to placekickers who miss crucial field goals. But that all changes tonight, when Twitter begins livestreaming Thursday Night Football,
Arts & Entertainment Our 12 Fringiest Picks For The San Francisco Fringe Festival Theater fans who lack the money or clout to get tickets to Hedwig, The King and I, or any of the other best Bay Area theater productions this fall get an outstanding annual
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Bay Area's Most Totally Wizard Pinball Leagues ‘Pinhead’ is not a derogatory term in the Bay Area anymore. Pinball enthusiasts have embraced this nickname in the contemporary pinball renaissance in which machine manufacturers have significantly upped their game, more and
Arts & Entertainment SF Finally Gets a Comic Con, Kicking Off Today The ratio of nerds to official Comic Cons has always been out of whack in San Francisco, where we cosplay every day but have never had a full-on Comic Con (just WonderCon!) held
Arts & Entertainment Competition Ran High At Saturday's 420 Games On any given Golden Gate Park Saturday morning, you’ll find people already out enjoying some marijuana, as well as people already out for their morning jog. There is never much Venn diagram
Arts & Entertainment Giants Erect Statue to Gaylord Perry, Baseball's Most Beloved Cheater The Donald Trump statue and Tony Bennett statue were not the only new, chiseled sculptures unveiled in San Francisco last week. The San Francisco Giants unveiled a new statue Saturday of their Hall
Arts & Entertainment Vinsantos, Legendary Queen Of Trannyshack's Heyday, Returns To SF Sunday For A One-Night-Only Cabaret This Sunday night’s show at Oasis offers a can't-miss treat for old-school drag fans who remember the days when no one carried a “cell phone”, when drag queens were still not allowed
Arts & Entertainment Cyndi Lauper, Chris Isaak Also On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2016 Lineup The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival gang is at it again, teasing a whole batch of new additions to the musical lineup for their 2016 festival (September 30 - October 2). After an initial
Arts & Entertainment <i>Showgirls! The Musical!</i> Gives Gratuitous Skin, Spunk, And Satire For the last 18 years in a row, local drag icon Peaches Christ’s annual homage to the delightfully dreadful 1995 box office train wreck Showgirls has been a summer highlight on the
Arts & Entertainment Cake, Roseanne Cash, Mavis Staples Confirmed On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2016 Teaser Lineup Our Outside Lands hangover still hasn’t even cleared up, but we’re already stoked for the next massive musical festival in Golden Gate Park. That, of course, is the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Arts & Entertainment The 2016 Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Here (Spoilers And Review) The 2016 Rio Olympic Games are now officially underway with the highly anticipated opening ceremony from Maracanã Stadium. But NBC is bogarting the broadcast here in the U.S. and tape-delaying these proceedings
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Watch Outside Lands Sets Free Without Leaving Your Couch Via This Livestream Schedule [Update] It is on! The livestream is now underway on sfoutsidelands.com, on AOL, on Go90 (which also offers archived performances for on demand viewing) and on your mobile device via the Go90
Arts & Entertainment VR Porn Has Coming Out Party at Kink.com The era of immersive, 360-degree simulated sex on your smartphone has finally arrived. One would have figured that the recent release of the Oculus Rift, Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s virtual
Arts & Entertainment Pier 70 Putt Putt, A Pop-Up Mini Golf Course, Swings In To Dogpatch San Francisco is no longer just a one miniature-golf course town. A new mini golf course has arisen in Dogpatch in the form of Pier 70 Putt Putt, an 18-hole, 60,000 square-foot
Arts & Entertainment SF Comic Nato Green Discusses The Firestorm Caused By His <i>Comedians in Cars Getting Abortions</i> The “people doing things in cars” video meme has been on a roll lately, most notably with the recent Michelle Obama singing karaoke in a car with James Cordon and Jerry Seinfeld’s
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go Crawl Achieves Peak Pikachu It will either renew or destroy your faith in modern-day San Francisco to know that several thousand full-grown adults took to San Francisco’s streets Wednesday night for a massive Pokémon Go Crawl,
