Arts & Entertainment <em>Misfit Cabaret</em> Stars A Talented Nightclub Diva Stuck In A Screwball Variety Show You won’t find a more magnificent and talented nightclub singer belting it out on a San Francisco stage this weekend than Kat Robichaud, whose lounge revue Misfit Cabaret opened last night at
Arts & Entertainment The Worst Habits Of Pokémon Go Players In Their SF Habitat (And A Few Upsides) San Francisco has some of the greatest scenery in the world, but this week much of the city has ignored that scenery and glued its collective noses to smartphones to play Pokémon Go.
Arts & Entertainment The 20-Year History Of Local DJ Collective The Space Cowboys San Francisco's infamous DJ and dance-a-thon collective the Space Cowboys, the legendary party proprietors of iconic annual Bay Area blowouts like Ghost Ship, Breakfast Of Champions, and the whimsical travels of the celebrated
Arts & Entertainment Community Bands Together To Save Iconic SoMa Gay Bar The Stud After New Owners Hike Rent 150% Our beloved clubhouse. The iconic STUD SF. Day of reckoning. A photo posted by Steve Fabus (@stevefabus) on Jul 3, 2016 at 12:31pm PDT Of all the iconic, legendary San Francisco institutions
Arts & Entertainment The Hellraising History Of The SF Mime Troupe Founded in 1959, San Francisco Mime Troupe have been jam-packing Dolores Park for a July 4 show for years and years. But they weren't always called the “San Francisco Mime Troupe," they didn’
Arts & Entertainment Eight Great Bay Area County Fairs And Festivals To Venture To This Summer There is nothing more American than a demolition derby at a county fair, or a small town Americana festival named after a fruit or vegetable, or an over-the-hill pop band performing a free
Arts & Entertainment Video: Politicians Booed As Trans March (Un)Officially Kicks Off SF's Pride Weekend Start saying “Happy Pride”, people! The 2016 Trans March, a not-officially-part-of-SF Pride event that has been the unauthorized kickoff of Pride Weekend for a 13th consecutive year, stayed true to its defiant roots
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film Explores Largest Gay Mass Murder In US (Before Orlando) The most disturbing aspect of tonight’s Frameline documentary about “ the largest gay mass murder in US history” is that it’s no longer about the largest gay mass murder in US history.
Arts & Entertainment Want To March In The Pride Parade? You Still Can With One Of These Groups. Maybe you’ve always wanted to march in the Pride Parade, maybe you’re motivated by the tragedy in Orlando, or maybe you have designs to someday run for elected office. Whatever your
Arts & Entertainment Living Trans In Mississippi Since the 1970s: A Firsthand Account Trans people have never had it easy. But they had it way less easy in rural Mississippi in the 1970s. Meet Jheri Jones, who transitioned to female in 1976, and is the subject
Arts & Entertainment The Eight Most Awesome LGBT Films Playing At Frameline 40 You guys. The world’s longest-running LGBTQ film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night at the Castro Theatre and runs through the end of Pride Weekend, and boy could we use some Frameline
Arts & Entertainment Art Cars Blaze Up At Dogpatch Rally Great balls of fire and other goodness graced Dogpatch's warehouse district on Saturday, when an art car rally flamed on from the afternoon into the evening with more than a dozen pyrotechnically enhanced
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: Drone Racing And Combat Facility Coming to Palace Of Fine Arts For all the droning on about how the ubiquitous little flying robots can pose a deadly threat to aircraft, knock out power stations, and enable jerkish behavior, it’s easy to forget that
Arts & Entertainment What To Expect From Next Week's WWDC Takeover Of San Francisco Apple fanatics will have their panties in one infinite loop next week, as Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will turn the Moscone Center and Bill Graham Civic Auditorium venues into Branch
SF News Wiener vs. Kim Already Most Expensive District 11 State Senate Race Ever As you can tell by the six pounds of glossy junk mail flyers arriving daily in your mailbox, there is a primary election underway with voting this Tuesday, June 7. The only significant,
Arts & Entertainment Silent Film Festival Sounds Awesome This Weekend Flappers, dandies and fetishists for all things 1920s will have their Wurlitzers in a bunch all weekend long for the 21st annual Silent Film Festival, kicking off tonight and running through Sunday at
SF News The Blunt Truth About SF's 'Pot-Friendly Gym' Stoners who follow local news may have heard some smoke blowing around lately about a pot-friendly “cannabis gym” set to open soon in San Francisco. Intrigued by the notion of ‘diesel’-powered workouts,
SF News Local Startups Take On Hellacious TSA Wait Times SFist readers know how much this site enjoys ragging on the litany of stupid, overly-entitled, pointless, and public-safety-compromising apps that power our contemporary local economy. So it behooves SFist to occasionally highlight useful,
Arts & Entertainment Jumbo 747 Definitely Going to Burning Man This Year Bay Area Burners and loyal SFist readers will recall the saga of last year’s 747 jumbo jet being taken to Burning Man that ended up not being taken to Burning Man. Rejoice,
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Do Bay To Breakers It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: The Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Map For 2016 As is our custom in the days leading up to the annual Bay to Breakers footrace, bacchanal, and sh*tshow, SFist again presents a fully updated Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Map to
Arts & Entertainment <i>Above & Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra Showgirls</i> Is Good Campy Rock-n-Roll Fun At Oasis The latest offering of drag theater at Oasis goes above and beyond what you expect of a formula drag stage show. Above & Beyond The Valley Of The Ultra Showgirls is a full-fledged
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Jason Mecier's New Show Depicts Icons With Their 'Celebrity Trash' Longtime San Francisco art lovers will surely recognize the signature artwork of local legend Jason Mecier, the kaleidoscope-portrait prodigy whose 20-year body of work includes such notables as the Big Bird portrait made
SF News Exclusive Video: Trump Protesters Build Wall, Crash Gates As Candidate Visits Bay Area Warning: One arguably NSFW image below. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump brought his reality-TV-and-racism roadshow to the Bay Area today, speaking to a California GOP Convention crowd of about 600 party bigwigs Friday
SF News Take An Overnight SF-to-LA Trip Aboard This Sleeper Pod Bus For Under $50 One of the most useful innovations of the app era might not even be an app, but instead a converted big rig filled with sleeping pods. While California's high-speed rail construction won't be
