misc It's Crept up on us Yet Again Blah blah blah, morality laws -- who cares? It's Dore Alley, the smaller, smuttier, queerer cousin of late-summer's Folsom Street Fair, and it's this Sunday. For one glorious, beautiful day, you can strut
Arts & Entertainment Local Kids Make Good TV Sometimes, video games journalists seem vaguely Colbert-ish: earnest, confident, utterly out of touch. (Case in point: G4's "Judgment Day," with the slogan "all verdicts are final" -- oooh, the are final, OMG, they're
SF News Life Imitates Dharma & Greg "If I do find her I'd like to take her to dinner, maybe a walk through the park," he told us. "I've never felt this way and that's why I want to find
misc SFist Rants: Homeland-Protection at Safeway As we exited the store, our purchase (a 4-pack of film) tucked away in our Man's Carry-all (or "purse"), the magnetic door-beeping security thing went off. We ignored it, because we are not
Arts & Entertainment Glamberloin? Tenderfab? We need to come up with a new word to describe the tasteless, fabulous, trashy, glamorous style of the Tenderloin. It's not just a slummy neighborhood; it's a slummy neighborhood with a can-do
Arts & Entertainment There Goes the Neighborhood, Again SFist wrote to the station awhile back and offered to lend them a hand with the whole blogging thing, since cityblogging is something that we like to think we've gotten rather good at.
misc Something to be Proud of There were tons of lovely floats; one of our favorites was for Wells Fargo, which gets extra gay points for incorporating a showtune (but also loses gay points for it being a showtune
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Tammy Faye: Death Defying Tammy Faye was present for Frameline's screening of the new documentary, and the audience ate her up. She got a standing ovation just for walking into the house before the movie started (is
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Who's the Top</i> and <i>Paris is Burning</i> What is there for us to point out about , a 1990 documentary about Harlem drag balls, that hasn't already been said by far greater minds than our own? Between 1987 and 1989, filmmaker
Arts & Entertainment Public Space; Keep Out Well, thanks to intrepid blogger (and friend of SFist) Michael, the chain link fence is finally down. Michael gets huge props for actually Getting Something Done -- a rarity in this town --
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: TransGeneration It would be easy to associate the subjects of the documentary with the people in other docs about self-reinvention -- the realness-craving drag kids of Paris is Burning, for example, or the folks
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Kiki and Herb on the Rocks Hey, you know that cabaret-drag performance duo, Kiki and Herb? Oh, you don't? Well, then, you might not really care for , which comes off feeling like a tribute mockumentary laden with in-jokes. Kiki
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Scary, Mary! We've only seen an audience turn ugly once, but it very nearly happened at Monday night's showing of at the Roxie. Our previous ugly-audience experience was at an attempted comedy in the Indie
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Peaches Christ at the Castro and her Tran-ilogy of Terror The exact content of the films isn't really crucial; there's a lot of makeup, and trashy jokes, and screaming and drinking and running around and falling down and a particularly gory scene involving
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Queermation The strongest of the bunch: , a hilarious Dutch cartoon about a massive dom and the puny sub who loves him. The Warner-Brothers-ish superstretchy style sets a great wacky tone for the silly, horrifying
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Gays don't always have the best grasp on their activist history (which may be why they think that picketing a lame bar is the best use of their resources), but you couldn't ask
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: The Lady in Question is Charles Busch As a young actor, Charles found it tough to get work as an impersonater of classic film stars. So he turned to writing, creating plays like "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," which allowed him
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: SFist has you Covered We're awash in trannies! Frameline, San Francisco's annual GLBT film festival, has decided to highlight the "T" portion of the acronym this year, but there's still plenty of G, L, B, and P
SF News Did You Just Feel Something? Why, no, as a matter of fact, we didn't feel a thing. But don't be deceived: there's been an earthquake! Two of them, in fact! Quick, turn on Fox News! We're all going
Arts & Entertainment Current Mood: Live, Local, Latebreaking About a hundred folks showed up (though only 60 or so RSVPed -- naughty bloggers!) and included folks from Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart, Wordpress, Feedster, Blogger, and so forth. Mark Tamayo, aka SFist's
Arts & Entertainment Hey, That Rhymes! There's an advantage to this -- if you don't like one page, just look to the next for something completely different. But it's also a little numbing after a while; how many times
Arts & Entertainment Mysterious Boy Berry's parents, friends, shrink, religious leaders, doctors, and the ambiguously sexual eccentrics who admire his moxie all seem to have their own plans for Berry; none of them help him to figure out
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Body Dysmorphia and Goofy-Looking Genitals And that's why it is so completely aggravating to take a trip to the northern bulge of Baker Beach -- you know, the part with the naked people -- even though, on this
