Arts & Entertainment Circus-Themed Show By Pickle Family Circus Vet Reportedly Set to Take Over 'Beach Blanket Babylon' Venue Club Fugazi A well known circus creator has reportedly inked a deal to take over Club Fugazi in North Beach, the longtime home of Beach Blanket Babylon before its New Year's Eve 2019 closure.
Arts & Entertainment Remembering When Queen Elizabeth Cracked a Smile at 'Beach Blanket Babylon' Tonight marks the final night of Beach Blanket Babylon's 45-year run in North Beach. The show's longtime sound designer says the show's closing wasn't handled all that well vis a vis the cast. But we take a moment to remember a high point when the cast performed for the Queen in 1983.
Arts & Entertainment Curtain Is Closing On Beach Blanket Babylon After 45 Years On Wednesday night, iconic San Francisco revue Beach Blanket Babylon announced that this is its last year at the North Beach theater it has called home since 1974. The periodically updated show will play its last show New Year's Eve.
Arts & Entertainment KellyAnne Conway Makes Her Debut At 'Beach Blanket Babylon' That was fast! Wasting no time after last week's inauguration, the costume department at Beach Blanket Babylon has already whipped up a version of that goofy Gucci Paddington Bear outfit KellyAnne Conway was
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner Number Added To <i>Beach Blanket Babylon</i> San Francisco's, and the world's, longest running musical revue Beach Blanket Babylon, which always tries to revise the show to reflect, and mock, current events, has just added a new number featuring a
Arts & Entertainment You Ever Wanted To Be In 'Beach Blanket Babylon'? Now's Your Chance Get out your sheet music, all ye showpeople. It's audition time for S.F.'s ever so long-running, ever-changing, pop-culture- and political-referencing revue Beach Blanket Babylon, so now's your chance to become a
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
Arts & Entertainment Val Diamond to Leave Beach Blanket Babylon Val Diamond, the gorgeous "oak tree-like icon " behind Beach Blanket Babylon's big hat, will be leaving. Over there for more than 30 years, Diamond is best known for "channeling Ethel Merman to the
misc BBB in...Malaysia? We were on vacation over the holidays (what, you didn't notice? Shame!), tooling around southeast Asia, and we saw the above. Who knew that everyone's favorite tourist show was doing spots on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV The first local we met was Chris March, who once worked as the wig master for and can make dresses out of salad ingredients. Seriously. We were then introduced to everyone else and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Project Runway -- Season Four If you're a fan of "Project Runway" you probably know that season four premieres tonight on Bravo at 10 p.m. (And if you're not a fan, what is wrong with you!) We'd
SF News Swells By The Numbers Number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 101. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 5 (including Rita Moreno, Justice Harry Low, and Wonder Woman). Minority count: 18 (about 18%
SF News That's Amore The rest of the story is a bit Rashomon-like in a "Men are From Mars, Women From Venus" kind of way. The other people in the restaurant were two people on a first
misc Auction for Congo So what's in it for you? Well, vacation homes in Provence, Tuscany, and Baja, all donated by their owners. If that's too rich for your blood, there are plenty of small budget things
SF News The Guilfency In Print [Kimberly] Guilfoyle's plump lips retreat into a Jessica Rabbit pout. "But you're hot Zoolander! Sexy Zoolander! Zoolander!" Thus are we introduced to New York's latest arriviste couple, The Guilfency, in October 2006's W
SF News Bush's Lapdog Comes To Town Blair gets out here today, is having dinner on Saturday with George and Charlotte Maillard Schultz (oooh, we hope Swells gets some good snaps of that one), hangs with Gavin Newsom at Delancey
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beach Blanket Babylon <i>Again</i>? Wow, Gavin Newsom must really like big hats. (Yes, commenter Matt, we know you like big hats too.) Leah Garchik reported in yesterday's The In Crowd that when CSI: Plumpjack made their triumphant
Arts & Entertainment Prince For A Day The media orgasmatron following Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla through their edge-free trip to San Francisco practically peed itself the other night as the royals on-deck chortled their way through that old chestnut,
SF News Royal Londonist Exchange SF Anglophiles, take those cozies off your pot of Lovejoy's tearoom blend -- Prince Charles and Princess Camilla (recently upgraded from "the Rottweiler" to the more august-sounding "Duchess of Cornwall") have announced the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Hurricane Relief Considering that these past few years haven't been economically kind to the arts, we want to applaud the companies that have stepped up to help the Hurricane Katrina victims. While many events happened
