Arts & Entertainment 'Justice For Heklina' Protest To Take Place In London On March 31 Local drag icon Peaches Christ is organizing a protest in London on March 31 as part of an ongoing effort to push the investigation forward into the 2023 death of longtime friend and creative partner, Heklina.
SF News Record Company Dings Drag Queens Supporting Scott Wiener For Use Of Katy Perry Song Did the use of Katy Perry's "Firework" in a video plug for Scott Wiener just explode in the Supervisor's face? As the politician campaigns against Jane Kim for a state senate seat in
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 <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 <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 Exclusive: Lady Bunny On Her Fu****-Up New Show 'Pig In A Wig' One of the most influential (and curvy) figures in the history of modern drag culture, Lady Bunny hops in from New York City this weekend for a three-night run of her new cabaret
Arts & Entertainment Cult Movie 'Showgirls' Turns 20, Here's How To Celebrate The high holy holiday on the San Francisco drag calendar that is Peaches Christ’s Night of 1,000 Showgirls takes on a special significance at Saturday night’s annual screening and party,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: ‘Club Inferno’ at The Hypnodrome Club Inferno, a glam-rock musical based on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ and playing at The Hypnodrome through August 8, had me at “glam-rock musical based on Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’”. A revival of
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 5th Annual Drag Queens On Ice Skating into their fifth year, local drag queens took to the ice at Union Square last week. Missed it? That's what this gallery is for. "Donning their most gay apparel," Mutha Chuka, Kylie-Pop,
Arts & Entertainment Keeping San Francisco Weird: Irene Cara's 'What A Feeling' Performed In The Castro Many have been lamenting, as more and more tech nerds clog our streets and apartment buildings, and as San Francisco gets dubbed "the nation's new success theater," that San Francisco is losing its
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Miss Coco Peru Plays 'Grand Theft Auto 5' Can Miss Coco Peru make this a regular thing? The world (gaming or otherwise) needs more Peru commentary while playing video games — especially one as violent (and fun) as GTA 5.
SF News Go Do This Tonight: Drag Queens On Ice The headline says it all, folks. Drag Queens. Ice. Top 40 hits. Gowns. Wigs. Union Square. Blades of whorey. Rad. Everything you need to to do tonight happens on the ice. Join Donna
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This: The Golden Girls Christmas Episodes December is rife with charming holiday traditions, but there's a special joy in ones that are singular to San Francisco. Thankfully, one of the city's beloved December traditions is back with tonight's premiere
Arts & Entertainment 'Friends: Live' Coming! Could You Be Any More Excited? Local drag artistes have joined forces to reimagine onstage what is arguably the greatest sitcom ever to air. We are, of course, talking about Friends. (Fine, it's a three-way tie between Seinfeld and
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria's Grand Drag Funeral at S.F.'s Grace Cathedral Not wanting to leave anything to chance, or to the event planning abilities of others, pioneering LGBT activist Jose Sarria laid out specific instructions for how his funeral would go down. His Imperial
Arts & Entertainment Your Friday: Trannyshack's Depeche Mode v. Siouxsie Sioux That's right, we're keeping it in SoMa again. You can go to Hi Tops on Saturday. Way back before Bjork b-sides and Detroit trance disco acid tribal house whatever, the odiferous altera queers
Arts & Entertainment Your Homosexual Saturday: Willam Belli At The Eagle Your gay Saturday this weekend is in SoMa, folks. Before the onetime neighborhood of kink meets its inevitable heterosexual demise, we strongly encourage you to check out what's going on at the Eagle
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Tara Wrist Sings Darwin Bell catches Tara Wrist singing a tune for her admiring fans. Wonderful.
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Pablo Sandoval's Hot Pink Manicure! Pablo Sandoval shows off some seriously hot-pink nails. Why? Why not. In addition to looking fierce, he also painted his tips in honor of Cancer Awareness Day before the game against Atlanta Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Note To Drag Queens: You Really Should Try Out For 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Look, we get it. You're too complicated for television. Cable television, no less. You listen to Bjork b-sides and subscribe to The New Yorker. We hear you, lady. You probably vote progressive, too.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trannyshack Star Search Champ Rides Ejaculating Donkey Speaking of drag competitions, Sue Casa won last week's Trannyshack Star Search competition. Her performance boasts, among other things, riding a large ejaculating donkey. Also of note: flag twirling! [via Marke B. at
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Sex And The City' Live! (And In Drag) After a successful run of live Roseanne episodes and Golden Girls Christmas Specials, the folks from Trannyshack return with their latest take on another classic (or classically trashy) piece of television: HBO's seminal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why, God, Why: Marlena's Closing [Updated] Please don't call in a 5150, concerned readers, but we don't want to live in a world with no Marlena's, Hayes Valley's single greatest bar, gay or otherwise. Why, just last Friday your
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Party with SFBG and Drag Queens for Cindy Sherman The SF Bay Guardian will join creative forces with SFMOMA for a rooftop party tonight marking the end of the Cindy Sherman show: "A toast to Cindy Sherman." Details? We have them. Boy,
