Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Homegrown Drag Festival Oaklash Returns This Weekend With Yvie Oddly and Much More Once again this weekend, the Oaklash Festival is prancing back into Oakland with some of the best and edgiest drag performances in the Bay, and multiple events over three days.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Brunch 'Sunday's a Drag' Returns at New Location, North Beach's Club Fugazi Veteran SF drag queen and hostess Donna Sachet has revived her popular Sunday drag brunch, which for years was a staple of Harry Denton's Starlight Room in Union Square.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash, Oakland's Drag and Queer Performance Festival, Returns This Weekend For Its Seventh Year The Oaklash Festival is coming stomping and sashaying back this weekend, celebrating drag and queer performance in all its forms for a diverse and adoring Bay Area audience.
Arts & Entertainment 'SF Is a Drag' Organizers Issue Apology After Performers Say They Were Harassed The two-day, guerrilla drag extravaganza two weekends ago in San Francisco went off mostly without a hitch, though we're now hearing about a situation in which two performers were harangued by a man on the street who didn't appreciate their form of protest.
Arts & Entertainment 16 Shows You Should Try to See In San Francisco Over the Holidays From holiday favorites like the Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol to stand-up comedy from Trevor Noah and Ali Wong to drag shows and more, here are the best ways to spend your December in the city.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, When It Reopens, Plans to Host SF's First School of Drag The Stud Collective wants to teach the children well who are coming up in SF's drag scene, and they just announced that when the bar reopens in new digs this winter (or spring?), it will be hosting The Stud School of Drag.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has A Sheriff’s Deputy Who’s Also A Drag Queen, WooWoo Monroe Here’s a new twist on the “cops at Pride” debate — the San Francisco Sheriff's Department has a deputy who moonlights as one of San Jose’s most prominent drag queens, WooWoo Monroe.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash Drag and Queer Performance Festival Set to Serve More Punk Realness In Its Sixth Year The main events for the Oakland drag festival Oaklash are scheduled for the weekend after next (May 19-21) with a grand finale at Fairyland, but Oaklash is digging in its heels with early panels and workshops this week.
Arts & Entertainment The Cockettes Come Back Hard In ‘Cockettes: Res-Erection’ This Weekend At The Oasis SF’s legendary heart-'throbs' the Cockettes will get it up again for Cockettes: Res-Erection, a “musical mayhem revue” featuring a touch of the original troupe and a fresh generation of cast members.
Arts & Entertainment Lil Nas X Pays a Visit to Oasis For a Drag Show, Tips Queens Generously The biggest openly gay rap star/pop star ever to make it in America, Lil Nas X, was in San Francisco to perform the final U.S. stop on his tour on Sunday, but Saturday night he headed to SoMa for drag show.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud and Oasis Put Drag Shows Online SoMa queer nightclubs The Stud and Oasis are both doing shows, both live and recorded, that you can enjoy from home while also supporting these nightlife businesses in a time of crisis.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'The Facts Of Life' Coming To Oasis This Month Because SF's drag queens have not yet run out of old TV shows to reenact, in drag, D'Arcy Drollinger and a cast of friends bring you The Facts of Life, premiering April 23
Arts & Entertainment The Castro Is Rainbow Road From Mario Kart In This Winning Drag Performance In case you weren't in attendance, we've got some sidesplitting video from last month's MOTHER: Star Search Pageant, part of local drag star Heklina's new iteration of Trannyshack at SF Oasis. In giving
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'S**t & Champagne' At Oasis Heklina’s new nightclub Oasis opened its theatrical side last night with Shit & Champagne, D’Arcy Drollinger’s fantastic drag farce that originally ran last year at the space formerly known as
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Heklina Talks About Mother, The New Incarnation Of Trannyshack At The Oasis Earlier in the year, local drag star Heklina announced that she would be retiring the name "Trannyshack" after careful consideration, and after getting significant flack from a younger generation of fans. As she
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Work MORE at SoMArts Local drag star Vivvyanne Forevermore, a.k.a. Mica Sigourney, the host of the weekly Friday night shindig at the Stud known as SomeThing, got a residency at SoMArts as part of their
Arts & Entertainment Jinkx Monsoon To Reprise Her Little Edie Impression At 'Grey Gardens' Screening Fans of RuPaul's Drag Race who are still annoyed at the paucity of representation from San Francisco (no disrespect to last season contender Honey Mahogany, who performed admirably despite that kaftan incident) can
Arts & Entertainment Watch As These Drag Queens Perform Radiohead's 'OK Computer' The past weekend a troupe of drag queens and faux queens took the stage at The Chapel in San Francisco for a glorious, gender-bending production of Radiohead's landmark 1997 album OK Computer, lip-synched
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens To Perform Radiohead's 'OK Computer' In Its Entirety Next month, Peaches Christ Productions brings the second installment of the San Francisco Album Project to The Chapel on Valencia Street: a gender-bending theatrical production of Radiohead's landmark 1997 album OK Computer lip-synched