Arts & Entertainment Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair Ropes In Brontez Purnell, More Bars Selling To-Go Alcohol, and a New Truck Stage You’re bound to have a ball at Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair, with more leather bars than ever selling to-go cocktails, Brontez Purnell headlining the main stage, and the former bar and now pop-up Truck rocking its own new disco/play space.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces Its Grand Opening at Its New SoMa Location Will Be April 20 SF’s oldest LGBTQ bar is dragging itself back onto the scene, as they’ve announced a grand reopening date of Saturday, April 20 at their new Folsom and Seventh street location, with liquor licenses and entertainment permits secured.
SF News Sure Enough, Shoplifting Was Not the Reason For the Closure of Target at Folsom and 13th Streets When Target announced they were closing an SF store in SoMa, they blamed “theft and organized retail crime.” Uhh, turns out that Target had the least reported crime of any Target store in the entire Bay Area.
Arts & Entertainment Semi-NSFW Photos: Folsom Street Fair 2023 Bulges Back to Pre-Pandemic Volumes of Kinky Crowds Gorgeous weather welcomed the 40th Folsom Street Fair to South of Market Sunday, and the leather, furry, and fetish party whipped up a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
Arts & Entertainment Sunny Dore Alley Fair Day Brings Out Pre-Pandemic-Sized Crowd Sunday marked the first Up Your Alley fair day on Folsom Street since the pandemic that looked and felt just like the old days, rampant nudity and all.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Spinoff Wine Bar, Called Sluts, Opens In SoMa The promised wine bar offshoot of Oakland's "vulgar fine-dining" outfit Hi Felicia has just opened in the former Terroir wine shop/bar space on Folsom Street — and they're serving Lean Cuisines and Chips Ahoy to accompany your natural wine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deli Board and Fondue Cowboy Potentially Threatened By Condo Proposal On Folsom A proposal for a 46-unit residential building at Folsom and Russ Streets would, potentially, mean the demolition of several retail businesses facing Folsom Street on that block, including restaurants Fondue Cowboy and the
Arts & Entertainment Kink Enthusiasts To Gather For 'Fetish Bowl' Tonight Everyone's getting in on the Super Bowl-themed fun, even the BDSM crowd! Tonight starting at 9:30 p.m., longtime fetish-friendly weekly dance party Bondage-A-Go-Go is hosting its "Fetish Bowl." The party happens
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink R Image Market Knows What's Up In a neighborhood rife with $14 wine-filled mason jars or bartenders who give you the stink-eye upon ordering unhip vodka cocktails, it's nice to see a bit of the old Mission District shining
Arts & Entertainment A Folsom Street Fair/Leather Week Preview You may not be into leather or the BDSM scene, but if you live in San Francisco you've probably breezed through Folsom Street Fair once or twice. Call it what you will, but
Arts & Entertainment Pics from Up Your Alley (Dore Alley) Street Fair - SOME NSFW! Amdist threats of a crackdown on fun (and nudity, and lewd behavior), the fetishy gays and their fetishy friends gathered under an unseasonably warm sun on Folsom Street on Sunday for the annual
Arts & Entertainment More Kicks Than Pricks: A Dore Alley Preview Attention all gays and super-fetishy others: It's Up Your Alley (a.k.a. Dore Alley) fair weekend, and despite threats of a police crackdown on nudity, we're pretty sure it's going to be
SF News This Is Handy Defective Yeti came up with a handy clip 'n' save pamphlet for you to take to the polls. Easy and breezy. And let's not forget that AT&T's wiretapping building is located
SF News Vallejo Mayoral Recount Crowns Osby Davis the Winner Well, well, well. Well. It turns out that after a recount and by a mere three votes, according to the scroll across the screen on during the People's Court, the new Vallejo Mayor
misc Vallejo Mayor Disgusted By Folsom Street Fair But that's the entire point! Anyway, RicardoSF tells us in the comments section here that: In January's issue of The Advocate in the Rants & Raves section -- unavailable online -- -- Openly
misc Anti-Gay Group to Exhibit Their Folsom Street Fair Doc/Repressed Desires for National Press Club O! What we wouldn't give to attend this press screening in Washington DC tomorrow! DCist has the pleasure of reporting on the anti-invert, pro-missionary sex group called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH)
misc Wiretapping Immunity (Again) The secret room at AT&T's Folsom Street facility is in the news again. Staffers from the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation are in DC this week and next, trying to convince
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Yuppie Passport Hell in San Francisco But once you're past the "creepy", "leer"-ing security staff, it's all downhill from there, right? Well, maybe not. Nationally-famous local violet blue told the story a few months back of the hassles
SF News Zombietime's Folsom Street Fair Imagery Over a week has passed, well enough time for your teeth to stop grinding and jaws to stop aching, so we present to you in your sober state, zombietime's Folsom Street Fair 2007
Arts & Entertainment It's Hard not to be Well-Dressed When Surrounded by Men in Leatherpig Outfits We were alerted to an alternative-alternative picnic happening at the Folsom Street Fair via the Finch Mob, a terrifying local gang of drug addicts. Apparently some folks are going to dress up , and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Magic Bullets: Along with Bonde do Role and JuiceBoxxx, this local outfit (heavy on the bass lines, rhythmic keyboards, and melancholic vocals) performs tonight at 9 p.m. at The Independent, 628
SF News UPDATE: Miller Brewing Company Pulls Out Un-American group the Catholic League, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights sect, has called for a boycott of Miller Beer ever since The Last Supper got the parody treatment from the Folsom Street
misc Miller Brewing Company Pulls Out Closeted homosexual Journalist Randy Hall of Cybercast News Service got his feathers all ruffled over this not-so-clever Folsom Street Fair (which he describes as a "multi-city block party for homosexuals") ad, which tamely
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Sorry for the delay in getting SFist Tonight out. This afternoon was steeped in several fun-filled return trips to CompUSA, dealing with customer service. So much fun was had, folks, that we felt
Arts & Entertainment Philip Glass Is Coming, An Interview With Cellist Wendy Sutter By David Famiano Happy Belated Birthday, Mr. Glass! It’s an exciting time in San Francisco. All the burners are back from you know where feeling either pissed off or bummed out. All
