Arts & Entertainment Now You, Too, can be a Gay Usher Just when you were starting to worry that The Castro Theater might've gone all ex-gay, along comes Frameline 29, the 29th annual San Francisco International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, or
Arts & Entertainment On The Road with Electric Six Electric Six are a rock band from Detroit who want you to enjoy yourself, whether that's through the guitar-heavy dance grooves they deliver, or through their laugh-out-loud lyrics. Don't get them wrong; they
SF News Better Luck Next Time, Joe Believe it or not, the comments made during the last hearing totally backfired on Joe as there was such an outcry made against them that it totally overwhelmed the debate over who was
misc Re-Assessed Breaking news: Mabel Teng has resigned as the San Francisco assessor. After a sunny start as the face of gay marriage, Teng was facing increasing scrutiny over her, um, unorthodox hiring procedures in
SF News Faith, Freedom, Morality You have no idea how refreshing it is to see in an age of teenage angst, apathy, and rap music, that a group of high school students are ready to take on the
misc The Blacks and The Jews get Behind the Gays "On behalf of Equality California," EQCA Public Education Manager Sylvia Rhue said in a statement, "thank you NAACP and the ADL. We are humbled by your tenacity and bravery, and we will certainly
Arts & Entertainment For $200, that Dinner Better Come with a Happy Ending The Human Rights Campaign, one of America's most strident gay-civil-rights orgs, cordially invites you to lay down $195 (or just $125 with student ID -- those lucky kids, what a steal!) for the
misc Happy St. Pat's from the Essefficist Like we said, it's Irish month around here. So here's the first annual Essefficist St. Patrick's Day column you've all been waiting for. We've got two questions today: one about a St. Pat's
SF News SFist Rants: Clean Up Your S**t SFist feels very lucky to wake every day in a city that lives the legacy of Harvey Milk. His awareness of how simply powerful being publicly gay could be lead to a freedom
SF News Enter Congress Now some of you might be wondering why congress would want to get involved in such a matter. After all, they haven't been able to figure out yet what happened to those WMDs,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Italia nella Missione And his legacy continues: at SFist, we are proud of gay weddings, even though we know fully well they are the first step on the slippery slope towards man-on-domesticated-wolf-o-philia. And we are proud
Arts & Entertainment Love: Complicated. Loving Foreigners: Complicateder. SF Film Commission: Fantastic. At around the same time that anti-gay activists were making frantic declarations about preserving marriage by excluding queers, two of our friends embarked on two legal, heterosexual, loveless marriages. One of the grooms
Arts & Entertainment This Octavia House Duboce Street's loss is Hayes Valley's gain, as the City and Caltrans laboriously rebuild the Central Expressway offramp one block over from where they laboriously tore it down, but leave Octavia to become
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
Arts & Entertainment Springfield's Winter of Love Well, add "inspiration for an episode of the Simpsons" to the Gavster's resume. Apparently "Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage." Thanks to Bart pranking a Matt Lauer-esque perky morning show host, who
SF News Virtual Book Tour: An Interview With Author Tom Dolby As part of local literary impresario Kevin Smokler's "Virtual Book Tour," Tom will be spending the day online shilling his paperback edition of his debut novel. While we didn't get a chance to
SF News Bonds' Bombshell Bombshell In the interview, which begins with her offering proof of their relationship, she said that Bonds started taking the drugs around 1999 as a way to recover faster from injuries and because, well,
misc It's Hard to Leave Your Heart in San Francisco Now, there might be some of you wondering how could this be? How could the city that gave us the Summer of Love, the Winter of Love, and that damn Tony Bennett song
SF News Gavin Goes on the Offensive After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Born in a Barn We bring this up because, for much the same reason, it's so easy -- even for us permissive, enlightened San Franciscans -- to look askance at an adult who likes to dress up
Arts & Entertainment Blogger Powers, Activate So the left-wing bloggers, with Berkeley’s own Daily Kos leading the way, did some digging. They found out that Talon News Service is pretty much a house organ of the Republican Party
SF News Nancy Pelosi: San Francisco Liberal? DCist forwarded us an article from Roll Call (paid subscription required) entitled "Q: Where Is Nancy Pelosi Not a San Francisco Liberal? A: San Francisco." We love it when DC politics realizes that,
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: 2.4 Hours on Craigslist Even by 3:45 on Saturday, the lines were so packed around the Roxie that we had to walk onto 16th Street to try and read the (extremely poor) signage on the box
Arts & Entertainment A Little bit of Paris In San Francisco For some reason, we don’t know how or why this hasn’t spread throughout our fair city and what Uncle Grambo calls the Internerd, but last night, we were graced by the
SF News More Crazy Cartoon Hijinks So, in this particular episode, Buster goes to Vermont to meet a sweet little girl named Emma and learn about making maple syrup. Funny little thing about, Emma, however: she has two mommies.
