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 Weird Documentary Profiles Local Drag Queen Heklina As part of their Truly CA series, KQED has just shared this documentary short about San Francisco drag star and Oasis co-owner Heklina. It's a little odd, with a Bergman-esque opening sequence involving
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 War Brewing In Castro Between Party Promoters, Merchants, And City Workers Over Ripping Down Posters Lampposts and street poles in the Castro have long been plastered with images of half-naked men and drag queens on posters promoting gay events in and around the neighborhood. There's good reason for
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 The SFist To-Do List: 10 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 READING: Esteemed SF journal ZYZZYVA, who
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 SF Moves Closer To Getting A Permanent Trannyshack Though Trannyshack won't be called Trannyshack as of 2015, that doesn't mean the iconic drag event is just going to curl up and die. In fact, proposed changes to San Francisco's zoning laws
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foreign Cinema Rings In Fifteen Years With Big Quinceañera Party Thursday It's hard to believe that Mission mainstay Foreign Cinema (2534 Mission Street) is already fifteen years old, having debuted at the height of the last big tech boom and survived the slumps that
Arts & Entertainment Zoning Rule Holds Up New SoMa Nightclub From Heklina, Of Trannyshack Fame Drag show impresario Heklina, a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko, amidst the recent controversy over the rebranding of her iconic party Trannyshack, is trying to buy the building on the northwest corner of Folsom
Arts & Entertainment RuPaul, Justin Vivian Bond, And Lady Bunny React To Trannygate Last week's revelation that SF drag queen Heklina was changing the name of her famous Trannyshack party has set off a second whirlwind of infighting in the LGBT community second only after the
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: SFist Talks With Heklina About The Rebranding Of Trannyshack This week, the S.F. nightlife community was rocked by the news that legendary nightclub Trannyshack was going to rebrand itself, in the interest of not offending the trans community. Yesterday I spoke
Arts & Entertainment SF Institution Trannyshack Changing Name Amid PC Pressure It's the end of an era, and a triumph for trans activists, as SF-based drag queen Heklina (a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko) announced this week that she'll be taking the "tranny" out of
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 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 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
Arts & Entertainment Next Up in Retro TV Drag Queen Parodies: 'Roseanne' Heklina has been hard at work this summer expanding her repertoire of drag-queen re-enactments of old TV sitcom scripts, and expanding her repertory company of drag performers to help re-enact them. For years
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drag <em>Golden Girls</em> It's becoming a holiday (and June) tradition for a quartet of San Francisco's finest drag talents to tackle, on the live stage, word-for-word, a selection of old episodes of The Golden Girls --
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A <em>Trauma</em>-tic Halloween Here it is people: the Trauma episode we've been waiting for. On Monday night, the Halloween episode of the SF-based helicopter drama will be airing, and all the drag queens in town who
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Do It In The Dirt" by Enrique Anyone who was around the local music scene in the 90s may remember these guys. Enrique was an SF-based, ironical-satirical pop-rock band in the vein of the B-52s and the Scissor Sisters whose
misc Happy Birthday to Trannyshack Impresario Heklina Today it's the birthday of Trannyshack founder and SF drag queen bee, Heklina. In her honor, here's a sweet video of a vintage T-shack duet she did with Kermit the Frog on "Rainbow
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Trannyshack's Kiss-Off Party, the Finale On Saturday night, Trannyshack -- San Francisco's longest-running, high-art concept drag revue -- bid us bye-bye. For now, anyway. And what a night, huh? For those of you who eschewed the shoegazing/indie/
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Head over to the Castro to catch Jacob Cheung's A Battle of Wits (Muk gong), which is, according to IMDB, an action-drama-historical epic focusing on a "battle during China's Warring States period.
