Arts & Entertainment Mosswood Meltdown 2025 Announces Headliners Devo and Kreayshawn, But It Won't Be On July 4th Weekend John Waters’s trashy annual punk rock music festival Mosswood Meltdown won’t be on July 4 weekend in 2025, but it’s still at Mosswood Park on July 19 and 20, and will feature Devo, Oakland native Kreayshawn, and LA garage rockers Osees.
Arts & Entertainment John Waters On SF's Homeless: 'Every City Now Is Just Rich People and Very Poor People' The great John Waters returns to Oakland's Mosswood Park next weekend (July 6-7) for his fifth time hosting Burger Boogaloo. And while The Jesus & Mary Chain is headlining, Waters says he's most looking forward to the band called Amyl & the Sniffers.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Burger Boogaloo Blows Up Oakland's Mosswood Park by Nicole Gluckstern Though the biggest (to date) Burger Boogaloo did not go off without a single hitch (there security fence issues, and inadequate trash receptacles), we had a great time taking in
Arts & Entertainment Do The Burger Boogaloo: Iggy Pop Headlines And John Waters Hosts This Scrappy Oakland Punk Fest by Nicole Gluckstern What would you do to convince Ur-punk icon Iggy Pop to come play your low-key garage rock festival, a stone's throw away from Oakland’s Temescal district? If you’re
Arts & Entertainment Hospitalized John Waters Missed His Own Holiday Party Friends and fans of John Waters had a scare last week when the star was hospitalized and ended up missing his own annual holiday party. The Baltimore Sun reports that the man behind
Arts & Entertainment Go See This Thing: John Waters's Early Film <i>Multiple Maniacs</i> At Alamo Drafthouse Last night, Alamo Drafthouse once again proved how terrific a new cultural asset it is for San Francisco, hosting the local premiere of a restored (and reviled!) print of John Waters's early, trashy
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The F-Market: John Waters Photog Gerard Livernois snapped this shot of noted filmmaker and San Franciscan John Waters cruising the F-Market! Delightful. [h/t: @chrisna]
SF News Relax, John Waters Is NOT Dead! National Report, some sort of second-rate Onion, reported that acclaimed filmmaker and all-around swell human being John Waters dropped dead on Wednesday. This, thankfully, was not the case. He is alive and well,
Arts & Entertainment Video: John Waters Reads Dirty To You In honor of Banned Book Week in San Francisco, the city's foremost authority on the relationship between books and sex dropped by City Lights Bookstore to record this delightful reading of D.H.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: John Waters' 'A Dirty Shame' Part-time San Francisco resident John Waters is screening his 2004 film A Dirty Shame tonight at 7 p.m. at CCA, and doing a Q&A afterward. It's free, and he'll probably
Arts & Entertainment John Waters' Adorable Muni Observations Muni Diaries alerted us to this little audio piece featuring John Waters talking about his love of Muni, which was recorded during Waters' visit to the Jewish Community Center last spring. He considers
misc Celebrity Sighting: John Waters On The 19 Via D.P. on Facebook: "Holy crap. Not only did I just see John Waters riding the 19 through the Tenderloin, I also got to tell him thanks for everything. Surreal." Additional note:
misc John Waters Says Big Four Is 'Sooo <em>Sunset Boulevard</em>' In a new bit over on KQED's generally long-winded food blog (this is the web, people!), brilliant food scribe and former SFist contributor Mary Ladd stalks John Waters at all his favorite food
SF News John Waters Goes Insane, Admits Love For Muni One of the world's greatest filmmakers and moustache wearers, John Waters, has, by all reasonable accounts, completely lost his mental and emotional clarity. To wit: "People always ask what my favorite thing to
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: Win Tickets To <i>Starrbooty</i>! We're still going strong on this week's ticket giveaways for the Frameline GLBT film fest! Today's giveaway is for tickets to a screening for you and a friend on Saturday night (not Friday!
misc Around The -Ists Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we
