Arts & Entertainment Writers And Celebrities Upset That Recorded Phone Calls With JT LeRoy Were Included In New Doc A new documentary film, Author: The JT LeRoy Story, released last week from Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures (review possibly coming here) has drawn the ire of several authors and celebrities who figure
Arts & Entertainment James Franco, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristen Stewart Sign On For JT LeRoy Film The story of JT LeRoy, the fictional persona and nom de plume of San Francisco kook Laura Albert, feels vaguely embarrassing now, even more than it did when local writer Stephen Beachy first
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Ahhh, the lazy days of summer keep on keeping on, yet the commentary here on SFist continues to be fast, furious, fierce, and even funny. We really enjoy that pretty much any reader
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Paranoia, feeding faux stories, and NYT's Laura Albert (AKA Miss Leroy) article. Depressing is right, Rita. [CultureBlog] -- Newsom defends Halloween shutdown. [BAR] -- San Francisco's other (but not nearly as stellar!
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
SF News SFist Blotter Sorry we missed this story the first time around -- the cops are still looking for the assailants in a stabbing on 19th and Castro back in June. Two gay men were walking
Arts & Entertainment Viva Boulware! It feels like truly local coverage -- and SFist means that as a compliment. Boulware included punk culture, the literary scene, talk about when the Mission and Potrero Hill were affordable, the sex
SF News Having Your Fraud, And Profiting Too So are the people behind the J.T. Leroy hoax all irritated that James Frey has gotten the bulk of the publicity -- and subsequent sales boost -- in the "Authors who misrepresent
