SF News The Stud’s Former Home Got Thoroughly Tagged On Pride Weekend, and Then Countertagged On Top of That In what may became an annual Pride Weekend tradition, the SoMa building that formerly housed The Stud got slathered in graffiti over the weekend, but then took more graffiti from someone apparently not pleased with the “queer revolt” messaging.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, 1015 Folsom, Other Clubs Team Up for Online Three-Day Music Festival This Weekend Dance til 4 a.m. again to the likes of Mark Farina, Jazz Mafia, and a menagerie of musicians this weekend as Revive the Night unites a dozen local nightclubs for a weekend-long online rager.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Muralists Sue Building Owner for ‘Whitewashing’ Over Their Work The six artists whose work formerly graced the exterior of The Stud have sued the building’s new owners over the Pride Week scrubbing of the building’s facade.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stud Murals Whitewashed, Then Graffiti Gets Added Illegal fireworks caused at least two grass fires in San Francisco yesterday, a man was found dead of multiple stab wounds on Larkin the Tenderloin, and CA courts are now considering early release for 3,500 more inmates.
Arts & Entertainment At Virtual Drag Funeral, The Stud Gets a Send-Off By Many 'Widows' On Sunday, after the keys were handed back to the property owners who will likely demolish the building before long, a couple thousand fans and lovers of The Stud gathered online to mourn the loss of a beloved bar and nightclub, and watch some drag.
Arts & Entertainment Stud Stories: Remembering a Bar That Epitomized Everything Great and Weird About San Francisco As gay bars around the city have closed their doors here and there over the last ten years, I've always said that I wouldn't throw myself on any coffin unless or until The Stud had to close. Let the wailing begin.
SF News Day Around the Bay: East Bay Doctors Say Suicides Are Spiking Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they're seeing an unprecedented rise in suicides linked to lockdown orders, SF restaurateur Nick Bovis enters his guilty pleas, and artists take over SFMOMA's website.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: The Stud to Close Its Doors at 9th & Harrison, Hold Drag Funeral Online The Stud Collective announced late Wednesday that iconic SF gay bar The Stud — currently holding the title of the longest continually operating gay bar in town, though not in the same location — will shut its doors at its current location as of Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud and Oasis Put Drag Shows Online SoMa queer nightclubs The Stud and Oasis are both doing shows, both live and recorded, that you can enjoy from home while also supporting these nightlife businesses in a time of crisis.
Arts & Entertainment Iconic SoMa Club The Stud Is Saved Again, Gets New Two-Year Lease Legendary 53-year-old nightclub The Stud, endangered now for nearly three years, has got a new lease on life today, literally.
Arts & Entertainment Photo(s) Du Jour: The Stud's Rad New Mural The Stud is looking especially spiffy this Pride week thanks to this new mural by Xara Thustra, created with collaborators Monica Caniao and You Go Girl. The vibrant work wraps around all three
SF News Fancy SoMa Condo Reproduces Local Artist's Work Without Permission Even if you don't know his name, you've likely seen his work. Jeremy Novy's stencils of spotted koi fish dot San Francisco sidewalks, and the queer artist's work has become synonymous with SF's
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces New Two-Year Lease, And Plans To Move To New Location After That SoMa’s longest-surviving gay bar The Stud looked cooked this summer, when a 150% rent increase threatened the continued existence of the 50-year-old San Francisco institution. But a newly-formed Stud collective founded late
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Endangered SoMa Bar The Stud Gets Legacy Business Status At a hearing at City Hall Monday, The Stud was approved by the Small Business Commission for Legacy Business status, hopefully boosting its chances of survival following a rent hike and the property
Arts & Entertainment Vinsantos, Legendary Queen Of Trannyshack's Heyday, Returns To SF Sunday For A One-Night-Only Cabaret This Sunday night’s show at Oasis offers a can't-miss treat for old-school drag fans who remember the days when no one carried a “cell phone”, when drag queens were still not allowed
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Is Saved, For Now, As 15-Member Co-Op Secures Funds To Purchase Historic Club Official word arrived Thursday that the co-op that formed to figure out a path forward for iconic 50-year-old SoMa nightclub The Stud has succeeded in securing funds to purchase the business from current
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud Has Almost Died Before, And It Can Be Saved Again, If People Show Up The death of queer spaces has been written about plenty in the last few years, not just in San Francisco but in cities across the country. Portland's gay scene has been hobbled by
Arts & Entertainment Furry Community Responds To Possible Closing Of The Stud, Their Monthly Gathering Place Every second Saturday for a number of years now has been Frolic, the Bay Area furry community's regular monthly dance party hosted at The Stud. It's one of many community's worried by the
Arts & Entertainment Community Bands Together To Save Iconic SoMa Gay Bar The Stud After New Owners Hike Rent 150% Our beloved clubhouse. The iconic STUD SF. Day of reckoning. A photo posted by Steve Fabus (@stevefabus) on Jul 3, 2016 at 12:31pm PDT Of all the iconic, legendary San Francisco institutions
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: An I-Beam Tribute at The Stud You've got to be of a certain age, and likely gay, to know what the I-Beam was. For the rest of you, it was a big, legendary dance club of the '70s and
Arts & Entertainment SomeThing Does Some 'Chorus Line' Drag Friday; Faux Queen Pageant Happens Sunday at DNA As an aid to San Francisco's thriving, though sometimes not so well publicized drag scene, we may have to start bringing you weekly highlights of drag queen (and king) events you should check
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In Being Michael Madsen, the titular star "turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles." Crafty! The film
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 SFist Tonight -- Treat or Trick!: Ack, it's Halloween in July! SFShenanigans invite you to hand out candy at the Civic Center BART station tonight (at the platform closest to the Embarcadero.) Why? Just...because.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you haven't been yet, stop by Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight to check out Back for Seconds, a diverse group show with 37 different artists. 1173 Sutter St, SF. Kick back with Castle
