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30 queer plays in 60 straight minutes
The San Francisco Neo-Futurists Present: INFINITE PRIDE 30 queer plays in 60 straight minutes (a very special SF Pride edition of The Infinite Wrench) San Francisco, CA – At Infinite Pride, their fourth-annual Pride show, the critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists will unfurl 30 plays focused on sexuality, identity, community, and
5 reasons to love Bloomsday
It’s Bloomsday. The anniversary of a writer’s first date with his future wife, written into literary history as the day in which the story of perhaps the most important modern novel in the English language takes place: the 16th of June 1904. Weird people around the world are going to
Bay of the Living Dead: You Made Me Hate Myself–Well I LIke Myself Now!
Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a twice a month column about the horror genre. Willard (1971) Willard was a sensation when it was first released in 1971. The low budget chiller played to packed houses for months, grossing $14,545,941, an enormous amount of money in those days. Willard was a love story, perhaps one
Backstage for La Bohème at the San Francisco Opera
Backstage is humming with activity at the San Francisco Opera House. There are three separate operas to prepare for and mere days to get ready. That’s three separate casts, stage designs, musical scores, and hundreds of different costumes, props, lighting sequences, and stage movements all preparing for the spotlight in
Decadence & Debauchery at The Soiled Dove
Decadence, debauchery, and delicious drinks; Vau De Vire Society has done it again! This time the party to be at is their circus infused dinner theater party, The Soiled Dove. For the next three weeks The Soiled Dove is going to be running out at Ferry Point in Alameda every
Weird & Wonderful: Depression, Art, and Pop’s Bar
This time on the Weird & Wonderful podcast we recorded in at Pop’s Bar on 24th St. a legendary dive bar in the heart of the The Mission. We get into some pretty heavy shit including dealing with depression and how to intervene with when you see someone being harassed.
Founder of Rocket Dog Rescue Mugged, Thieves Steal Donations Meant for Rocket Dog
I got a message from a reader today informing me that Pali Boucher, founder of Rocket Dog Rescue, was violently mugged last night. Besides her personal belongings the thieves also got away with all the donations she’d collected at a Rocket Dog fundraiser earlier in the evening. For those unfamiliar, Rocket