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SF Chinatown Showgirl Cynthia ‘Empress’ Yee Is A Living Legend
“I think people come to Chinatown because they expect a Disneyland atmosphere,” Cynthia Yee says. “When they see it’s just a neighborhood, a community with restaurants and daily life, they wonder.” Yee is a tour guide with the award-winning Chinatown Magic Tours, but she was once herself at the center of
‘Showgirls’ Show Celebrates 20th Anniversary With #MeToo Realness
This year’s annual Showgirls production is a response to the alleged real-life sexual misconduct of a Saved by the Bell star. Marking the 20th anniversary of Peaches Christ’s original 1998 Midnight Mass screening of the awful but enduring movie Showgirls, this year’s live musical homage I, Nomi opens Thursday night
This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco
I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available
New Year’s Eve for East Bay Procrastinators
For weeks now, you’ve been too cool to care about New Year’s plans. Right? Or you’ve just been ridonculously busy with holidays and work and all that stressful shit and never had the time to even consider going out. Either way, it’s possible you’re watching the clock tick by on
Top 5 Bad/Great Movies Peaches Christ Has Done Onstage, In Gifs And Video
This weekend’s performance of “She-Devil” at The Castro Theater marks yet another live-action, drag-infused Peaches Christ stage interpretation of a cult underground movie. Going back to the days of the Bridge Theater’s Midnight Mass pre-shows, Peaches has done bushels of these live-action, drag show stage versions of movies. Let’s apply
Heathers the Musical: What Next?
Since movie studios these days continue to rehash and drag through the mud of unoriginality any beloved cult film or TV series, Broadway has followed suit in destroying my childhood memories, remake by remake. When I heard that Heathers, my favorite pre-klepto Winona Ryder movie is hitting the stage come