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Tue Jul 22
at Aunt Charlie's Lounge (9pm - 2am) Clubs
The kids at BIGSTEREO.net have taken over the Tenderloin every other Tuesday. DJ Richard OH?! and guests drop an eclectic mix of synthpop, electro, and punk disco jams. Drinks are the perfect mix of STRONG and CHEAP at Aunt Charlie's.
Wed Jul 23
at SF LGBT Community Center (7-9pm) Adult
This is a body-oriented experiential workshop exploring how we DO relationships: being present with your man, creating safety within relationship, sex roles, our shadow, and how to deepen the connection you may already have.
Wed Jul 23
at El Rio (7-10pm) Music, Benefit
On July 23rd friends and fans of Candye Kane will come together to stage a benefit at El Rio to help raise much-needed funds for Candye's medical bills and treatment. She has been making music professionally for over two decades and toured worldwide since 1992, performing for amazingly diverse audiences...
Thu Jul 24
at Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe (7-8:30pm) Literary Arts
Author Michelle Tea's Talk-Show Style monthly event will feature special guests Daniel Handler and Robert Mailer Anderson. Handler is the author of Adverbs, The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth. He also wrote for children as Lemony Snicket.
Thu Jul 24
at GLBT Historical Society (7-8:30pm) Community
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society and Folsom Street Events™ are celebrating 25 years of the Folsom Street Fair with a new exhibit at the GLBT Historical Society. The exhibit will open on Thursday July 24th...
Fri Jul 25
at CounterPULSE (8pm) Music, Benefit
In this truly eclectic evening, Brazilian samba musicians Sambagode share the stage with trans rock sex symbol Shawna Virago, an orchestra of (literally) 50 guitars, and popular bands like Dyspecific, the Judea Eden Band, and Audrey Howard and the Misters.
Fri Jul 25
at Galería de la Raza (7:30-8:30pm) Film Screenings
An evening of two experimental shorts, The Dimension of IS by Heather Cox-Carducci and Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosaand LezBros, created in collaboration with Dara Sklar, Brynn Gelbard, Melinda Bagatelos, and Lisa Donohoe.
Fri Jul 25
at Castro Theatre (8pm) Movies
Legendary star of stage & screen - Mitzi Gaynor - will take center stage to reveal the behind the scenes stories from her incredible show biz career- queried by the fabulous Bruce Vilanch- at San Francisco's majestic Castro Theatre.
Sat Jul 26
at CounterPULSE (7:30pm) Literary Arts
This star-studded spoken word smut salon will be twisted, sexy, and thought-provoking as always. Whether it's foot fetish fiction, true-life sex worker tales, reviews of bad sex toys, or cut-up pornographic poetry, Perverts Put Out will surprise, titillate, amuse, and move you.
Sat Jul 26
at Landmark's Bridge (12am) Movies
Drag icon and supermodel of the world, RuPaul, stars in the hilarious blaxploitation send-up Starrbooty. Do not miss Peaches’ onstage tribute to RuPaul herself with Starrbooty producer, writer, and star RuPaul Charles live and in-person! | This Week's Features |
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Room for Squares Not so long ago, an English bard asked the question: “What’s in a name?” For the star crossed lovers in his play, a name was everything; it single-handedly predetermined their fates and ultimately brought about their untimely deaths. But “Romeo and Juliet” is a 16th century play written for an Elizabethan audience. And while 400 years isn’t really a long time relatively speaking, it is ample time to remove us from the confines of taxonomy that existed around the time of the plays inception. Or at least it should be. |
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Pinkyswear In the San Francisco gay community, we take our events quite seriously. Why, even this past weekend, while partially marred by the events that transpired over Gay Pride and July Fourth, was more or less replete with some riveting good times. I love the summer for that reason, how even though everyone is getting ragged they just seem to sleep it off in the sun before moving on to the next party. You can always catch up on the summer scene at Dolores Park! If you know the right people that is. |
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Decadence in Waterfront Dining With so many dining options in San Francisco, classic American steakhouses seem to fall by the wayside. Sure, there are places like Morton's, Ruth's Chris and House of Prime Rib, but these chain establishments have gotten rusty, with their stuffy, stuck-in-the-80s versions of “fine dining.” |
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Hot Dogs + Burt Reynolds + Evil Dead = Totally Awesome This week we were fortunate and excited to catch up with Jen D’Angelo, designer extraordinaire behind local imprint Nooworks. Having just wrapped the photo shoot for her “scary camping” fall line inspired by Bruce Campbell’s cult favorite Evil Dead, Jen, who also bartends at The Attic, gives us a little peek into her world, how postcards have shaped it and what we have to look forward to. |
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Send in the Clown Even if The Dark Knight didn’t represent Heath Ledger’s swan song, it would mark a high point in the young actor’s brief but illustrious career. Ledger’s accent has sometimes sounded geographically challenged when he’s been asked to abandon his native Australian, but here he reinvents himself entirely, trading in his authoritative baritone for a wispy nasal snarl worthy of a sadistic jester. Unlike Jack Nicholson, who turned the Joker into a diabolical ham, Ledger plays Batman’s most iconic foil as a demented sociopath whose very existence seems a mockery of civilized society. |
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Lust, No Caution Catherine Breillat, the French director of Fat Girl and a celebrated provocateur, has acknowledged that her films tend to be preoccupied with female sexuality and its power to sway the hearts and minds of men. Her latest, the luscious, early-19th-century drama The Last Mistress, is no exception. |
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Jukebox Musical Makes the Jump to the Big Screen Only a curmudgeon would dislike Mamma Mia!, the big screen adaptation of the jukebox musical written by Catherine Johnson and directed by British stage veteran Phyllida Lloyd. Structured around an album's worth of greatest hits by 70s pop band, ABBA, Mamma Mia! is a too broad comedy that goes for easy laughs and cheap sentiment almost every chance it gets. That said, the film features some of the catchiest pop tunes ever put on vinyl (whether you want to admit it or not) and Meryl Streep tackling the one last great challenge of her career: singing. |
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Troma Trashes Fast Food Nation with Kentucky Fried Musical It’s been 22 years since Troma Entertainment last made a big-screen splash with Class of Nuke ’Em High, a typically stomach-turning satire about small-town teens growing up, but not old, in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. Since then, infamous auteur Lloyd Kaufman’s fiercely independent studio has floundered with a series of mostly straight-to-DVD releases, including seminal titles like Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy and Killer Condom. |
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Coming to America In less than a year and with only two songs available to the public, London's White Lies have caught enough attention to get gigs at several high-profile music festivals and make their U.S. debut. The Band's synth-sprinkled tunes and heady lyrics have earned references to Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen. White Lies performs at Popscene -- its second U.S. gig -- on July 31st before heading to Chicago for Lollapalooza. Drummer Jack Brown spoke with SF Station during a phone interview from the UK. |
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SF Station Blows It Up Last Friday night Mezzanine brought it way back with Nucleus and Egyptian Lover for a hell of a dance party. Both artists threw down some great beats and made the entire place shake from the dancing they inspired. All the cool kids came out for this 80s revival and so should you if you get a chance. |
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Released on Shout Factory, 7/1/08 Cementing their place in the recent rise of top tier LA bands, Earlimart offers poignant indie-pop on their latest collaboration Hymn and Her that engages fans with inspirational lyrics and rhythmic melodies to rival their previous effort in 2007 Mentor Tormentor. |
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Released on XL Recordings, 7/8/08 Twangy, trance-evoking, peaceful, melodic, tribal, upbeat, downbeat -- Ratatat’s latest album LP3 will not disappoint their electro-pop fans. The unique collaboration between Mike Stroud and Evan Mast that dates back to 2001 is -- in the duo’s own words -- "totally from the future, man!" |
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Released on Black & Greene Records on 9/2/08 Apollo Sunshine has garnered a cult following for their neo-psychedelic-jazz-rock. Perhaps the reason they have such a devoted fanbase is due to the fact that it’s almost impossible to neatly label them with any one genre. Once you think you have them figured out, they’re already well into new territory. |
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