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Culture The Exhibitionist

Go Color In a Bag of Dicks! (With This Totally NSFW Coloring Book)

Peter Lawrence Kane 3:03 PM Aug. 12, 2016

Sometimes, after a bad breakup, you just have to have sex with as many people as possible until you stop feeling like shit about yourself. But if you're artist Nathan Rapport, a onetime San Franciscan who now lives and works More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Fighting for the Soul of the Republic, in the S.F. Mime Troupe's Schooled

Peter Lawrence Kane 6:06 PM Aug. 11, 2016

Move over, Common Core. Babbittry is the dogma at the former Eleanor Roosevelt Academy once it becomes the Learning Academy of Virtual Achievement (or LAVA) in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's production of Schooled. With encomiums to "make American More >>
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Wringing Laughs Out of Truckers in Boise: The Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest Returns

Emily Wilson 8:08 AM Aug. 10, 2016

When he started working as an IT consultant, Sanjay Manaktala traveled a lot. He would find himself in Iowa or Wisconsin, and bored in the hotel, he would head out to perform at comedy clubs. This isn’t something that everyone More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Drag Strip: Peaches Christ puts her own spin on Showgirls! The Musical!

Quentin Quick 2:02 PM Aug. 8, 2016

In 1995 cult flick Showgirls, Vegas stripper Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) dreams of kicking off her hooker heels and thrusting her way into a major burlesque revue. With Showgirls! The Musical!, starring April Kidwell as the exotic dancer turned showgirl, More >>
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The Biggest Cuteasses of Outside Lands 2016

Peter Lawrence Kane 1:01 PM Aug. 8, 2016

Music festivals have a particular style. Granted, Outside Lands is not Coachella, where the golden hour reflecting off the mountains makes everyone look stunning, and they're all excited because it's April and they can show off the tattoos that have More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Don't Think Twice Director Mike Birbiglia Second-Guesses Suicide Squad and Donald Trump

Quentin Quick 11:11 AM Aug. 5, 2016

Director and comedian Mike Birbiglia is fucking pissed at Hollywood. His Sleepwalk With Me follow-up, Don't Think Twice, about a group of six improv performers struggling to make it in New York City, happens to come out the same weekend More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

City of Angels: Film Noir Musical Comedy at SF Playhouse

Jeffrey Edalatpour 11:11 AM Aug. 4, 2016

A quartet starts the show by scatting in harmony. Nonsense “ba da da das” spill out of their mouths in unison. What starts as an ode to the Manhattan Transfer crescendos into a vocal evocation of a film noir symphonic More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

All the Human Animals at The West Edge Festival 2016

Jeffrey Edalatpour 9:09 AM Aug. 2, 2016

Opera is all emotion and no logic. The opening weekend of The West Edge Festival was an excellent reminder of that fact. Over the course of two weeks, West Edge Opera is staging three operas in an abandoned train More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Up Your Alley: #KinkThanksgiving Is the Alternative to Pride (NSFW)

Peter Lawrence Kane 4:04 PM Aug. 1, 2016

WARNING: BUTTS Apple just announced that it'll be releasing a rainbow flag emoji this fall, as part of a suite of new id eograms that looks mostly like it's plugging in a few holes in the existing emoji-verse than anything More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Soundwave Biennial’s Audiobus Explores The Tenderloin In Its Own Voice

Sam Ribakoff 1:01 PM Jul. 26, 2016

San Francisco in the 21st century is experiencing the tumbleweed-silent steel buildings canyon of the Financial District transition into the always-lively cacophony of the badlands of The Tenderloin. “The Tenderloin is an area that a lot of people ignore More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Tales from the 2016 J-POP SUMMIT Festival: Space Toilets, Zombie Kitties, and the New Vocaloid in Town 2

Sherilyn Connelly 5:05 PM Jul. 25, 2016

The J-POP SUMMIT Festival is a celebration of all things related to Japanese pop culture – music, food, art, film, and many points between – and it's always my favorite weekend of the year. Held on July 23-24, this More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

The Struggles of Homeless Women Vets, in Low Hanging Fruit

Quentin Quick 2:02 PM Jul. 22, 2016

A chopper hovers over Cory's encampment, in one of Low Hanging Fruit's most moving moments. The army vet who was awarded a Purple Heart following two tours of Iraq, a sliced throat and a suicide bombing that killed 19 of More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Grand Concourse is Paved with Good Intentions

Jeffrey Edalatpour 8:08 AM Jul. 20, 2016

How do you solve a problem like Emma? She’s self-centered, callow, and dishonest. When she volunteers at a church soup kitchen that Shelley runs, we feel, perhaps, there’s hope for her yet. Two hours later, Grand Concourse has taken great pains More >>
Culture The Exhibitionist

Norman Lear Brings 'All Lives Matter' message to SF Jewish Film Festival 2

Quentin Quick 10:10 AM Jul. 19, 2016

When Norman Lear wrote contentious episodes of All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, Good Times and The Jeffersons that dealt with war, procreative liberty, poverty, racism and feminism, he expected flack from the networks. What Lear never More >>
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Christine Elfman Investigates Photography With Amaranth Juice and Roman Mythology

Matthew Harrison Tedford 8:08 AM Jul. 19, 2016

In the Roman myth of Diana and Actaeon, the goddess of the hunt grows furious when Actaeon, a young hunter, is found gazing at her while she bathes nude in a sacred grove. Diana transforms Actaeon into a stag More >>

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Know Your Street Art: Untitled (597 Haight St.)

Jonathan Curiel 5:05 PM Aug. 10, 2016

Painters have always used different shades of blue to give their artwork a certain intensity. For Thomas Gainsborough, a glistening blue was the key to his 18th-century work The Blue Boy. For Picasso, blue anchored a whole period in the More >>
Culture The Whore Next Door

Whore Next Door: World's Proudest Ho Mama

Siouxsie Q 5:05 PM Aug. 10, 2016

I shouldn't have worn heels. I hobbled my way down a steep staircase toward the backyard, where a sizable crowd of hideous scenesters sat smoking and sipping on PBRs and bottles of tequila they'd brought from home. But before I More >>
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Depopulation Agenda

Jonathan Curiel 5:05 PM Aug. 10, 2016

Lauren Marsolier says she'sliberated from traditional photography. Forget asking people to pose. Forget waiting for what Henri Cartier-Bresson, her French antecedent, called "the decisive moment." There are no singular moments in Marsolier's images. Hell, there aren't even any people in More >>
Culture The Whore Next Door

Whore Next Door: Butt Plugs and Con Law

Siouxsie Q 5:05 PM Aug. 3, 2016

A giant penis, at least 10 feet tall, greeted me as I walked into the crisp relief of the air-conditioned hotel ballroom. It loomed like an ogre guarding a cave of treasures. Each year, the Adult Novelty Manufacturers Expo hosts More >>
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Open Borders: Keeping a Mission Bookstore Open 2

Mary Salome 5:05 PM Aug. 3, 2016

When I see an independent bookstore with its doors still open, I fight an urge to run in and make a purchase. I only stop myself to keep the peace at home, where piles of books threaten to topple the More >>
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Minding His Beeswax: A Day in the Life of an Artist at Madame Tussauds

Peter Lawrence Kane 5:05 PM Aug. 3, 2016

I wish Robin Williams a happy birthday, in person, even though he died nearly two years ago. Technically, it's his wax likeness, smiling impishly in the lobby of Madame Tussauds, not far away from a seated Mark Zuckerberg. I'm waiting More >>
Culture The Whore Next Door

Whore Next Door: Queen to Queen

Siouxsie Q 5:05 PM Jul. 27, 2016

Our eyes met across a crowded hallway, my hand raised high in the air and wielding a leather paddle with with the word "slut" emblazoned on it in silver studs. With a stranger bent over in front of me, I, More >>
Culture Know Your Street Art

Know Your Street Art: Untitled 392 11th St. (Oakland)

Jonathan Curiel 5:05 PM Jul. 27, 2016

In Yale University Press' ex-haustive study, The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, word "bombing" is rightfully celebrated for its impressionistic styles and shapes. Good bombing is distinct and artful. Bad bombing is just that: bad bombing. Which category More >>
Culture Art

Grid Alternatives: Artist Ed Moses at 90

Jonathan Curiel 5:05 PM Jul. 27, 2016

In 1961, painter Ed Moses lived in the same Fillmore Street apartment building as a spate of other artists, including Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Joan Brown, and Manuel Neri. All of them would eventually gain national and international art-world prominence. More >>
Culture The Whore Next Door

Whore Next Door: A Streetwalker Named Desiree 2

Siouxsie Q 5:05 PM Jul. 20, 2016

Chants of "Sex worker rights are human rights!" and "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!" echoed through the French Quarter on Wednesday night. Hundreds of sex workers had taken to Bourbon Street to protest the More >>

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Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'. Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"
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