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• Posted A Counterfeit Heir: The Moth Diaries to Culture/Entertainment
  Gothic vampire themes, hormonal young women stuck at a secluded all-girls school, Catholic uniforms... What could possibly go wrong? If it's Mary Harron's new...
• Posted Silicon Valley Fails The AIDS Memorial Quilt to News
  Here in the heart of tech and location of the world's newest millionaires, on the eve of San Francisco's 2012 celebration of gay Pride,...
• Posted Black and White Ball 2012: Glitter to Culture/Entertainment
  San Francisco's Black and White Ball has both intrigued and repelled me since I was old enough to look at society page photos in...
• Posted SFIFF: Hysteria to Culture/Entertainment
  I was thrilled I was getting to see the big mainstream film about vibrators (Hysteria, Sony Classics) as a centerpiece of the 2012 San...
• Posted SFIFF: Tokyo Waka to Culture/Entertainment
  TOKYO WAKA trailer [www.StyloFilms.com] from John Haptas on Vimeo. The belle of the festival, Tokyo Waka has sold out at every single SFIFF screening....
• Posted SFIFF: Twixt to Culture/Entertainment
  Francis Ford Coppola's entry in the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival, "Twixt" is one of the prettiest, most visually stylish and frustratingly incomprehensible...
• Posted SFIFF: Cherry to Culture/Entertainment
  Writer and director Stephen Elliott's strong film debut Cherry isn't like the other girls on the playground. Cherry is an accurate, lyrical snapshot of...
• Posted SFIFF: Headhunters to Culture/Entertainment
  The San Francisco International Film Festival's 2012 lineup packs a punch, with an unusually strong selection of films. Headhunters, a gritty action-packed Swedish Norwegian...
• Posted Memoirs Of A Girlvert: Oriana Small At The Booksmith to Culture/Entertainment
  Oriana Small aka Ashley Blue - Girlvert: A Porno Memoir from Dave Naz on Vimeo. Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue will be reading from...
• Posted Think Globally, Come Locally: Violet Blue's Sexy SF Pride Guide 2011 to Culture/Entertainment
  San Francisco Pride guides are a both necessary evil and an exercise in futility. On one lubed hand there are a million things to...
• Commented on Starstruck San Franciscans Screwing Up Contagion Filming In Civic Center
  It strikes "the young, the old and the innocent." Cool, most if us are going to be okay. No biggie....
• Commented on SF Weekly Managing Editor To Move To SF Examiner
  I'm moved to comment on how well written this piece is; there are a lot of things at play here, and you really balanced insider POV, history, opinion and telling the story. I don't have sympathy for anyone involved, but...
• Posted This Zen Master Teaches Buddhism How To Grow Up About Sex Already to Culture/Entertainment
  A couple years ago I got to meet Zen Master Brad Warner when he was in San Francisco doing appearances for his then-new book,...
• Posted Run, Alejandro, Run: Violet Blue's Sexy SF Pride Guide 2010 to Culture/Entertainment
  I'll just disclose up front that I am not a fan of this year's Pride theme. I've said this before. "40 and Fabulous!" Really? I...
• Posted Good Vibrations And The Clitoris Saving Alien Cult to News
  Even among casual observers of businesses that call themselves "adult", there is an expectation that these companies, on occasion, will do some pretty weird things....
• Posted Exclusive Interview: Jillian Lauren's Harem Life in "Some Girls" to Culture/Entertainment
  Last Monday Jillian Lauren, mom and new author was on The View - and it wasn't your average View topic. No daytime fare for...
• Posted Scenes From the 5733 Grand Opening to Culture/Entertainment
  The past two weeks have been epic for street art and the Bay Area. Banksy swept SF (plus a further piece was discovered), and...
• Posted Exit Through the Mission: Banksy Sweeps SF to Culture/Entertainment
  Originating from the UK, famous, admired, despised (and wanted) street artist Banksy has left mark(s) in many cities around the world. With the recent opening...
• Commented on Food Adventure Team: Troya
  I'd like to add that afterward we all went to NOPA for delicious post-Troya cocktails and friendly, sweet greetings from NOPA staff. thank you for the F.A.T. love, NOPA!...
• Posted Food Adventure Team: Troya to Food
  Troya SF: Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine. At first glance, the Troya menu did not seem exceptional; however we were assured by one team member's...
• Commented on The Changing Face of Bay Area Fire Art
  I worked with, and for SRL, and Mark for 12 years. I talked to the cops and the SFFD on Mark's behalf enough times in my life. done with that. the video is fine until about 7:00 when they say...
• Posted SF Weekly's Matt Smith Screws Kink.com: Unfair, Unbalanced, Malfeasant Journalism to Media
  On Wednesday, SF Weekly's Matt Smith took his torture porn fantasies beyond the realm of safe, sane and consensual to gloat over how his...
• Posted SF Weekly's Matt Smith Screws Kink.com: Unfair, Unbalanced, Malfeasant Journalism to News
  On Wednesday, SF Weekly's Matt Smith took his torture porn fantasies beyond the realm of safe, sane and consensual to gloat over how his...
• Posted NOPA Confidential: Richie Nakano at Porchlight to Food
  When Anthony Bourdain's book "Kitchen Confidential" came out in 2005 2000 (thanks, Alex_B!), it was made crystal clear that America's top kitchens were staffed...
• Posted NOPA Confidential: Richie Nakano at Porchlight to Culture/Entertainment
  When Anthony Bourdain's book "Kitchen Confidential" came out in 2005 2000 (thanks, Alex_B!), it was made crystal clear that America's top kitchens were staffed...
• Posted An Immaculate Reception: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence 30th Birthday Party to Culture/Entertainment
  all photos by Violet Blue for The Appeal At The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts last night, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence held the...
• Posted Mayor Gavin Newsom on "Cities and Time" for The Long Now Foundation to Culture/Entertainment
  When we first heard that Mayor Gavin Newsom was giving a SALT talk (Seminars About Long Term Thinking) for The Long Now Foundation, it...
• Posted Nun World Order: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Turn 30 to Culture/Entertainment
  This Good Friday, April 10, is the celebration that begins the weekend-long Nun World Order Takeover: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence turn a flirty...
• Posted The Street Art of San Francisco Release Party to Culture/Entertainment
  Image by *eddie. New York's street art scene is legendary, the LA street art culture is the stuff of legends, and London has a rightful...
• Posted NBC's "Trauma" Pilot Heats Up The Streets to Culture/Entertainment
  NBC started filming the pilot for their new San Francisco based series "Trauma", which is slated to be an action-packed drama about EMTs. And, apparently...