Tag: Oasis
Naima Shalhoub wields strength of community on debut studio album ‘SIPHR’
The multi-faceted Oakland musician summons Lebanese heritage on follow-up to 'Live in San Francisco County Jail.'
Drive-in Dragsploitation! ‘Sh*t & Champagne’ to make splashy debut
D'Arcy Drollinger's sparkling paean to '70s action flicks, fabulous looks will pop your cork.
Grab that virtual wig, it’s all aboard for Oaklash!
Weekend-long Oakland drag festival Oaklash (Fri/4-Sun/6 at www.twitch.tv/oaklash2020) has become such an integral part of the Bay Area queer performance scene that I was taken aback—aback, I say—when I remembered...
Arts Forecast: Local shows to stream on your screens
Local drag star and owner of SoMa club Oasis, D’Arcy Drollinger’s new show “Hot Trash” would probably not have been born under normal circumstances. But when COVID caused the...
ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters
I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them can be done at home...
SF bars push to reopen in July, alongside restaurants
The Newsom administration continues to announce and refine guidelines for business re-openings in California. Much of it depends on on counties hitting certain thresholds for COVID infections and hospitalizations—we're...
Can hotels become permanent housing for homeless people?
There are ways to describe the logistics of moving thousands of homeless people into hotel rooms. It’s not going to be simple.
But referring to the challenge as “herding that...
Arts Forecast: Help save bookstores, drag queens, Frameline, more
Let's start with something positive! And then some more things positive! We deserve it. Except those of you joggers still cutting me off on the sidewalk. (For general arts...
Leading drag and performance venue closes indefinitely
Since its opening in 2015, the cabaret/theater/nightclub Oasis, on 11thSt. in Soma, has been a “lighthouse” for queer creative culture, in the words of Michael Phillis, a drag performer...
Reviews: Laurie Anderson and Gina LaDivina, two very different storytellers
With her shock of hair and electric violin, Laurie Anderson is an instantly recognized avatar of '80s cool, although of course her pioneering electronics-based music, performance, and staging continue...
