Tag: The Stud
With Virgil’s closure, SF loses another great queer space
Owner Lila Thirkield reveals details about hurdles her beloved small bar faced as pandemic shut it down.
Time’s running out for SF’s live music venues. What’s being done to save them?
Via the Independent Venue Alliance and SF Venue Coalition, businesses seek private donations—and put much-needed pressure on federal and city level politicians to help.
Our biggest news stories of 2020
1 million readers, 950+ stories, and a community of engaged supporters that can't be beat: Here's what we accomplished together this year.
Party Radar: Epic 3-day festival aims to Revive the Nightlife
All aboard this star-packed, fundraising online party train—it's time to save independent local dance floors.
A very haunted Arts Forecast: Halloween undead!
Howl through your mask at this year's stream 'n (socially distant) scream spooktaculars
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...
Party Radar: Change finally comes to dance music
Superstar DJ The Black Madonna has changed her name to The Blessed Madonna. Beloved disco-house DJ Joey Negro has dropped his stage name and is now simply Dave Lee....
Our publisher’s ‘must-read’ history of US protests is out now!
"Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States" by 48 Hills publisher and arts editor Marke B is out today on Lerner Books...
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...
