The first act of the Renaissance isn’t quite over. Confirming reports that broke over the weekend, Beyonce announced a concert film of her record-grossing “Renaissance” tour is set for December 1.
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During the 1960s most LGBTQ nightlife in San Francisco was centered in the northern neighborhoods of the city. Gay bars could be found along Polk Street, in the Tenderloin, and the South of Market neighborhood.
In the heart of the city, the late lesbian couple Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin hosted private gatherings for queer women in their Noe Valley home. They had been doing so ever since buying their Duncan Street cottage in 1955.
A short drive away in the city’s Glen Park neighborhood, albeit for a brief period of time, one could enjoy female impersonators performing at a restaurant location with a storied past dating back to the 1900s. An account of their opening night at the Casa Blanca Lounge in an October 1964 edition of Citizens News, a defunct early LGBTQ newspaper, described it as “something that should have been seen.”
The writer noted, “The addition of tacos to female impersonators is welcome to the jaded appetites.” One of the performers, referred to only as Terry, was reported to have taken “so many curtain calls that he was embarrassed and when you can embarrass that one you have done something.”
An ad had appeared in one of the newspaper’s September issues touting that the eatery, located at 2972 Diamond Street, would be featuring “San Francisco’s Finest Impersonators” Wednesdays through Sundays starting on September 16. It highlighted the performers as being “Terry, Jay, Jamie & Chris” and noted that “Mexican Dinners” would be served.
The existence of what was essentially a precursor to today’s drag shows would likely have been lost to history were it not for a post on the website Nextdoor inquiring if there had been a bar in Glen Park that presented female impersonators. It had come to the attention of
The first act of the Renaissance isn’t quite over. Confirming reports that broke over the weekend, Beyonce announced a concert film of her record-grossing “Renaissance” tour is set for December 1.
“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year.
Carlos Santana was the O.G. hippie in the ’60s, think again.In fact, the 76-year-old guitar hero was once an anti-weed warrior as his namesake band was huffing — and puffing — to succeed in the San Francisco scene alongside groups such as the Grateful Dead.“I’d been around marijuana all my life since I was a child, but I never toked,” reveals Santana in the new documentary “Carlos,” which opens in theaters on Friday.Indeed, the “Smooth” operator was that guy who was a downer to the doobies — in part, to protect his own good name and reputation.“You’re building a band around me, and I noticed that they smoke weed.
Noah Pritzker’s bittersweet father and sons tale Ex-Husbands (aka Men Of Divorce) world premieres in Competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday as one of the few U.S. productions to be accompanied by its cast this year thanks to its SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.
Cassandro” is based on a true story. The film, available on Prime Video today, follows Saúl Armendáriz (a luminous Gael Garcia Bernal), a gay wrestler facing a turning point.
Cassandro tells a larger-than-life true story in the most grounded way possible. Gael García Bernal plays Saúl Armendáriz, an amateur wrestler who, struggling to make a breakthrough on the local scene, reinvents himself as an “exótico.” The role of the exótico in 1980s Mexico was to act flamboyant, dress even more so, and to lose to the muscle-bound hulks they stepped into the ring with. Cassandro was different, though.
EXCLUSIVE: The Roku Channel has set an Oct. 13 streaming premiere date in U.S. and Mexico for the new Greice Santo created music reality series Serenata de las Estrellas.
Naman Ramachandran India’s Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), which enjoys the support of cinema greats Martin Scorsese and Amitabh Bachchan, is conducting the third edition of the Biennial Audio-Visual Archival Summer School in partnership with the International Federation of Film Archives. The global film preservation training workshop is coming to India for the first time and will be held at the India International Centre in Delhi Oct.
Olivia Rodrigo has reacted to Chipotle’s joke that references a lyric from the pop star’s ‘Guts’ album track ‘Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl’.Chipotle, the Mexican food-inspired restaurant chain, posted an image on its Instagram account last week of its chips and guacamole side dish with a hand hovering over it bearing rings similar to those Rodrigo wears on her ‘Guts‘ album cover.The chain captioned the image with “every guy I like is guac” in reference to Rodrigo’s lyric, “Everything I do is tragic/ Every guy I like is gay.”Rodrigo commented on the post, writing: “LMFAOOOOO THIS IS AMAZING.”A post shared by Chipotle (@chipotle)The news follows Rodrigo picking up her second UK Number One album recently, with ‘Guts’ outselling the rest of the Top 10 combined.The album racked up over 60,000 chart units in its first week. Her debut album ‘Sour’ also re-entered the Top 10 following the second album’s release.‘Guts’ has had the fourth biggest opening week for an album in 2023, following records by Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift.In other news, the pop star has cancelled her publicity tour in Australia days before it kicks off due to “unforeseen circumstances”.Rodrigo was due to host a Q&A with fans on September 22.
The National have released a new album. Laugh Track is the band's second album of 2023, after April's First Two Pages of Frankenstein, and features guest appearances from Phoebe Bridgers and Rosanne Cash, plus “Weird Goodbyes” with Bon Iver. In addition to the album, The National have added multiple dates to their upcoming fall U.S.
Thania Garcia The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation is rolling out a new industry screening series to show off a select group of music documentaries and films that feature its inductees as well as fresh talent. The inaugural title launching the series is MGM+’s “San Francisco Sounds: A Place In Time,” a new two-part original music documentary featuring Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Steve Miller and more.
The San Francisco Eagle Bar announced that Eagle Plaza, the world’s first public space centering queer history and the leather community, will be inaugurated this weekend as part of the city’s upcoming Leather Pride Fest 2023. Photo: EaglePlaza.org
Edward Hume, a prolific TV writer who created or developed such 1970s episodic crime classics as The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon and Barnaby Jones, and was Emmy-nominated for the startlingly realistic, much-watched 1983 nuclear holocaust drama The Day After, has died. He was 87.
Raquel Leviss isn’t ready to be friends with Tom Sandoval.
Refresh for latest…: There’s a lot to unpack this weekend at the international box office, including a flying start for Warner Bros/New Line’s The Nun II, Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan continuing to outdo himself and a major milestone afoot for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Meanwhile, Barbie has danced past $1.4B worldwide.
RBD’s ‘Soy Rebelde Tour’ may be coming to an arena near you soon.The Mexican pop group, currently midway through their sprawling North American tour, have 24 concerts remaining on their calendar.And while tickets are almost uniformly pricey, there is at least one show with double digit prices.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets was $62 before fees on Vivid Seats.All other shows will run you anywhere from at least $100 to $270 before fees.Still, given how much fun the tour looks on the band’s Instagram, it’s hard to put a price on seeing Anahí, Maite Perroni, Dulce María, Christian Chávez and Christopher von Uckermann live in action before it’s too late.Want to go to the ‘Soy Rebelde Tour’ while it’s on US soil?Here’s everything you need to know and more about RBD’s remaining tour dates this fall.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available for all upcoming concerts can be found below.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
Britney Spears has been making headlines again, but this time, it’s not for her legal battles or music. The singer appears to be living fully and embracing her newfound freedom as she enjoys a getaway in Cabo San Lucas.The star was recently spotted at a vibrant bar, Baja Diablo, where she seemed to be having an absolute blast. Her bodyguard and a female friend accompanied her in this spontaneous dance session.Una publicación compartida por TMZ (@tmz_tv)Britney was grooving to the music with unparalleled enthusiasm, and it was clear that she was relishing the moment.
Billie Lee is spilling the tea about that viral altercation between Tom Sandoval and some random partygoer this week!
The cast of Vanderpump Rules took a trip to San Francisco for season 11 — and unsurprisingly, things got very heated!
Tom Sandoval got a rude welcome to San Francisco when he unwittingly found himself in the middle of a bizarre altercation at a cast event.