What is San Francisco famous for? Ask anywhere in the world and among the answers, you're sure to hear "queers" and "cuisine." And yet, here in Bestie Land, it seems that rarely the two shall meet.

This year's array of Bestie winners show that sometimes the new kids on the block (like Oasis and the re-introduced Eagle) can show the long-timers how to have a good time.

Our readers voted for many familiar favorite talents in lip-synching, drink-serving, singing, dancing, and groove-spinning.

There are rare bars that are popular in one generation and come back a second time. Even rarer is one which has three lives. The 181 Club was such a bar. It lasted from the 1950s to the 1990s and left its mark on three generations.

A group of highly regarded Bay Area musicians is launching their new ensemble theatrical concert at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Thursday, March 30.

When "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Bob the Drag Queen takes to the stage, the now famous moniker lets you know what you're getting, and it's all in good fun. "I think I'm universally funny," he said. "Funny is funny."

Muscle magic at Nob Hill Theatre

Male prostitution is probably as old as the city itself. Edward Prime-Stevenson wrote in 1908 that soldiers in the Presidio were for rent during the Spanish-American War. It is certainly as old as the homophile organizations.