BARtab :: Nightlife

Broadway Bingo Brightens Wednesdays at Feinstein’s

Broadway Bingo Brightens Wednesdays at Feinstein’s

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Oct 14, 2013

You can’t ask for two more talented hosts for a musical theatre trivia night. Joe Wicht and J. Conrad Frank have decades of theatre, cabaret and bar experience between them - that is, performing in bars.

Big Freedia is 'Queen of Bounce'

Big Freedia is 'Queen of Bounce'

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Oct 12, 2013

The openly gay performer shares music and more in "Queen of Bounce," his new Fuse TV eight-part program.

Cho Biz :: Margaret Cho at Masonic Hall

Cho Biz :: Margaret Cho at Masonic Hall

  • by Ronn Vigh
  • Oct 11, 2013

Surfacing on the national comedy scene in the early 1990s and remaining a comedic staple ever since, Emmy and Grammy-nominated actress and comic Margaret Cho will return to her hometown of San Francisco where she got her very first start.

Peaches Headlines Castro Street Fair

Peaches Headlines Castro Street Fair

  • by Juan Garcia
  • Oct 4, 2013

Eclectic, experimental, punk, electro... it takes many words to try to describes the unique musical talent known as Peaches. She and her Peachettes will headline the 40th anniversary Castro Street Fair.

Lady Bunny’s Back in Town!

Lady Bunny’s Back in Town!

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Oct 3, 2013

She’s back! Lady Bunny, New York nightlife drag queen extraordinaire, Wigstock creator, performer and DJ, returns to San Francisco with the latest edition of her bawdy variety show full of saucy songs and sassy commentary.

Midnight Makeover

Midnight Makeover

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Oct 2, 2013

The Midnight Sun, the popular intimate Castro bar known for decades as the default TV and video-viewing gay bar, has its new face on...almost.

BARchive :: The Slot

BARchive :: The Slot

  • by Jim Stewart
  • Sep 29, 2013

In 1976, before the Folsom Street Fair became the iconic festival it is today, among the bars, baths, and blue-collar joints South of Market, at 979 Folsom Street, stood the South-of-the-Slot bathhouse.

Folsom’s Dirty Thirty

Folsom’s Dirty Thirty

  • by Scott Brogan
  • Sep 27, 2013

The Folsom Street Fair celebrates three decades this year. It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since it started as a modest street fair. It’s since become the largest leather/fetish street fair in the world.

Aiden James: Philly’s Finest

Aiden James: Philly’s Finest

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Sep 27, 2013

Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Aiden James will be performing in San Francisco at the Folsom Street Fair’s main stage on September 29, and at The Midnight Sun on Monday September 30.

Leatherazzi ’13

Leatherazzi ’13

  • Sep 22, 2013

What kind of leather and fetish drag will trend this year at the 30th annual Folsom Street Fair? Ponies? Bronies? Codpiece big bonies?

40’s A Cinch

40’s A Cinch

  • by Michael Flanagan
  • Sep 15, 2013

The Cinch is currently the only gay bar on Polk Street, or one of the few, if you count the gay-friendly spaces. This is from a high which numbered between 20 and 30 venues in the neighborhood during Harvey Milk’s era.

Boycott: Da! Nyet! :: The Stoli War

Boycott: Da! Nyet! :: The Stoli War

  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Sep 8, 2013

As Russia’s anti-gay hatred escalates before the Sochi Winter Olympics, local nightclubs and bars are still at odds over whether to boycott Stoli vodka, all Russian vodka, or whether to boycott anything at all.

Boxxy Lady

Boxxy Lady

  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Sep 1, 2013

With a wry comic edge that can leap into slapstick or caricature, Boxx’s performances balance classic drag with contemporary pop sensibility. She’ll be performing in San Francisco on September 6, 7 & 8 at Rebel.

Kings & Queens

Kings & Queens

  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Aug 17, 2013

On Saturday, August 17, Sister Roma (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) and Fudgie Frottage, drag king extraordinaire, will co-host The Biggest Drag Queen Competition in the World.