From its robin’s egg retro blue décor to its circular dance floor and five-projector visuals, the new venue combines intimacy with a club-like ambiance.

If you like your parties queer and bi-coastal, arrive early and get cupcaked with the sexiest go-gos and partygoers at

MetroPCS, a cellphone company that targets low-income urban households, is cutting the price on its unlimited data service, going against the flow of the biggest phone companies.

The ethereal vocals of Lisa Gerrard and the brooding symbolic anthems of Brendan Perry come together again as the unmistakably unique sounds of Dead Can Dance return to Berkeley’s Greek Theatre on August 12.

Diversely eclectic, Guerneville is San Francisco's backyard playground on the fabled Russian River where generations of GLBTs have retreated like Thoreau at Walden Pond to vacation.

Nightlife denizens and club owners have long been pitted against San Francisco police and homeowners in what some have dubbed a "war on fun" that has raged on since the dot-com boom in the late 1990s.

The original Gay Parade started inside a bar the night of June 28, 1969, when drag queens ran out of Stonewall into the streets. Or did it?

When I happened upon Mark’s Bar after it opened, the first thing I noticed was the sound from the street. From outside I could hear the laughter and the sound of bar dice slamming on the bar.

For Sean Ray, the AIDS crisis has never ended. The cabaret and former Gay Men’s Chorus performer has lived with the virus for many years. On May 14 and 15, Ray hosts the tenth annual Cabaret to Fight AIDS at The Rrazz Room in San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko.

I spoke to some locals to find out their favorite unusual and alternative spots that make San Francisco night life special.

Bearded muscle bears cavort in pink tutus. Mustached twinks wrestle while coated in lube. Local authors verbally joust in bars. These are a few of our favorite new things.

Founded in 1982, The Valencia Rose Cabaret was an ambitious project that housed the world’s first gay comedy club, a queer activist meeting center, a vegetarian eatery and more into a two-story Spanish style building with 3D camel sculptures jutting out o

Restaurants come and go so quickly here! One minute you’re making a reservation, the next your favorite tapas bar is a cupcake shoppe. Here’s a random sampling of new and recently opened eateries all over town, plus a few with a record of success.

Each week I host a new lot of guest comedians and entertainers, which proves to be equal parts exhilarating and unnerving. Anything can go wrong, and in the history of this show, it has.