Forget about finding a place in the alley or the backseat of a car (who even has a car in S.F.!), there's a new place to hook up.
The recently launched Hook-Up Truck is roaming City streets, providing a place to get kinky.
The brain child of conceptual artist Spy Emerson, the idea came to her during a long car ride with Flora Goodtyme of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Dixie De La Tour of Bawdy Storytelling. During this trip she was introduced to the hook-up site Grindr, and talk turned to how these hook-ups could happen anywhere -- that's when the plan for a mobile hook-up site struck.
"The idea for a mobile hotel room hit me like a ton of bricks, and then I had hours and hours and hours to sit in the car and consider it," says Emerson.
We get a lot of press releases around here, so when one came in for the new M•A•C store, we knew who to send. Check out our guest review from Trangela Lansbury!
"Hey Gurl, did you hear M•A•C just opened a new shop?"
"Yeah? No. (giggles)"
"Yeah it's a pro-fusion-store (hair toss) like airbrush makeup n' stuff, but they have regular shit too."
"Oh, that sounds cyute."
It was cyute. When I was trying to find the new M•A•C Cosmetics Pro-flagship store, I couldn't. It was wallpapered in ads, so from far away it looks like the building was still under construction. Once I walked in, it looked like a regular makeup shop, but upon closer inspection, it was actually pretty cool.
The store was a hive of energy with loads of makeup artists, costumers and looky-loos buzzin' around. Like five M•A•C employees heard I was coming to write this article and they greeted me at the door, all at once -- all this makeup smiling back at me, and one hot guy that wasn't wearing makeup at all (Or was he? He looked flawless, but maybe he just really knew how to paint). Anyway, it was intense. Part of me wanted to be incognito and discover all the makeup on my own, while the other part of me wished they kicked it up a notch and brought me a bottle of champagne and a bag of free makeup -- neither happened.
Isadora Duncan was clear about her life motto: "Sans limites!" The jury for The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, or "Izzies" seek the same ideal: Artists who aren't afraid to get all kinds of illimitable.
In the 28th annual event last night, the relatively small committee of volunteers showed a massive amount of respect and support for the entire Bay Area dance world. The Izzies honor the very best in artistic fields such as choreography, performance, and design.
And these aren't a bunch of bitchy ballerinas. Almost every acceptance speech expressed thanks to the dance community with a surprising amount of openness; from a heartfelt thanks from LGBT champion, Sean Dorsey, for his show, The Secret History of Love, to the evening's charming host and ODC Theater Director, Rob Bailis, who kept the evening earnest while still fun.
The vibrancy of the Mission District is due in large part the artists, art galleries, and arts-based non-profits that call it home. But the once-predominantly Latino community is in the midst of several large changes that will completely alter the vibe of the Mission.
The leading -- if not the sole -- cause of the burgeoning gentrification of the area is the rapidly increasing rent, for both businesses and residencies in the area, and the many evictions imposed on Mission tenants due to the Ellis Act. Iconic Latino gay bar/comedy club Esta Noche was recently shut down to become the space for another "trendy" bar to service the ever-expanding Mission hipster population, beloved bookstore Adobe Books was forced to move about a year ago due to rising rent, and now non-profit arts organization Root Division is facing the same dilemma.
