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Hot sexy events: March 22-29

03.21.12 - 12:40 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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Perhaps you caught Soojin Chang's review of the first month's edition of Cum and Glitter (my god, the trolls from SFGate sure did!), the Mission's new alt-queer live sex show that had Ava Solanos squirting, yes squirting, the to thrums of a cello perched mere feet away from her audience-spritzing climax. Yes! Well even if you didn't, you will note from that description that C&G is the classiest thing that an experienced exhibitionist could be possibly be involved in, in the city these days. And so it is with pleasure that we announce that the show is currently holding auditions. Will you don baby bloomers and molest your babysitter onstage? Sexy ribbon-dance? Those were actually last month's ideas, babe, but we know you can think of something great. Now, the week's sex events from lectures to slutty cigar parties.

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In the SXSW green room

A DIY potstar runs down her favorite medical marijuana moments from Austin

03.20.12 - 5:33 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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HERBWISE DIY pop star Lisa Dank doesn't smoke marijuana to help with her art — smoking weed is her art. The Seattle singer-producer — known for her florid, handmade costumes and gonzo stage presence — crafts odes to cannabis (check out her aural fixation at www.soundcloud.com/lisa-dank), and has a day job at 4Evergreen Group, a patient network that supplies legal and educational resources to its members, as well as physician recommendations for medical marijuana.Read more »

It's not what you get, it's what you keep

A BBC journalist gathers black voices for posterity

03.20.12 - 5:32 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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Things you should be doing to avoid eviction

03.20.12 - 1:49 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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Did everyone read Friday's Wall Street Journal home trends piece on the romance between wealthy tech workers and the Mission and Noe Valley? By way of paraphrasing, we quote: Read more »

Entering the pixels at the Creators Project

03.19.12 - 10:21 am | Caitlin Donohue |
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The computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963, and don't get Jamie Zigelbaum wrong, because he thinks it was a great invention.

For its time.

But, surrounded by his and other feats of computational art at last weekend's Creators Project at Fort Mason, Zigelbaum was understandably over the mouse.

“I don't want to poke at things with a stick anymore. I want to form things with my hands. And touchscreens, that's still like poking stuff behind glass," he says. Read more »

Join vets at City Hall today to mark nine years in Iraq

03.19.12 - 10:04 am | Caitlin Donohue |
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Lest we forget, today marks the ninth anniversary of the start of our war in Iraq. If you plan on passing by City Hall today, you'll have a vivid reminder of today's important milestone -- 481 pairs of combat boots will be lined up on the seat of our city government's steps, a visual precursor to the afternoon of speeches by vets and their families that has been organized by the Bay Area chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Read more »

New Penthouse Club opens, gets everybody drunk

03.16.12 - 3:25 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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She climbed this pole like a little mountaineer. All Guardian photos by Caitlin Donohue
These poles are not meant to support a human body, according to the security guard.
Lap dance station and ATM, they love hanging out with each other.
Tuna tartare and mango jelly, small bites at the press preview.
"You know how picky I am about my shoes, and they only go on my feet."
The bartender explained that ironing down the ice "just doesn't feel right."
Happy hangover! I'll take the Vixen.
All strip club DJs sound the same -- like bat mitzah DJs.
Off-stage talent.
The curtain rises on a brand-new place for pervs. Hooray!

Last night's opening of North Beach's brand spanking new Penthouse Club and Steakhouse (formerly Show Girls, before that Boy Toys) was glittery enough and did have a two-story pole for the women to play on, but – and I will only say this once – ladies, when you are being introduced onstage in the first moments of a strip club officially being open and you are next to a two-story stripper's pole, and you are a stripper, you better get up there and show the crowd what they're going to be getting for its rumpled, sweaty single bills. Read more »

Hot sexy events: March 15-21

03.15.12 - 2:56 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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File them under “things I don't understand, ergo I hate them”: getting stood up and online dating. How backwards, no? Thank god for writer Oscar Raymundo, for in addition to being a gleefully catty bitch on this selfsame website and Internet-everywhere, he is taking part in a panel discussion to demystify online encounters tonight, on Thu/15. Read more »

Power puff

Photographer Robyn Twomey's shots of women puffing tough come at a crucial time in cannabis history

03.13.12 - 5:59 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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HERBWISE I remember the first time I saw photographer Robyn Twomey's work — talk about simpatico. It was a huge print of a photo of an elderly woman sitting in front of a piano and a mirror with an immense Persian cat, lighting a joint firmly held between her lips. I'd never seen anything like it — documented in a gallery, that is.Read more »

Just longing for sameness

An Irish author's travels end in San Francisco, for now

03.13.12 - 5:14 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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[An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Paul Robeson as Renee Gibbons' lover, when in fact it was William Marshall. We regret the error]

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IRISH Yesterday she and her husband received notice that it would soon be converted into a condo. But for the moment, it is still hers. We are sitting in Irish author Renee Gibbons' rent-controlled North Beach apartment of 31 years and she is telling me about the time she saw Van Morrison walking down Columbus Street in the 1970s.Read more »