Year: 2009

Originally published in SF Chronicle. “Twilight”: Bella (KRISTEN STEWART) walks to her truck. Out of nowhere a Van heads to Bella. Edward (ROBERT PATTINSON) saves her! It was a very close call and she’s shaken. Her friends gather to see what has happened. It doesn’t feel quite like an accident….but is it? Summit Entertainment/Peter Sorel… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Shocktoberfest 2009: The Thrillpeddlers, and The Cockettes. David Allen Lanny Baugniet and the company of Thrillpeddlers’ Pearls Over Shanghai. David Allen Shocktoberfest 2009: The Thrillpeddlers, and The Cockettes. David Allen Russell Blackwood in Thrillpeddlers’ Pearls Over Shanghai. David Allen Lanny Baugniet (top), Adeola Role and Will McMichael in Thrillpeddlers’ 10th… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. The video on Cupcakes for Life's Web site (sorry, you're just going to have to Google it) set my Cupcake Terror Alert to BUTTERCREAM HIGH in seconds. It wasn't just that it was a man telling me to make pro-life cupcakes and give them to children. Nor that the sweet,… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Courtesy of Anna Span Anna Span If you don't want to read about female orgasms with visual results, I suggest you grab your raincoat and move on. However, if you want to read the latest news about a significant victory for the validation of female ejaculation, the gleeful normalizing of… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. On Monday, a duffel bag full of someone's stinky clothes put downtown into a standstill bomb scare. I know–I had a bird's eye view of the Transbay Terminal. Forgotten luggage is nothing if not apocalyptic. Then, we had a tsunami scare. Like a harbinger cherry on top of a paranoid… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Kozyn Dan, Passing Tuxedo Felines on the Journey to the Next Dimension April Flores Toy Exhibit unknown Misha, Our Lady of Labia April Flores Toy Exhibit Carlos Batts, The Ghost of Hans Bellmer April Flores Toy Exhibit Zak Smith, Untitled April Flores Toy Exhibit Small Paul, IREZUMI April Flores Toy… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. From the exhibit, “Plastics.” Midori From the exhibit, “Plastics.” Midori When you hump a blow-up doll, do you find you need a bicycle tire repair kit afterward? (That's what's known as a "fixie," folks.) Do you catch yourself looking at a lineup of sex toys and, rather than cuing the… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. Conservatives and feminists love to freak out about BDSM practices and imagery. CIA doctors can perform human torture experiments in the name of national security, but show a few pics of the Folsom Street Fair on Fox News and you've got a nice hysterical anti-kink TV segment to make the… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. New York photographer Zach Hyman (zhfoto.com, NSFW) made a splash across the Internet last week when his recent show at NYC's Chair and The Maiden Gallery was announced. Not simply because the artist is talented; his new show features unplanned — and quite sexy — nude portraits shot in public.… Read more…

Originally published in SF Chronicle. The battle over porn workplace safety is making for some strange bedfellows. Don your gloves and hardhat, because we're going in deep. Deep into anti-porn hysteria, that is. On July 16, down in Southern California, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a lawsuit seeking a writ of mandate to compel the… Read more…