Vote Alix

Whoah! It’s been way too long. Sorry ’bout that folks. What a long strange trip it’s been. I’ve been in and out of dire financial distress, exhausting job searches and interviews, staring contests with my mortgage lender, frequent bouts of crying and screaming, tense conversations with family, innumerable listings on Craigslist, interminable…

Just in time for spring, the SFPD wants you to know the party’s over. My friend Mike owns an underground party venue, and last night the cops raided a no-alcohol event at his place with 20 officers.  They told him that a new police task force is taking to the…

OK, here’s the scoop.  Even though the race organizers lifted the bans on nudity, floats and alcohol this year, they haven’t offered any leadership in making this year’s race better.  And what’s worse – they are refusing to provide enough garbage cans and toilets to serve the tens of thousands…

I’m rooting around, taking stock, selling it off, giving it away, and shaking it up.

I’m not running for District 8 Supervisor. There, I said it. And while the election is 21 months away, it’s already getting hot in here. This is going to be the biggest Supervisor race in 2010.  The district includes the Castro, Noe Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, the Inner Mission. …

There’s so much happening on the Bay to Breakers front that I don’t know where to start. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s Office, along with participants and advocates, have organized a rally and press conference at 11:30am Thursday morning (February 19).  Expect to see neighborhood activists, small business representatives, and members of…

An exciting movement is afoot to save Bay to Breakers from oblivion. Several groups have organized themselves on Facebook to keep themselves informed about the latest happenings in the movement to save B2B. Many larger groups have merged into one, claiming at least 4600 supporters as of this morning.  They…

So apparently the forces of sobriety have gripped the last great exemplar of San Francisco’s partying ways: the annual Bay to Breakers run.  ING is this year’s sponsor of the event, and they have announced that B2B will be a dry event this year, with a zero-tolerance policy for floats,…

My friends, I offer you this daily occasional pointless drivel commentary on life in the Bay Area San Francisco. I’m most interested in sex politics and the underground art scene, especially where they intersect.  My perspective is that of someone who consumes mass quantities of Zinfandel news,  who nearly killed…