Latest posts by Peter Lawrence Kane

Since the show’s late-February debut at the GLBT Historical Society in the Castro, the images in “SoMa Nights: The Queer Club Photography of Melissa Hawkins” have yielded a few surprises. Some of the unnamed nightlife figures amid the Club Kids and other nocturnal all-stars have been identified, for one. But as a document of a […]

In spite of her buoyant laughter and easy demeanor, Binitha Pradhan insists that she is very strict. “It’s very important for me what goes on in here,” she says. “When I come in in the morning, I want to know what’s going on. Even the smallest piece of food which goes out of this kitchen […]

Maybe it’s our $3,690 one-bedrooms filled with period details or our illustrious transit network, but San Francisco has tumbled out of the top 30 spots on consulting firm Mercer‘s 2019 ranking of global cities by quality of life. Plucky S.F. was at no. 3o only last year before falling to 34th place this go-round. Perversely, […]

Don’t you hate it when you try to tell your book club that your pick for the next meeting is Americanah by Chimananada Ngozi Adichie, and you find that you’re locked out of the group and that Messenger isn’t really working, either? Lol that I went to Twitter to confirm that Facebook is down. — Willow Lampshade (@DC_song) […]

Any blonde woman in a punk band is probably going to elicit comparisons to Courtney Love sooner or later, but Amy Taylor of Melbourne’s Amyl & the Sniffers gives off some serious Nancy Sinatra vibes. “Sick!” she says in approval, by phone from Australia. “Yeah, I love that bitch. I’ve never seen her do a […]

The north side of 18th Street between Guerrero and Dolores is set to see some changes. We’ve already noted that Bi-Rite Creamery (3692 18th St.) has been closed since March 4 for a planned seismic retrofit that’s expected to last through most of the spring. Owing to a measure shepherded by Sup. Rafael Mandelman that […]

Chow on Church has abruptly closed. In a Facebook post, the owners posted the following oddly cheery message with very little explanation:  To our wonderful friends, neighbors and guests, After nearly 22 wonderful years here on Church Street, we are closing our doors. It has been a genuine pleasure for us to have been a […]

Five years on, San Diego’s electronic-heavy CRSSD Fest feels like what the Treasure Island Music Festival desperately wants to evolve into: an eminently manageable distillation of everything that makes weekend festivals so fun, without excessive branding. Now that South by Southwest has become almost as litigious as the Olympics in terms of policing unsanctioned events — and […]

When he was a college student, Eric Luttrell auditioned to be the guitarist for Santa Barbara sunshine-reggae band Iration. He didn’t get the gig — which, in retrospect, is probably for the best.  The sunshine never left him, though. Having been a part of the S.F. act The M Machine for several years, Luttrell began putting out […]

Billionaire, if you didn’t know, has become a pejorative term. That’s the line former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and presumptive third-party candidate tried to foist on New York Times financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin in February when the latter asked him if billionaires wield too much power in America. When you’re a well-known person with […]