Could I learn more about my favorite actor by poking around his old Victorian mansion? OK Whatever I know a lot about Nicolas Cage. I know, for example, that he has a fondness for flamboyant jackets. He’s worn zebra-striped blazers on dinner dates and gold leather...
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“They Put My Face On Sex Toy Batteries”
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I Was Talking With a Ghost
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The Rise and Fall of Snortable Chocolate
Coco Loko was poised to become the next fad, but then the FDA intervened and it’s since disappeared from the internet. OK Whatever When Legal Lean started selling a snortable chocolate called Coco Loko in 2017, it made sense. The three-year-old Orlando,...
Going to a Witch Dance on Halloween
How a sect of politically active, feminist neopagans try to make the world a better place, one night a year. OK Whatever The setting was incongruous. They were in a midcentury auditorium in Richmond, California, with wooden flip-up seats and the faded lines of an old...
The Patron Saint of Sex
Carol Queen is battling cultural misnomers about sex, one lecture at a time. SF Weekly The week of Valentine’s Day was busy for Carol Queen. Then again, so are most weeks for the sexologist who, in addition to being the oldest working staff member at Good Vibrations,...