Jim Provenzano

Along with the Castro Street Fair, the largest gatherings this coming weekend, there are plenty of arts and nightlife events for you to consider as well. Dive in with Going Out.

Along with the Castro Street Fair, the largest gatherings this coming weekend, there are plenty of arts and nightlife events for you to consider as well. Dive in with Going Out.

Two local fundraisers are aim to help the archive project of local artist and a prominent DJ who is recovering from injuries. And a film about the history of AIDS insurance settlements is available online.

From festive kink to art that makes you think, we’ve got a wide variety of events; not just Folsom Street Fair fun, but arts events that don’t require leather or even pleather. It’s all in this week’s Going Out.

It may not be unusual for a filmmaker to make a documentary about his father. But when your father is the creator of “The Rocky Horror Show” and its cult film adaptation, things are a little bit different. For Linus O’Brien, he’s struck gold with “Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,” a moving tribute to his father Richard O’Brien’s creation, the musical that became a cult favorite in cinemas for 50 years.

When prolific photographer Mick Rock (1948-2021), “the man who shot the ’70s,” visited the set of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” he capture hundreds of casual images of the cast and crew from the 1975 cult classic. His posthumous collection, with Tim Mohr, “Rocky Horror: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Cult Classic,” is out on Sept. 30.

Along with our usual array of fanciful, theatrical, musical, and visual presentations, we’re also rounding the bend toward the kinkiest weekend of all in San Francisco. You can look forward to some pre-Folsom Street Fair events as well, in Going Out.

Along with our usual array of fanciful, theatrical, musical, and visual presentations, we’re also rounding the bend toward the kinkiest weekend of all in San Francisco. You can look forward to some pre-Folsom Street Fair events as well, in Going Out.

With so many new plays, concerts, art exhibits and nightlife events coming our way we’re very busy with our listings, but we try to keep on par. Check it out each week and every week in Going Out.

She’s starred in multiple Broadway hits and won a Tony for one role. She’s an accomplished mother and a TV and film actor as well. Yet according to Laura Benanti, “Nobody Cares.” That’s the slightly deceptive multiply-layered title of her witty solo show at Berkeley Repertory.