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What is Tina’s Café? It’s tweaker performance art, that’s what!

It’s spoken word and it’s the public reading of new written works. It’s conversation and it’s controversy. It’s recorded music and it’s live music. And, since it happens in the Castro, it’s sometimes if not always drag queens.

Tina’s Café is our space and the place to talk about speed and what it does to and for us. We start and end early enough in the evening so you can carry on with other business if you’re so inclined.

Tina’s Café happens 9 – 11 pm on a Friday night every three months or so. We do our thing at 4122 18th Street, between Castro and Collingwood, in the heart of the gay universe!

Check it out and see for yourself!

 

 

November 2005, So the Tom (Orr) and Tina (Siever) Show came
crawling back to the Castro ... well, the Castro doesn't go for
booze and dope ... or does it?


 

November 2005, Ed came by and smiled nicely for the camera.
Mark dropped in to witness the usual hijinks.


 

October 2005, Tina's gone and bought out all the candy at
Walgreens! It was Hallowe'en weekend so we went a little
crazy with the candy treats while the entertainers did their
tricks.


 

October 2005, Our hostess for the evening, inveterate
chanteuse Trauma Flintstone, gathered together a bevy
of entertainers and offered up the slickest, best-paced
evening to date! Her frenetic performance of Jacques
Brel's "Carousel" slayed us all!


 

October 2005, Birdie Bob-Watt, another fixture in San
Francisco's gender blender, faithfully followed the theme of
the evening, "Saints & Sinners." Halo or horns, Tina's loves
Birdie!


 

October 2005, Holy McGrail, a bona fide faux queen (a bio-girl
done up and fiercing it as a gender illusionist, for those not in
the know), brought down the house with her wicked nails and
wild wigs ... and her song stylings, of course!


 

October 2005, "How we didn't lose the plate glass windows
is beyond my spun out comprehension," Tina told us during
a brief break in the proceedings after the octave shattering
arias offered up by Katya Ludmilla Smirnoff-Skyy. When not
wowing her hordes of fans, Katya can be found "selling
make-up to the masses at Macy's MAC counter."


 

October 2005, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were in the
house! Sisters Uma Gawd and Viva L'Amour gave us a little bit
of history and a whole lot of blessings ...


 

October 2005, Novice Sister Mae Joy Bee With U came
with sponsoring Sister Viva L'Amour and passed on the
blessings and the candy and the gum ...


 

October 2005, Michael and Kevin took Tina's Cafe on the road
to Salt Lake City for the National Gay Men's Health Summit.


 

October 2005, As part of the Tina's Cafe road show, Tina Siever
shared the website with the guys who attended the tweaker.org
session at the summit.


 

October 2005, Looking pretty despite himself, Tina Mosley
took a break from answering attendees' questions about print
materials, process evaluation and community involvement.


 

September 2005, Tina did (and does, occasionally, if you ask
nicely) leather! Richie Chameroy, Mr. International Boot Black
2005 and Mr. Powerhouse 2006, got the crowd talking about
fantasy sex on and off speed. Reality check, anyone?


 

September 2005, Tom Orr came back to the roost and offered
several rousing songs to his adoring fans!


 

September 2005, Peer Educator and primo TeamTweak volunteer
Robbie Martin stepped up to the plate, and the decks, to keep
things rolling.


 

July 15, 2005 marked the Cafe's one year anniversary!


 

Tina's resident DJ Steve and our snacks and bevvies host with the
most Ron hugged it up pre-show.


 

Kevin stared off into space for awhile after hassling
with the stymieing sound system.

 

 

Our current monthly hostess, Tina gathered her boys (Steve, Larry, Tom
and Ron) and together they welcomed the return of our original hostess
Joan Jett-Blakk.

 

 

June 2005 - the marquee said it all since it was all about Putanesca and
Glamamore the week before Pride weekend!


 

June 2005 - Putanesca served us madly twirling crinolines while
performing "9 to 5."


 

June 2005 - Glamamore gave up a classic theatrical entrance and kept
our rapt attention doing Bongwater's "Folk Song" ... all 11 minutes of it!


 

June 2005 - Give a tweaker a computer with Photoshop and you never
know what will happen ... something like thisTina's interior shot, maybe?



 

Friday, 06 May 2005 - Stephen M. came by to check the
scene and model his new bracelets. He told us he
enjoyed the poems read as part of the evening of True
Stories ...

 

 

May 2005 - Roger and 'Drew returned to Tina's Cafe and read some new
pieces from the web site's True Stories page. They brought these talks of
wanton drug consumption and unbridled lust to deliciously titillating
theatrical life.

 

 

May 2005 - Folks hung out after the reading and listened
to our house DJ Steve Fabus who cranked it up and kept
us rolling.


 

Friday, 01 April 2005 - we asked "Did Tina make an April Fool out of you?"
and you answered by coming to see Michael Siever back-in-drag as Tina ...
(s)he even got a new pair of heels for the night!

 

 

April 2005 - It was a new installment of The Tom and
Tina Show with Tom Orr singing some newly retooled
show tunes and Tina answering some heated questions
about the addictive quality of her namesake drug ...

 

  Saturday, 6 November 2004 - The lady herself put in an
appearance at her namesake Cafe! Tina, usually known
as Michael Siever, generated some fashion hubbub when
s/he did an impromptu and informative Q&A with
the crowd.



 

November 2004 - Roger, 'Drew and Kevin read stories and other pieces
that have been submitted to the True Stories section of the web site.

 

 

Saturday, 4 September 2004 - It was a hot and sticky summer night
in the Castro. One of our featured guests, Putanesca, worked the room
before the show.



 

September 2004 - Tina's a drag! The legendary Trauma Flintstone, the
hot hot hostess Heklina, our resident DJ Steve Fabus and saucy spitfire
Putanesca.



  Saturday, 7 August 2004 - Kirk Read performed a piece he wrote
spontaneously
the night of the event. Check it out!



  August 2004 - Scott Upper in his one-man multimedia
extravaganza of light, music, song and, as you can see,
the requisite Glo-Sticks.



 

August 2004 - Tina's resident DJ Steve Fabus and hostess Joan
Jett-Blakk take a moment to pose during a break in the show.



 

August 2004 - Tom Orr sang some altered show tunes, custom-written
for Tina's Cafe. His version of "Goodbye Tina", to the tune of "Hello Dolly"
h
ad the crowd in hysterics.



  Saturday, 3 July 2004. Tina's Cafe comes to long sought fruition.



  July 2004 performers: Don Baird read a piece called "Booty Bump" and
Mattilda read a new piece about neighbors who tweak. Michael Angelo
spoke about outreach
and the Rigz campaign. Hosts: Steve Fabus spun
tunes and Joan Jett-Blakk served us fierce emcee energy. Our lovely
hostess and emcee, Joan Jett-Blakk, had this to say when we wrapped
it up at the end of the night...

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