Lost Weekend Video

The Cynic Cave: California Comedy in Lost Weekend's Basement

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

If you've been itching to check out Lost Weekend Video's new Cinecave AND a grip of our favorite local comedians, be sure to head downstairs this Saturday evening with seven bucks in hand for (the hopefully first of many) Cynic Cave California Comedy Night.

(Also, how awesome is that Bart Simpson map of California? Not sure if I'll ever be able to think of the Bay as anything but Bart's mouth from here on out.)

[via Courting Comedy]

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Rad Cinecave Shirts Now Up For Sale

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

The shirt suggests Cinecave has goblins on the stairs and bats hanging from the ceiling and confused-looking men emerging from the screen.  Scary stuff.  Should be a hit!

(Then again, the shop doesn't have a gate for a door nor a crooked and ghoul-ish 17 Reasons Why-reminiscening sign on the roof, so maybe the artist took some liberty in depicting the scene in the basement.)

[Pic by WBTC]

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Lost Weekend Video's New Underground Micro-Cinema "Cinecave" Opens Tonight

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

So says the SF Bay Guardian:

Exciting news rumbling from beneath Valencia Street's staunchly independent Lost Weekend Video: the micro-theater Cinecave is opening this week with events Thu/29 and Fri/30, after an awesomely successful Kickstarter campaign. The 25-seat screening room, available for members of Lost Weekend's Cineclub (join at the store), boasts real movie theater seats, a brand-new screen, and kickin' sound system.

They have a bunch of cool-sounding stuff planned, including a monthy video-series from the “Midnites for Maniacs” folks.  Plus, they'll be showing a bunch of “lost” films you cannot find on DVD, be shown in a traditional theater, or even rent from the store itself.  So look out for all that.

(And should you care to learn more, SFBG has a bunch more info on the cave.)

Mobile Sex Confessional Headed to Lost Weekend Video

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

San Francisco is one giant twisted sex story, and Salon's sex writer Tracy Clark-Flory is capturing our sordid saga. How? By filming people's “juicy” stories in a guilt and fear-free mobile sex confessional, all for an upcoming web series.

Oh yes.

Liam from Salon fills us in on what they're looking for when they set up shop at Lost Weekend Video:

Instead of pure titillation, we're going for a range of stories revolving around all aspects of sex, not just the dirty details of the physical act itself (but a bit of that too). During our shoot at Mission Bowling Club on Monday, we found that people were more than willing to share personal stories about everything from being chastised for masturbating on the playground as a child to exploring bisexual desires as an adult. These tales were funny, sad, poignant, bizarre, etc., so it should be an interesting time at Lost Weekend…

And if you don't have any memories worthy of sharing, you could probably masturbate in there to make some new ones to confess about…

Ahem. Anyway, should you want to confess (and, hopefully, not be a pervert right there on the spot), swing by Lost Weekend tomorrow (Friday!) from 7-11pm and lay it out.