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Wherein today is Zero Cool Day

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/08/10.html

Published: August 10, 2026 19:46

38 years ago today, Zero Cool hacked all those banks across state lines. From his house. Crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988. Naturally, that means it's time for our latest installment of…

Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex is asking for volunteers

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/31.html

Published: August 1, 2026 03:01

I am currently incandescent with rage about something else entirely that I'm told I can't talk about yet, so let me sublimate that instinct with this unrelated story: The SFPD "Real-Time Investigation Center" is the surveillance nightmare funded by a $9.4…

Wherein another artifact comes to light

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/24.html

Published: July 24, 2026 21:06

Today's VHS find: Pam Doré posted a video of the first night of Club Q at DNA Lounge, back in the distant year of Two Thousand and Two. Wait, we were still using VHS in 2002? Yes. Yes we were. 2002, in case you didn't know, was 24 years ago. How dare it.…

Wherein another artifact comes to light

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/15.html

Published: July 16, 2026 06:10

I found another 36-year-old VHS tape on eBay! D.O.A.'s final concert, live at DNA Lounge, in 1990.

Wherein we're twenty-five

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/13.html

Published: July 13, 2026 22:06

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 13th 2001, was the first event at DNA Lounge under current management. I am very old and I have been leaning on this bar for a very long time. Typically we treat Nov 22 as our "real" anniversary (the club will be…

Wherein we are going hard on movie nights

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/05.html

Published: July 5, 2026 09:51

As our "Cyberdelia" series has seen a bit of success at branching out from being only the "Hackers" party, we've decided to try and screen roughly one cult movie a month! I hope you will join us. Our bill through the rest of the year: Conan the Barbarian…

Wherein it's a series of tubes

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/01.html

Published: July 1, 2026 19:13

We replaced our network rack with a slightly larger one. Exciting news, I know, but I'm posting these photos because I know that there is a certain segment of my readership who will be upset by them, perhaps even scarred. Is this what peak performance…

Wherein another artifact comes to light

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/06/27.html

Published: June 27, 2026 19:57

A few days ago Doris Fish posted this 90 minute video of the full show of Sluts a Go Go All Star Gang Bang, a drag and burlesque show which took place here at DNA Lounge back in the Twentieth Century, in the distant past of January 1990! As with the…

Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex gains another foothold in SF

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/06/16.html

Published: June 16, 2026 23:58

SF Gazetteer, Cydney Hayes: Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners? The machine Owen encountered is called a Patronscan Guard+, a biometric and personal data collection device made by Servall Data Systems, a surveillance tech company…

Wherein, RIP Ira

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/06/01.html

Published: June 1, 2026 18:54

Ira Sandler, owner of 1015 Folsom for 40 years, has passed away. 48 Hills and DJ Dials have some nice words. RIP to one of the absolute legends of nightlife. He was a huge inspiration to so many.