Medical Pot Rally Draws Noisy Crowd
On the heels of a raid by federal authorities of a marijuana teaching facility and dispensary in Oakland, about 500 people attended a noisy rally in front of San Francisco City Hall Tuesday imploring the feds to back off medical cannabis.
Jordan Harrison's 'Maple and Vine' Comes to ACT
Maple and Vine, Jordan Harrison's play at ACT, creates a haven of reduction, a place where contemporary achievers can sign up to live according to Father Knows Best roles and rules.
Jean Paul Gaultier: Rock-Star Haute Couture
"Equality, diversity and perversity," the cri de coeur of enfant terrible fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, is (to paraphrase Woody Allen), "a campaign slogan a French politician could run on."
Layoffs, Food Changes Hit Open Hand
Facing a second year with a deficit, Project Open Hand's executive director told the Bay Area Reporter this week that he has eliminated four staff positions and most clients with HIV will soon have to choose between delivered meals or picking up groceries
At 30, SFAF Works on Financial Fixes
Thirty years after its founding, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation - which is marking the anniversary this year - is the largest HIV/AIDS-based nonprofit in San Francisco.
Computer Upgrade Will Enable PRC Clients to Hone Skills
Using a computer is a must these days for job seekers and next week, Positive Resource Center will unveil a brand new computer lab that will be a big boost to its clients.
Wilde Imaginings
The eternal spirit of playwright, poet, novelist and gay icon Oscar Wilde was certainly wafting around the Castro Theatre last Wednesday night when star Al Pacino attended the North American premiere of his film Wilde Salome, a star-studded affair produce
Hetch Hetchy Holds Nob Hill Fundraiser Ahead of Signature Drive
In the ballroom of the Mark Hopkins Hotel atop San Francisco's Nob Hill recently, more than 200 supporters of the initiative to restore Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley gathered for a fundraiser for Restore Hetch Hetchy.
Red
In John Logan's play Red, now at Berkeley Rep, we encounter a Mark Rothko who feels organic pulsings from his juxtapositions of shapes and colors, and holds in contempt anyone who can't share in his experience.
PUC GM Defends SF Water System
As of mid-March the city's Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, which stores the bulk of San Francisco's water supply, was at 33 percent of normal.
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