The San Francisco Symphony's American Mavericks Festival

The San Francisco Symphony's immense and awesomely organized American Mavericks Festival has hit the road.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 24, 2012

EQCA struggles for direction

For the last several months, Equality California, the statewide LGBT lobbying organization, has struggled for direction.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 23, 2012

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater & ODC/SF

It was a great week for popular dance-theater. Both the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (from New York, in Berkeley) and ODC/SF (dancing downtown at the Yerba Buena Center) had great crowds...

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 22, 2012

StartOut awards highlight LGBT business leaders

Gay entrepreneur Peter Thiel was the keynote speaker at StartOut's inaugural awards gala in San Francisco last week, and said that Silicon Valley is the place to be for budding high-tech start-ups.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 22, 2012

Griffin wants to leave HRC's past behind

Incoming Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin intends to focus on the future once he takes the helm at the national LGBT lobbyist organization in June.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 21, 2012

Advocates, IRS try to help LGBT tax filers

Few would call the yearly tax ritual Americans face each April joyous. And for many LGBT people it can be downright painful, both mentally and financially.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 20, 2012

Pacino Cruises Into Castro With New Film

If nothing else it is a remarkable coda in the acting career of Al Pacino, who will present Wilde Salome, his new documentary about Oscar Wilde and his once-banned work Salome , for its U.S. premiere at the Castro Theatre

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 19, 2012

Stephen Schwartz joins the SF Gay Men's Chorus

The four-decade career of Broadway composer and lyricist <slug>Stephen Schwartz</slug> can be divided into three distinct chapters.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 18, 2012

Kathleen Turner Brings 'High' to the Curran Theatre

<slug>Kathleen Turner</slug>, who shot to fame in 1981 as sexual dynamite in Body Heat, and came through town in 2005 as braying harridan Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, may not first come to mind when casting a Catholic nun.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 17, 2012

Maverick Maneuvers

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony are adding another layer to the orchestra's centennial birthday cake with the return of the wonderfully adventurous <slug>American Mavericks</slug> festival.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 16, 2012


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