1980s live on in 'Rock of Ages'

The music of the '80s was known for - what? Hair, it turns out, as in the long-shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen hair on the swaggering guys in such heavy-metal bands as Poison, Ratt, Styx, White Snake, and Van Halen.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Mar 3, 2011

Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia)

As the opening credits roll in Iciar Bollain's revisionist history-piece Even the Rain (Tambien la Lluvia), Spain's official entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, we see a verbal fistfight developing.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 18, 2011

Aging, wary cat - "The Leopard' plays the Castro Theatre

"For things to remain the same, they must change," declares Count Tancredi Falconeri (Alain Delon) to his uncle, Don Fabrizio, Prince di Salina (Burt Lancaster), in Luchino Visconti's staggeringly beautiful The Leopard (1963)

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 18, 2011

From the paper-fashion atelier

'Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave' at the Legion

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 21, 2011

EQCA honors trailblazers and looks to future

Equality California held its annual Equality Awards gala at San Francisco City Hall Saturday, February 12, honoring state Attorney General Kamala Harris and Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 20, 2011

Winter bear event to go extinct

The bears will no longer come out of hibernation each winter and descend on San Francisco.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 19, 2011

City College pursues LGBT studies major

City College of San Francisco is applying to become the first of the state's two-year community colleges to offer an LGBT studies major. School officials are hopeful they will be able to begin offering the new degree program in the fall.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 18, 2011

Streep Tease @ Great American Music Hall

Gay and straight performers come together for a fun benefit for a kid's theatre camp that pays homage to actress Meryl Streep, Friday, February 18, at the Great American Music Hall.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 15, 2011

Out from under obscurity - Oscar-nominated live-action & animated shorts

There was a time when the Academy Award-nominated Short Films categories produced little more than the quiet rumble of feet padding out to the kitchen and a serious strain on the nation's plumbing.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 11, 2011

Lesley Ann Warren celebrates Victor/Victoria

As soon as I exchange hellos with Lesley Ann Warren, it hits me: "Oh my god, I'm talking to Cinderella!" She's been beguiling audiences since her 1965 debut in that classic television musical.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 11, 2011


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