Next To Normal

Normal is good when it comes to body temperature, precipitation, and a town in Illinois. In everyday life, however, normalcy is an impossible concept, and even becomes a pejorative when linked to conformity and doctrinaire standards of behavior.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 5, 2011

Treefall

The abandoned local library in the post-apocalyptic world of Treefall is well-stocked with Shakespeare, Superman comics, and anatomy books. But anything to do with gay history either failed to make it into the stacks or didn't survive the bio-eco calamity

by Kevin Mark Kline | Feb 4, 2011

Gay men dispute beating details

A gay San Francisco man says he was recently beaten by another gay city resident, along with another man, who had called him and his boyfriend "faggots."

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 30, 2011

10 years later: The San Francisco dog-mauling case's lasting LGBT legacy

It was one of the most publicized criminal cases in San Francisco history. Ten years ago this week, on January 26, 2001, two Presa Canario dogs attacked and killed Diane Alexis Whipple, 33, outside her Pacific Heights apartment.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 29, 2011

Farrell touts business acumen

As San Francisco grapples with a budget deficit of roughly $400 million and ballooning pension costs that could decimate funding for city services, freshman District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell touts his election as being particularly propitious

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 28, 2011

Lyon-Martin on life support

Lyon-Martin Health Services, the San Francisco-based clinic that provides health care to women and transgender people regardless of their ability to pay, needs to raise $250,000 within the next month or it will close, according to board treasurer

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 27, 2011

Biutiful

Biutiful (Beautiful ) is director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's operatic fable of how a simple, almost primitive slum-dwelling hustler finds his soul at the brink of his extinction.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 27, 2011

Remembering Joan Sutherland :: the San Francisco connection

Of all the diva deaths of the new century, few could have hit San Franciscans harder than that of Joan Sutherland's, last Oct. 10.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 28, 2011

Out There :: Paula West is in the house

Last week, beloved jazz and cabaret singer Paula West began an eight-week residency at the Rrazz Room in San Francisco, and all lovers of the American songbook beautifully sung should note the dates of West's run, through March 13.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 28, 2011

Amateur 'Angels' alight near the Castro

The idea was to pay tribute to the 20th anniversary of Angels in America with a new production in the Castro, just a few blocks from the theater where Tony Kushner's transformative play was first staged in 1991.

by Kevin Mark Kline | Jan 28, 2011


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