Field guide to the SF Theater Festival
Queers and clowns, tragedies and glee, on stages abound, and all of it for free.
Cowardly Things
Last year, the 110th anniversary of Noel Coward's birthday, created flurries of tributes around town, but these are arbitrary whoop-de-doos based on a zero or a five as the concluding digit of the year at hand. But is Noel Coward no more interesting on th
Nymph O' Mania
The unaware character who accidentally ingests an intoxicant - misdirected marijuana brownies are a sitcom staple - can be a gimmicky way to garner easy laughs. And there are easy laughs in Morgan Ludlow's Nymph O' Mania, which involves a punchbowl spik
Out There - I am an Italian melodrama
We've seen quite a few good movies recently, among them The Secret in Their Eyes, The Kids Are All Right and Stonewall Uprising, but for us the movie of the summer has been director Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love (Io Sono l'Amore). Tilda Swinton plays Emma R
Political Notebook: Former AIDS czar pulls support of Walker in D6
Former San Francisco AIDS czar Jeff Sheehy has pulled his support from Debra Walker in the District 6 supervisor race due to her answers on a questionnaire for candidates taking part in an HIV forum this week.
SFPD still needs help in Pink Saturday shooting
With apparently no new leads and no arrest in the murder of a young San Francisco man, police are continuing to seek the public's help as the investigation into the Pink Saturday shooting goes on.
Project would recall SOMA alley's gay sexual heyday
It has been years since gay men cruised Ringold Alley in San Francisco's South of Market District for sex late at night. But that infamous past for the short stretch of street could be recalled under a project being pursued by transit and city planners.
CA Dems neutral on Prop 19
Many California Democrats are supportive of a November ballot initiative to legalize marijuana even as state party leaders voted to remain neutral on the measure.
Int'l AIDS confab highlights human rights, prevention
More than 20,000 researchers, public health and policy experts, clinicians, activists, and world leaders gathered in Vienna, Austria, this week for the 18th International AIDS Conference, the world's largest meeting devoted to the epidemic.
Humor, wonder & insight
Although many won't recognize Maira Kalman's name, they're likely familiar with her witty covers for The New Yorker magazine; her online, illustrated odysseys for The New York Times such as "Principles of Uncertainty" or "And the Pursuit of Happiness," an
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