CA poll shows 50% support for same-sex marriage
The creep toward majority support of same-sex marriage in California continues, as a new statewide poll has found that 50 percent of residents of the Golden State now support marriage equality.
Agency that supports families of the ill is on life support
A San Francisco nonprofit that provides inexpensive, temporary housing to people visiting ill loved ones is looking for help as it faces financial troubles ahead of its 25th anniversary in August.
The Little Mermaid
Standees were thick on the Opera House rail for the opening night of The Little Mermaid, San Francisco Ballet's highly-anticipated super-production for this year. It is the Western Hemisphere premiere of the ballet, which was created in 2005 for the 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen (who, of course, wrote the story) for the Royal Danish Ballet's new opera house in Copenhagen harbor, and it is in every way a spectacle designed to exploit the illusions creatable on an opera house stage.
Retrospectives of two vastly different artists at the Berkeley Art Museum
Teeming with ideas, artist William T. Wiley's mind is a crowded intersection where politics, literature and art history meet.
Writer/director D'Arcy Drollinger wields 'Scalpel!'
California had its Prop 8, but in the world according to playwright D'Arcy Drollinger, the nation has the differently odious Proposition 1000. If it passes, the federal government will allot a trillion or so dollars for mandated plastic surgery on anyone deemed unattractive. Socialites are turned into assassins, as proponents of the proposition set out to eliminate all opposition. This merry story is told in song, dance, and Matrix -like fight scenes.
Theatrical three-ways lead new season offerings
You might call it a dramage a trois, as three of the Bay Area's major theatrical players get into bed with each other, so to speak, to usher in the upcoming theater season. Marin Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, and the Magic Theatre are each producing a different part of Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers/Sisters Plays trilogy that sent Chicago and New York theater critics reaching for new superlatives.
Mild-mannered 'Resurrection'
Walking from the Civic Center Bart station to Davies Hall last week, to an early evening performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (often called the Resurrection), took me past the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Hundreds of young, old and youngish types sprinkled the sidewalk with single digits pointed heavenward. The marquee on the hall said, "Welcome back, Phil," and "Sold Out" was plastered on the box office. The returning Phil was not me, but Phil Lesh of the old Grateful Dead, celebrating his 70th birthday at a Haitian relief concert with Further & Friends.
Milk group cancels SF awards show
It was to be the signature event of San Francisco's inaugural Harvey Milk Day celebrations, an LGBT awards show similar to the Kennedy Center Honors named after the city's first openly gay elected official. But less than a month after announcing plans for the Milk awards, its organizers pulled the plug on the ceremony.
Popular Castro merchant Brad Villers dies
A popular Castro merchant has died, but the circumstances and manner of his death remain unclear.
Gay Dutchman works behind the scenes on world stage
The call came out of the blue in January to his desk in New York City. On the line was a lawyer with the legal team behind the federal lawsuit seeking to strike down Proposition 8, the California ban against same-sex marriage.
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