The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
Ann Bannon wasn't making a joke when she wrote in 1959 about "a taste for bearded clams," but you can't very well invoke that euphemism for lesbian tendencies and not land a laugh. Playwrights Kate Moira and Linda S. Chapman wanted their clams and to eat them, too, as they adapted three of Bannon's lesbian-pulp novels into The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, which unashamedly has sport with bygone attitudes and pulp excesses while occasionally hitting hard at enduring truths.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Enough people have told director John Doyle that his stripped-down versions of Broadway musicals - in which a small ensemble plays multiple roles as well as the musical instruments - are Brechtian that he apparently decided to direct a play by Bertolt Brecht himself. The result is an imaginative, theatrically engaging The Caucasian Chalk Circle at ACT, where Doyle's Sweeney Todd played in 2007.
Perez calls 2010 Prop 8 repeal effort DOA
In his first press call with LGBT media outlets since being sworn in as the state's first openly gay Assembly speaker, John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) said that there is "no practical way" to repeal the state's anti-same-sex marriage ban this year.
Berkeley LGBT center loses lease, may move to Oakland
The country's third oldest LGBT community center will be homeless as of July 31 unless it can find new digs by then. One possibility is moving from Berkeley, where it has been located since 1973, to Oakland, where LGBT residents have made seeing an LGBT communal facility open in their city a top priority.
UC Davis LGBT center vandalized
The LGBT Resource Center on the UC Davis campus was the target of an apparent hate crime Friday night when derogatory and profane words were spray-painted across the center's front entrance.
Herrera disputes criticism over immigration policies
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is disputing claims from several LGBT groups that he's not advocating as much for immigration rights as he has for same-sex marriage.
LGBTs voice housing concerns at HUD town hall
About 80 people gathered at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center on Monday, March 1 to talk about the challenges that gay people face when it comes to housing.
Not quite Shanghai'ed
With Shanghai, a much-hyped, rudderless exhibition timed to coincide with San Francisco's 2010 Sister City celebrations and Shanghai's hosting of the World Expo in May, the Asian Art Museum steps bravely, if unsteadily, into the 20th and 21st centuries.
Susan Mikula trades calculator for camera
American industry takes form in artistic expression this week with the San Francisco debut of fine art photographer Susan Mikula's American Device: Recent Photographs, opening at the George Lawson Gallery today (Thurs., Feb. 25). The exhibit follows a successful New York exhibit of sic transit, and Bearings, an exhibit of her work in Provincetown, MA, earlier last fall.
Gov appoints lesbian judge in Contra Costa
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed out lesbian Rebecca C. Hardie to a judgeship on the Contra Costa County Superior Court. The Moraga resident is the governor's second out nominee to a judicial post.
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