LGBT center in talks to open rooftop restaurant
San Francisco's LGBT Community Center has engaged a local land use attorney to examine rezoning the building to allow more commercial uses, including the possibility of a rooftop restaurant space, the Bay Area Reporter has learned.
Signatures, money lacking for Prop 8 repeal effort
Despite efforts to utilize volunteers to gather 1 million signatures to put a measure on the November ballot to repeal Proposition 8, one of the grassroots groups pushing the effort has acknowledged it is well under its goals and may have to use paid signature gatherers.
Five out non-incumbent Democrats vie for California Assembly seats
The LGBT Legislative Caucus in Sacramento could grow to nine members this year if five out non-incumbents win their bids for open Assembly seats. Four gay men - two of whom are running in Bay Area districts - and one lesbian are seeking to join the Legislature.
Ward vies to be Statehouse's first out black lawmaker
Manhattan Beach Mayor Mitch Ward would be the state's first openly gay African American legislator should he win his Assembly race.
Assemblyman campaigns against gay candidate seeking his seat
Oftentimes, state lawmakers handpick their successors or opt to remain neutral during intra-party battles for their seats in the primary election. It isn't often when a legislator not seeking re-election vociferously opposes someone running to succeed them.
Justin Bond's excellent adventure
"People wonder what I do when I'm not entertaining you people. I spend a lot of time watching CNN. I was watching when that whole Concubine [high school] thing unraveled, and I was devastated, ladies and gentlemen, because, you know, certain stories you can sort of relate to, and others you find horrible and you can't really relate to, for instance that whole big blowup they had in Bosnia-Hertzovagina with all the refugees.
Las Vegas rolls the dice - Visiting the new CityCenter deluxe
Las Vegas, once home to all-you-can-eat buffets and gritty gambling grottos, now shoots for the stratosphere with the opening of the 67-acre CityCenter. At a cost of $8.5 billion, CityCenter is the most expensive private construction project in America.
K.M. Soehnlein - Catcher in the Jersey Shore rye
San Francisco gay author K.M. Soehnlein 's third novel, Robin and Ruby, a sequel to his first, The World of Normal Boys, is coming out from Kensington Books in late March. But there are all sorts of eerie coincidences piling up about it right now.
Eva Marie Saint & Jeffrey Hayden deliver a valentine
Be my Valentine! With roses and chocolates or lingerie and lace-embroidered cards, it's a message that that will be whispered or even shouted around the country this Sunday. Once a Roman Catholic feast day in honor of no less than three Christian martyrs dubbed Saint Valentine, it has become an international celebration of love, whether in its first blush or its most enduring form. From the perspective of 58 years of marriage, award-winning actress Eva Marie Saint and prolific director Jeffrey Hayden know a thing or two about valentines that add a special dimension to their exchange of Love Letters at the Rrazz Room this weekend.
Explosive theatrical legacy - Theatre Rhino resurrects 'Tick, Tick - Boom!'
Jonathan Larson left behind a trunkful of songs when he died at age 35, a few days before his musical Rent opened in New York. For reasons both noble and mercenary, there have been plenty of people who have wanted to dig into that trunk. But Larson's parents have been very protective of his legacy, and were wary about interest in turning a musical monologue he wrote in pre-Rent career frustration into a multi-character musical.
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