Barbara Cook: Still glittering
The new millennium has not been kind to Barbara Cook. In 2004, she lost Wally Harper, her musical director, accompanist and best friend. It was Harper, a composer and frequent Broadway collaborator with Tommy Tune, who led Cook from the shadows of depression and alcoholism in the early '70s to a rejuvenated career as concert and recording artist that shows no signs of stopping.
Music as an alternative to violence
Somehow, it was the cigarette burns on the piano that made it real for him. Steve Schalchlin was sitting at the piano at which John Lennon had written "Imagine," but the context - a suburban front-yard in Washington State - didn't conjure up the historical import of the instrument.
Gay retreat hit by recession seeks bookings, investor
The owner of the gay-oriented Saratoga Springs retreat in Lake County said the historic mineral spa resort is a victim of the nation's current credit crisis and is seeking investors and business to keep its doors open.
Groups push national AIDS strategy
The United States could have a national strategy for combating AIDS by 2010 under a proposal numerous AIDS agencies are pushing President-elect Barack Obama to adopt.
Prop 8 opponents plot next moves
On the day after the November 4 election, when Prop 8 passed with 52 percent of the vote, Tina Reynolds said she and the mostly-LGBT staff of her company Uptown Design "were just pitiful."
Memo links Mass. couple to Prop 22, Mormon strategy
The leak of a decade-old internal memo of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is providing insight into how deeply involved the church has been in the fight against same-sex marriage in California and causing some to question the assertions of a Mormon couple from Massachusetts who thrust themselves into the California marriage equality debate.
Hospital's HIV/AIDS division marks 25th anniversary
Twenty-five years ago, there was no drug treatment available for AIDS, and the cause wasn't even known. Dr. Diane Havlir started working at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in the early 1980s, just after she had finished medical school.
Milk's legacy remembered
Robert Rufo will climb the steps of City Hall Friday afternoon to once again sing Mendelssohn's "Thou, Lord, Our Refuge" with the members of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
Starving artists on the opera-house stage
"You don't have to know how to speak Italian to come to the opera house!" So declared San Francisco Opera Director of Communications Jon Finck to a small group in the War Memorial's press room last week
Lesbian at the heart of Milk's posse
Of all the many wild and wonderful characters immortalized in the legend of Harvey Milk, perhaps none has the iconic weight of Harvey's motorcycle-riding, #1 dyke, campaign manager and City Hall aide, the redoubtable Anne Kronenberg.
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