Milk Magic
A star-studded sold out crowd descended on the Castro Tuesday October 28 for the world premiere of <slug>Milk</slug>, the biopic by director Gus Van Sant starring Sean Penn as the late Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Young people step up to defeat Prop 8
The campaign to defeat Proposition 8 is counting on young voters, and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is expected to bring a flood of them to the polls November 4. People from high schoolers - some of them not even old enough to vote themselves - to college students have been working to educate voters about Prop 8, which would eliminate same-sex marriage in California.
Another Knight runs for state Assembly
Steve Knight is running next month for the 36th District Assembly seat that was once held by his father, the late state Senator William "Pete" Knight, and like his dad, he is a strong supporter of banning same-sex marriage.
Out newcomers seek local council seats
Two out political newcomers are hoping voters' desire for change this election season will give them an edge in their races for local city council seats.
Stop Prop 8
With five days to go until voters decide on Proposition 8, which would eliminate same-sex marriage, the No on 8 campaign has caught up with the other side in dollars raised, but more volunteers, and more money to buy ad time, are needed to combat whatever the Yes on 8 campaign unleashes.
Homeland insecurity
Considering that performance-art wizard Laurie Anderson doesn't come around these parts with a major new work all that often, her "Homeland" presented at Zellerbach Hall last weekend was truly much-anticipated by her fans. We'd had to satisfy our Anderson cravings in recent years by attending a strange chamber concert at the Herbst Theatre where she accompanied a trio of Mongolian throat-singers, rather than the other way around.
Fear(s) Of The Dark
In the ambitious, French-produced animated-film collection Fear(s) of the Dark (opening Halloween), a student afraid of his own shadow traps a praying mantis-like creature in a bedroom that doubles as a science lab, and produces a decidedly disturbing chapter in his love life. The shy boy takes his bed to college, where one day he meets this incredibly hot and suspiciously available coed who becomes his live-in lover.
Tru Loved
In Tru Loved (opening Friday), a charming African American teen, Lodell (Matthew Thompson), the quarterback who yearns to star in his high school's production of West Side Story, brings his white girlfriend, Tru (Najarra Townsend), to his secret hideaway, a backyard treehouse where he sings to the squirrels and keeps his male porn.
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
There must be a special place in the firmament reserved for the small band of brave curators from the National Museum, Kabul. Through stealth and with devotion, they hid away objects which represented 4,000 years of Afghanistan's cultural achievement from the Taliban thugs (and other warmongers) who sought to eradicate any traces of the country's rich and storied history. Risking torture and imprisonment, they kept a covenant; they never divulged the secret location of these precious objects, believed to have been looted or destroyed during 25 years of conflict, and thereby saved the cultural heritage of their country. Now a portion of it is here for our appreciation, and what a legacy it is.
Boris Godunov
For an opera that is so beloved for its emotional and harmonic gravity, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov has had a rather chameleonic history. After the original 1869 version of the opera met with rejection by the board of the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, Mussorgsky created a revised version in 1872.
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