Ugly Coco!
For Clinton Leupp, better known as Miss Coco Peru, being a drag queen is serious business. Maybe a little too serious at times, at least as presented in the current Rrazz Room attraction Ugly Coco! Of course, there are also big laughs in the solo show, but I'm not sure that the evils of littering should be one of the dominant memories to take home from a Coco Peru show.
Candidates vie for four spots on school board
Thirteen candidates are running for four seats on the San Francisco Board of Education. Incumbents Mark Sanchez, who's openly gay and the only LGBT member of the board, and Eric Mar opted not to seek re-election.
AIDS office head treads quietly in Sacramento
There was a time when Dr. Michelle Roland could be found protesting the medical establishment over its AIDS policies as a founding member of the original ACT UP/San Francisco in the 1980s.
Prostitution measure heats up D3 race
Gay male hustlers have long worked the Polk Street corridor. Transgender prostitutes also have plied their trade along the streets and back alleys between Nob Hill and the Tenderloin.
Gospel event and marriage panel Sunday
African American clergy members and the group And Marriage for All will hold a gospel event and panel on marriage equality Sunday, October 19 at 6 p.m. at Jones United Methodist Church, 1975 Post Street in San Francisco.
No on 8 has only 30,000 donors
The campaign to defeat Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative, has only 30,000 donors out of an estimated 1 million LGBT Californians, the campaign's director said Tuesday, October 14, and many of those are straight allies.
Songs for the new depression
Whoops, looks like "Anything Goes!" isn't the best economic model for modern capitalists after all. Guess we shouldn't be surprised to see Uncle Sam bail out bankers while sticking taxpayers with the bill. Living in the new depression, Out There may have to sell our (choose one:) books, blood, or body, and we may just have to eat our: nest egg, shoes, or words. But at least we can retreat into the solace of music, theatre, film, dance and books. In the kingdom of Arts & Letters, Ego may be Queen, but Greed and Avarice are unbidden guests.
Gigging around
It's a noun. It's a verb. It's a category on craigslist.com used to group short-term jobs in everything from housecleaning to lap-dancing. It's a term some music historians trace back to early New Orleans, where a small, single-horse carriage would be used as a movable stage by black musicians to avoid the technicality of being arrested for performing on the street. It's a gig, a job - and for most performers, it's a way of life.
Pianist revelations
Mark Nadler met his Waterloo on the day he was born, and soon he was hatching a battle plan to escape, rather than conquer, his Iowa hometown, where the Silos & Smokestacks Heritage Area is a big tourist draw.
Shining City
Conor McPherson's <slug>Shining City</slug> is an elegantly written, oddly structured, and frustratingly uncohesive play that is still likely to hold you in its thrall more often than not. Even knowing the play's sucker-punch surprise ending from a 2006 encounter with the play on Broadway did not diminish my second viewing of the play, because of both the hesitating humanity that lifts the seemingly mundane dialogue and the excellent performances provided in its Bay Area premiere at SF Playhouse.
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