The world according to Coco Peru
Clinton Leupp was standing in a Florida shopping mall, located unfashionably between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, having sent his mother off to shop so he could do a phone interview. With the sounds of mall bustle ebbing and flowing in the background, Leupp wistfully recalled his early days performing as Miss Coco Peru.
That's What She Said!
Los Angeles performers Amy Turner and Kathryn Lounsbery are such good company, and their original songs about lesbian life are so blithely inviting, that it's easy to overlook how well-trod is the material that often informs them. That's What She Said! marks their SF debuts, and is a fairly rare lesbian-specific offering from New Conservatory Theatre Center.
Blue-eyed soul
Along with everyone else who ever saw him in a movie, Out There was saddened by the death of immortal film star Paul Newman last week. Everyone has his or her own favorite Newman performance, whether Cool Hand Luke or Butch Cassidy. OT would have cast Newman, in his later years, as a silver daddy with a whip and a chair. But we recognize this scenario is all in our head.
Die Tote Stadt
The San Francisco Opera premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's <slug>Die Tote Stadt</slug> has been dubbed "the fall season's dark horse" by general director David Gockley. After witnessing a sometimes ludicrous, often compelling and ultimately winning performance last week, one thing is clear. Korngold did create a thoroughbred, but then saddled his steed with enough baggage to nearly break its back.
Mill Valley reveries
The 31st Mill Valley Film Festival (Oct. 2-12 at the Sequoia, 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, and Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael) overcomes pricey gas and soaring bridge tolls with a sizzling lineup of furious fiction and artful documentaries.
John Waters comes home
John Waters may use his native Baltimore as the setting for all of his films, but San Francisco is where the Pope of Trash's cult status was born. He returns to the city that first embraced the sublimely filthy Pink Flamingos on Mon., Oct. 6, to perform John Waters Live! This Filthy World - Dirtier and Filthier at the Castro Theatre.
Gov. vetoes Milk bill
On the last day to either sign or reject hundreds of bills, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, September 30 vetoed a bill honoring the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.
State budget includes changes for people with HIV/AIDS
The state budget recently passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will likely mean changes for many people living with HIV/AIDS, especially those on Medi-Cal.
Pro-gay law firm dissolves
The LGBT community is losing a loyal legal advocate with the dissolution of San Francisco-based law firm Heller Ehrman. The firm played a key role in successfully overturning the state's anti-gay marriage laws and has had a long history of fighting for gay rights and protections for people with AIDS.
Yes on 8 ad deceptive, opponents say
Churches losing their tax-exempt status. Mandatory acceptance of gay marriage. Gay marriage being taught in public schools. People sued over their personal beliefs.
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