Mother of slain trans teen backs judge candidate
Victoria Kolakowski, a transgender woman seeking a seat on the Alameda County Superior Court, received the backing this week of Sylvia Guerrero, who rose to national prominence after the death of her transgender daughter in 2002.
Big bucks seen in amendment battle
Groups on both sides of an initiative that would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage are trying to raise millions of dollars in coming months.
Shepard for the new depression
Peter DuBois, a rising star in the American theater, has hung out his director's shingle during residencies in Prague, Juneau, and New York. And right now, in the midst of a move from resident director at New York's Public Theatre to his new job as artistic director of Boston's venerable Huntington Theatre, he has swooped into San Francisco to direct Sam Shepard's <italic>Curse of the Starving Class</italic> at ACT.
SF Ballet's New Works Fest
The oldest American ballet company in continuous existence is, in fact, our own. Seventy-five years ago, when the Opera House was new, San Francisco Ballet came into being, and they've roared into the home stretch of the diamond jubilee year with a climactic festival of all-new works.
Marriage fight casts shadow on Senate race
The likelihood that California will be convulsed by another fight over same-sex marriage at the polls in November is casting a shadow on the heated Senate race between two of the state's most powerful gay lawmakers.
Dem Party race is a gay free-for-all
Control of the Democratic Party in San Francisco is up for grabs this year as voters will elect members to serve on its two county central committees in the June 3 primary.
Coco
Maybe Katharine Hepburn should have just said merde. In the 1970 musical Coco, after the failure of her comeback couture collection, Coco Chanel, in the form of Hepburn, walked to the stage apron and said straight out to the audience, "Shit!" It got the biggest laugh in the show, but when Chanel herself got wind of the profanity Hepburn had adlibbed into the script, she refused to see the musical.
HIV dental clinic to close
A San Francisco dental clinic whose clients include low-income people living with HIV and AIDS will close June 30, in a climate where patients' prospects of finding other means of dental care appears tenuous.
HIV prevention director ups public role
Dr. Grant Colfax, the health department's HIV prevention director, is upping his public role in the job, six months after he was named to the position.
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