Wishful Drinking
Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher's one-woman confessional at Berkeley Rep, opens with a montage of newspaper headlines that chronicle the scandals, tragedies, and follies that began as a child of celebrities and followed her into a stormy life of her own.
Pride nominates HRC for Pink Brick
For the first time, an LGBT organization has been nominated for San Francisco Pride's Pink Brick award - an award meant to recognize groups and individuals who've run afoul of the community or pushed for antigay measures.
Many cultures, universal dance
The Bay Area continues its long history of hosting contemporary dance with a multicultural focus when Chinese-born Shen Wei comes to the Yerba Buena Center, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater visits UC Berkeley this week.
Top planner's partner arrested
The partner of San Francisco's openly gay planning department director appeared in court Wednesday, February 26 after allegedly starting a fire and trashing the city's historic fire chief's house where the couple had been staying.
Pageantry par excellence: Imperial Coronation 2008
Imperial Coronation Weekend began last Thursday with the In-Town Show and Awards at Encore in the Polk neighborhood. Emcees Keith and Gladys Bumps kept things rolling as the drinks flowed, the entertainment proceeded, and tongues wagged with speculation over the results of the previous Saturday's voting for Emperor and Empress.
Bi woman runs for Oakland council seat
Rebecca Kaplan, a bisexual woman who serves on the AC Transit board, picked up a key endorsement last week in her second bid to join the Oakland City Council.
Working-class heroes
Others may lionize the beautiful, the well-born or the wealthy, but Out There has always most admired the men, women and service dogs who get up in the morning, go out there, and get things done. Out There's daydreams may be full of movie stars, gifted artists, and the human props of pornographic films, but our heart belongs to working-class daddy.
Confessed killer has history of felonies
The man who confessed to killing gay college teacher John Alfred Dennis Jr., has been charged with murder with special circumstances and with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
How he got Milk
It's late on a sunny Thursday morning in the Castro when a slim and radiantly beautiful young man, someone who would not seem out of place on the set of a Harry Potter movie, climbs the stairs of my Market Street flat, plops himself down on the worn, black couch, and explains why he's spent nearly half his life pursuing a dream to turn the life of a martyred gay politician into a film.
Rolfe tapped to head center
The woman who's been serving as interim executive director of San Francisco's LGBT Community Center has been selected to fill the position permanently.
Displaying 647 out of 604 pages
