Be Near Me
"Each man has his own way of betraying himself," muses David Anderton, protagonist and narrator of Andrew O'Hagan's astonishing third novel, Be Near Me (Harcourt, $24). "For so long I had known myself only in prayers, in silent shadows and in dreams. Say I was longing for disaster."
A storehouse of memories :: Paintings of life in pre-Holocaust Poland at the Magnes Museum
Forty years ago, anthropologist and Yiddish folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett found an intriguing project close to home. She began a series of conversations with her aging, Polish immigrant father, Mayer Kirshenblatt, a project which evolved into a full-blown oral history about the lost Polish town of his youth, accompanied by a series of paintings and drawings. Now 91 and living in Toronto, Mayer has produced 270 paintings since 1990, 65 of which are on display at the Judah L. Magnes Museum.
David Sington on "In the Shadow of the Moon"
In a way, British filmmaker David Sington's astonishingly vivid visual portrait of the Apollo moon landings, <italic>In the Shadow of the Moon</italic>, may be that hypnotic regression for many of us who had just too many other things going on in our silly lives to focus on our feelings watching an unimaginable event. He talks about making the film.
Tommy Murphy on "Holding the Man"
When a play based on the Australian bestselling memoir Holding the Man opened in Sydney last year, it arrived with built-in name recognition. It also happened to get great reviews and turn-away audiences, and following its initial run at a small theater moved to one of the larger theaters in the Sydney Opera House. Now it opens at the New Conservatory Theatre Center. Author Tommy Murphy talks about the show!
Lights out for Monterey's last gay bar
The city of Monterey's last gay bar has closed.
Project Open Hand goes solar
A San Francisco nonprofit agency that provides meals to people who are homebound recently received a gift from Pacific Gas and Electric that could help it serve an additional 6,700 meals a year.
Rumor stemming from Burning Man suicide untrue, officials say
Nevada law enforcement officials and Burning Man organizers this week disputed a widely reported rumor stemming from a suicide at the annual festival in the Black Rock Desert last month.
Rough Sailing :: Olivia heads to San Francisco Court
Having just sailed on her company's Alaskan cruise with lesbian rock duo The Indigo Girls, Olivia founder and president Judy Dlugacz is preparing for another trip - this time to San Francisco Superior Court.
UPS scores big on HRC corporate index despite earlier troubles
United Parcel Service Inc. received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index 2008 despite criticism the company received earlier this year when it refused to provide benefits to civil union partners of its employees in New Jersey.
CA gays rally for marriage as veto looms
Marriage equality groups around the state of California hosted a series of rallies Tuesday, September 18 to encourage Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign AB43, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act.
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