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Vol. 48 • No. 4 • January 25-31, 2018

Farrell sworn in as interim SF mayor

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an Francisco officials are saying the city will ensure transgender people and others continue to receive health care as advocates across the country criticize the Trump administration for saying recently that it Acting HHS Secretary Eric will allow providers Hargan to use their religious beliefs to discriminate and refuse services. In a January 18 news release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the formation of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the agency’s Office for Civil Rights. “Laws protecting religious freedom and conscience rights are just empty words on paper if they aren’t enforced,” stated OCR Director Roger Severino. “No one should be forced to choose between helping sick people and living by one’s deepest moral or religious convictions, and the new division will help guarantee that victims of unlawful discrimination find justice.” Acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan said, “President Trump promised the American people that his administration would vigorously uphold the rights of conscience and religious freedom. That promise is being kept today.” In a statement last Thursday, then San Francisco acting Mayor London Breed was among those who came out swiftly against the new federal division. “By allowing medical providers to deny critical care based on personal ideology, the Trump administration is once again sanctioning widespread discrimination,” said Breed. “This is not an issue of religious freedom. It is another thinly-veiled attack on the health and well-being of women and LGBTQ communities.” Breed continued, “Access to preventive and necessary health services is a basic human need. ... San Francisco is proud of our culture of inclusive and comprehensive health care, regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity or socioeconomic status. We will continue to promote these values and ensure that all who need services are able to access them.” In an emailed comment to the Bay Area Reporter, Department of Public Health Director Barbara Garcia, who’s a lesbian, stated, “We will continue to focus on the care and well being of all of our community members. The San Francisco Health Department resists efforts to divide our community and will continue to ensure equal access for all, especially our most vulnerable populations, which includes LGBT residents.” See page 12 >>

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Women return to march

ens of thousands of women and their allies packed Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco Saturday, January 20, for the second Women’s March, which coincided with the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s first year in office. Speakers included LGBT people like Cecilia Chung, above, a trans woman who’s senior director

of strategic projects at the Transgender Law Center. The group later marched to the Embarcadero. Similar events were held in Oakland, Sonoma, Santa Rosa, and San Jose. The theme this year was encouraging women to vote in the midterm elections and supporting women running for office. For more, see the Resist column on page 11.

n a move that stunned the city and shook up the June special election races, District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell was sworn in as interim mayor of San Francisco Tuesday night. Surrounded by his wife and their three Interim Mayor children, Farrell took Mark Farrell his oath of office, administered by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, shortly after the Board of Supervisors ousted board President London Breed, who represents District 5, as acting mayor and elected the board’s most conservative member to lead the city over the next five months. “This is a time for leadership. It is a time to look ahead, and I look forward to the road ahead of us all,” said Farrell at a hastily called news conference in Room 200 at City Hall. Due to her being board president, Breed, See page 11 >>

CA legislators announce homeless youth bill by Seth Hemmelgarn

ay California Senator Scott Wiener (DSan Francisco) and Assemblywoman Blanca E. Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) Tuesday introduced a bill to help the state’s homeless youth, while in the South Bay, county supervisors this week approved funds for a homeless shelter for LGBTQs. At the state level, Senate Bill 918 would create an Office of Homeless Youth to establish goals and track progress on ending youth homelessness. The legislation would also direct $60 million toward addressing what the legislators called “the alarming rise of youth homelessness” in the state. Wiener’s office cited preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2017 homeless count that says the number of California’s homeless youth has increased to more than 15,000, a 26 percent rise from 2016 and a 32 percent jump from 2015. In San Francisco, almost half of the city’s 1,363 homeless youth are LGBTQ, according to the 2017 San Francisco Homeless Count and Survey and the city’s 2017 Homeless Unique Youth Count and Survey. “Youth homelessness is a crisis in California, and we have a moral duty to take care of our young people before they fall into chronic homelessness,” Wiener said in a news release.

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Three years after the Jungle homeless encampment in San Jose was cleared by South Bay officials, the Board of Supervisors approved funding for Santa Clara County’s first homeless shelter for LGBTQs.

“The increasing number of homeless youth set off alarm bells across the state. SB 918 will help us get young people off the streets and into housing and services, which is how we will save lives and reduce chronic homelessness in the long-term.” Rubio stated, “Facing even one night of homelessness can leave a devastating mark on

a young person’s physical and psychological well-being. The research is definitive; there are significant negative consequences for youth if they are subjected to homelessness. That is why we have introduced SB 918, which would create the first line of defense to protect California’s youth from this terrible situation.” See page 12 >>

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an Francisco prosecutors opted this week not to formally charge a gender nonconforming person who’d been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and other charges. Davia Spain, 23, who works at the city’s LGBT community center, was supported by many LGBTs after she was booked into custody Friday after an incident involving someone she’d dated. Authorities said that Spain reported that she and the complaining witness had had an amicable dating relationship for about three months. But Spain reportedly changed her mind about the nature of the relationship and went to see the complaining witness. A confrontation ensued in which both Spain and the complaining witness suffered visible marks. Spain is reportedly several inches taller and about 65 pounds heavier than the other person. Witnesses gave differing accounts of what happened, according to the authorities. Public Defender Jeff Adachi said that based on his office’s investigation, he was “confident that Davia acted in selfdefense and is innocent of these charges.” Spain, who declined to be interviewed for this story, had been “forced to defend herself” and was “not the attacker or the aggressor,” said Adachi, who didn’t have more detailed information to share. Along with felony domestic violence, Spain was also accused of misdemeanor battery and first-degree residential burglary and booked into custody at about 4:30 a.m. Friday, according to the sheriff’s department. But Monday afternoon, Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office, said that the agency had decided not to file charges in the case. “We make our charging decisions

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Public Defender Jeff Adachi took a photo of people gathered in front of the Hall of Justice who rallied in support of Davia Spain.

based upon the facts and the law,” said Bastian. Spain’s case drew about 100 people to the steps of the Hall of Justice Monday morning. More than 1,800 people signed an online petition urging the DA’s office to drop the charges “due to lack of evidence and based on systemic prejudice,” and activists planned to deliver signatures to the DA’s office after the event. Trans activist Jordan Davis, who attended the rally, told the B.A.R. that she doesn’t know Spain, and she doesn’t know the specifics of the case, but she said Spain “is a transgender woman of color jailed on bullshit charges. That’s all I need to know. ... She survived an abuser and she was punished for it.” Many supporters held signs that said “#Free Davia” and posed for a group photo. One activist read a statement from Spain in which she said, “I am magic. I am power. ... I am capable of achieving great things in this life.” Despite the public nature of the

large rally, organizer Danielle West said she was “not interested” in having the B.A.R. cover it, citing unspecified complaints about the past work of the reporter who approached her. Others at the rally included Adachi, transgender school board candidate Mia Satya, gay City College of San Francisco trustee Tom Temprano and Rebecca Rolfe, executive director of the LGBT community center, where Spain works as a trans employment program associate. Temprano and Rolfe both refused to speak to the B.A.R. Other activists told the reporter not to photograph the rally, followed him around, and interrupted him as he tried to interview people. Spain told the B.A.R. in 2015 that she identifies as gender nonconforming, but supporters have referred to her using feminine pronouns. Records indicate that she was released Monday night, and she was jailed under the first name “David.” Her Facebook page says her name is “Davia Amerasu Spain.” t

Man charged after Castro crash by Seth Hemmelgarn

San Francisco man is facing assault with a deadly weapon and numerous other charges after he allegedly drove onto a busy sidewalk Saturday afternoon in the city’s gay Castro district. Prosecutors announced Tuesday afternoon that Kenneth Joseph Rotter, 70, is being charged with seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism, reckless driving, and driving under the influence in the incident. Rotter, who’s being held without bond in County Jail #2, was expected to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon, after the Bay Area Reporter’s press time. No pedestrians were hit and no other vehicles were damaged in the incident, in which the window of a deli was broken. The incident started at about 3:12 p.m. Saturday, as city dispatchers received 911 calls about someone “driving recklessly – including on the sidewalk – on the 400 block of Castro Street,” police Sergeant Michael Andraychak said in a news release. Responding officers saw the vehicle, a purple Dodge minivan, driving west on 18th Street toward Sanchez Street. They stopped and detained the driver, who was soon identified as Rotter. The preliminary investigation showed that Rotter had driven his van onto the sidewalk onto the west side of Castro Street, “hitting multiple parking meters and sidewalk trees,” said Andraychak. He then stopped, backed into the front of Rossi’s Delicatessen, and then drove back into the road and south down to 18th Street, according to Andraychak and images posted to Facebook. In a video that a witness posted to Facebook, the van is stopped on the sidewalk near the deli before it goes into reverse, resulting in a loud crashing sound. Someone standing near the

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A boarded up window at Rossi’s Deli signals to customers Tuesday that the shop is open after a man driving a van allegedly hit the building Saturday afternoon.

van opens the driver’s side door before the van proceeds on the sidewalk down Castro, with onlookers screaming for people to get out of the way. The driver appears to honk the horn and the left turn signal flashers brakes appear to be activated at least once. Chikara Abe, who took the video, told the B.A.R. in a Facebook exchange that he didn’t hear the van’s driver say anything during the incident. Andraychak said, “The subject drove around the block through intersections posted with arterial stop signs and at times drove on the wrong side of the roadway until he was stopped and detained.” Rotter, who reported non-life threatening injuries, is a transient and had been living in the van with his dog. He told authorities that he’d been having trouble with the brakes, according to Andraychak, who added that the van’s been impounded and would be “subject to an inspection to

determine if there were any mechanical defects that may have contributed to the incident.” Cynthia Dughman, one of Rossi’s owners, wasn’t at the deli at the time of Saturday’s incident, but she told the B.A.R. that the shop’s window was broken. Rotter, whose booking photo hasn’t been released, declined an interview request from the B.A.R. His dog is in the custody of San Francisco Animal Care and Control, according to Andraychak. Rotter was booked into jail early Sunday morning on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, driving under the influence of drugs, reckless driving, hit-andrun driving, vandalism more than $400, three counts of failure to stop before a crosswalk, failure to drive on the right, unsafe condition of vehicle, and failure to provide proof of financial responsibility, sheriff’s department records said. t

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t Two-spirit culture takes center stage at powwow 4 • BAY AREA REPORTER • January 25-31, 2018

by Michael Nugent

GBTs and others can celebrate and learn about two-spirit Native Americans at the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit Powwow that takes place next weekend in San Francisco. BAAITS’ seventh annual event will be held Saturday, February 3, at Fort Mason. Dancers will make their grand entry at noon. The event, which is free, is an educational and spiritual gathering open to all people. Two spirit is a native term that generally refers to LGBTQ people. Long a dream of the BAAITS community, the Two-Spirit Powwow comes with a desire to heal the wounds of the past. “I’ve been involved in BAAITS since the 1990s,” said Ruth Villaseñor, 60, a Chiricahua, Apache, and Mexican two spirit. “We talked about having a powwow since the beginning. I’ve seen trans people thrown out of other powwows because their gender presentation didn’t match the regalia they were wearing. This powwow allows twospirit people to return to the circle in gender identity, and allow allies to dance side by side.” The rediscovery of indigenous heritage and the BAAITS community has profoundly affected twospirit people.

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Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirit members Jim Eagle, left, Ruth Villaseñor, and Aja Archuleta encourage people to come to the powwow next weekend.

“When I first heard about the powwow, it came when I had just discovered my indigenous heritage,” said Aja Archuleta, 30, a Cherokee and Spanish two spirit. “It was an instant call, and I found a role in BAAITS right away. I had always felt an identity with native culture. When I found my indigenous heritage, I could finally own that story. “Colonization and assimilation erased so many stories. Lots of people may feel something but don’t know what it’s called or haven’t made the connection yet,” Archuleta added.

“It felt the same to me,” said Villaseñor. “I’d heard of We’Wha and Will Roscoe, but didn’t know of a group. My own family didn’t embrace native heritage, and wanted to be white – it was safer then. I’ve had my own process of recovering my historical lineage. Once I found BAAITS, I felt totally connected there. It’s been incredibly healing to re-embrace native heritage.” We’Wha, a Zuni Native American two-spirit/mixed gender tribal leader, was included in the recent group of Rainbow Honor Walk plaques that was installed in the Castro.

Roscoe is a gay scholar. Villaseñor noted that people her age didn’t always come out as LGBT. “People in my generation didn’t share that they’re gay,” she said. “When I finally connected with Arizona relatives, they all knew; I was embraced. I saw my first Apache crown dancers, and my cousin took me everywhere. I didn’t know I could feel a calling to the land so deeply.” This powwow celebrates fluid gender roles, a transformative element, said organizers. “The significance can’t be understated,” said Jim Eagle, 52, a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (Sioux nation) cis male two spirit. “Women and men tend to be separated in powwows, with different dances. Here, twospirit people can be in whatever dance they like.” “The cis-male staff will dress in female regalia for the grand entry,” said Villaseñor. “There’s also a rainbow flag as part of the procession.” She also pointed to the importance of drumming. “The powwow can feel like such an openhearted blessing. As a female and drummer, I haven’t always been welcome to drum, but here I am,” said Villaseñor. “The round drum is sort of a powwow in itself. Not a specific tribe’s drum tradition, so it’s open.” The first Two-Spirit Powwow was

at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. “Courtney Cummings, the founder of the Richmond Powwow, and her family were great allies; they helped out a lot. I was so worried no one would come, and then we had 500 people. I was shocked,” said Villaseñor. “Then, people didn’t understand it wasn’t only for gays; they didn’t know what it meant to be an out ally. Now we have 3,000plus people. Last year we got the Gilbert Baker Award from SF Pride, and the powwow got so much more visibility.”

Diversity of culture

As part of the Powwow, the great diversity of native cultures will be present. “The Bay Area is extremely intertribal; we have a large native population here,” said Villaseñor. Eagle pointed out that not all tribes have powwows. “Powwows are mostly a Midwestern tribal tradition, not for all tribes, but all have a dance and a gathering. The Ohlone call it big time,” said Eagle. All people are welcome and encouraged to attend the San Francisco event. “I find non-natives unsure if they can come, and Bay Area white See page 12 >>

Judges deny attempt to legalize sex work in CA by Seth Hemmelgarn

three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has rejected a sex worker group’s bid to legalize prostitution in California. The group – Erotic Service Providers Legal Education Research Project – says it’s considering requesting a hearing by the full court. In a ruling issued Wednesday, January 17, the judges affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of California’s anti-prostitution law, Penal Code 647(b). A summary from the court’s staff said the judges, who in October heard arguments in the case – ESPLERP v. Gascón – found the state’s law “was rationally related to several important governmental interests,” and doesn’t violate the

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14th Amendment’s “freedom of intimate or expressive association” or “the First Amendment freedom

of speech because prostitution does not constitute protected commercial speech and therefore does not warrant such protection.” The 9th Circuit panel consisted of U.S. circuit Judges Carlos Bea and Consuelo Callahan, and Judge Jane Restani, a senior judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade. Restani wrote last Wednesday’s opinion, which says, “the state proffers specific and legitimate reasons for criminalizing prostitution in California, which include discouraging human trafficking and violence against women, discouraging illegal drug use, and preventing contagious and infectious diseases,” including HIV. ESPLERP filed its complaint in 2015. The group has said the law “unfairly deprives consenting adults of the right to private activity, criminalizes the discussion of such

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activity, and unconstitutionally places prohibitions on individuals’ right to freely associate.” In a news release, Louis Sirkin, ESPLERP’s lead lawyer, said, “We’re disappointed that the 9th Circuit missed this opportunity to declare, with certainty, that the Constitution protects the right of consenting adults to engage in private sexual activity, even if they are paying for it or getting paid. ... This case is not over and we are seriously considering requesting a rehearing by the full court.” EPSLERP President Maxine Doogan stated the group has 14 days to file for a rehearing before the full court. She said it’s “mind boggling” that the three judges relied on the 1988 case IDK Inc. v. Clark County. In that case, court staff noted last Wednesday, the 9th Circuit “had

already ruled that the relationship between a prostitute and a client does not qualify as a relationship protected by a right of association.” Doogan complained that IDK Inc. v. Clark relied on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick ruling, which criminalized gay sex. “ ... Both have since clearly been superseded by Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court case which struck down sodomy laws nationwide,” she said. The named plaintiffs in ESPLERP’s lawsuit are “three women who want the right to sell sex” in the state, and one man “who wants to pay for sex,” the group has said. A spokesperson for the state attorney general, who along with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and other district attorneys is a defendant in the case, declined to comment on Wednesday’s ruling.t

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sent a chilling message that religious freedom trumps all else in the Constitution. Meanwhile, the court has inserted itself back into the culture wars with the Masterpiece Cakeshop case that will be decided this year. The defense relies on a similar premise: businesses that provide a service have a right to discriminate against those with whom they disagree for religious reasons. Lambda Legal correctly points out that the new religious liberty division within HHS “raises serious legal questions.” Freedom of religion is enshrined in the Constitution, but that doesn’t give it more weight than other protections; nor does it give people the right to use religious or moral beliefs as grounds for violating the rights of others. Thankfully, California has some of the strongest non-discrimination laws in the country. And, as we report this week, groups like Equality California are working with state representatives and others to determine whether legislation or litigation might be necessary to stave off implementation of the new HHS rule. For LGBTs living in California, the issue isn’t so much about what happens here, but what happens when they travel, especially to a red state. If a married same-sex couple went to South Carolina to visit relatives and one of them got sick or was in a car crash, they could

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potentially be denied hospital care because the emergency room physician is homophobic. And while trans people should not have to worry too much about gender reassignment surgery being affected, it is certainly possible that they could be discriminated against for unrelated medical care. (Trans woman Parker Molloy pointed out on Twitter that no one has ever demanded that a doctor who hasn’t specifically – and voluntarily – trained to perform transition-related procedures actually perform transition-related procedures on them.) Of course, anti-LGBT health care providers exist everywhere, which makes the new rule problematic for anyone in states without strong non-discrimination laws to protect them. The Hippocratic Oath requires a physician to “do no harm.” It’s hard to see how the HHS rule complies with the historic adherence to that ethical standard. Other medical professionals abide by their own codes of conduct, and none say, “You can refuse to treat someone because of your religious beliefs.” That is, until now. It sets a truly dangerous precedent. Lambda Legal notes that the work of this new division actually “defies the avoid-harmto-others test in multiple ways.” It is inconsistent with two core constitutional guarantees: equal protection under the law and that the government must not elevate the religious beliefs of some above the needs of others to be protected from harm, including the harms of discrimination. Additionally, federal agencies must follow the federal statutes that protect LGBT people and others from discrimination, specifically regarding the Affordable Care Act. The best course of action is for HHS to immediately rescind the new rule and scrap the new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division. The proposed office is alarming because it invites bias and religion-based mistreatment of LGBTs that many of us have spent years combatting. Licensed health professionals who receive federal funding should not have an ability to discriminate. The problem is that in the Trump administration, no one believes there’s anything wrong with that. t

alifornia is leading the way in implementing LGBTQ-inclusive textbooks in public schools. Senate Bill 48, the FAIR Education Act, authored by gay then-state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) went into effect January 1, 2012. The act requires that California’s public schools provide fair, accurate, inclusive, and respectful representations of LGBTQ Americans, as well as people with disabilities in history and social studies curriculum. It has become apparent that LGBTQ leaders need to be at the table to inform implementation. Already, some early missteps have occurred with textbook publishers who struggled with how to frame the work of LGBTQ individuals who were not openly gay. The requirement that textbook publishers include, and schools teach, our stories in California’s schools is both significant and trend-setting for the nation. California has the opportunity to lead the way in honoring and teaching about the contributions of LGBTQ Americans. The California State Board of Education and California Department of Education have stepped up to the plate to move forward instructional materials that are responsive to the FAIR Education Act. Our community needs to step up and be at the table to inform, educate, and guide the implementation of this act – both in how we are represented in textbooks, but also in how our stories are taught in schools across the Golden State. So here’s the thing. Understanding what it means to be LGBTQ doesn’t happen in a

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historical vacuum. It is critical to understand the historical context in which these individuals lived and what it meant to be LGBTQ – and to be out – in the context in which these individuals lived. Those of us in the LGBTQ community know only too well that these are not academic arguments and that the context of these stories are as important to tell as the contributions themselves. In “History is a Weapon” (1979) Audre Lorde opined that “Those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference ... know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish.”

I think that Lorde got it right. One cannot understand the contributions of LGBTQ individuals without also understanding what it meant to be openly gay. In the words of Lorde, this was (and in many cases/places, still is) not an academic skill and the challenges that LGBTQ individuals are made is all the more significant because of the context in which they lived. Our community leaders and LGBTQ educators need to be at the table as these nuanced conversations occur. The moral imperative to include our stories, now enshrined in California statute, requires that our contributions be fairly reflected in our history and social science materials and that materials that adversely reflect our community are not adopted by any governing board for use in classrooms. The opportunity along the way is to better tell our stories and to educate our youth toward a more open and inclusive society – one that respects, nurtures, and honors LGBTQ youth and community members. Our leaders need to stay active and engaged in this conversation to ensure that the significant contributions of our community are understood in the deep context of what it meant for these individuals to do what they did – often at great personal risk. It is this critical context that helps all Californians understand what it means to be LGBTQ and how the absence of these stories in the past has diminished us all. t Gary Waddell, Ph.D., is a gay man who is deputy superintendent of the San Mateo County Office of Education. He is a candidate for San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools and is the former chair of California’s statewide Curriculum and Instruction Steering Committee.

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Chaps and Michael Greer

There was a story last week about Michael Greer I’d like to supplement with some information [“Michael Greer, honorary San Franciscan,” BARtab, January 18]. Part of the story shows a flyer from a SOMA bar in the 1980s with a caption reading “Chaps” on 11th street. But the main story refers to another Chaps bar, a much more recent business on Folsom Street called Chaps II. My husband and I owned the original Chaps bar at 375 11th Street, which opened in 1983. Greer appeared at a fundraiser there, along with the other entertainers shown on the flyer. We had several fundraisers to support the work at Ward 5B at San Francisco General Hospital in the early days of AIDS, when everyone was puzzled and alarmed by what was going on, and we were only too glad to help. The community responded and we were able to buy several television sets, video machines, and meals for patients. Chaps, at 375 11th was a leather bar that had a brief but exciting life, but was related to Chaps II, the bar at 1225 Folsom, in name only.

And the nominees are ...

I was astonished at some of film reviewer David Lamble’s choices, as well as omissions, for the Academy Award nominees that were announced Tuesday [“2018 Oscar picks,” January 18]. There is no way that “Beach Rats” will be nominated, especially with another gaythemed movie in there. Also, I would be very pleasantly surprised if “Detroit” makes it in. I think Lamble simply forgot to include “Dunkirk,” and “Get Out” not only should be nominated but political correctness practically demands it. Here are my best picture predictions with the most likely 10 first and another eight as long-shots. I think the Academy Awards will have 10 nominees this year. Best picture: “Lady Bird,” “Get Out,” “Dunkirk,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “The Shape of Water,” “Call Me by Your Name,” “The Post,” “The Big Sick,” “I, Tonya,” and “Darkest Hour.” Long-shots are “The Florida Project,” “Mudbound,” “Molly’s Game,” “The Disaster Artist,” “All the Money in the World,” “Phantom Thread,” “Blade Runner 2049,” and “Wonder Woman.”

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bid of gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who was backed by Alice. Dufty had also won Alice’s support in the 2002 race, while Milk supported the late Eileen Hansen. It also supported her in the 2000 race when she lost to gay Supervisor Mark Leno, who had been appointed to the board by former mayor Willie Brown to fill a vacancy. Two years later Leno was elected to the state Assembly.

ince supervisors in San Francisco reverted back to being elected by district 18 years ago, no one seeking the District 8 seat on the board has secured an endorsement from both of the city’s LGBT Democratic clubs. That could change this year, however, as gay attorney Rafael Mandelman is poised to be endorsed by the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club next month. Alice’s political action committee voted Monday night to recommend that club members sole endorse Mandelman in the special election on the June primary ballot. The Alice PAC decision came a week after the more progressive Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club voted to early-endorse Mandelman in the race for the board seat that represents the Castro, Noe Valley, Diamond Heights, and Glen Park at City Hall. Mandelman, a member of the City College of San Francisco board, is running against gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who was appointed as the board’s first known HIV-positive member a year ago this month by the late Mayor Ed Lee. The two are running to serve out the remainder of gay former supervisor Scott Wiener’s term, which expires in early January 2019. Wiener resigned after being elected to the state Senate in November 2016. No matter the outcome of the June race, Mandelman and Sheehy are also expected to compete for a full four-year term on the board in the November election. Alice members will vote February 12 on whether to endorse Mandelman, and it is rare for the PAC’s decision not to be approved. Plus, the threshold to even be considered for a sole endorsement is 66 percent of the vote, a high benchmark to reach at the PAC, meaning that Mandelman enjoys broad support within Alice. “I am never confident about anything, but we are going to be working hard over the next few weeks to make sure that happens,” Mandelman told the Bay Area Reporter. “But I am incredibly grateful for the members of the PAC for their support, that means a lot.”

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Sheehy, who had told the B.A.R. last month that he hoped to win Alice’s support, did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. The PAC vote came after members learned over the weekend that Sheehy’s second campaign manager had quit on Friday. It also followed a report in the B.A.R.’s online Political Notes column Monday that Sheehy was no longer willing to take part in debates co-hosted by the Milk club due to its early endorsement of his opponent. Last fall, the Milk and Alice clubs announced they planned to host a series of debates with Mandelman and Sheehy for both their members and the general public ahead of the June election. But with the two club’s endorsement votes this month it is unlikely any more debates will take place hosted by them. Additional debates organized by any group have yet to be scheduled between Sheehy and Mandelman, who are both former Milk club presidents. This is the second time that Mandelman has run for District 8 supervisor. He lost to Wiener in 2010; that year Milk supported Mandelman while Alice co-endorsed its former co-chairs Wiener and Rebecca Prozan. Four years ago Alice also endorsed Wiener in his re-election bid while Milk didn’t endorse any candidate in the race. The same was true for Milk in the 2006 race, when it declined to endorse the re-election

Gay state Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) is facing tougher odds in his bid to be elected the first openly LGBT person to serve in the state’s executive branch of government now that another prominent Democrat has entered the race for the open insurance commissioner position. The incumbent, Dave Jones, is term-limited from seeking re-election this year, and Lara for months had been seen as the favorite to easily succeed Jones come November as he had been facing token opposition from a Republican candidate. But his victory is now less certain due to Dr. Asif Mahmood’s decision to drop his bid for lieutenant governor and instead vie for insurance commissioner. The Los Angeles-based pulmonologist, who grew up in Pakistan, made the move last Thursday, January 18, and reportedly has close to $1 million to spend on the race. Pundits immediately predicted Mahmood and Lara would survive the June primary, where the top two vote-getters regardless of party affiliation will advance to the November general election. And having a doctor running to oversee how the state regulates the insurance industry throws a wrench into Lara’s campaign strategy. While he has been pushing California lawmakers to adopt universal health care in the state, generating tons of media attention over the last year, Lara has no real world medical experience like Mahmood. On the Republican side, Santa Clara insurance agent Peter Kuo formally entered the race in October, while more recently Steve Poizner, who previously served as insurance commissioner, has floated the idea of running this year for another term. See page 12 >>

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Carmel delights visitors with art, dining, wine, and hikes by Charlie Wagner

hen some people think of Carmel-by-the-Sea, they think of cute houses, former mayor Clint Eastwood, and maybe Doris Day. But there’s so much more, as my husband and I discovered recently over two delightful days there. Carmel does have century-old Fairy Tale Cottages. It also has more modern buildings designed by architects like Bernard Maybeck, Charles Sumner Greene, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Less than 30 minutes away are spectacular hiking opportunities plus a gorgeous wine-growing region with over 50 wineries. At 10 a.m. on a weekday, we departed San Francisco and drove three hours on scenic Route 1 all the way to sunny Carmel. Arriving too early to check into our hotel, we stopped for lunch at the Village Corner at Dolores and Sixth streets. The founders of Carmel feared “citification” and rejected house numbers so addresses are given as the intersection of two streets. Like many Carmel restaurants, the Village Corner is dog-friendly and allows pets in the outdoor heated terrace area. Food was good, portions were generous, and prices were reasonable with a Cobb Salad at $15.95 and a Croque-Monsieur at $12.95. The restaurant was not busy. We both noticed a pleasant feeling of life slowing down. We checked out two rooms at the Vagabond House Bed and Breakfast Inn where we stayed two nights. Number 6 upstairs looked plush, comfortable and quiet. But we chose the larger Number 1 on the ground floor, recently remodeled, with a large bathroom with two vanities, a heated marble floor and separate tub and shower. The Vagabond has 13 rooms, ranging from $219 to $359 per night, and pets are allowed for an additional fee. “Most visitors with pets bring dogs,” said manager Thomas Rogers, “but we’ve hosted some cats and even parrots.” It’s LGBTQ-friendly, not surprising because lesbian Amanda Levett is the owner and Rogers is married to gregarious fellow employee Randal Gilbert.

Carmel on foot

Carmel is a delightfully clean and peaceful place in winter, with plenty of shops and dozens of art galleries. There are supermarkets, too, and even a discrete gas station. The town’s famous Fairy Tale Cottages were built by Hugh Comstock between 1924 and 1928 and have unique names like Hansel and Gretel.

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The famous, and protected, Lone Cypress stands majestically on the 17-Mile Drive.

The Court of the Golden Bough courtyard welcomes visitors.

Historical walking tour maps are available at the tourist office in Carmel Plaza at Ocean and Mission streets. The famous quirkiness of the town extends beyond architecture. Carmel has a municipal code banning heels more than 2 inches high unless the wearer has a permit. Passed in the 1920s to fend off lawsuits from people tripping on the uneven sidewalks, the law is not enforced today. But for a unique souvenir, you can obtain a free permit from City Hall. This ordinance unintentionally highlights that much of Carmel is not accessible. Many of the newer hotels have some accessible rooms but Vagabond House, built in the late 1920s, does not. Carmel is visually harmonious with many buildings of rough wood and stone. We appreciated the lowkey signs on the shops, the result of another Carmel municipal code. Graves are banned in Carmel with one exception. Pal, the town dog, was buried in 1943 next to the picturesque Forest Theater. Carmel has been dogfriendly for a long time. Right in the village, Maybeck’s Harrison Memorial Library can be visited at Ocean and Lincoln streets and has a striking arts-and-crafts entryway. Less centrally located are Greene’s much-admired Seaword House, built between 1918 and 1922, and Greene’s own house and studio from 1923. Built right on Carmel Beach and perhaps the most interesting is Lloyd Wright’s Della Walker House, designed in 1948. The house is easily viewable from the beach or from the adjacent street. The Greene and Wright buildings are usually closed to the public, but

of wine was $140 before tip. Carmel restaurants tend to be expensive, with mains between $25 and $55. Casual dress is acceptable in all restaurants. Our dinner the next night at romantic Casanova, at Mission and Fifth streets, featured French and Italian dishes and was delicious. With two glasses of wine, the check was $170 before tip. We had a foodie moment savoring the micro-arugula and micro-basil while considering their motto, “We’re always questioning and ever evolving.” There’s a pretty outdoor terrace for warmer weather. For nighttime entertainment, the Sunset Center has live music and comedy, primarily on weekends. The rustic Forest Theater, established in 1910 as the first outdoor theater west of the Mississippi, presents plays and movies under the stars in summer. Rogers said the closest movie theaters were in Monterey, where there are several live entertainment venues. The calendar in the Monterey County Weekly is the best source for what’s happening. For more ideas, pick up a free copy of the Carmel Pine Cone, the local weekly paper. Its police, fire and sheriff’s log provides a unique insight into the local culture. You have to venture out of Carmel to appreciate the area’s full potential. Two great options are Carmel Valley, home of over 20 winery tasting rooms, and Point Lobos State Reserve, with rocky headlands, tide pools and photoready stands of Monterey cypress.

several times a year the Carmel Heritage Society organizes tours, which have included these buildings in the past. Near the Walker house is a handmade castle called the Tor House and Hawk Tower, built by poet Robinson Jeffers in 1919. Locals highly recommend the Tor tours, running daily except Sunday. Advance reservations are required. If you have time for only one art gallery, visit the Carmel Arts Association at Dolores and Sixth streets. Founded in 1927, the association presents only the works of their artist members. On the southern edge of town and worth visiting is the San Carlos Borromeo De Carmelo Mission founded in 1771. Close by is the Mission Ranch and Restaurant where you might run into proprietor Eastwood at the piano bar. Perhaps the most charming features of Carmel are the more than 40 passageways and courtyards. Passageways are tiny pedestrian alleys and many open to courtyards. Popular Pilgrim’s Way bookstore is entered via a passageway near Dolores and Sixth streets. The Court of the Fountains, behind the Anton and Michel Restaurant at Mission and Seventh streets, was our favorite courtyard. We decided to return to that restaurant after we noticed their bargain “sunset dinner,” offered between 5 and 6:15 p.m. The hostess studied her watch after we arrived at 6:13, then graciously showed us to our table. We were seated in a glass-enclosed room overlooking a large courtyard with several fountains. The meal was elegant and our best in Carmel. Sunset dinner for two with a half-bottle

Carmel Valley

Drive less than 30 minutes and you’re in Carmel Valley, where we had an excellent lunch at Corkscrew Restaurant, 55 West Carmel Valley Road. We enjoyed the beautiful Market Salad with persimmons, yellow

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squash, mixed greens, beet cubes, and champagne dressing. A main of salmon with bok choy, saffron rice, aioli and cranberry relish was also a standout. The tab was $93 with two glasses of wine, before tip. Most of the tasting rooms are directly on Carmel Valley Road. We visited two recommended by Evan Oakes, the gay owner-operator of Ag Ventures, a tour company offering wine tasting, sightseeing and agricultural tours. Both tasting rooms were easy to find, attractive, and not busy. Bernardus at 5 West Carmel Valley Road has been in business since the 1980s and has a Dutch owner. Practically across the street is Cima Collina, 19 East Carmel Valley Road, in a building dating from the late 1800s. Nearby Earthbound Farms, a giant farm stand and the largest organic grower in the U.S., is worth visiting at 7250 Carmel Valley Road. It opens in the spring.

Hiking Point Lobos

Tour books call Point Lobos the crown jewel among California’s state parks and we quickly saw why. Drive just 15 minutes south from Carmel for dramatic views of rocky coastline, sea birds, otters, harbor seals, and tide pools teaming with sea creatures. Point Lobos has countless Monterey cypress trees clinging precariously to rocky perches like the famed Lone Cypress of the 17-Mile Drive. Point Lobos deserves a full day if you have the time. In a little over a half day, we had enough time for four short hikes. We walked the North Shore trail to the Old Veteran tree, took the Cypress Grove Loop, inspected tide See page 12 >>

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January 25-31, 2018 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 9

In San Francisco, only one city nickname flies by Matthew S. Bajko

n the song “San Francisco,” made famous by singer Scott McKenzie in 1967, song writer John Edmund Andrew Phillips beseeched those “who come to San Francisco/be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” He should have added a line also asking visitors to leave behind two nicknames for the city that grate on locals’ ears: “Frisco” and “San Fran.” For many residents of the City By the Bay, as well as denizens of the wider Bay Area region, both terms are verboten ways to refer to San Francisco. “I am enough of a native to acquire the hatred for those horrible names,” said Jason Howe, whose family over the last 100 years has moved back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles, where he now lives with his husband and their children. Howe, a former spokesman for LGBT advocacy groups Equality California and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, lived in the city for several years in his youth and was taught to only refer to the city by its full name or its initials. “Oh God, no,” said Howe when asked if he ever used the other two references that shall not be named (at least in the rest of this article). “They just strike me as incredibly tacky; I can’t explain it.” Virginia transplant Gary McCoy, a gay employee of the city’s parks department who is a gubernatorial

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Don’t call it “Frisco:” Survey respondents prefer to call San Francisco, which turns 171 years old on Tuesday, by its full name or initials.

appointee on the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, said he knows better than to refer to his new hometown as anything other than San Francisco. “If I ever shorten it, it is S.F.,” said McCoy, adding that when visiting his friends and family members back East he will “very abruptly” correct them if they use the other terms. “I tell them if you ever visit me, don’t ever say that around me,” said McCoy. That sentiment is shared by a majority of San Francisco residents, according to a new survey released by local public relations firm Bospar ahead of the 171st anniversary of the renaming

of the Yerba Buena settlement to San Francisco on January 30, 1847. When asked what they call the city when talking about San Francisco, just over two-thirds of the survey’s 1,209 respondents (67.6 percent) said they only use “San Francisco.” The rest used either the two options disliked by most locals or some other term. The differences in preferred names is more pronounced when the survey results are broken down by San Francisco residents and by non-San Francisco residents. Among the 203 locals, 74.9 percent only use “San Francisco,” while 66.1 percent of the other 1,006 respondents across the U.S. said they did.

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he International Cannabis Business Conference will bring its blend of commerce, activism, and culture to the city its fourth information-filled event February 1-2 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center. The conference is ICBC’s first since the legalization of adult recreational marijuana sales began in the state January 1. Organizers said that the conference will heavily feature all aspects of the California industry. Events include an in-depth interview with California cannabis czar Lori Ajax and Alex Traverso of the California Bureau of Cannabis Control. In addition to hearing from top regulators, attendees will learn from top entrepreneurs, lawyers, advocates, and experts in the field. Speakers will discuss licensing requirements, lab testing, compliance, delivery, distribution, co-packing, and logistics. “Every state that has legalized cannabis has had many changes to the law and regulations and different regulatory schemes for localities, and California will be no different; the ICBC will have attendees as prepared as possible,” ICBC founder and producer Alex Rogers said in a news release. There will also be networking opportunities as well as social events. Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs will be providing music at this year’s exclusive after-party, so the networking can continue past the conference. A VIP event will also be held. Regular tickets are $449, while tickets that include the VIP party are $549. Ticket prices go up January 31. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.internationalcbc.com or call (888) 920-6076.

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Just 4.4 percent of the city residents copped to using the last two syllables of the city’s name, while 1 percent said they use the other two-syllable nickname. While the firm was unable to break out the locals’ answers by if they are LGBT or straight, it was able to determine which demographic group based by sexual orientation was more likely to stop using the disliked terms when told they were derided by locals. The survey question noted that doing so sounds “like fingernails on a chalkboard” to city residents. According to Bospar, lesbians, at 90 percent, overwhelmingly said they would stop using the terms, while 67 percent of heterosexual respondents said they would drop the terms from their vocabulary. Those identifying as asexual (63 percent) would be most likely to persist in saying the despised nicknames, followed by bisexuals (44 percent) and gay men (41 percent). Curtis Sparrer, a gay man who is a principal with the PR firm, noted that many of its employees “dread” having to tell other people where their company is headquartered since it

inevitably leads to someone using the two hated nicknames for the city. “The fact that nearly one in three Americans would continue using” them, added Sparrer, “even if they knew those names were annoying is in keeping with other trends we are seeing. America is becoming a more polarized country, with a growing minority enjoying trolling others.” Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Charles Fracchia, who also founded the San Francisco Historical Society in 1988, said in a news release announcing the survey results that “utilizing the full name of any person or place gives it dignity, and I believe ‘San Best Wedding Photographer Francisco’ deserves be referred to in as voted by toBAR readers its full name.” Bay Area Reporter news editor Cynthia Laird, who grew up in Hayward, said everyone she knew in her childhood used either “San Francisco” or “the city.” As for the other ways to refer to S.F., “I don’t know why people hate it,” said Laird, but she acknowledged she finds it “cringe-worthy” when those nicknames are used. t

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from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Sui Generis Consignment, 2231 Market Street in the Castro. A warm-up for the larger Academy Awards watch gala, Thursday’s event is more low-key where people can enjoy cocktails and a bowtie-tying clinic and shop for a “fabulous frock for our 2018 gala,” organizers said. There will also be door prizes. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at http://bit.ly/2n0nSWK. Tickets for the Oscar gala, to be held Sunday, March 4, from 5 to 11 p.m., are $300 and can be purchased at www.academyoffriends.org. A location for the gala was not listed on the website.

Sha’ar Zahav to install new rabbi

Congregation Sha’ar Zahav will formally install its new rabbi, Mychal Copeland, at a special service Friday, January 26, at 7:30 p.m. at 290 Dolores Street in San Francisco. The predominately LGBT synagogue appointed Copeland, a lesbian, last summer. Rabbi Steven Carr-Reuben, rabbi emeritus of Kehillat Israel of Pacific

Senate Bill 1 (SB1) will provide $54 billion in transportation funding over the next 10 years for both state and local roads. This is an opportunity for small business participation on planning and public works projects with local and state transportation agencies. Caltrans is hosting workshops throughout the state on “How to Do Business with Caltrans”, “Prime Contracting”, and “Subcontracting” as well as hosting Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Certification workshops. Roughly $5.4 billion will be allocated annually for projects on the State Highway System, Local Roadway repair, State Bridges and Culverts, Active Transportation, Trade Corridor Enhancements, Congested Corridors, Local Planning Grants, Matching Funds and Public Transit. Small Business is Big Business for Caltrans Contracting. Don’t miss your chance to learn of bidding and certification opportunities. Follow this link for workshop information: http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/bep/calendar2.htm and f or more information on SB1 – rebuildingca.ca.gov.

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SF supes OK $100K for lesbian ex-cop by Seth Hemmelgarn

he San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved settling a lawsuit by a lesbian former police officer for $100,000. Patricia Burley filed her complaint against the city and former Police Chief Greg Suhr in 2016, claiming that Suhr had forced her to retire after she alleged publicly that another officer had embezzled money from the LGBT police officers Pride Alliance. Burley was an officer with the San Francisco Police Department for about 22 years. Around the time she’d filed a pre-lawsuit claim against the city, she told the Bay Area Reporter, “Having to do the right thing isn’t easy,” and she felt “betrayed.” “My career ended before I would have chosen it to, all for doing what I was sworn to do – report crimes and have a high moral compass,” said Burley, who was 54 at the time. “It makes me sad.” Former Officer Michael Evans, a gay man, was accused of stealing more than $16,000 from the alliance when he was the group’s treasurer. He eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor grand theft, and a judge sentenced him in 2016 to serve 160 hours of community service and three years probation.

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Former police Chief Greg Suhr was named in a compliant filed by a lesbian ex-cop, who claims he forced her into early retirement.

In a September 2014 memo she wrote to a sergeant, who apparently was in the SFPD’s Internal Affairs Division, Burley, who was then the alliance’s vice president, said an audit of the group’s finances had revealed “discrepancies” from the time Evans was the group’s treasurer. Her memo says the review covered 2012 and 2013, but it’s not clear from the document if Evans was the treasurer for that entire period.

According to the memo, there were “indications that funds were used for hotels, clubs, and car rentals in Las Vegas as well as online tuition payments that were in no way connected with Pride Alliance business or activities.” Additionally, the audit showed that money had been taken out through “unauthorized ATM withdrawals” and spent on “Starbucks charges [and] miscellaneous webpage fees” that weren’t connected to official alliance business. One member suggested referring the discrepancies to Internal Affairs, Burley wrote, but gay former Lieutenant Chuck Limbert, who was then board president, responded that “this will not be followed up by any division of SFPD. ... I ask that this remain confidential.” At one point, Limbert told a member that Evans had said he could “account for all expenditures and that no financial irregularities had occurred,” but soon after that, he said, “Evans had admitted taking money from the account,” according to Burley. At one meeting, she wrote, “Lieutenant Limbert told the board that Officer Evans admitted to taking the money, that he was sorry and very remorseful, knew it was wrong and wanted to pay it back.”

He added that Evans “was experiencing health and addiction problems and that the board should try to help him.” However, Limbert allegedly asked that Evans be allowed to make repayments as “gifts,” which at least one other member was “very uncomfortable with,” because she didn’t want to lie, Burley wrote in her memo. (An attorney for Burley provided the B.A.R. with a copy of the document at the paper’s request.) Then, Burley said, “Lieutenant Limbert and I engaged in a heated discussion regarding how the board should handle Officer Evans’ alleged misconduct. I felt that Officer Evans’ conduct constituted fraud and embezzlement and should be investigated by the department and that criminal charges might be considered. Lieutenant Limbert responded that he was concerned that Officer Evans would lose his job and that his life would be ruined if the financial discrepancies were reported, or worse would kill himself, then how would Pride get the money back. I felt like I was being intimidated by Lieutenant Limbert to not pursue an investigation.”

‘Duty’ to report

In the claim against the city, Burley said she was uncomfortable “with handling the matter internally

because she had a duty as a police officer to report suspected crimes.” In September 2014, she said, she met with Internal Affairs staff and provided them with “emails and documentary evidence” supporting the allegations against Evans. Three months later, in December, she discovered that Evans “had been allowed to resign with ‘satisfactory’ service,” meaning he could become a cop someplace else. “She was told that the Internal Affairs investigation of the officer was closed,” Burley’s claim says. She “was outraged” that the department “allowed an officer who had committed a crime in breach of public trust to resign and seek employment elsewhere.” In February 2015, Burley appeared on KTVU “voicing her frustration,” the document says. Her face was blacked out and her voice was distorted “because she feared retaliation from Greg Suhr” and other department members. A few days after she went to the media, she got a letter from Internal Affairs informing her that she was being investigated for “misconduct.” “This investigation was retaliation for Ms. Burley exercising her First See page 11 >>

Castro bakery again hit with formula retail violation by Sari Staver

business within 15 days or face penalties, including a fine of up to $250 a day. Shehadeh and Ryan Scott are listed as the primary owners and stakeholders of Eighth Rays and have also filed an application for a license to sell beer and wine, which is pending. Scott was previously executive chef at Finn Town Tavern, located two doors away at 2251 Market. Repeated calls to Sweet Inspiration to obtain a comment about the notice had not been returned at press time. In its letter to the property owners, Ralston Capital in Belmont, CA,

or the second time in recent years, the city has reprimanded the longtime Castro bakery, Sweet Inspiration, for allegedly trying to skirt neighborhood regulations that require formula retailers — or chain stores — to obtain a conditional use permit from the planning commission. The city violation notice, mailed January 22, notified the property owner of 2239 Market Street that the tenant, Sweet Inspiration, was illegally operating a formula retail business by doing business as Ike’s Place, in connection with the bakery. Formula retail is defined as “a type of retail sales ... establishment that has 11 or more” outlets and some sort of standardized menu or merchandise. Ike’s Place, a sandwich chain that was founded on 16th Street in the Castro by Ike Shehadeh in 2007, has opened more than 30 locations.

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A menu at Sweet Inspiration shows Ike’s Place sauce advertised.

The city told the property owners that Sweet Inspiration, a business entity known as Eighth Rays Inc., must discontinue operating a formula retail

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the city outlined the history of its investigation. In June 2016, according to the letter, the city’s planning department staff conducted a site visit to 2239 Market Street and “confirmed the violation.” Inspectors observed, “that a separate menu existed to advertise Ike’s Place products, as well as product bags that used the registered trademark for the business”. In mid-July 2016, the planning department issued a notice of enforcement, advising the business to take corrective actions.

Two months later, Shehadeh told the planning department he had removed references to Ike’s and that there would be no affiliation between Ike’s and Sweet Inspiration. The following month, the city determined that there was no longer a formula retail business operating at 2239 Market Street. But the dispute resurfaced again last December, when the planning department received information that Mike’s Place was operating from See page 11 >>

years. He was a 30-year long-term HIV survivor. Bradley’s 20-year commitment to the recovery community was a source of great pride for him. He loved to travel, road trips and cruises especially. A friend to many, he will be recalled fondly for his unique wit and humor. After 18 years together, Bradley married John Yarlett in 2008. In addition to his husband, Bradley is survived by his father, Bob; sisters Peggy Rowe and Becky Gilmore; and loving nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his mother, Virginia. A memorial will be held Sunday, February 4, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Castro Country Club, 4058 18th Street in San Francisco. A great dog lover, Bradley would be pleased for any donations in his name to be sent to Muttville Senior Dog Rescue (https://muttville.org/). R.I.P.

Laura retired to Mill Valley, California, in 1999 and lived her final years in Oakland. Laura leaves behind her sons John (Martha’s Vineyard), Stephen (Wheaton, Illinois) and Howard (Oakland), their spouses and partners; grandchildren Caroline, Maggie, Carrie, Tristan, Shane, and Cooper; and great-grandchildren Trinity and Paige. A celebration of life is planned for February 24, in Oakland. For more information, contact Howard Moffet at hmoffet@yahoo.com.

Obituaries >> Kenneth Blue

January 27, 1961 – August 3, 2017 Ken Blue was born in Greeley, Colorado. He graduated from Arvada West High School in 1979 and from Carroll College in 1983 with a degree in liberal arts. He was an IT professional working for EDJ, Accumen, and Benfield-Blanch before joining the Contra Costa Library system. He made lifelong friends wherever he worked. Ken was an active member with the Human Rights Campaign and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was an early volunteer with the Stop AIDS Project. He loved Colorado, and, especially, the Rocky Mountains. He enjoyed hiking and climbing. One of Ken’s favorite things to do was to be lost in a good movie for two hours. He appreciated film and was very knowledgeable about it. “Giant” was his favorite movie. He was a big fan of “The Simpsons” and also of the original version of “Dallas.” He was a big aficionado of the music of Carole King and Linda Ronstadt. Debra Winger was among his favorite actresses. Ken had the gift of conversation and had something of value to add in any situation. Ken had a big heart, was a good listener, and source of advice. He was an incredible son, brother, and friend. He is missed greatly.

Bradley H. Buck

November 24, 1951 – December 25, 2017 Bradley Buck, 66, of San Francisco, died on Christmas Day in the presence of friends and family after a valiant battle with lung cancer. Born November 24, 1951 in Peoria, Illinois, he hitchhiked his way to San Francisco in 1973. He had many and varied careers over the

Laura B. Moffet

May 15, 1926 – December 25, 2017 Laura B. Moffet passed away peacefully in Oakland, California, on December 25, 2017. Laura was proud to be an honorary “mom” in the early 1980s to members of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps. Laura was born May 15, 1926, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Champagne-Urbana, Illinois, where her father was the dean of the School of Education at the University of Illinois. In 1947 she lived and worked in Vienna, which inspired her to travel across Europe later in her life. Laura was a professor of English and humanities at Monmouth College and Carl Sandburg Community College (Galesburg, Illinois); she taught for 25 years at Edison Community College in Ft. Myers, Florida, living in the house she built on Sanibel Island, Florida. Laura chaperoned groups of college students almost every year to Europe and especially loved Venice.

Shari Beth Reese

October 4, 1957 – November 20, 2017 Shari Beth Reese’s birth coincided with the launch of Sputnik. After a Michigan childhood, she arrived in San Francisco in 1978. There, she found her home of gay days, nights, seasons, loves, and losses. With her dark, Welsh good looks, she soon began her many years’ tenure tending bar at the Stud, where she was at first sight known as “the cute new boy.” Regarding the job, she said, “It beats working!” And it allowed her free time to pursue her hobbies: collecting esoteric, ephemeral 1950s and 1960s things; listening to anything musical; studying up on the likes of Liberace and Noel Coward; and keeping tabs on “All My Children.” As a reader, artist, musician, and witty Renaissance girl, she could turn a phrase like nobody’s business. Beyond the Stud, she worked on the railroad for five years, after which she retired to Mexico, as the crazy old Gringa. She joins in death her many dear friends who died of AIDS back in the day. The living dear old friends ask you to join us in celebrating her life Saturday, January 27, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Wild Side West bar, 424 Cortland Avenue, San Francisco. Bring your favorite Shari story and cash for booze.

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A tale of two marches by Christina A. DiEdoardo “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness” – Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities.”

ast week, the Bay Area hosted two marches that encapsulated the difference between resistance and “resistance,” between self-reliance and dependence on government and between inclusion and exclusion. If you wanted the former of each, you were in Oakland on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On January 15, the Anti-Police Terror Project led an international coalition, which included Third World Resistance and many other groups, to put on the fourth annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy at 14th Street and Broadway in Oakland. About 400 to 500 people gathered on the patch of ground outside City Hall, which has been informally known as Oscar Grant Plaza since the days of Occupy Oakland, to hear Cat Brooks set the tone for both the rally and the march to follow. “King has been largely sanitized by America,” said Brooks, co-founder of the APTP, to a cheering crowd, before remarking sarcastically, “He’s the safe Negro they teach you about in school.” The truth about the man was far different. “King was a revolutionary,” said Brooks. “He got arrested again and again and again and let me tell you, they would not have killed him if he was a ‘good’ Negro. They let the ‘good’ Negroes live.” To honor King’s true

effort to center the voices of leading people of color and trans activists at the pre-march rally, where thousands of people crammed on the lawn in front of City Hall. “We are gonna get your feet on the streets, because we’ve got a lot of work to do,” said Alex U. Inn, 2017 Pride grand marshal, to a cheering crowd. “Our immigrant brothers and sisters are living in fear. “We’re living in a nightmare where Muslims and refugees are being terrorized,” Inn said. “That is not OK. Our LGBTQI brothers and sisters are being terrorized. It’s only the 20th of January and we already have two transgender women dead and one lesbian burned alive.” Inn was referring to the deaths of trans women in Massachusetts and Los Angeles, and the burning death of a lesbian in Washington, D.C. Cecilia Chung, senior strategist at the Transgender Law Center, echoed these themes. “Our body is not up for negotiation,” she said. “We are not here to be objectified and we’re not going to be objectified any more. “When we talk about #MeToo, let’s talk about ending the violence that comes with it,” Chung said. “Otherwise, we’re doing a halfassed job.” However, most of the other speakers stayed in line with the national theme of the march of increasing voter turnout and pitched a mantra that all these problems (and that of Donald Trump occupying the White House) could be solved if only everyone just went out and voted. Looking at the (mostly white) crowd I couldn’t forget the fact that in 2016 the problem wasn’t that white women didn’t vote, it’s that most of them (on a national

basis anyway) decided to vote for a fascist who believed grabbing other women by the genitals was appropriate behavior. We had the same problem in Alabama last December, where 52 percent of college-educated white women (and 73 percent of white women without college degrees) voted for Roy Moore (despite his reported affair with a minor and a legion of other sins) according to exit polls. Until and unless enough white women are willing to stop voting for fascists, mobilizing ever-greater numbers of them to go to the polls is not likely to be a net positive. And then there are the hats. For a year, multiple trans activists have engaged in a national conversation with Women’s March participants over how polarizing and exclusionary a hat which literally reduces a woman to her genitals is, especially for women who have historically been excluded from women’s spaces because their genitals didn’t fit that mold. How depressing, therefore, to see a pink sea of the damn things last Saturday in even greater numbers than were present at the Oakland Women’s March last year. I get that the Women’s March fills a need for many people because it seems accessible and safe in the way other actions do not. There’s undoubtedly a value to this, especially if it gets those attendees to show up at other actions. However, that doesn’t seem to be happening. Much like what Pride has evolved into, the Women’s March is in danger of becoming the one time a year many of these folks come out – and as with Pride, neither community nor a revolution can be built in only one day a year.t

CLERY Christina A. DiEdoardo

Cat Brooks, far left, co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project, addresses the crowd at the fourth annual March To Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy January 15 in Oakland.

revolutionary character, rather than the sanitized version of his life, APTP organized a multi-day campaign addressing a multitude of issues, from stopping police terror to supporting indigenous activists opposing development of the West Berkeley Shellmound, a sacred site and burial ground of the Ohlone, to demanding the city of Oakland provide housing for the homeless. “If you are not about the business of liberation at this point,” Brooks told the crowd, “you are complicit in the oppression.” Or, as the crowd later chanted, “If you fuck with any, you’ve got to deal with the many!” This was no idle boast. APTP and its coalition partners worked hard to have their own security volunteers along the route – no small feat when the parade’s intended path was secret until the last moment

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– and deployed at least one drone to provide early warning of any fascists intent on interfering with the march. Because of this, the Oakland Police Department was conspicuous by its near-absence (while some officers blocked roads, they stayed several blocks away from the march) and the California Highway Patrol was mainly concerned with blocking our access to the freeway. Next time somebody claims that the presence of police is “necessary” for march security, remind them of this action. APTP conducted a major march over several hours through the heart of Oakland with no police assistance, no issues, and no fascists showing up to cause trouble. So much for the best of times.

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Lesbian ex-cop

From page 10

Amendment rights and launched at the direction of Chief Suhr,” her claim says. Internal Affairs interviewed her in April 2015. “Fearing further retaliation” and being terminated from her job, Burley denied being the person who’d appeared on KTVU. In February 2016, according to Burley, Paul Chignell, of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, called her and told her that Suhr “wanted to terminate her because he knew she was the one” who’d gone to the TV station and that she’d been “dishonest in the Internal Affairs investigation.” Chignell told her that if she retired she’d get to keep her pension and benefits.

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Castro bakery

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Sweet Inspiration and was selling menu items from Ike’s Place. On January 12, according to the city, Sweet Inspiration was offering a $2 hamburger special in connection with Scott and Ike’s Place. To obtain the special, a customer was required

Farrell

From page 1

the first black woman to serve as the city’s mayor, had automatically taken on the position upon the sudden death of former mayor Ed Lee on December 12. She then entered the special election in June to serve out the remainder of Lee’s term through early 2020 and had sought to remain mayor while also campaigning for the job.

A sea of problematic hats

Which leads us to the San Francisco Women’s March Saturday, January 20. To the credit of local organizers, they did make a real

“Rather than be terminated and face losing her pension benefits,” her claim says, Burley “was forced to retire.” In April, Deputy Chief Hector Sainez, who chairs the police department’s Brady committee, wrote in a letter to Burley that “it appears that the department is required to notify the district attorney’s office that your personnel file may contain potential Brady information” related to “dishonesty.” Brady refers to Brady v. Maryland, the 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case that requires prosecutors in criminal cases to “disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense,” Sainez noted. Burley’s claim says that Sainez’s letter “is further retaliation” against her for a complaint she made to the city’s Ethics Commission “and for engaging in protected whistleblowing and exercising her First Amendment rights.”

Limbert, who’s retired, has previously denied the allegations against him and hasn’t been charged by the DA’s office. Suhr was forced to resign in May 2016 after several scandals, including fatal officer-involved shootings. Burley filed her lawsuit based on her claims that the city had violated the state labor code and her First Amendment rights. In court documents, the city responded to Burley’s allegations by saying, “Any actions taken with respect to the plaintiff were not based on any retaliatory motive or other illegal consideration, but rather were based on one or more legitimate, sufficient, non-retaliatory reasons,” among other arguments. t

to “follow” Ike’s Place on Instagram or Facebook, both known as SweetsSF. City planning staff again made a site visit and verified that standard menu items from Ike’s Place were on the menu, including the “Matt Cain” or “Cain Sandwich.” On the day of the site visit, a staff member was wearing a T-shirt displaying the Ike’s Place logo. Commenting on the dispute,

Castro Merchants President Daniel Bergerac said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter, “All businesses have to play by the rules. The rules have to be administered equally so that there is a level play field for all businesses. “I sincerely hope Sweet Inspiration will get their permits in order to operate legally,” he added. t

But after being nominated by Supervisor Malia Cohen to become interim mayor, which would have required her to resign from her board seat, Breed failed to secure the necessary six votes. Supervisors Cohen, Ahsha Safai, Katy Tang, and Jeff Sheehy, the board’s lone gay member, voted for Breed, while the board’s progressive bloc all voted no. The supervisors then voted to elect as interim mayor Farrell, who

was nominated by Supervisor Norman Yee. Joining Yee in voting for Farrell were Supervisors Jane Kim, Aaron Peskin, Hillary Ronen, and Sandra Fewer, as well as Tang and Sheehy. Kim earlier had declined a nomination for interim mayor made by Fewer citing her own bid to be elected mayor in June and calling for the election of a person not running for the job.

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DPH spokeswoman Rachael Kagan couldn’t say whether the health department would ask doctors applying for positions, including those at the city-run Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, whether they would use their religious beliefs as a reason not to see patients. “We aren’t going to comment on the specifics you asked about in terms of applying – or not applying – the new rules,” said Kagan in response to an email. “It’s too early. We haven’t seen anything yet and we are not able to speculate.” Clair Farley, the mayor’s senior adviser on transgender initiatives, said in a statement, “San Francisco is a leader in transgender health care for our residents and city employees. Despite the administration’s ongoing attacks on women and the LGBTQ community, we will continue to provide comprehensive and inclusive health care. When seeking medically necessary care, all communities deserve access to safe and equal treatment without the threat of being turned away.”

Homeless youth

From page 1

The bill would establish $60 million in grants from the cannabis tax fund and general funds to programs for homeless youth. The money would be used for rapid rehousing, rental assistance, transitional housing, and shelters for minors and youth, among other assistance. Last fall, Wiener and Rubio, who are the respective chairs of the Senate and Assembly Human Services Committees, held a hearing in Los Angeles on youth homelessness. At the hearing, service providers, formerly homeless youth, and others testified about the causes, experiences and impacts of youth homelessness in the state.

Powwow

From page 4

people being concerned about taking up space from people of color,” said Archuleta. “They are welcome to attend and watch the powwow. And all native-identified people are invited to participate in the ceremony.” In a news release, Derek Smith, powwow coordinator, said that the event is a great opportunity for nonnative people to get introduced to two-spirit culture.

Political Notebook

From page 7

As for Lara, he continues to rack up endorsements from Democratic leaders around the state, including that of former state lawmaker and retired party chairman John Burton. “Ricardo Lara is a bold and fearless champion for the most marginalized throughout California, and I know he’ll be an outstanding Insurance Commissioner for California’s consumers,” stated Burton in announcing his endorsement last Thursday.

SF AIDS nonprofit deemed a legacy business

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Carmel

From page 8

pools along Weston Beach, and finally strolled the Bird Island Trail. Trails were mostly flat, under one mile in length, and the Bird Island Trail was even accessible. We saw wonderfully twisted trees on every trail. On the Cypress Grove Loop, branches were covered with

State reaction

“This new rule would allow medical providers a ‘license to discriminate’ against patients if they disagree with their sexual orientation or gender identity,” stated Zbur. “The ability to access transition-related care, HIV medication, reproductive services and other necessary medical services are all under threat. ... California has some of the nation’s strongest non-discrimination protections under the Unruh Civil Rights Act. In the coming days and weeks, we will work with our legal colleagues, the California Legislative LGBT Caucus and our allies in California Legislature to determine whether legislation or litigation is required to combat this new attack on the LGBTQ community.” In response to a B.A.R. email, the state attorney general’s office pointed to the agency’s website, which says, “Recognizing that discrimination has no place in our society, Attorney General [Xavier] Becerra is fighting to protect transgender students and adults across the nation, and strictly enforcing the recently enacted California law that prohibits state-funded travel to states that discriminate against LGBTQ communities. In Congress, Becerra was a proud member of the LGBT

Caucus and vocal supporter of marriage equality. In 1996, he was one of just 67 Congressional members to oppose the Defense of Marriage Act. As attorney general of California, he continues to champion the rights of the LGBTQ community.” In its email, the agency added that it has “participated in significant cases to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation by business establishments, including North Coast Women’s Medical Group v. Superior Court (2008). ... In that case, the attorney general filed a friend-of-the court brief in the California Supreme Court in support of a woman who was reportedly refused fertilization services by a medical practice because she was an unmarried lesbian. The medical practice asserted that its actions were protected by the constitutional right to free exercise of religion. The attorney general’s brief argued that a religious objection defense is unavailable in a state civil rights enforcement action under the Unruh Civil Rights Act. The California Supreme Court agreed, unanimously holding that physicians do not have a constitutional right to discriminate based on sexual orientation in violation of

the Unruh Civil Rights Act, even if the discrimination is based on their religious beliefs.” In an email to supporters, California Senator Kamala Harris (D) said, “I am furious that the Trump administration is about to release rules that would grant health care workers the license to discriminate against women seeking an abortion and transgender patients in need of care. “It’s discriminatory, wrong, and fundamentally un-American. These rules could lead to people being denied life-saving health care. We have to fight back,” she added. Harris included the link to an online petition opposing Trump’s plan (http://bit.ly/2DxuqlC). An HHS spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon, just as the federal government was working to start up again after the weekend shutdown. To file a complaint with the HHS Office of Civil Rights based on a violation of civil rights, conscience or religious freedom, or health information privacy, people can go to https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/ complaints.t

SB 918 is sponsored by Equality California, California Coalition for Youth, Tipping Point Community, John Burton Advocates for Youth, the Corporation for Supportive Housing, and Housing California. Rick Zbur, EQCA’s executive director, stated, “We are grateful for the commitment Senator Wiener and Assemblymember Rubio have shown to addressing the crisis of youth homelessness in our state, particularly the four out of 10 homeless young people who are LGBTQ in multiple major California cities. This measure will help improve the lives and provide opportunities for these young people through the funding it provides to meet their needs and help them find safe and secure homes.”

Sherilyn Adams, who chairs California Coalition for Youth and serves as executive director of San Francisco’s Larkin Street Youth Services, said, “The Office of Homeless Youth will ensure that all young people, and in particular LGBTQ youth and youth of color, who are over-represented among youth experiencing homelessness, will no longer have to sleep on the streets, and will have every opportunity to reach their full potential.” In other news impacting homeless youth, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday directed the establishment of the area’s first shelter focused on LGBTQs in

response to what officials called “an epidemic of homelessness among LGBTQ youth and safety concerns by the transgender community.” In an email to supervisors last week, Fremont resident Shrinidhi Thirumalai, said, “I have one close friend of the LGBTQ+ community who was rejected by her communities and family when she came out. Luckily, she’s a very social person, and she could call her close circle of friends for support. Yet, even she only had one friend who let her move in when home became unsafe. But what about those people who couldn’t find that one friend? Where can they go to feel safe? With the creation of this shelter, they will have a guaranteed safe place.”

Officials expect establishing the shelter to require one-time funding for facility upgrades and repairs, along with program start-up expenses, and ongoing funds for operations. Along with establishing the LGBTQ space, the supervisors also approved four other actions Tuesday meant to invest in affordable housing and emergency shelters. “Affordable housing for everyone from people living on the streets in the cold to our public school teachers has been and continues to be a top priority of the Santa Clara County Supervisors,” Supervisor Cindy Chavez, who represents San Jose neighborhoods, said in a news release. t

“For some native community members it’s a reminder of the role of two spirits in our community,” Smith stated. “It’s an amazing opportunity for healing.” Eagle added, “The powwow is a perfect opportunity to learn about native culture in a fun, relaxing environment and bridge communities. There’s a big monitor giving info about what’s happening, all the dances, their origins and significance.” Vendors, food stands, and nonprofit groups will also be present. The Horizons Foundation, the

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the Ducal Court Foundation are among groups supporting the powwow. While there is no admission, organizers said donations will be collected at the door. As part of BAAITS’ 20th anniversary next year, even bigger plans are in the works. “There will be an exhibit at the GLBT History Museum. We also hope to have every two-spirit group in the country at that powwow,” said Villaseñor. Finally, individual and collective intentions imbue the BAAITS

Two-Spirit Powwow with its power and joy, organizers said. “As this is my first powwow, I hope to get more deeply connected with BAAITS and two spirits, and forge intergenerational relationships,” said Archuleta. “As I learn and dig deeper in prayer circle, I’ll also hold the larger scale of two spirits’ kaleidoscopic path to where we are today.” “Spiritually, I look for the diversity of people going,” said Eagle. “There are representatives of so many nations of native peoples.” Added Villaseñor, “All allies to

native two spirits: go back and share what you saw at the powwow. Please have our backs, know our experience, and remember what the traditional values really were.” t

local LGBT nonprofits and LGBTowned businesses considered legacy businesses by the city was the AIDS Legal Referral Panel. The small business commission approved the designation at its meeting Monday (January 22). ALRP launched in 1989 as a committee of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, the local bar association for LGBT attorneys, in order to assist those living with HIV and AIDS facing legal issues. The grassroots effort grew over the years into a professionally run referral network of more than 700 attorneys who provide myriad pro bono legal services for clients of the nonprofit. Supervisor Sheehy sponsored

its nomination as a legacy business, which allows ALRP to tap into various benefits offered by the city to such entities. The agency is located in Suite 500 at 1663 Mission Street. “ALRP is deeply appreciative of its designation as a legacy business,” stated Bill Hirsh, the agency’s longtime executive director. “ALRP is proud of its history of serving San Franciscans living with HIV. We are also proud of providing the forum for hundreds of attorneys to volunteer and each year ALRP’s panel of attorneys leverages over one million dollars in donated legal services.” t

orange-colored algae due to carotene, the pigment that colors carrots. We found “Day Hikes on the California Central Coast” the best hiking guide. It describes dozens of other hiking trails in the area including two right on Carmel Beach. There are no LGBTQ bars in Carmel or Monterey, but just south of Point Lobos is gay-popular Garrapata Beach State Park, which has an unofficial

clothing-optional section. The closest gay bar is Franco’s in Castroville, open only on Saturday night.

Other LGBT advocates in California also criticized the Trump administration’s move and pledged to defend LGBT patients and others. Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center, stated, “This extreme new HHS rule will quite possibly cost lives by giving medical providers cover not to treat people they disagree with, no matter how lifethreatening or urgent the medical need. The rule grants an illegal license to discriminate against transgender people who come to the doctor or emergency room for help when our lives are in danger due to sickness, violence, or injury. “It’s also an attack against all people, including many in the transgender community, who rely on critical care ranging from reproductive services to emergency services to HIV medication,” Hayashi added. “Once again, the Trump-Pence administration has shown they will do everything in their power to undermine the health and survival of transgender people. We will see them in court.” Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur called the move “a direct assault” on LGBTQs.

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If Carmel Beach is crowded, nearby Carmel River State Beach is a good alternative and has great birding. The tourist office recommended the Carmel Walks walking tour as well as the more specialized Carmel Art Tours,

BAAITS’ Two-Spirit Powwow takes place February 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Fort Mason, 2 Marina Boulevard in San Francisco. It is a family-friendly, clean and sober event. Street attire is encouraged for non-natives. Organizers ask that costumes be left at home. For more information, visit http://www.baaits.org. Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column This week’s column reported on Sheehy’s decision regarding his participation in candidate debates cohosted by the Milk club. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes.

Rick Gerharter

State Senator Ricardo Lara is running for insurance commissioner.

which focuses on galleries and special exhibitions. On the second Saturday of the month, the Carmel Art Walk visits only artist-owned galleries. If you have more interest in wineries, the Monterey Wine Country Tasting Room Map has other itineraries including tasting rooms in Carmel Village, Monterey, and along the River Road Wine Trail, which goes from Salinas to Soledad.

Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8298836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

If you spend time in Point Lobos, you might even skip the 17-Mile Drive. We had to see it once and found the northern end much more interesting. There are several knockout beaches plus the famed Lone Cypress, though we found the trees at Point Lobos just as dramatic. Fine dining, favorite wineries, Fairy Tale Cottages, Frank Lloyd Wright – Carmel is a place to enjoy and explore.t

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Tree dedication at Pink Triangle Park

Pink Triangle Park and Memorial, a small space in the Castro that honors gay men who were interned in concentration camps during World War II, will have a tree dedication on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Saturday, January 27, beginning at noon. Organizer John Goldsmith, the park’s primary caretaker, said in an email that the ceremony will be brief, about 20 minutes, and very informal with a few possible speakers. As the Bay Area Reporter noted in a story last fall, the park is in the midst of a rehabilitation project to replace damaged pylons, refresh the landscape, and make the space accessible. He is working with Andrea Aiello, executive director of the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District on the project. Goldsmith said that if people want to “get in on the dirt,” they can arrive at 9 a.m. and help out. Tools, gloves, and water are provided. People should wear long pants and closed-toe shoes. Those planning to attend the ceremony are asked to bring a snack to share. The park is located at 2454 Market Street. To RSVP, contact Goldsmith at john@pinktrianglepark.org.

Mind, body, soul event for gay men

The California Prevention Training Center will hold a free mind, body, and soul event for gay men Saturday, January 27, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway (near the 12th Street BART station). The Oakland LGBTQ Community

Center, which sent out information on the conference, said that it celebrates the health and wellness of the gay community. There will be workshops, and speakers on topics like relationships and intimacy, building a spiritual foundation, and increasing safe sexual pleasure. The day will include a special appearance by rapper, reality TV star, and LGBTQ activist Milan Christopher, as well as food and music. To register, visit http://bit. ly/2DDbVjg. Afterward, Christopher is hosting a free men’s mocktail party at the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, 3207 Lakeshore Avenue (use Rand Avenue entrance). A virgin happy hour will take place from 5 to 7 p.m., followed by the mocktail party until 11. Rodney Chester will serve as DJ. For more information about the center, visit https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/.

HIV decriminalization topic of talk

Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and Equality California will hold a talk entitled “California Conversations: Leading the Way on HIV Decriminalization” Monday, January 29, from 7 to 8 p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. Lambda Legal’s Scott Schoettes and EQCA’s Rick Zbur will discuss the implications of California Senate Bill 239, which Governor Jerry Brown signed last year. The law, coauthored by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and gay Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), modernizes the state’s HIV criminalization laws adopted during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. It requires proof that transmission of HIV did occur in order for a person to be prosecuted for intentionally transmitting the virus to a sex partner. Naina Knanna, executive director of the Positive Women’s Network, will

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moderate the discussion. The event is free, however, RSVP is required and can be done at https:// www.lambdalegal.org/events/ conversations-sf. For more information, contact Megan Vankuiken at (323) 370-6910.

IOA’s ‘Dinner à la Heart’

The Institute on Aging will hold its 35th annual “Dinner à la Heart” dining out event Tuesday, February 6, at noon for lunch or 7 p.m. for dinner. More than 50 Bay Area restaurants are participating in the pre-fixe meal, where prices range from $85 to $250 per person, including wine and coffee or tea. People choose a restaurant, make reservations through IOA, and enjoy a unique dining experience while supporting the institute’s programs and services that help seniors remain independent and healthy in San Francisco. To reserve a restaurant, and for more information, visit http://bit. ly/2rmvPdc.

Early bird tix available for center’s Soiree

Early bird tickets are available (dinner only) for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s annual Soiree benefit that takes place Saturday, April 14, at Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street. The evening includes dinner at 5 p.m. and the party at 8:30. Juanita MORE!, the Bay Area Reporter’s new society columnist, returns as entertainment director. Center officials also announced that Emmy Award-winning CBS-TV and KCBS host Liam Mayclem will come back as emcee and auctioneer. Soiree features an open bar, food, performances, music, live and silent auctions, and dancing. Last year’s event sold out. Early bird pricing for the dinner – until February 28 – is $249 and includes the party. Tickets for the party only are $95. The event is for those 21 and older. For tickets and more information, visit http://bit.ly/2mW4JVK. t

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF CLIFFORD BARBANELL AND HARRIET BARBANELL BY TRUSTEES, CYNTHIA B. SILVERSTEIN AND GREGG S. BARBANELL COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedents that all persons having claims against the decedents are required to mail or deliver a copy to CYNTHIA B. SILVERSTEIN and GREGG S. BARBANELL, as Trustees of the BARBANELL FAMILY TRUST dated March 2, 2001, wherein the decedents were the Trustors, at 23 Ralston Road, Atherton, California 940273912, within the later of four months after January 4, 2018 (the date of the first publication of Notice to Creditors) or, if Notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this Notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Section 19103 of the Probate Code. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Trustees: CYNTHIA B. SILVERSTEIN and GREGG S. BARBANELL Address: 23 Ralston Road, Atherton, California 940273912

JAN 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037917400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAILEY’S PROTECTIVE & SECURITY SERVICES, 247 NELSON AVE, PACIFICA, CA 94044. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed STEVEN RAY BAILEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/27/17.

JAN 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037918900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHERESE ELSEY PHOTOGRAPHY, 2230 MISSION ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHERESE ELSEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/28/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/17.

JAN 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037923700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MANI PEDI PLUS, 1447 20TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TRANG MY THI DOAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/18 The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/02/18.

JAN 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037919600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOREWOOD VENTURES, 175 BLUXOME ST #207, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANNY HAO-YEI LIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/17.

JAN 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037920400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BAY AREA TEAM; BAY AREA TEAM, 1699 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PACIFIC UNION INTERNATIONAL, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/29/17.

JAN 04, 11, 18, 25, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037917900

Farrell

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GO GO TRAVELER, 912 COLE ST #131, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LISA ZAMARIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/27/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/17.

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Furious supporters of Breed, who had spent the afternoon petitioning the board to keep her in place as acting mayor, erupted in chants of “shame.” The board meeting was briefly adjourned as the chambers were cleared out. When the board returned, Tang moved to change her vote to no, while Sheehy stuck with his decision to vote with the progressives in electing Farrell as interim mayor. Prior to the votes the progressives had strained to explain why it was they were ousting a woman of color as mayor and replacing her with a wealthy white man, as Farrell is a venture capitalist. Peskin had argued that there needed to be a clear “separation of powers” between the mayor and board president in calling on his colleagues to name an interim mayor. Others cited the need for “an equal playing field” for the candidates in the mayoral election, contending Breed would have an advantage over her opponents should she remain as mayor. Ronen, in an impassioned speech that at one point brought her to tears, acknowledged how the decision to replace Breed appeared but zeroed in on how “rich white men” who are backing her mayoral bid “steered the policies of the last two mayors” that resulted in people of color, LGBTQ residents, and the working class to be gentrified out of San Francisco. “Those same white men are now enthusiastically supporting your candidacy London Breed,” said Ronen, adding that they have also threatened to ruin the careers of those unsupportive of her mayoral bid. “It happened the morning Ed Lee passed away because that is how gross these people are.” In the final vote to confirm the board’s decision, the supervisors

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JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037932100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JIE YING, 3751 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHUYING WU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/08/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/08/18.

Jane Philomen Cleland

Then-acting Mayor London Breed spoke at the Martin Luther King Jr. observance January 15.

voted 8-2 for Farrell to serve as a caretaker mayor until the vote on the June 5 primary ballot is certified. Breed and Cohen cast the two no votes. Farrell had toyed with running for mayor in June but ultimately decided against doing so. The deadline to file for the special election was January 9, meaning the only way for Farrell to seek being elected mayor would be to mount a write-in campaign. Having resigned his seat on the board, Farrell will now name a successor to serve out the remainder of his term. Due to term limits, Farrell was set to leave the board in early January of next year, and a number of people had already mounted campaigns to be elected the next representative of the Marina come November. Whoever Farrell taps for the vacancy will be perceived as the frontrunner in the fall election for a full four-year term. Breed will continue to serve as board president and District 5 supervisor as she runs to be elected mayor this summer. Her removal as acting mayor is seen as benefiting former supervisor and state lawmaker Mark Leno. He is vying to become the city’s first gay mayor

and has been leading most polls in the mayoral race. In addition to Kim, the other well-known mayoral candidate is former supervisor Angela Alioto. The attorney twice before has sought to be elected mayor, following in the footsteps of her father, Joseph, who served in Room 200 from 1968 to 1976. Also on the June ballot will be the special election for the District 8 seat, to which Sheehy was appointed to last January by Lee. He is facing a strong challenge from gay attorney Rafael Mandelman, a member of the City College of San Francisco board. The two are running to serve out the remainder of gay former supervisor Scott Wiener’s term, which expires in early January 2019. Wiener resigned after being elected to the state Senate in November 2016. No matter the outcome of the June race, Mandelman and Sheehy are also expected to compete for a full four-year term on the board in the November election. Already some are speculating that Sheehy’s vote in electing Farrell could come back to haunt him in June and tip the election in Mandelman’s favor. t

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037933400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUIS GARNICA MAINTENANCE SERVICES, 388 BEALE ST #1309, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE LUIS GARNICA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/04/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/08/18.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037931000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JOVAN & BROTHERS BUILDING MAINTENANCE, 235 SANTA BARBARA AVE, DALY CITY, CA 94014. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOVAN BUENROSTRO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/23/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/05/18.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037914500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TESSA MARIE, 2845 VAN NESS AVE #504, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TESSA VIKE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/20/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/26/17.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037926900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ON TOP TAX, 4348 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBERT EDWARDS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/13/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/18.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037927000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUBBLE LOUNGE LAUNDROMAT, 1811 FULTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JEREMY PAZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/01/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/18.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037908800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEDA LAW FIRM; LIFSCHITZ, EZRIN, DARSKY & ALIOTO, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LOELL, P.C. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/21/17.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037929600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES, 109 BARTLETT ST #302, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SCOTT S. WILSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/04/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/18.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037924100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 415 DESIGN+BUILD; 415 MAINTENANCE; 763 25TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 415 DESIGN+BUILD (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/02/18.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037906400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TORCH LEADERSHIP LABS, 383 RHODE ISLAND #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed REDFISH LABS, INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/15/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/20/17.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037931100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PAPI’S SF, 425 A HAYES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PAPI’S SF, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/05/18.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037931800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY BRIDGE SPIRITS; BEAR MOON SPIRITS, 849 AVE D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TREEHOUSE CRAFT DISTILLERY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/05/18.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037672500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: 415 DESIGN+BUILD, 763 25TH AVE, SF, CA 94121. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by KENNETH CROMPTON. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/07/17.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037314900

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CROMPTON CONSTRUCTION, 763 25TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by KENNETH CROMPTON. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/16.

JAN 11, 18, 25, FEB 01, 2018 SUMMONS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: ALL PERSONS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH OR UNDER THE STONECREST CORPORATION, A DISSOLVED CORPORATION, ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD ON PLAINTIFF’ TITLE HERETO, AND DOES 1 THROUGH 10, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF’S JOHN E. HADELER AND AILEEN N. WATANABE CASE NO. CGC-16-553913 NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 400 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or the plaintiff without an attorney, is: Lawrence M. Scancarelli Esq., 220 Bush Street, Suite 1650, San Francisco, CA 94104 08/26/16, Clerk of the Court by Madonna Caranto, Deputy.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037921100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIT STAY SF, 854 54TH ST, OAKLAND, CA 94608. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALTHEA S. KARWOWSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/11/12. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/29/17.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037936800

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037939400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FITNESS SF SOMA, 1001 BRANNAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BRANNAN STREET FITNESS INC. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/13/12. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/10/18.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037916100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN STATE ROAD SERVICE, 156 9TH ST, RICHMOND, CA 94801. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAYSON FULLER BRYANT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/05/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/09/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALL STATES BEST FOODS, 1607 20TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ALEES CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/27/17.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037910700

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037916000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RMS ASSOCIATES, 850 POWELL ST #502, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICHARD SCHLACKMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/16. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/22/17.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037944200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DAVE’S FOOD MARKET, 1601 20TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ALEES CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/27/17.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037934900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AVENUE, 3361 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCICO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BING CONSULTING SERVICES (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/12//18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLAZE TRADERS, 815 TERESITA BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed ABHINAV SANSON & SHARIKA SANSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/08/18.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037946700

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037940300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NOKTURNAL, 708 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed S.A.K. BARS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/12/18.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037943100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MANAGEMENT, 2549 NORIEGA ST, #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ZMX CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/11/18.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037934600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE SUPPLY CLOSET, 501 CESAR CHAVEZ ST #100C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JD BERGLUND GROUP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/21/10. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/08/18.

JAN 18, 25, FEB 01, 08, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037934500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOBBS FERRY, 409 GOUGH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DIABLO RESTAURANT GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/10//18.

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T San Francisco Ballet dancers in Justin Peck’s “Rodeo.”

housands of people came out despite intermittent rain for the Gala Opening Night of San Francisco Ballet’s 85th season. The Opera House, which seats 3,000+, was sold out, and standees were several rows deep at the back of the orchestra to see all the stars of the company perform on one program before tout le Monde, the movers and shakers, young and old, of our dynamic city.

That’s so very Bay Area! by Sura Wood

enerating enthusiasm for an exhibition that recycles a museum’s permanent collection is a heavy lift, especially these days when audiences constantly crave the new and different. But BAMPFA’s “Way Bay,” a rangy, ambitious, historical survey of the Bay Area’s legacy of art and cinema, mines the institution’s eclectic holdings that include works by Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Chris Johanson, Pirkle Jones and Jay DeFeo, to name just a few, with admirable success and a welcome emphasis on frequently neglected work by women and people of color. See page 22 >>

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16 • Bay Area Reporter • January 25-31, 2018

Recomposing Sondheim

by Roberto Friedman

Mason Bates’ “Very Put Together” is a pastiche of “Sunhe songs of composerday” motifs with some filigree. lyricist Stephen Sondheim Frederic Rzewski’s “I’m Still have long been fertile ground Here” (“Follies”) becomes a for reinterpretation by cabaret beautiful lament. artists, Broadway babies, and The third disc begins brightvocalists of all stripes. But by ly with Andy Akiho’s witty and large they haven’t been reverie on “Into the Woods” natural material for classical or for prepared piano, then delivjazz musicians. On “Liaisons ers thoughtful renditions of – Re-Imagining Sondheim “Being Alive” (“Company”) from the Piano,” however, piafrom Gabriel Kahane, “Not nist Anthony de Mare and 36 While I’m Around” (“Sweeother composers and pianists ney”) from Thomas Newman, put a new keyboard spin on and Jherek Bischoff’s “The the Sondheim playbook. Out Ballad of Guiteau” (“AssasThere spent a few hours of our sins”), among others. “I am “days off ” this week listening to going to the Lord!” the three-CD collection from OT’s one complaint about start to finish (ECM New Sethe recording concerns its liner Courtesy the subject ries, 2015). notes, which recapitulate the Sondheim is quoted as say- Pianist Anthony de Mare takes on musicals’ plots as a way into ing, “Over the years I’ve heard Sondheim classics. the composers’ takes on these songs of mine ‘interpreted’ by songs. Sondheim fans won’t singers and piano-players and need these shows summarized, Eric Rockwell’s ragtime tempo arrangers who change either and neophytes will remain emphasizes the vaudeville roots of the vocal lines or the harmonies or hopelessly at sea. But that’s an error “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” both, and much as my ego gets a of packaging, not of content. These (“Company”). lift when people sing my stuff, in heartfelt piano renditions start with “Sorry/Grateful” (again, “Comevery case I’ve winced. The pieces Sondheim classics as their inspirapany”) takes a spare, minimalist created for ‘Liaisons’ are a differtion, but they take on new life as turn in Derek Bermel’s ent matter entirely; they’re their own creations. composition. “No One written by composers, In the endnotes, another interIs Alone” is Fred not by arrangers, and pretation of Sondheim’s work, conHersch’s respectful they aren’t decorations ceived and originally directed by his but realigned telling of the songs. They’re decades-long collaborator James of the plaintive ballad fantasias on them, reLapine.t from “Into the Woods.” sponses to the melodic Wynton Marsalis anilines and the harmoSondheim on Sondheim plays mates “That Old Piano nies and occasionally through Feb. 4 at 3Below Theaters Roll” from “Follies.” & Lounge, 288 S. Second St., San the accompaniments.” Jose. Info: 3belowtheaters.com. Jake Heggie offers a Both Nico Muhly’s gloss on “I’m Ex“Color and Light” and cited. No You’re Not” Steve Reich’s “Finishfrom “A Little Night Music.” ing the Hat” take off from “Sunday Kenji Bunch’s “The Demon in the Park with George.” Reich’s Barber” gets Sweeney’s omitwo-piano imagining applies his nous ostinatos exactly right, trademark rhythmic pulses. In then extemporizes on them. David Rakowski’s version, “The Ethan Iverson’s brilliant Ladies Who Lunch” (“Company”) deepening of “Send in the become contrapuntal phrases gabClowns” rescues it from overbling in the left and right hands. exposure. Ricardo Lorenz’s Jason Robert Brown’s “Birds of “The Worst (Empanadas) in Victorian England” is a rejiggering London” launches Mrs. Lovett of “Green Finch & Linnet Bird” into various Latin rhythms. from “Sweeney Todd.” In DunPaul Moravec creates a poincan Sheik’s “Johanna in Space,” tillist “I Think About You” the familiar “Sweeney” melody (“Follies”). Young master is given a spacey, ethereal vibe.

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utspoken, versatile, iconic actress and comedienne Jenifer Lewis’ new memoir “The Mother of Black Hollywood” is a revealing tell-all that spares no detail of the Hollywood scene-stealer’s life. Loaded with f-bombs, raw observations, and plenty of frank humor, she dishes the particulars of a life spent either in front of a camera, in bed romancing a man, or on stage before a crowded theatre. “After 259 episodic television shows, 63 movies, and four Broadway shows,” she curses at not being able to remember her lines on “Black-ish” when she first started on the popular ABC sitcom. At 60, Lewis shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. She considers herself a born entertainer, rising from the trenches of a childhood spent in a poor Missouri town, singing with wild abandon at the local Baptist church, where she recalls clutching “the side of the back pew, steadying myself in dramatic fashion.” Her flair for performance would carry her out of a St. Louis college straight into New York City in 1979, “unstoppable” and ready to

conquer the Manhattan stage. A hit list of cabaret performances, Broadway appearances, and TV shows follows as her career exploded, including many castings as the family matriarch, which informs the book’s title. Lewis is also frank about her struggle with sex addiction (anecdotes tucked inside the curiouslytitled chapter “Dick Diva”), as evidenced in the many love affairs she juggled while gracing the stage and screen, including several frolics with Gregory Hines. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 33, a hurdle the actress needed to scale with

therapy. Fans familiar with Lewis’ Instagram posts know that she still carries a particular love for “a big D,” but that her disorder is well under control. She poignantly recalls performing at a benefit gala for an AIDS charity at Studio 54, and commemorates the scores of young friends, designers, actors, and others who perished from the disease. “They dropped like flies. It was a silent war that was never declared,” Lewis laments. Photographs illustrate her life from a child of six years to protesting at a Black Lives Matter rally. Lewis is an amiable and foul-mouthed tour guide throughout the slings and arrows of her life, including what she believed to be a great achievement in getting a part in Tom Hanks’ “Cast Away” only to have most of her scenes cut out of the final version. She also writes about the joys of working with a star-studded cast in the side-splitting mockumentary “Jackie’s Back.” In addition to starring as Ruby Johnson in the sitcom “Black-ish,” now in its fourth season, Lewis has also teamed up with “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Shangela to produce a hilarious YouTube scripted comedy series. This witty, outrageous memoir will have fans of Lewis itching to see what she will come up with next.t

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18 • Bay Area Reporter • January 25-31, 2018

Bringing zest to Bernstein’s ‘Candide’

Kristen Loken

Tenor Andrew Stenson (Candide) and Soprano Meghan Picerno (Cunegonde) sing “Oh Happy We” from Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” with the San Francisco Symphony.

by Philip Campbell

he San Francisco Symphony’s recent concert performances of Leonard Bernstein’s comic operetta “Candide,” conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, should have been the icing on the cake in the seasonlong celebration of the composer’s birth centennial. A further-amended presentation of Scottish Opera’s 1989 version proved instead to be a surprisingly bland piece de resistance. Wrangling Voltaire’s sprawling satire into anything resembling show-sized entertainment has been a challenge ever since Bernstein and a brilliant team of lyricists first made an unsuccessful attempt on Broadway in 1956. “Satire is what closes on Saturday night,” George S. Kaufman once said, but “Candide” also had to contend with playwright Lillian Hellman’s relentlessly earnest

libretto. Bernstein’s genius magpie score, synthesizing everything from bel canto to Gilbert & Sullivan, was friskier and a better fit for Voltaire’s trenchant wit. It kept the bite and the humor and fantasy, too. For generations, the fabulous original Broadway cast recording (in remarkable early stereo) made an indelible impression. Without the book (Voltaire’s or Hellman’s) to slow the pace, it created a wonderful theatre of the mind for enchanted listeners. Bernstein’s cornucopia of melodic invention still deserves revivals and fresh interpretation. The long journey from the Broadway stage to European opera houses and back again has also taken some side trips to symphony halls. A new concert reading with the composer’s former protégé on the podium was welltimed. Unlike MTT’s wildly success-

ful previous concerts of Bernstein genuine emotion to his introspectheatre works (a definitive “West tive solos. His passage from innoSide Story” and exuberant “On the cent optimist to sadder-but-wiser Town”), “Candide” was not presenthumanist was credible despite the ed semi-staged. The cast performed concert’s curious distancing effect. on a raised platform behind the Soprano Meghan Picerno rehuge orchestra and below Ragnar peated her well-received New York Bohlin’s massed SFS Chorus. There City Opera performance of Canwere few props (some hats and trindide’s adorably quixotic beloved kets) and only one costumed singer Cunegonde from a year ago. She to provide visual interest. alone made costume changes, but There still should have been a her couture was probably not borstage director. Deleting almost all rowed from the NYCO production, staged by legendary director dialogue helped streamline the acHarold Prince. Looking like Helena tion, but left most plot cohesion duBonham Carter fresh from a Betsey ties to suavely handsome baritone Johnson clearance sale, she sailed Michael Todd Simpson as the Narthrough the coloratura of the score’s rator/Pangloss. He did well in the most famous aria, “Glitter and Be former assignment, but was underGay.” The subtle darkness in her characterized in the latter. tone was pleasing, but her shameless All parts were well sung, and the mugging seemed out of context. Chorus was predictably rich. With the sumptuously refined SFS supporting the vocalists and expertly playing the famous Overture, it was certainly a beautiful aural experience. New Zealand baritone Hadleigh Adams added some swishy humor to his performance as the vain Maximilian. Soprano Vanessa Becerra made her zesty best of the diminished role of Paquette, and tenor Ben Jones (Governor/ Vanderdendur/Crook) nailed his solo in the bouncily cynical “Bon Voyage.” SFS Chorus members bass David Varnum, tenor Jonathan Thomas, baritone Kristen Loken Matthew Peterson, bass Clayton Moser and tenor Elliott Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Encarnacion were freed from Francisco Symphony in Bernstein’s their Terrace seats to make ap- “Candide.” Meghan Picerno (Cunegonde), preciated funny contributions. Andrew Stenson (Candide), and Vanessa In the title role, young tenor Becerra (Paquette) in the background. Andrew Stenson floated some lovely high notes and brought

Leave it to veteran soprano Sheri Greenawald to steal the show as the Old Lady. As current director of San Francisco Opera Center and artistic director of the Merola Opera Program, her casting might have been a shoo-in, but she earned her place after an acclaimed singing career. She proved she still has the pipes. I wish some of the jokes and especially the hilarious monologue in which her character finally describes how she came to lose one buttock had been left in, but Greenawald managed to inject flavorful comedy in the show-stopping “I am Easily Assimilated,” and her decidedly un-PC duet with Cunegonde “We Are Women” was terrific. The title of that number isn’t enough to make it an anthem for #metoo; just listen to the lyrics. Retaining it for this relatively inoffensive rendition of Bernstein’s glorious score did help restore some of the sardonic tone of Voltaire’s outrageous lampoon. When MTT made an aside to the audience, with typically perfect timing and a gleeful smile, he also reminded me that “Candide” is timeless. The final “Make Our Garden Grow” ensures a standing ovation. Even with these quibbles about the production, MTT and the full company deserved it. They did Lenny proud. The Bernstein Celebration continues Feb. 1-3: “West Side Story” film with live orchestra; and Feb. 22-24: Bernstein Divertimento and Serenade; Andrey Boreyko, conductor; Vadim Gluzman, violin; with Shostakovich Symphony No. 5.t sfsymphony.org.

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he 2018 Oscar candidate from Lebanon “The Insult” begins with deceptive simplicity. One morning on a busy city construction site in Beirut, two strongwilled guys lock horns. Toni, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, are at odds Cohen Media over the installation of a drainage Scene from director Ziad Doueiri’s pipe for a new apartment. But as “The Insult.” director Ziad Doueiri (also cowriter with Joelle Touma) slyly 116-minute running time, culminatreveals, the dispute between the ing in a neatly constructed and witty two began four decades earlier, in a third-act courtroom showdown featiny rural village. turing dueling father/daughter attorBy the time we meet them, the neys, “The Insult” is mostly a battle short-tempered Toni (a fiery Adel of words, happily conveyed in easily Kara) and the more stoic but equally read English subtitles. While Jewish stubborn Yasser (Kamel El Basha) characters never figure directly in are reviving a long-simmering civil this orgy of invective, Toni’s original war between their rival tribes, a coninsult to Yasser does invoke the name flict sparked in 1976 when Palestinof a feared and still controversial ian refugees were forced into camps one-time Israeli general-turnedthat were then attacked by soldiers. politician, whose actions against For Americans grown used to the Palestinians were like a Middle viewing the nearly 75-year-old Eastern version of American Civil Middle East crisis as a feud between War-era General Sherman’s march Arabs and Jews, “The Insult” lays through Georgia and the torching bare the sometimes equally testy of Atlanta. The emotional and verbal relations between Arab Christians power of “The Insult” did whet my like Toni and the region’s Muslim appetite for a full-scale all-Lebanese majority, like Yasser. While neither “Gone With the Wind.” man is a typical representative of “The Insult” contains anecdotal their tribe, each of these prickly references to the days when Beirut guys demonstrates why the bad was all-so-briefly thought of as “the blood continues, periodically rising Paris of the Middle East,” a cosmoto deadly consequences. politan center that was a sophistiWhile Toni argues that his seeming cated mecca for fashion, learning pigheaded response to having a Paland the arts, in a region starved for estinian fix his apartment’s plumbing reminders of the role it once played comes from a desire to protect his in human history. Meanwhile, you young pregnant wife, she disagrees, have a spirited drama (opening seeing the flap as just another way to Friday at Landmark Theaters in San feed his engorged male ego. Francisco), and I have my candidate While the emotional temperature for Best Foreign Language Oscar.t of the drama remains high over its

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An atmosphere of growing menace by Richard Dodds

ost audiences know that Harold Pinter is more about setting up situations than providing solutions. Accepting that, focus can be diverted from filling in the blanks to savoring how Pinter constructs sinister playgrounds with his artful use of language. And language doesn’t necessarily mean words; what is unsaid can be as potent as the spoken. And that’s how it is in “The Birthday Party,” which, although only his second play when first produced in 1958, showed a playwright who already knew his voice. True, not everyone wanted to hear that voice back then, and there are still situations that can rankle audiences even if they know what to expect from Pinter. But it’s pretty certain that his long run as a rankler would make the late playwright very happy. ACT currently has a first-class production of “The Birthday Party” at the Geary Theater, one filled with humor, fueled not by jokes but by woozily recognizable behavior encased in a growing sense of menace. Carey Perloff, who is directing her final production as ACT’s artistic director, is both a Pinter worshiper and expert, and the care taken with this production is palpable. Her cast ranges from good to excellent. While the circumstances can vary widely, there is a moody through-

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Petey (Dan Hiatt) and Meg (Judith Ivey) engage in their morning routine in Harold Pinter’s ‘The Birthday Party,” playing at ACT’s Geary Theater.

line to Pinter’s plays often involving routine circumstances upset by the arrival of an outsider. Sometimes that outsider becomes a psychological plaything for those already on the scene, or, as in the case of “The Birthday Party,” a pair of outsiders turns a dreary seaside B&B into a bleary funhouse in which the

only lodger becomes a target for unknown infractions against an anonymous entity. The play could almost be subtitled “How Are the Cornflakes?” The long-married Meg and Petey’s rituals include breakfast preparations in which Meg asks on the quality of that morning’s serving

of cornflakes. “Are they nice?” Meg asks. “Very nice,” replies Petey. But their tetchy lodger is not always as magnanimous toward his serving of cornflakes. “Horrible,” says Stanley when Meg inquires about the state of the flakes. “You’re a little liar,” she counters with unwanted flirtatiousness. “They’re refreshing. It says so.”

Their reactions to news that two new lodgers are soon to arrive are varied. The unflappable Petey doesn’t care, the dithering Meg is excited at the prospect of fresh faces, and Stanley immediately turns paranoid. The charmingly erudite Goldberg and his brutish cohort McCann create a festive atmosphere that Meg, Petey, and neighbor Lulu are happy to buy into, while the pair subtly but steadily torment Stanley. As Goldberg, Scott Wentworth exudes unctuous power with selfconfidence that seems so total that we are thrown when it briefly unravels. ACT stalwart Marco Barricelli is huge in form and formidability as the taciturn McCann. Julie Adamo is fine in the underdeveloped role of Lulu, and Dan Hiatt is a polished study in mindless complacency as Petey. Judith Ivey is a complete delight as Meg, never wavering in commitment to the character’s cheery befuddlement. Only Firdous Bamji feels less than secure in the role of Stanley, the play’s most complex, with visible actorly mannerisms ever-so-briefly pulling us from the self-contained world that Pinter and Perloff have so sharply created for us.t “The Birthday Party” will run at the Geary Theater through Feb. 4. Tickets are $15-$110. Call (415) 749-2228 or go to act-sf.org.

Tilting at windmills by Richard Dodds

here was a time when “Man of La Mancha” was cool. Like “Come From Away” cool, if not exactly “Hamilton” cool. Opening as a Broadway show, but in a minimalist-chic temporary structure in Greenwich Village, with little fanfare, few recognizable names attached, and a box-office advance that probably couldn’t keep “Aladdin” alive for a weekend, good reviews led growing crowds to Washington Square. Perhaps it started with a move uptown to a standard-issue Broadway house, and maybe the ubiquity of songwriters Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion’s “The Impossible Dream” was a contributing factor, but “Man of La Mancha” went from cool to square. Custom Made Theatre has given the 1965 musical a stripped-down treatment that lets some of the cool back in. There’s little room for bombast to crowd the story, which here becomes an intimate tale as if told with a close-up lens. Having some actors do double duty as musicians doesn’t always pay off harmonically;

it can’t be easy to arrange the score for flute, guitar, blow organ, viola, and euphonium. In his script, Dale Wasserman interweaves the stories of 17thcentury Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes and his legendary character Don Quixote, actually taking more liberties with the historical figure than the fictional one. But the literary license taken is dramatically savvy, creating a show within the show that gainfully employs the audience’s imagination in a way that the literal-minded movie version so abjectly failed to do. The setting is a common room for common criminals in a prison where Cervantes is being held until his appearance before the Spanish Inquisition. (Cervantes did do jail time, but for allegedly cooking the books as a tax collector.) Arriving with a genteel demeanor, a personal manservant, and a trunk filled with theatrical glad rags, he is an easy target for the restless inmates. He doesn’t mind the verbal abuse or the pillaging of his belongings, at least not until the alpha inmate comes across a hefty manuscript.

To save his precious work, Cervantes offers to put on a show, casting his fellow prisoners in various roles, while saving the part of Don Quixote for himself. Edward Hightower, in the dual roles of Cervantes and Quixote, provides a performance with the sublime elegance of someone who knows how to work a crowd – whether it be a rowdy crush of prisoners or a focused band of theatergoers. His Cervantes has a veneer of self-effacing confidence that only minimally cracks each time another prisoner is called to face the Inquisition. As the deluded country squire who imagines himself a dauntless knight, Hightower gently pulls us into a world where he is certain that

virtue will triumph at last. While he does not possess a booming singing voice, he knows how to expressively work it. Hightower’s performance maintains a centering aura in what can become a muddle around him in director Brian Katz’s otherwise heartfelt production. Not all the supporting roles are distinctly drawn, with two notable exceptions. Dave Leon is delightful as Sancho Panza, Don Quixote’s loyal servant, and Anthony Aranda is a commanding presence as the self-appointed governor of his fellow inmates, and as the soft-hearted innkeeper who gives Don Quixote refuge. Rachael Richman doesn’t fare as well as Aldonza, a scullery maid whom Don Quixote

imagines as the beatific Dulcinea. Richman can’t come close to convincing us that she was “born on a dung heap to die on a dung heap, a strumpet men use and forget.” Strong lyrics, but a footnote to the musical’s history has poet W.H. Auden as the original lyricist of the musical. They were deemed too overtly satiric and biting, and worse, he went on the attack against bourgeois audiences who would help the show run for 2,328 performances.t “Man of La Mancha” will run at Custom Made Theatre through Feb. 17. Tickets are $30-$49, available at custommade.org.

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Fearful times: Noir plays the Castro by Tavo Amador

ddie Muller’s 16th Noir City Film Festival, running Jan. 26Feb. 4 at the Castro Theatre, features many frightening, rarely seen films. Audiences will leave chilled and edgy. “I Wake Up Screaming” (1941) laments Jill Lynn (Betty Grable) after her sister Vicki (Carole Landis) is murdered. Broadway producer Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) had discovered Vicki, but she was leaving him for Hollywood. Malevolent cop Ed Cornell (Laird Cregar) thinks Christopher is the killer. Is he right? Grable, a few years away from succeeding Alice Faye’s as 20th Century Fox’s queen of musicals, is top-billed and effective, but creepy Cregar steals the picture. Directed by Bruce Humberstone from a screenplay by Dwight Taylor, based on Steve Fisher’s novel. Paul Raydon (gay Albert Dekker) discovers that his twin brother, John (Dekker again) whom he thought dead, is “Among the Living” (1941), having been locked up in the ancestral home’s attic for decades. John escapes. Young Susan Hayward is the woman both brothers want. Swift direction by Stuart Heisler from a taut script by Lester Cole and Garrett Fort. Superb cinematography. (1/26) Cold, blonde, pretty Alan Ladd offers “This Gun for Hire” (1942), which made him a star and teamed him for the first time with blonde,

pretty Veronica Lake. Philip Raven (Ladd) is engaged by foreign agent Willard Gates (sleazy Laird Cregar) to kill a man. Raven does, but is paid in marked bills, making him a target for cop Michael Crane (Robert Preston, decades before “The Music Man.”) Government officials ask Ellen Graham (Lake) to investigate Gates and Raven. Adapted by Albert Maltz and W.R. Burnett from Graham Greene’s novel. Suspenseful direction by Frank Tuttle. Edith Head designed Lake’s memorable costumes. A classic of the genre. Jim Fleg (peerless George Sanders) and Myra Blandy (stunning Gail Patrick, long before she produced TV’s “Perry Mason”) steal a priceless Shakespeare folio from a public library, accidentally killing a guard. They sell fake copies of it to greedy collectors, but cop Hal McByrne (handsome Richard Denning) traces those forgeries back to Fleg. The mad finale takes place among the bookshelves as a buyer demands his money back. Sanders is terrific. With Sidney Blackmer. Written and directed by John Larkin. (1/27) Santa Rosa is the setting for Alfred Hitchcock’s suspenseful “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943), which plagues Theresa Wright as she wonders if her adored uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is really a serial killer. She will soon find out. With MacDonald Carey, Henry Travers, and Hume Cronyn. Closeted gay Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Re-

ville (Mrs. Hitchcock) wrote the screenplay. Splendid location photography shows how the town has changed. In “Address Unknown” (1944), Paul Lukas, fresh from winning the Best Actor Oscar for 1943’s “Watch on the Rhine,” plays a San Francisco art dealer who returns to his native Germany and becomes enthralled by the Nazis. Not a true noir, but a dark, fascinating rarity. (1/27) Thieves Alan Curtis and Frank Craven meet their “Destiny” (1944) in the form of a small-town blind young woman (Gloria Jean) who foils their vile plans. Screenplay by Roy Chanslor and Ernest Pascal, from a story by Jean Levy-Strauss. This 65-minute film was initially the opening segment of director Julian Duvivier’s ambitious “Flesh and Fantasy,” (1943), three loosely linked stories of the occult. Its glittery cast includes Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Thomas Mitchell, and Dame May Whitty. Screenplay by Pascal, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Ellis St. Joseph, from stories by Oscar Wilde (“Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime”), Laszlo Vadnay, and St. Joseph. (1/28) Humphrey Bogart solves the “Conflict” (1945) with wife Rose Hobart by killing her, making it look accidental. But psychiatrist Sidney Greenstreet, a specialist in murder, isn’t fooled. With gorgeous Alexis Smith. A Bogart rarity, directed by Curtis Bernhardt from a

screenplay by Dwight Taylor and Arthur T. Horman, based on a story by Robert Siodmark and Alfred Neumann. “Jealousy” (1945) is what the cops think caused a murder involving a female cabbie (Jane Randolph), an alcoholic emigre writer (gay Nils Asther), and a charming doctor (John Loder.) Directed by Gustav Machaty, who had helmed Hedy Lamarr in 1933’s scandalous “Ecstacy,” from a story by Arnold Philips, Dalton Trumbo, and Machaty. Loder and Lamarr were married at the time. (1/29) Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake reteamed for 1946’s “The Blue Dahlia,” directed by George Marshall from an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler. Ladd, returning from war-

time military service, is suspected of murdering his unfaithful wife. With brutish William Bendix, very different from his later television persona in “The Life of Riley.” A landmark film. In “Night Editor” (1946), married cop William Gargan is cheating on wife Jeff Donnell with society dame Janis Carter. They witness a Lover’s Lane killing, but can’t get involved. His conscience torments him, but she’s aroused by the violence. A kinky gem. Henry Levin directed, from a screenplay by Scott Littleton, Hal Smith, and Hal Burdick. (1/30) Radio star Claude Rains’ secretary commits suicide, but he claims it’s murder, which results in trouble for the previously “The Unsuspected,” (1947). With wholesome Joan Caulfield and femme fatale Audrey Totter. Rains gives a typically mesmerizing performance. Directed by Michael Curtiz, from a screenplay by Ranald MacDougall and Bess Meredyth, based on Charlotte Armstrong’s novel. Fasttalking, crusading reporter Lee Tracy is threatened by gangsters whose criminal activities he’s been chronicling. He hires private eye Don Castle to protect him. When their car swerves off the road into the ocean, they’re trapped and face a “High Tide” (1947). Who will rescue them? An innovative B picture, welldirected by John Reinhardt, from a screenplay by Robert Presnell, Sr. and Raoul Whitfield. Additional dialogue by Peter Milne. (1/31)t

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azante” is an engrossing film from veteran director Daniela Thomas. It’s a fascinating plunge into the social and racial politics in a dangerous frontier society, early-19th-century Brazil, a brutally racist Portuguese-ruled colony whose white masters set about extracting as much of the raw continental land’s resources (diamonds and gold) as they could wrap their greedy mitts around. Filmed in an almost X-ray-like black & white, Thomas’ story opens in 1821. We are immediately plunged into the partial chaos of a brutal caste system that, as usual, privileges light skin over dark, men over women, Portuguese-speaking rich folks over fieldhands, especially those brought over from Africa in chains and unable to speak the dialects of other darker-skinned servants. Compelled to wed a slave trader and share his decrepit farmhouse in the Brazilian mountains, a young woman just out of her teens, Beatriz, endures an emotional and physical ordeal in a land with few luxuries, even for the colonists. Even when she’s following the actions of her male characters, Thomas never lets us forget the impact these selfish, driven men have on women from all backgrounds, and on studly young black field-workers. Antonio finds that his young wife has died giving birth. Trapped in a decadent but rundown estate property in the company of his aging mother-in-law and many slaves, Antonio marries his wife’s young

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Luna Nastas and Adriano Carvalho in director Daniela Thomas’ “Vazante.”

niece, Beatriz. Removed from her family and essentially abandoned in an isolated mountain farmhouse, to keep from going mad Beatriz turns for comfort to the cruelly treated slaves and natives around her. Is it any wonder that this entertaining if punishing drama ends on a primal scream? In this, her feature film debut as a solo director, Daniela Thomas manages to connect the dots between a nascent feminism, the lingering wages of colonialism and the brutal legacy of race and slavery that has for five-and-a-half centuries been the inheritance of a resource-rich land that spans almost half the South American continent. Coming off a career where she had worked in live theater as well as

in opera, Thomas got a crucial boost with a student stint at New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theater. Once back in Brazil, she partnered with Walter Salles (director of the film about the youthful Che Guevara, “The Motorcycle Diaries”) in the process of writing and co-directing three fiction features: “Foreign Land” (1996), “Midnight” (1998), and “Linha de Passe” (winner of the Palm D’Or for Best Actress to Sandra Corvelloni at the 2008 Cannes film festival), and many shorts, including the “Paris, Je T’aime” chapter “Loin du 16e” (2006). Thomas’ other feature is “Sunstroke” (2009). Opening Friday at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinemas, “Vazante” runs 116 minutes, in Portuguese with English subtitles.t

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Portrait of an American murder by Victoria A. Brownworth

e’ve waited a long time for a drama series as sumptuous, lush and intrinsically gay as FX’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” season two of Ryan Murphy’s “American Crime Story” anthology series. From the opening sequence, laid out like a Renaissance tableaux with the soundtrack of Albinoni’s heartrending Adagio in G, it’s breathtaking. Gianni Versace awakens, grateful for another day, because he is perilously ill. He walks down a hallway of carved wood fairly littered with art, pulls out a silk robe, takes some pills and walks purposefully onto a balcony to greet the day. He is served breakfast and, in a gesture that tells us he is beloved by those who work for him in this palatial Miami Beach estate, he puts a hand tenderly on his manservant’s arm, the “grazie” murmured with the addendum of that touch. These scenes are contrapuntal to those of Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss), gearing up to murder the designer, who at that point in 1997 was one of the most famous and admired gay men in the world. And so it begins, this intertwined story of killer and victim. It’s gorgeous, brutal, and enthralling. All the things Murphy did in “Feud: Betty and Joan” to re-create an era and the Zeitgeist of that era, he does here. But here there is a breadth of love and savagery that perfectly approximates the gay world then. If Ryan Murphy never did another thing (but he’s got several in the works), this would be his epic piece de resistance. As created by Murphy and written by Tom Rob Smith, it’s a compendium of the parallel lives of a sociopathic gay narcissist and one of the greatest designers of the age. It’s about how gayness both expands and trips up genius. It’s a tale of self-loathing and the perdition that goes with it. We watched twice because we wanted to be sure we hadn’t missed a moment, a pattern, a throwaway that wasn’t really a throwaway. “ACS: Versace” is particularly impactful for how fundamentally gay the series is. Heterosexuality is so far to the peripheral fringe of the gay world that both Versace and Cunanan inhabit, we forget it exists. Until the murder. As Donatella Versace tells her board after the killing, “They’ll judge the killer, yes. But they’ll judge the victim, too. First they’ll weep, then they’ll whisper.” After the murder we are reminded in big, brutal slaps of the straight world and all its ugly, homophobic micro and macro aggressions. Some of these come from the least expected places, like from Versace’s adored and adoring sister, Donatella (the inimitable Penelope Cruz in an extraordinary tour de force), who swoops in hours after the killing while Versace’s partner of 15 years, Antonio D’Amico (Ricky Martin), is still covered in Versace’s blood, to order him about like a servant and dismiss how distraught he is with some disgust. Prior to that, detectives grill him in the most intrusive and homophobic ways. The four main players are perfectly cast. Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez is a pitch-perfect Versace. We lean in to his genius and his way with people as he dresses a soprano before the opening of an opera he’s designed the clothes for. She is uncomfortable and even a little put-upon at the outset, but he woos her with his story and his subtle appreciation of her beauty. It’s a brief yet telling scene. When Cunanan first meets Versace at a nightclub, he is at first dismissive, annoyed at this pretty but intrusive young man who’s in-

terrupting his tete a tete with someone else. But as Cunanan ingratiates himself with a self-confident tale of his own Italian family, Versace warms to him and we see the side his friends must see, a caring, compassionate man. That is replayed in another scene post-opera with Cunanan, in a throwaway goodbye, which would be his last, to D’Amico, as he heads out on his daily walk to a nearby newsstand. Even when he turns down a request for an autograph, and we see it is more a question of not being physically able to deviate from his routine, he is kind. Later that couple will tear the page from a magazine and dip a Versace ad in his blood. The background music is the music of our lives at that time, like Lisa Stansfield’s “All Around the World” while Cunanan is trying on clothes in his friend’s walk-in closet, or Indeep’s “Last Night the DJ Saved My Life” as he cruises up to Versace’s table at the club. Each touch adds verisimilitude. We see parallel lives: the gay boy from Calabria who became a star, the gay boy from California who became infamous. As the series unfolds, we will continually be asking the same question: What is real, what is imagined, how did this evolve? There are questions about whether Versace and Cunanan ever actually met, or if Cunanan invented their relationship in his tales to his straight and gay friends. Cunanan is the quintessential unreliable narrator, and this is, despite the title, fundamentally his story, seen through his lens. The scenes he shares with Versace are tender and muted. “I’m so happy in this moment,” he tells the designer in a scene after the opera where they share champagne and he spins yet another yarn. Versace is struck by his beauty and self-confidence, and when they touch, it’s believable. Versace sees something of himself in Cunanan in these scenes. Or so we are led to believe. For all the great acting in this series, without the absolute brilliance of Darren Criss’ portrayal of Cunanan, it would all fall apart. He is sublime in this role. Gone is the unmemorable Blane of “Glee.” This is a searing performance that is so nuanced, vivid, and authentic, it leaves you aching for more. Whether Criss’ Cunanan is standing over the bed of his best friend, and her husband fingering his penis through his briefs, or having an hysterical episode in his battered truck after he kills Versace, all of it is pitch-perfect.

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“My name is Lorraine Hansberry. I am a writer. I was born on the South Side of Chicago. I was born black and a female. I was born in a Depression after one World War, and came into my adolescence during another. I, like all of you, have seen incredible displays of man’s inhumanity to man.” So begins “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,” a new documentary about the most famous lesbian playwright in American history, and arguably the most famous black playwright as well. Tracy Heather Strain’s film for PBS’ American Masters series premiered Jan.19, and can be viewed on demand or online. Narrated by actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson, the film features Hansberry’s sister Mamie Hansberry, as well as many actors who knew the playwright (Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier). This is historical record about Hansberry and an era in the Civil

Ricky Martin as Antonio D’Amico in “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” season 2 of Ryan Murphy’s “American Crime Story,” playing on FX cable channel.

Rights and progressive political movements of the 1950s and 60s. The film makes extensive use of Hansberry’s own words, those she wrote and those from interviews, voiced by Emmy-winning actress Anika Noni Rose. Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 34. This is what we have of her. It is a lot for such a brief trajectory, and a story that has been in need of telling. Kaladaa Crowell, Brandi Mells, Shanta Myers and Kerrice Lewis: These are not the characters in a new TV series featuring black lesbians by Shonda Rhimes or Lena Waithe. These are black lesbians who were targeted and murdered in the past few weeks. Oh, and their stories never made anybody’s news. While our community (rightly) focuses attention on domestic violence and other murders of trans women of color, lesbians are getting killed, and no one is saying their names, in this case from West Palm Beach, New York and Washington, D.C. According to director of communications at GLAAD Sue Yacka-Bible, the murders are “incredibly alarming. It’s deeply troubling and a tremendous tragedy for the LGBTQ communities.” As we move into year two of the most anti-LGBT administration in living history, Trump has upped the ante, making good on his promise to evangelicals to put God back in everything, Constitution be damned. On Jan. 17, Trump took aim at the LGBT community when he ordered a new “Conscience and Religious Freedom” division of HHS. Termed a “civil rights action,” the new division protects healthcare providers and others in the healthcare industry who claim their religious beliefs would be violated by providing services to LGBT people or to women requesting birth control or other family planning/rape-crisis healthcare necessities. The story barely made a ripple, between Trump’s porn star expose and the GOP shutting down the government. But GLAAD executive director Sarah Kate Ellis was succinct in a statement on Jan. 18: “Any healthcare worker who has moral objections to providing medically necessary care to an entire vulnerable population is in the wrong line of work,” said Ellis. “Denying a transgender or gay person–or any person–life saving care if they walk into an emergency room is far from

a moral act, it is unjust and dangerous. Trump, Pence, and Trump’s appointees have tried to establish blatantly bigoted policies that harm transgender and gender nonconforming Americans, and history will neither forget nor forgive this Administration’s attacks on its own people.” This is the peril of the Trump presidency. There’s so much chaos that new directives that impact ordinary folks – gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans folks – trying to live our lives without violence, pay our bills without getting fired from our jobs for being gender non-conforming, don’t even register on the Richter scale of outrage or in the news, fake or otherwise. Now onward to Year 2. TGIT was back on Jan. 18, and we were so here for it. “Grey’s Anatomy” introduced a trans man character as one of the new interns. Casey (Alex Blue Davis) is also a computer hacker who got into some trouble with the government. “That wasn’t on your resume,” says the hospital’s chief, Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), after she’s enlisted Casey to hack into the hospital’s system to override hackers who have taken the hospital’s system hostage for a huge ransom. No it wasn’t, Casey tells her, then reveals he is transgender. It is a moment made dramatic by its lack of drama. Bailey just looks at Casey, and that’s it. Davis is a native Californian, a musician, has appeared on “NCIS,” “2 Broke Girls” other series. He is also featured on “B-Team,” a spinoff about the interns of “Grey’s.” Executive producer Krista Vernoff told GLAAD the casting department of Shonda Rhimes’ flagship series, now second-longest-running scripted drama on TV (after “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), wanted a trans actor to play the trans role. “Grey’s Anatomy” already has lesbian and bisexual characters, and regularly features LGBT storylines in both personal and medical sides. Another first for Rhimes. Davis becomes the first trans man to be a series regular on network drama. That wasn’t even the big story on “Grey’s,” which has had an arc over more than a year about Jo Wilson’s (Camilla Luddington) ex being so abusive she feared for her life, fled her marriage and changed her name. In the winter finale, Jo’s exhusband (disturbingly for Gleeks, played with just the right touch of sinister gaslighting by Matthew Morrison, everyone’s fave teacher, Mr. Schuester, for all six seasons on “Glee”) turned up at Grey Sloan

Memorial in the last 30 seconds of the show. The collective gasp began. As the new season opened Jan. 18, Jo can barely breathe as Dr. Paul Stadler (Morrison) is introduced to her co-workers. Turns out he’s one of those evil-genius guys, stellar resume, exalted in his profession, does groundbreaking work, who just happens to beat the hell out of his women. It was an important story in the #TimesUp/#MeToo lexicon. Jo’s character has been on “Grey’s” since 2012. She’s engaged to one of the original series regulars, Alex (Justin Chambers). Her plight has been revealed over a protracted period, as we have gotten to know and love the character. So when Stadler shows up with his new fiancée and wants a divorce, Jo should be thrilled to have him permanently out of her life. But he’s tracked her down, even though she’s changed her name. He’s menacing in ways we see because we are viewing him from Jo’s POV. The insidious nature of abuse unfolds. Jo tries to warn his new soon-to-be wife, and Stadler returns to the hospital to threaten her. TV is at its best when tit tells authentic stories that resonate for their honesty, and act as templates for social justice. At show’s end Luddington did a PSA for domestic violence, explaining that it’s not always physical violence, it’s also forms of emotional and psychological abuse. Meanwhile on “Scandal,” Cyrus (Jeff Perry) and Fenton (Dean Norris) are over. Maybe. We hope not. Jake (Scott Foley) is trying to wreck Cyrus’ life again, because killing Cyrus’ first husband James wasn’t enough. Then on “How to Get Away with Murder” the end game is near: Will Oliver go to jail? What about Tegan and Michaela? There was so much happening in this episode that our head was spiraling off. But there’s so much gay (what about Bonnie and Annalise?) and other intrigue, we’re on tenterhooks. Finally, Amazon has cancelled Tig Notaro’s fabulous “One Mississippi,” which made every critics’ 10 Best list for 2017, with no explanation. Hopefully Netflix or someone else will pick up this wonderful series. Hopefully one day there can be lesbian programming that doesn’t get axed by straight white guys too busy harassing women to notice we watch TV, too. So for the sublime, the groundbreaking, the historic and the news you’re not seeing, remember you must stay tuned.t

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German cinema between the wars by David Elijah Nahmod

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hat a radiant beginning, yet what a miserable end,” are words uttered early in Rudiger Suchsland’s 2014 documentary “From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses.” The film documents the history of German cinema beginning in 1919, the year after the first World War ended, until 1933, when Hitler rose to power. These years are known as Germany’s Weimar Era. The Weimar Era was a time of unprecedented freedom in Germany, with Berlin serving as its center. The city was a haven for artists, filmmakers and LGBT people able to express

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The Gala has become an affair of state, as befits a dance company that sees itself as a symbol of the culture of the West, but that in the 1970s fell upon such hard times it had to be pulled from bankruptcy. Ever since, they’ve proved their solvency after being set back on their feet under a new artistic director, Helgi Tomasson, who has made the company one of three big players in this country, and a major player internationally. So opening night is a showcase for the audience as well as for the dancers; there might as well have been a red carpet. The gowns, my dear! You had to watch your step, some ladies’ ball-gowns had trains four-feet-long. Two tall youths in dove-grey shantung suits had epaulettes of silver feathers spilling off the shoulders down the back. The afterparty was thunderous and mobbed, and the audience danced rather well. The corporate presence was so great, you suspected that whole offices had been brought to the show on expense account, and you wondered if they saw anything that made them love ballet and want to come back. It sure was impressive. To show that SFB is a company firmly grounded in the bedrock of the

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themselves openly. But it was also an era of turmoil, high unemployment and income inequality. It was both a post-war and pre-war era. “From Caligari to Hitler,” available on DVD through Kino Lorber, is based on Siegfried Kracauer’s same-named book. It suggests that filmmakers working in Weimar Germany sensed what was coming, and warned the German people via the content of their films. Film clips make this

seem plausible. The doc’s title refers to “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1919), the expressionistic horror film that ushered in Weimar cinema. In many of these films, sociopathic megalomaniacs are in power. In auteur Fritz Lang’s classic “Metropolis” (1927), the city rulers control the lives of factory workers who toil in underground caverns. Lang also called the shots on a series of films based on archvillain Dr. Mabuse,

classics, they hammered it home with the most exacting highlights from the greatest classics, La Sylphide and The Sleeping Beauty, and the whole of Jerome Robbins’ contemporary-romantic ballet In the Night, set to four Chopin Nocturnes, with top ballerinas in each role. Tomasson has been a superb director; he understands that ballet is a non-verbal mode of argument, and he’s building a case for SFB as the world’s leader in taking the traditions forward into the new century, as a foretaste of a festival of new works, Unbound, which will climax the season in April-May, presenting 12 world premieres by international-star choreographers. So the Gala was party entertainment, a variety show of one-off pieces that don’t get quite enough rehearsal. Brave Jennifer Stahl’s right shoe collapsed, though she did not, and she made a heroic showing in In the Night, partnered by the great Tiit Helimets. La Sylphide would have been great if we could have seen it, but they showed it with the inappropriate Sarah-Linnie Slocum (of blessed memory) lighting plot designed for a brighter set and costumes, which means the whole thing was too dark and spoiled the SF debut of our new principal dancer, Ulrik Birkkjaer – from the Royal Danish Ballet, where La Sylphide is a classic – whose legs looked dingy in

his dark kilt and knee socks, instead perfect for that role, simply killed it tating 720 degrees in this position. in Corsaire. Her radiant confidence, of brilliant in the rapidly scissorIt flashes past you, you see it from rock-solid technique, speed and ing batterie that style is famous for, every angle and it’s perfect, but it brilliance in turns, and generoswhich made international stars out happens so fast you can’t really see it. ity to the audience were matched by of dancers like Erik Bruhn. He does it again and again, but never Greco’s thrilling technique, the granOur new ballerina Ana Sophia to the point where it’s too much. It deur of his port de bras and control Scheller was presented in Balwas not just amazing the first time, of his positions in jumps. He excels anchine’s hilarious Stars and Stripes, the miracle was he could do it again. at throwing himself into the air in which didn’t suit her. Stars requires Totally thrilling, both of them. brilliantly faceted positions, his legs a personality like Reese WitherThe evening was mostly duets; it making a diamond shape, and rospoon’s, to make the jokes sing out. closed with the only big group piece, Justin Peck’s version of Rodeo, She did everything acceptably, which showed the strength, and advance word from New brilliance, and warmth of York, where she’s been seen the men of this company. in Sleeping Beauty, says she’s It’s set to Aaron Copeland’s fabulous in classical roles. So popular score, well-known I’m reserving judgment. But the only things I loved all here from SFB’s version of night were Rodeo and Edward Agnes de Mille’s original setLiang’s Letting Go, a haunting ting. Peck’s reimagined the piece set to floating, harmonihoedown, the nocturne and cally shifting music by Max other sections of Rodeo as Richter, danced by our big abstract dances for communistars Yuan Yuan Tan and Carlo ties of men, who support each di Lanno. Tan is the queen other as cowboys might, or the Golden State Warriors. It’s of moving so slowly you can poignant, thrilling, touching barely see the transitions. Then and very beautiful. There is a she’s suddenly in another magromance, for Sophiane Sylve nificently windswept position, and Carlo di Lanno, which is always beautifully supported by warmer but not more powerdi Lanno’s generous, sweeping ful. Rodeo will be performed attention. Truly, we all loved on Program 2, along with BalSasha de Sola and Angelo anchine’s Serenade, in which Greco in the first-act finale, the Erik Tomasson I’m hungry to see Sarah van bravura Russian grand-style Patten dance the role she was pas de deux from Le Corsaire. San Francisco Ballet Gala: Angelo Greco in born for. I cannot wait to De Sola, who’ll dance opening Petipa’s “Le Corsaire.” see Rodeo again.t night of Sleeping Beauty and is

titles or attribution for works in the galleries. For that and other supplemental information, one must turn to a printed guide and match up the number assigned to each artwork with a corresponding one in the brochure, which can be a timeconsuming exercise in frustration. The animating assumption behind this approach is that visitors are more likely to immerse themselves in the art if they aren’t distracted by label text, but the wisdom of denying people the immediate gratification of identifying a work of art and who created it is debatable. Instead of reading wall labels, visitors will probably bury their heads in the guide, not to mention it’s difficult to follow the yellow brick road laid out

and drag queen, is captured in a short, jet-black wig, heavy mascara and scarlet, off-the-shoulder dress, looking like one fierce signora in photographer Catherine Opie’s charged 1993 portrait. In “Study for Queer Mysteries” (1992), David Cannon Dashiell reimagines the Dionysiac frieze at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, replacing the Classical characters with Edwardian fops and futuristic women. The two panels of drawings exploring queer sexuality, envisioned for a roomsized installation, are displayed so high on the wall it’s difficult to discern what the participants are up to. Channeling the ghost of John Cage’s burnt offerings, the edges of the paper are singed, remnants of a fire that engulfed Dashiell’s apartment. He died of complications from HIV a year after finishing the work. An array of frolickers get it on in “The Bed,” poet-filmmaker James Broughton’s very 1968-free-love lark. In this bit of surreal sexual wish-fulfillment, a bed magically arrives in the middle of a meadow on Mt. Tam, where Imogen Cunningham, members of Anna Halprin’s dance troupe, and a bikini-clad, bushy-tailed woman chasing a nattily-attired fellow in a white suit get the party started. In a brilliant stroke aimed at those resistant to the charms of local avant-garde, experimental and artist-crafted cinema, digitized copies of selected films, projected on hanging screens and monitors, mingle in

by the numbers. This wouldn’t be a comprehensive Bay Area Art exhibition without a strong field of LGBTQ artists, There’s a plentitude of interestand at least 15 are on hand here. ing things to see, from David Park’s Mike Kuchar, a gay erotica illustra30-foot-long “Berkeley Scroll” tor and filmmaker of the 1965 cult (1960), completed the year he died, classic “Sins of the Fleshapoids,” is and “Truth-out.org/Ferguson,” represented by “Faery Tale” (1980), Tabitha Soren’s wild photo taken a ribald pen-and-ink drawing done of an image on a smudged iPad in an exaggerated R. Crumb comic screen, a nighttime scene washed in book-style. It depicts an overly a tornado of ocean blue, steam, fury muscular gay-biker couple, one in a and the flashing lights of protest in wolf mask, the other in a Viking helMissouri; to “This is what we are met, taking a breather underneath for and this is what we’ll get,” social a tree. Stemming from obscure justice artist Xara Thustra’s epic, origins, Nayland Blake’s cabinet mixed-media mural referencing the collage “Untitled (Miracled Birds)” 9/11 attacks with mirror images of (1989), with gilt-framed, questionthe wounded twin towers, crashing able homilies such as “Somehow airplanes and a pair of horses locked Damned” and bird in embrace. feathers attached to BAMPFA director the back, was inspired and chief curator Lawby the paranoiac rence Rinder has made delusions of a lateastute aesthetic choices 19th-century German on the visual art side, jurist. Erica Deewhile veteran film man moves in close curator Kathy Geritz enough to “Marvin” piloted the cinematic to transmit the spirit contributions. Despite of a bearish, bareany overt sign of orchested, intensely ganization or narrasoulful African Amertive structure, they’ve ican man, whom she managed to pull off a photographed against spacious-feeling show a tan background apthat could easily have proximating her skin been a chaotic, overtone for Brown, her crowded mishmash. BAMPFA 2015 portrait series, If there’s criticism to while Jerome Caja, the be leveled, it’s at the James Broughton, still from “The Bed” (1968), 19 mins. audacious late painter decision to provide no

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who could control others with his mind. Was Lang warning people about the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, underway while he was making his iconic films? Other works seem to predict the great stock-market crash of 1929. These “predictions” on the part of Weimar directors could be seen as coincidental. But recall the 1979 Hollywood film “The China Syndrome,” which told the story of a meltdown at a nuclear power plant. A few weeks after its release, the now-legendary Three Mile Island meltdown made headlines. Maybe Weimar filmmakers were similarly prescient. Many of Weimar’s greatest directors and stars are profiled, with seg-

ments devoted to Lang, GW Pabst, Edgar G. Ulmer, FW Murnau, Marlene Dietrich, Louise Brooks, Peter Lorre, and others. These names are familiar to classic film buffs for their work in Hollywood, as most were forced to leave Germany when the Nazis took over. The film clips, all from restored prints, are mesmerizing. The use of light and shadow, and fantasy sequences, to create a mood or offer social commentary, is impressive. The doc also spends time on lesserknown works from lesser-known directors. Dozens of Weimar films are recalled in this fascinating documentary that also serves as a look back on a society and its culture.t

the garden of fine art. A high point of the show is the singular work of Sara Kathryn Arledge, whose handpainted glass slides, made between 1947-50, are delicate, vibrantly colored and just plain beautiful. Arledge carved stage gels into shapes reminiscent of Matisse cutouts, baked them in an oven, then applied them to scientific slides, scratching and manipulating the layers with toothpicks and sharpies. When illuminated, the painted transparencies sparkle, shimmer and glow like stained glass. “A Trip Down Market Street,” a silent short by the Miles Brothers (Earle, Herbie, Harry and Joe), filmed with a camera strapped to the front of a cable car, documents a ride down the bustling thoroughfare shortly before the 1906 earthquake changed the face of the city. Then there’s “Tribune-American Dream Picture” (1924), a genuine oddity that came out of a contest where readers submitted a dream hoping their scenario would be turned into a film. The winner was about a family who goes to San Francisco only to discover their baby has disappeared. Never fear: the baby, apprehended by an attentive policeman, is found driving a car and given a speeding ticket; now that’s hard justice. t This is the first installment of a two-part exhibition. Part 1 closes June 3; Part 2, with some overlapping content, runs June 13-Sept. 2. bampfa.org.

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Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

Joe Goode Performance Group at Pivot Festival @ Strand Theatre

The musical comedy revue celebrates its 43th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. Beer/wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. Wed-Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm & 9pm. Sun 2pm & 5pm. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Born Yesterday @ SF Playhouse Garson Kanin’s 1946 comedy gets a stylish revival at the downtown company’s stage. $35-$60. Thru Mar. 10. 450 Post St. https://www.sfplayhouse.org

David Spiher @ Strut

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Thu 25 Call Me By Your Name @ Bay Area Cinemas The gay-themed film (with four Oscar nominations) plays at Alamo Drafthouse, 2550 Mission St., Embarcadero Center, 1 Embarcadero; AMC Van Ness 14, 100 Van Ness Ave.; Kabuki 8, 1881 Post St., and other theaters. http://sonyclassics.com/ callmebyyourname/

Classic & New Films @ Castro Theatre Jan 24 & 25: Dunkirk (4:45, 7pm, 9:15). Jan 26 – Feb 4: Noir City film festival. ( www.noircity.com). $11$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Creating S-Town @ Curran Theater

Latin Standards @ Brava Theater Center

S-Town co-creators Brian Reed & Julie Snyder walk their audience through the process of how they developed a new kind of storytelling by merging literature techniques with journalism. $29-$85. 7pm. 445 Geary St. sfcurran.com

Marga Gomez performs her new solo show about her inspiring performing Cuban father, Esta Noche and other aspects of her life. $20-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Jan. 28. 2781 24th St. http://www.margagomez.com/ http://brava.org/

Dolls @ Potrero Stage Michael Phillis (Baloney and countless drag shows) revives his hit 2008 solo show about a boy’s love of dolls; part of the PlayGround Solo Performance Festival. $21-$36. Jan 25, 8:30pm, and Jan. 28 at 7pm. Seven other performers thru Jan 28. 1695 18th St. michaelphillis.com

A Fatal Step @ The Marsh Jill Vice’s solo show about a hardboiled detective, told by a femme fatale. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru Mar. 3. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Rescheduled opening reception of the gay artist’s compelling portraits and figure paintings. 8pm-10pm. Thru Feb. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Lewis Black @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley The Grammy-winning spot-on comedian who uses truth to make you laugh, performs his new The Joke’s On Us show. $40-$50. 8pm. 101 Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus. https://calperformances.org

Pivot Festival @ Strand Theatre

Paul Dresher Ensemble @ Z Space The Electro-Acoustic Band in concert with the Living Earth Show premieres Ned Rothenberg’s Beyond C. $14-$22. 8pm. Also Jan. 27. 450 Florida St. www.zspace.org

SF Sketchfest @ Various Venues Annual large-scale multi-event celebration of comedy and performance, with Jane Lynch, Rhea Butler, Dan Savage, Peaches Christ and hundreds of performers in improv, panels, films, workshops and parties. $15-$50. Thru Jan 28. https://www.sfsketchfest.com/

Solo Performance Festival @ Potrero Stage Playground SF presents eight writerperformers in solo works: Lisa Evans, Malcolm Grissom, Marjorie Hazeltine, Michael Phillis, Katie Rubin, Thomas Robert Simpson, Nina Wise, and Dan Wolf. $21-$124 (full pass). Various dates/times thru Jan. 28. 1695 18th St. playground-sf.org/solofest/

Sondheim on Sondheim @ 3Below Theater & Lounge Live and video musical performance of some of Stephen Sondheim’s best songs, with video comments by the composer/lyricist. $41-$58. Thru Feb 4. 288 S. 2nd St., San Jose. https://3belowtheaters.com/

Still at Risk @ NCTC Tim Pinckley’s new play explores the hazards of rewriting an AIDS activist’s past, while trying to move forward. Pre- and post-show panels and events. $35-$45. Previews: opens Jan. 27. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 25. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Mugwumpin @ Z Space The innovative theatre ensemble premieres In Event of Moon Disaster, a multimedia adventure into science fiction and future, with a mystical lunar soul versus colonizing forces. $15-$25. Thru Jan. 28. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. 470 Florida St. www.zspace.org

Wafia @ Rickshaw Stop The singer with a beautiful voice, and whose new song “Only Love” includes lesbian themes, performs at the popular nightclub; Jaira Burns opens, plus DJ Aaron Axelson. $14$16. pm. 155 Fell St. wafiamusic.com

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Justin Hall’s Shut Up and Draw @ Strut

Conclusion of a four-night arts minifest. Jan 26: pianist Timo Andres. Jan 27: Joe Goode Performance Group. $25$40. 8:30pm. 1127 Market St. www.sfperformances.org

Rent @ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

Aurora Theatre Company’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s 1892 comic satire romance and villains. $33-$65. Tue, Wed Sun 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Feb. 25. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. auroratheatre.org

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Queer Ancestors Project @ Strut Queer youth exhibition of art about LGBTQ pioneers. 4709 Castro St. http://strutsf.org/

Widowers’ Houses @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

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Kelli O’Hara @ Herbst Theatre

20th anniversary tour of the musical about East Village people effected by gentrification and AIDS. $48-$128. Tue-Thu 7:30pm. Fri Sat 8pm. Sat 1pm. Sun 2pm, 6:30pm. Thru Jan 28. 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose. broadwaysanjose.com

Skeleton Crew @ Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley Bay Area premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s play about workers at a detroit plant who have to make tough decisions to survive. $25-$44. Thru Feb 18. 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. www.marintheatre.org/

The Third Muslim @ SOMArts Cultural Center Queer and Trans Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience, a group exhibition with performances, curated by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Yas Ahmed. Opening reception and performaances Jan 25, 6pm-9pm. Reg hours Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm; Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Feb 22. 934 Brannan St. www.somarts.org

Megabytes the Musical @ Shelton Theater Morris Bobrow’s comedy song revue about the frustrations of technology. $25-$30. Fri & Sat 8pm thru Mar. 3. 533 Sutter St. megabytesthemusical.com

Older and Out @ North Berkeley Senior Center Weekly group discussion about problems for elders in the LGBT community. 3:15pm. 1901 Hearst Ave., Berkeley. pacificcenter.org

OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer @ GLBT History Museum Exhibits OUT/LOOK and the Birth of the Queer, an exhibit about the LGBT quarterly, curated by E.G. Crichton: closing reception Fri. Jan. 26, 7pm9pm. Also, Faces of the Past: Queer Lives in Northern California Before 1930, part of the Queer Past Becomes Present exhibit. $5. 4127 18th St. glbthistory.org

Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times @ diRose Center for Art, Napa Group exhibit of conceptual art that explores the dangers of contemporary times and ideas, with Rigo 23, Allison Smith, Ala Ebtekar, and Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian showcase works that represent fear and foreboding. Opening reception 3pm-6pm. Thru May 27. 200 Sonoma (Carneros) Highway, Napa. www.dirosaart.org

Ida Lupino Films @ Berkeley Art Museum/ Pacific Film Archive Screenings of films starring the innovative actress who wrote, produced and directed films in the ‘40s and ‘50s. $5-$13. Thru Feb 24. 2155 Center St., Berkeley. www.bampfa.org

The Kipling Hotel @ The Marsh Don Reed’s acclaimed comic autobiographical solo show, about his tough life growing up in 1980s LA, returns. $20-$100. Sat 5pm, Sun 5:30pm. thru Jan. 27. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

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Sun 28

Out of Site Salon @ Castro Home

African American South (thru April 1) and amazing modern and historic art. Free/$15. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. www. famsf.org

Various Exhibits @ NIAD Art Center, Richmond Exhibits of art by visiting professionals, and art made by developmentally disabled people. Mon-Fri 10am-4pm. 551 23rd St. Richmond. (510) 620-0290. www.niadart.org

Wild SF Walking Tours @ Citywide Enjoy weekly informed tours of various parts of San Francisco, from Chinatown to the Haight, and a ‘radical’ and political-themed LGBT-inclusive tour. Various dates and times. $15-$25. wildsftours.com

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The Laramie Project @ Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto Palo Alto Players’ production of Moises Kaufman’s powerful play about the murder of Matthew Shepard and its after-effects in a Wyoming community. $25-$52. 7:30pm, Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm. Thru Feb. 4. 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. www.paplayers.org

LGBTQ Histories from the WWII Home Front @ Rosie the Riveter Visitor Education Center, Richmond Park indoor exhibit that showcases the lives of historic LGBT people. Open daily 10am-5pm. 1414 Harbour Way South, Suite 3000, Richmond. www.roseitheriveter.org

Meow Meow @ Davies Symphony Hall The saucy chanteuse performs a special concert with Pink Martini pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. $15$69. 8pm. 201 Van Ness Ave. http://www.sfsymphony.org/

Miya Ando @ Nancy Toomey Gallery

Peking Acrobats @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley The Chinese acrobats and musicians return for more amazing shows. $15-$76. 2pm & 8pm. Also Jan 28, 3pm. UC Berkeley campus. calperformances.org

Political Snarkasm @ Hotel Rex Comic music duo Sandy and Richard Riccardi perform their witty takes on current government idiocies. $30-$50. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. societycabaret.com

Porchlight Reading @ Swedish American Hall Comics Aisling Bea, Chris Garcia, Maeve Higgins, Kevin McDonald, and Mo Willems tell tall tales; part of SF Sketchfest. $25. 7:30pm. 2174 Market St. www.eventbrite.com

SF Hiking Club @ Black Mountain Join GLBT hikers for a six-mile hike at Black Mountain in Monte Bello Open Space Preserve on the Peninsula. Carpool meets 9:00 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. (650) 533-7284. www.sfhiking.com

Tender Life @ Tenderloin Museum

Oborozuki (Moon Obscured by Clouds), the artist’s evocative exhibit of paint-on-aluminum depictions of clouds. Thru Feb 22. 1275 Minnesota St. http://nancytoomeyfineart.com/

Tender Life: Graphic and Ceramic Memories of Tenderloin Living, 1999-2004, a group exhibit of contemporary ceramic and other works by Holly Coley and others. 398 Eddy St. tenderloinmuseum.org

Object Action: The ‘F’ Word in a Post-Truth Era @ State

Teotihuacan @ de Young Museum

Collect for Change’s politicallythemed multimedia group feminist response to the current political climate. Thru Feb 16. 1295 Alabama St. akart.com/collect-for-change

Teotihuacan : City of Water, City of Fire, a new interactive exhibit of archeological discoveries from the ancient Mexican city (thru Feb. 11). Also, Revelations: Art from the

New exhibit that showcases traditional and contemporary Korean fashion as art. Many other exhibits of sculpture and antiquities. Free-$20. Thru Feb 4. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

OutLook Video @ Channel 29 The weekly LGBT TV show, with updates on current events. 9:30pm. www.outlookvideo.org

Out of Site Salon @ Castro Home Enjoy wine, treats and enchanting excerpts from Seth Eisen’s newest show, spanning a century and half of queer history, with several performers, all in a stately home filled with queer art collections. $150-$250. 1:30pm-4:30pm. 4421 20th St. www.eyezen.org

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

Question Bridge @ Oakland Museum Question Bridge: Black Men, a video installation with 160 Black American men discussing important current themes of race and class (thru Feb 25). Other exhibits about local art and natural history; Nature’s Gift: Humans, Friends and the Unknown, a large-scale immersive installation, thru Jan, 21. Friday night events, too. $7-$16. Wed-Sun 11am-5pm (til 9pm Fridays). 1000 Oak St., Oakland. www.museumca.org

Kelli O’Hara @ Herbst Theatre The Tony-winning musical theatre star performs songs and tells stories with accompanist/host Seth Rudetsky as part of the Broadway @ Concert series; proceeds benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, SF Gay Men’s Chorus, and other local nonprofits. $50-$100. 5pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. markcortalepresents.com

Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter @ Legion of Honor Dual exhibition of works by the painter and sculptor. Free/$30. Thru Jan. 28. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/

Magnificent Magnolias @ SF Botanical Garden Visit the lush gardens for winter Magnolia displays, plus many other trees and plants. Free with SF proof of residency. $5-$10 for others. 7:30am-closing. 9th Ave at Lincoln Way. sfbotanicalgarden.org

Gautier Capuçon, The Royal Philharmonic @ Davies Symphony Hall The acclaimed cellist performs Debussy’s Petite Suite, Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Stravinsky’s The Firebird with the orchestra. $39-$85. 7:30pm. 201 Van Ness Ave. www.sfsymphhony.org

Shut Up and Draw @ Strut Comic artist Justin Hall leads a fun workshop for queer artists to draw, share tips and workshop with the award-winning artist/editor’s erotic comic theme, Sequential Desire. Free/BYO paper, pens. 6pm-9pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Smile! The Comics of Raina Telgemeier @ Cartoon Art Museum New exhibit of works by the awardwinning author and illustrator of graphic novels, at the museum’s new location. Free/$10. Thu-Tue 11am5pm. 781 Beach St. Thru Mar. 20. https://www.cartoonart.org/

White Elephant Preview Sale @ Sale Warehouse, Oakland The Oakland Museum’s 59th annual benefit sale offers thousands of items (clothing, artworks, home items). $15-$20. 10am-4pm. Free shittle service from fruitvale BART. 333 Lancaster St., Oakland. http://museumca.org/

Mon 29

Isaac Julien’s Playtime @ Fort Mason Trio of video installations by the award-winning British artist. Free. Wed-Sat, 12pm8pm; Sunday, 11am-5pm. Thru Feb 11. Gallery 308, FMCAC Visitor Center, SFAI Gray Box Gallery. 1 Marina Blvd. fortmason.org

Book Club @ Strut The gay book club discusses Andrew Sean Greer’s The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells. 7:30pm. 470 Castro St. www. strutsf.org

Sun 28 Gautier Capuçon with The Royal Philharmonic @ Davies Symphony Hall

Fantasy Life @ SF City Hall Tabitha Soren’s 15-year project photographing Oakland A’s players through their careers. Extended thru March 23. Ground Floor & North Light Court. http:// www.sfartscommission.org

Laura Bock @ Folio Books Reading and talk with the author of Red Diaper Daughter: Three Generations of Rebels and Revolutionaries. 7pm. 3957 24th St. http://foliosf.com/

William Blake in Color @ William Blake Gallery

Robert Rauchenberg @ SF MOMA Erasing the Rules, a new expansive exhibit of work by the post-modern artist; thru March 25. Also, Walker Evans ; an exhibit of 300 prints by the acclaimed historic photographer of American culture from the 1930s, with 100 of his own collected artifacts. Also, exhibits of Pop, Abstract and classic Modern art. Free/$25. Fri-Tue 10am-6pm. Thru Feb 4. 151 3rd St. www.sfmoma.org

Exhibit of classic plates in the new gallery of historic art by the 18th- and 19th-century poet and illustrator. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm. Sat 11am-5pm. 49 Geary St. #205. www.williamblakegallery.com

Tue 30 Nick Aitken @ The Academy The fashion photographer’s exhibit, Paper Dolls: A Deck of Playing Cards, (local celebrity portraits) at the new barbershop & lifestyle lounge. 2166 Market St. www.nickaitken.net https://academy-sf.com/

The Rose That Grew From Concrete @ LGBT Center Exhibit of multimedia art by members of the Center’s Youth Program. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org

Unearthed @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth; new exhibit, From Stone Age to Space Age, showcases minerals through time. Special events each week, with adult nightlife parties many Thursday nights. $20-$35. Mon-Sat 9:30am5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Cabaret>>

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Hello, Carol! Nicky Ciampoli celebrates theater legend Carol Channing

Nicky Ciampoli as Carol Channing.

by David-Elijah Nahmod

he’s one of the most legendary names in musical theater. On January 31, her 97th birthday, Carol Channing will be celebrated at the Oasis when Nicky as Carol Channing takes to the stage. Channing is a San Francisco native, a graduate of Lowell High School. The Carol Channing Theater now stands on the school grounds. Ciampoli’s Oasis show promises to be a particularly special performance. He didn’t learn how to “do” Channing by watching the diva perform. He was actually a friend and confidant of the star. For a number of years Ciampoli worked as the

personal assistant to Channing and her late husband Harry. “The three of us would make lunch together, eat together, do shopping together; we were like a family,” Ciampoli told Bay Area Reporter. “It almost felt as if they were my very own Grandparents. Most nights we would sit in her bedroom and watch old movies or news programs that were on TV. Carol loved watching The View since she is very good friends with Barbara Walters and Whoopi, so there’s a little trivia for you. I could go on and on about what life was like with her!” For more than seventy years, Channing has been one of musical theater’s most celebrated and beloved stars. She won the cov-

eted Tony Award for Hello Dolly, her signature role, which she has played thousands of times all over the world. She received three other Tony nominations, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995. She has also appeared in films, winning a Golden Globe and scoring an Oscar nomination for her role in the film Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) wjere her character coins the exclamation, “Raspberries!” Channing also made many appearances on television. A longtime supporter of the gay community, Channing told talk show host Conan O’Brien that gays make the best audiences. “I’m an honorary lesbian,” she told a somewhat bemused O’Brien as she boasted proudly about all the drag queens in Las Vegas who were “doing her.” With Channing, according to Ciampoli, what you see is what you get; the onstage and offstage personas were not the same. “Although she was known as dizzy blonde, frankly she was the complete opposite. She was very smart,” he said. “Carol is very intelligent, to carry on a conversation with her was remarkable. If she didn’t know a subject, she would listen and her big brown eyes would enlarge if it was exciting to her. One thing you better have is excellent grammar, otherwise she would correct you. Trust me, I have been corrected!” Ciampoli added that his ex-boss knows about the shows he’s doing. “I’m her younger sister,” he said. He noted that Nicky as Carol Channing wouldn’t be the ‘campy’ Channing which many drag queens have done, but a recreation of an actual Carol Channing concert. He’ll be performing songs from Channing’s signature shows, Hello Dolly and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, among other shows, and will share

Various Events @ Oakland LGBTQ Center

Nath Ann Carrera @ The Stud

Dennis Conkin @ Tenderloin Museum

Social events and meetings at the new LGBTQ center include film screenings and workshops, including Bruthas Rising, trans men of color meetings, 4th Tuesdays, 6:30pm. Film screenings, 4th Saturdays, 7:30pm. Game nights, Fridays 7:30pm-11pm. Vogue sessions, first Saturdays. 3207 Lakeshore Ave. Oakland. oaklandlgbtqcenter.org

The New York artist performs The Early Southern Gothicism of Dolly Parton, a concert of the country singer’s darker early music. $10. 7pm. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Opening reception for Color is Pure Feeling, the local artist and former B.A.R. journalist’s exhibit of vibrant abstract paintings. 7pm. Thru Mar. 31. 398 Eddy St. www.tenderloinmuseum.org

Queerest Library Ever @ SF Public Libraries

Justin Vivian Bond @ Oasis

Hormel at 20: Celebrating Our Past/ Creating Our Future, a dual exhibit of archival materials celebrating two decades of the LGBTQ collections. 100 Larkin St., 3rd floor, and at the Eureka Valley Branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. www.sfpl.org

The captivating cabaret star returns home for a new show devoted to Karen Carpenter. $25-$35. ($250 VIP champagne tables). 7pm & 10pm. Also Feb 2 & 3. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Wed 31 Alexander & Meraki String Quartets @ Hotel Rex Early evening concert of classical music. $25. 6:30pm. 562 Sutter St. www.sfperformances.org

Thu 1

Bernadette Bohan @ Paxton Gate

Deborah Roberts @ Jenkins Johnson Gallery

All That Glitters is Gold, a new exhibit of the Bay Area sculptor’s amazing whimsical toyassemblages. Thru mid-Feb. 766 Valencia St. /paxtongate.com

Opening reception for the artist’s collage portraits of African American girls. 5:30pm-7:30pm. Thru March 17. 464 Sutter St. jenkinsjohnsongallery.com

Kei Takei’s Moving Earth Orient Sphere @ CounterPulse The SF dance company performs Light: Part 44 & 47 (Bamboo Forest) and a new work, Run. $20-$35. 8pm. Thru Feb 3. 80 Turk St. counterpulse.org

SF Independent Film Fest @ Roxie, Victoria Theaters 29th annual festival of 33 features and 51 short films, including classic French noir, a documentary tribute to Dennis Hopper, and parties. $15$200 (full filmfest pass). Thru Feb 15. Roxie, 3117 16th St.; Victoria, 2961 16th St. www.sfindie.com

West Side Story Live @ Davies Symphony Hall Screening of the classic 1961 film adaptation of the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical, with the SF Symphony performing the score. $45-$79. 8pm. Feb 1, 2, 3 8pm. 8pm. 201 Van Ness Ave.sfsymphony.org

Thu 1

Dennis Conkin @ Tenderloin Museum

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stories. And it’s all performed live. Ciampoli promises that there will be no lip-syncing. “I think that Carol has left a print in life for sure,” he said. “Sadly she is one of the few left from early Broadway. Carol has played for kings and queens and to thousands of audiences. We should all hope to be like her; a wonderful giving soul that tried to bring a little laughter and happiness.”t Nicky as Carol Channing @ Oasis: Performer Nicky Ciampoli pays drag homage to the illustrious Broadway and TV star in a comedy and music solo show. $27.50-$40. Wednesday, January 31 at 8pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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Above: Nicky Ciampoli in a recent performance as Carol Channing. Below: Nicky Ciampoli as Carol Channing at the Palm Springs Canyon Theatre in 2017.

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28 • Bay Area Reporter • January 25-31, 2018

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NightLife @ California Academy of Sciences The museum parties return. Jan. 25: DJ Kirk, The science of bubbles, chemistry demos, watercolor workshops. Feb 1: celebrate the Year of the Dog with DJ King Most, Chinese martial arts, fosterready dogs, Jing Mo lion dancers and more. $12-$15. 6pm-10pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. calacademy.org/nightlife

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol ; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 3rd is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Royal Variety Show @ Moby Dick Queen Dilly Dally's weekly fun variety show of drag, music and even puppets. 9pm-11pm. 4049 18th St. http://www.queendillydally.com/ http://www.mobydicksf.com/

Thu 25

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars @ Oasis

Queen Dilly Dally’s Royal Variety Show @ Moby Dick

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Thu 25 Academy of Friends @ Sui Generis Cocktail party fundraiser to toast Oscar nominees. $20. 6:30pm8:30pm. 2231 Market St. http://bit.ly/2ERQvvH

Beautiful @ Elbo Room Drag night with Pinche Queen, Florida Man, Abominatrix, Per Sia, Hollow Eve, Cash Monet and host VivvyAnne ForeverMore. $10. 9pm-2am. 647 Valencia St. www.elbo.com

Circle Jerk @ The Nob Hill Theatre Dante Martin leads the downstairs arcade interactive action (before his Jan 26 & 27 shows). $10. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Hush Hush @ The Stud Bookworm edition of the arts and drag night, with authors Stephen Elliot, Girl Horse & Chunk of Gerald, Brittany St. John Newell, Ismael Fofana and Ryan David Tacata. $3-$10. 10pm-3am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Linda Eder @ Feinstein's at the Nikko The stellar vocalist and musical theatre star performs her new cabaret show An Evening With Linda Eder. $90-$130 ($20 food/drink min). 8pm. Also Jan 26 & 27, 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. lindaeder.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa, DJ MC2, themed nights and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Viewing party for the new season special of the popular drag competition show, cohosted by Sister Roma and Honey Mahogany, with porn prizes, lipsynch contest and more. $10-$25. 7pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars @ Port Bar, Oakland BeBe Sweetbriar hosts the East Bay screenings of the new edition of the RuPaul drag competition show. 8pm. 2023 Broadway. portbaroakland.com

Fantasy Friday @ Divas Weekly drag shows at the last transgender-friendly bar in the Polk; with hosts Victoria Secret, Alexis Miranda and several performers. Also Thursdays and Saturdays. Thursday karaoke night. $10. 10pm. 1081 Polk St. www.divassf.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 The popular Latin club includes drag shows, with gogo guys, drink specials and table reservations available. $10$20. 10pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Peter Murphy @ The Chapel The legendary Bauhaus singer and solist performs a series of concerts spanning his musical career. $45-$50. 9pm. Also Jan. 27, 31, Feb. 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14 & 15. 777 Valencia St. petermurphy.info

Poncho Sanchez @ Yoshi's Oakland The acclaimed Latin jazz percussionist performs with his band. $29-$69. 8pm & 10pm. Jan 27, 7:30pm & 9:30pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. https://www.yoshis.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud The saucy women's burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux will titillate and tantalize. $10-$20. 8pm-9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at Piano Fight Theatre. 144 Taylor St. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Fri 26

Wafia @ Rickshaw Stop

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www. auntcharlieslounge.com

Historic SoMa bar's large dudes and admirers night. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. lonestarsf.com

Fri 26 Bbymutha at Swagger Like Us @ Elbo Room

La Bomba Latina @ Club OMG

Bosom Buddies @ Oasis

Dante Martin @ The Nob Hill Theatre The hot new porn stud performs 8pm solo shows and 10pm sex shows with muscle daddy Casey Williams. $25. 8pm & 10pm. Also Jan. 27. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Edwardian World's Faire & Ball @ Regency Ballroom The annual costime ball returns, with a faire and dance party full of circus acts, music, food, drinks and glamorous retro-styish guests. $25$250. Jan 26 & 27, 8pm-2am. 1300 Van Ness Ave. edwardianball.com

The singer with a beautiful voice, and whose new song "Only Love" includes lesbian themes, performs at the popular nightclub; Jaira Burns opens, plus DJ Aaron Axelson. $14-$16. pm. 155 Fell St. wafiamusic.com

Sat 27 Bearracuda @ SF Eagle DJs Victor Rodroguez and Robert Jeffrey spin grooves at the bear party, with a Double Scorpio poppers pop-up shop. $5-$10. 9:30pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Bridge Club @ The Stud The Portland queer DJ collective invades the historic SoMa bar. $5-$10. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. bridgeclubpdx.com

Code @ The Edge The monthly leather men's night at the Castro bar returns; strict leatherkink dress code, please! Clothes check, thanks. Gogo studs, yes. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. edgesf.com

Lips and Lashes Brunch @ Lookout

Enjoy funk, soul & house grooves at the monthly T-dance with DJ Kevin O'Conner, Lotus Disco and Justime; free BBQ, too. $5. 3pm-9pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina's popular drag show, with special guests and great music themes Jan. 27: Star Search Pageant, with cohosts Heklina and Peaches Christ, celebrity judges and a knock-down drag-out contest! DJ MC2 plays grooves. $10. 10pm3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Revamped night at the popular hip hop and Latin dance club. Jan. 27: Abraham & Nakia Renee's birthday party, with Cemora, DJs Rum & Luna. $5-$15. 9pm to 3am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Political Snarkasm @ Hotel Rex Comic music duo Sandy and Richard Riccardi perform their witty takes on current government idiocies. $30$50. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. https://societycabaret.com/

Drag show with DJ Jaffeth. $5. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Kasha Davis and Darienne Lake costar in a comedy music show of live and lipsynch performance. $25-$35. 7pm. Also Jan. 27. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Wafia @ Rickshaw Stop

The Playground @ Club BNB, Oakland

Fri 26 Big Boy @ Lone Star Saloon

Strip down at the skivvies night, hosted by Dulce de Leche, with DJ Spaz. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Love Hangover @ Lone Star Saloon

The Country-Western line-dancing two-stepping dance events celebrates 18 years. Free-$5. 5pm10:30pm. Also Sundays. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

Rock bands play at the famed leather bar. Jan. 25: The Swells, Disastroid, and Bloody Waters. $8. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Underwear Night @ SF Eagle

Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1:30pm. 3600 16th St. lookoutsf.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

Polyglamorous @ F8 Sexitude P.M. @ Oasis Laganja Estrana guests at D'Arcy Drollinger's aerobic dance class and party. Bring your Spandex, crop tops and leg warmers! $7. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Steam @ Powerhouse The bath-house style dance night with DJ Shawn Perry includes a wet towel contest, towel-dancing gogos and more wet action; clothes check and towels, too. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Swagger Like Us @ Elbo Room BbyMutha performs, DavOmakesBeats and Spider DJ the queer electro night. $10. 10pm-2am. 647 Valencia St. www.elbo.com

Kodelmul, Perfect Lovers and Posse guest-DJ the groovy queer & pals dance night, with residents Major, Mark O’Brien and Beya. $7-$12. 10pm-4am. 1192 Folsom St. http://www.feightsf.com/

Sun 28 Aftermath @ SF Eagle Post-beer bust night with dark dance grooves by Charlotte the Baroness, Mozhgan, Solar and Cole. $5. 7pm12am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Coach @ Powerhouse Sports fetish gear night. $5. 10pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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Trivia Night @ Port Bar, Oakland Cranny hosts a big gay trivia night at the new East Bay bar; drinks specials and prizes. 7:30pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Wed 31 Sat 27

Bearracuda @ SF Eagle

Komedy Kiki @ The Stud Laugh it up with Justin Lucas, Jesus U Bettawork and guests at the monthly comedy show. $5. 7pm. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Dirty Musical Sundays @ The Edge Sing along at the popular musical theatre night, with a bawdy edge. 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pmclosing. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Carlitos. (Comedy Open Mic 5:30pm). 7pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar's weekly drag show takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. NY DJ Sharon White from 3pm-6pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Sunday's a Drag @ Starlight Room The weekly brunch and drag show with a panoramic view. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. starlightroomsf.com

Underwear Party @ Lone Star Saloon Strip down to your skivvies at the undy night, with DJ Collin Bass. 9pm2am. 1354 Harrison St. lonestarsf.com

Mon 29 Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm-1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. whitehorsebar.com

Howard Jones @ The Chapel The pop singer-composer performs new and fave songs; Rachel Sage opens. $42-$45. 8pm. 777 Valencia St. https://www.thechapelsf.com/

Kollin Holtz hosts the open mic comedy night. 5:30pm-8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Dick at Nite @ Moby Dick Grace Towers' weekly drag show at the fun local bar. 9pm-12am. 4049 18th St. mobydicksf.com

Follies & Dollies @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Weekly drag show at the historic gay bar. 9:30pm-11:30pm. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Miss Kitty's Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

Nath Ann Carrera @ The Stud The New York artist performs The Early Southern Gothicism of Dolly Parton, a concert of the country singer’s darker early music. $10. 7pm. 399 9th St. at Harrison. studsf.com

Nicky as Carol Channing @ Oasis

Michael Nesmith @ The Chapel

Drag night with Mercedez Munro No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The former Monkees member performs with The First National Band. $50-$55. 8:30pm. 777 Valencia St. thechapelsf.com

No No Bingo @ Virgil's Sea Room

Pan Dulce @ Beaux

Out of Site Salon @ Castro Home Enjoy wine, treats and enchanting excerpts from Seth Eisen's newest show, spanning a century and half of queer history, with several performers, all in a stately home filled with queer art collections. $150-$250. 1:30pm4:30pm. 4421 20th St. eyezen.org/out-of-site

Queens, Kings and Queers of 2017 @ The Stud Third annual drag Graduation show, with a dozen fresh performers like Cassidy LeBlanc and Dusty Mirror. $5. 9pm-2am. 10pm show. free in drag. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. finnishhall.org

Mica Sigourney and Tom Temprano cohost the wacky weekly game night at the cool Mission bar. 8pm. 3152 Mission St. www.virgilssf.com

Pillows @ Powerhouse Glamamore's crafts and drag night. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni's Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht. 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men's night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. .the440.com

Tue 30 High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge Weekly drag and variety show, with live acts and lip-synching divas, plus DJed grooves. $5. Shows at 10:30pm & 12am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. auntcharlieslounge.com

Hysteria Comedy @ Martuni's Open mic for women and queer comics, with host Irene Tu. 6pm-8pm. 4 Valencia St.

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down with the strippers at the clothingoptional night. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. thenobhilltheatre.com

Sun 27

Political Snarkasm @ Hotel Rex

Retro Night @ 440 Castro Jim Hopkins plays classic pop oldies, with vintage music videos. 9pm-2am. 44 Castro St. the440.com

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Comedy Showcase @ SF Eagle

Performer Nicky Ciampoli pays drag homage to the illustrious Broadway and TV star in a live comedy and music solo show that includes the star's hits. $27.50-$40. 8pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Munro's at Midnight @ Midnight Sun

Playmates and soul mates...

The weekly Latin dance night with sexy gogo guys and drag divas, hosted by Amaya Blac & Delilah Befierce. $6. 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. clubpapi.com

Thu 1 Justin Vivian Bond @ Oasis The captivating cabaret star returns home for a new show devoted to Karen Carpenter. $25-$35. ($250 VIP champagne tables). 7pm & 10pm. Also Feb 2 & 3. 298 11th St. sfoasis. com

My So-Called Night @ Beaux Carnie Asada hosts a weekly '90s-themed video, dancin', drinkin' night, with VJs Jorge Terez. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90cent drinks. '90s-themed attire and costume contest. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Nap's Karaoke @ Virgil's Sea Room Sing out loud at the weekly least judgmental karaoke in town, hosted by the former owner of the bar. No cover. 9pm. 3152 Mission St. 8292233. www.virgilssf.com

Rice Rockettes @ Lookout Local and visiting Asian drag queens' weekly show with DJ Philip Grasso. $5. 10:30pm show. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

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30 • Bay Area Reporter • January 25-31, 2018

Dante’s inferno Porn’s smooth stud shows it off at The Nob Hill Theatre

by Cornelius Washington

ante Martin is one of the freshest, most adorable men in porn. His humility, sense of self-awareness and manners, in combination with a physicality that can only be labeled as ‘Muscle Bomb,’ comes to The Nob Hill Theatre to pair with local legend Casey Williams. Bring your money, your smelling salts, lube, condoms and buy your favorites in the lobby. Prepare to be stirred, shaken and seduced beyond reason. Welcome to The Nob Hill Theatre. To what are you most looking forward to during your debut performances here? First, let me say that I’m very excited! I am just really looking forward to meeting new people in San Francisco. Have you ever worked with performance partner Casey Williams before? What do you imagine doing with, to and for him? I have never worked with Casey before. I just hope that my professionalism comes through and Casey enjoys himself. What was performing at San Francisco HustlaBall2017 like for you? HustlaBall in San Francisco was interesting. I enjoyed my time there. I met a lot of people, and the other porn performers are nice. I have performed at the last two Las Vegas HustlaBalls. I think my favorite aspect of them is just the thrill of meeting other people who do what I do. How did growing up in Cleveland, Ohio affect how and when you embraced your sexuality? Another great question! I grew up in a very small suburb of Cleve-

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land. My graduating class had only 74 people. Since it was so small, no one was really lost in the mix. This, I think, subconsciously influenced me to keep my sexuality to myself. It wasn’t until I left Ohio for New York City to that I began to learn my sexuality, and it took years afterward to accept it. You’ve stated that you’ve enjoyed sex with men and women. How do you identify, sexually? Do you think that that’s even necessary? I am very passionate about this particular facet of sexuality. People

in America are quite particularly obsessed with knowing this information. People who meet me will usually ask what orientation I am, and are surprised when I respond with the monosyllabic response of ‘Yes.’ I do this because it’s my casual protest to that question. Eventually, I will say ‘both,’ meaning I find both men and woman attractive. I don’t think sexual labels are needed or even required. Have you ever been asked to film porn for NextDoorHookups, ND’s opposite-sex site?

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ating a story, characters, locations, etc., and seeing that interpreted by programmers and artists is a dream for me. What are the greatest and most overrated video games of the past 5-10 years? Are you sure that you want to open this can of worms? In the interest of sparing your audience a 40-page dissertation on the subject, I’ll make this quick. Arguably, the most important game of the last 10 years is The Last of US. I say ‘important’ for a reason; it brought about a greater awareness to the general public of video games’ capabilities. The game also happens to be fun as hell to play! Who are your fantasy film/ video game sex and/or porn scene partners? I love this question! I would like to have sex with Kenshiro, from Fist of the North Star. He would be able to take care of me for sure and beat anyone in a fight. I love Cell from Dragon Ball Z. He’s an android, but who cares? Lastly, I love Ivy from Soul Calibur. That woman has everything going for her. How do you maintain such a beautiful (read: never overpumped) physique? Well, as they say, the body is made in the kitchen. Genetics is also a big plus, but the Japanese are right when they say “What you eat is what you are.” You’re one of the few porn stars who has not covered his body in tattoos. I dislike tattoos in general. I find their ubiquity to be also slightly unnerving. Please understand, I have met people who have beautiful tattoos. I don’t hate them, certainly. I just don’t want one for myself. What do you want the LGBTQ community to understand about itself and each other? I would like the community to understand that as we assimilate ourselves more and more into the general public, we don’t lose our unique identity.t

Read more with Dante Martin at ebar.com/bartab Dante Martin performs 8pm solo shows and 10pm sex shows with Casey Williams at The Nob Hill Theatre. $25. Jan. 26 & 27. He also leads the interactive Circle Jerk on Thursday, Jan. 25 ($10, 9pm). 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com Official Instagram: instagram.com/ therealdantemartin/ HookedOnPhotography Facebook Page: facebook.com/hookedonproductions/ Cornelius Washington’s Erotic Fetish Photography: cuirphoto.com

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Jock Sundays @ Lookout

ock Sundays at The Lookout bar continues to offer a great balcony view, a fun crowd, grooves by DJ Guy Ruben, and the amusing combination of sports fans and drag queens at the weekly fundraisers for local LGBT teams. The January 21 event raised funds for the upcoming Golden Gate Bowling tournament. 3600 16th St. at Market http://lookoutsf.com/ See plenty more photos on BARtab’s Facebook page, facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at StevenUnderhill.com.