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GivingThanks to those that give back to the community. uring this time of thanksgivlike the B.A.R. cannot be overstatLETTER ing, we would like to thank ed. This year alone, we broke stothose individuals and busiries important to our community Paper is a community watchdog nesses whose advertising in the Bay that had an impact on hundreds of No one could read your articles and editorial ... Area Reporter has enabled the pub- and feel anything but pain and regret. ... But how people – stories that would not lication to continue providing would most people in the community even know have been given the same attention about these issues if it weren’t for the Bay Area Requality news and arts coverage of porter? Who else can or does bring these problems or perspective from mainstream to light, even when it’s not popular? interest to the LGBT community. media. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a We would also like to thank our watchdog The B.A.R.’s arts coverage is secas “one that guards against loss, waste, readers, who value our product and theft, or undesirable practices.” The Bay Area’s ond to none in the Bay Area. With LGBT community is fortunate that the B.A.R. is a drastic cuts at major area publicapick it up each week – or read it on- watchdog – our watchdog – and we are better off tions, our arts staff has continued line – and who also support us by because of it. The mainstream press does not cover patronizing the advertisers who the LGBT community in any real depth, and some to cover the full spectrum of offerLGBT newspapers are struggling financially. We ings from museums, music, dance, support our community. need the B.A.R. to continue as a healthy and vibrant performance, theater, film, books, As we are all aware, these are dif- resource ... . Thank you for being our watchdog. and more. Our insightful critics ficult economic times for everyone, – Bill Ambrunn have years of experience in their which is why advertiser support is ~ B.A.R., Vol. 40, No. 40, Oct. 7, 2010 ~ fields and bring their passion to so critical to a publication like the B.A.R. Covering a niche communiour local arts scene each week. ty as we do does not insulate us from the national This year we also launched BARtab, the Bay Area's trends affecting print publications, and we can’t do our premiere monthly LGBT entertainment and nightlife job of bringing you the news each week without ad- magazine and complementary website that contains vertising support. Many print publications continue complete listings for things to do and places to go. So when you pick up a copy of the B.A.R., we ask to downsize and reduce resources for news-gathering, which hurts all of us who value a robust press. Other that you support the businesses that support us. ToLGBT communities across the country have even lost gether, with readers and advertisers, we will keep the Bay Area LGBT community informed, entertained, their local newspapers. The importance of an LGBT community newspaper and up to date on the matters that affect us all.

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‘Curious George saves the day: The arts of Margret and H.A. Rey.’

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City made famous by filmmaker John Waters is an offbeat delight.

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PrEP cuts Money woes hit gay, AIDS fundraisers HIV risk I by 44% ong-awaited data from the iPrEx trial, published Tuesday, November 23 in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that HIVnegative gay and bisexual men who take preventive antiretroviral drugs – Robert Grant known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP – can reduce their risk of infection by as much as 70 percent. “This calls for celebration,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, director of the San Francis-

The Academy of Friends Oscar gala this year lost some of its cachet like the 2000 event, above, when it was later revealed that the organization could not meet current obligations to its beneficiaries.

donors to large corporations hesitating to provide funds, downsizing their donations, or stopping their giving altogether. “The whole third-party fundraising model is really under siege since the recession,” Brett Andrews, executive director of Positive Resource Center, which has partnered with Academy of Friends

and Under One Roof, said in an e-mail this fall. Despite the problems, however, many say the model is worth keeping.

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Gay voters shift slightly to GOP by Lisa Keen he number seemed startling: 31 percent of voters who identified as “gay, lesbian, bisexual” in a national exit poll on November 2 said they voted Republican. Just two years ago, only 19 percent voted for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Is the “gay vote” for Republicans really changed that much? Is it really that large – 31 percent? Keen News Service looked at the vote November 2 in precincts in heavily gay neighborhoods in six cities around the country. That data suggests the gay vote for Republicans was 26 percent. But that 26 percent represents a seven percent increase over how those same precincts voted in the 2006 midterm elections. And when you consider that the national exit poll data was re-weighted a few days after the election so it would correspond with actual election results – meaning the estimate of the gay vote for Republicans is now calculated at 29 percent – then the two data sets are not that far off. Furthermore, notes Patrick Egan, a public opinion specialist and professor at New York University, both sets of data show a relatively similar shift. Between 2006 and 2010, the exit poll data showed a shift of about five points toward voting Republican. The gay precinct data showed a shift of about seven points. “The precinct data corroborates the exit poll data and indicates that gays joined the rest of the electorate in shifting slightly more toward Republicans in 2010,” said Egan, who examined both sets of data. And the gay vote shift between 2006 and 2010 was not so unusual. “We saw shifts among every demographic group toward Republicans,” he said, “and gays were among them.” The national exit poll data was collected by an independent firm, Edison Research, for a coalition of national news organizations called the National Election Pool. This year’s data was based on information collected from 17,504 voters as they left 268 polling places around the country on November 2. To collect data from the many voters who vote absentee, by mail, or early,

by Seth Hemmelgarn he San Francisco AIDS Foundation has named Neil Giuliano, a gay man known nationally for his work as president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and as the former mayor Neil Giuliano of Tempe, Arizona, as its new CEO. Giuliano, 54, is set to join SFAF on December 13. His salary will be $249,000. He is HIV-negative. The foundation, which has a budget of about $21.5 million, combines evidencebased programs for HIV prevention and care with policy advocacy. In addition to Magnet, the gay men’s health center in the Castro, the foundation also oversees the Stonewall Project, an agency that provides counseling for gay and bisexual men who use crystal methamphetamine. “San Francisco AIDS Foundation has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV/AIDS since day one,” Giuliano, who wasn’t available for an interview, said in a statement from the foundation. “As we approach the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of HIV, we must collaborate like never before and pioneer new approaches to HIV prevention, testing and

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the researchers also interviewed another 1,601 voters by phone. How the gay or lesbian voter cast his or her ballot in the House race determined how they were scored in the exit poll. The re-weighted exit polling data can be viewed at CNN’s website. The gay precinct data was collected from election officials and/or their websites for Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Provincetown, San Francisco, and South Beach. Precincts were chosen in neighborhoods which local gay activists or newspaper editors had identified as heavily gay populated. The data covered a total of 20,882 voters in 34 precincts. With the gay precinct data, one city, Boston, posed a problem because its House race involved an unopposed Democratic incumbent. However, a look at how gay precincts voted in the governor’s race indicated a similar increase (6.7 percent) – from 13.9 percent Republican in 2006 to 20.6 percent in 2010.

Strengths, weaknesses Both sets of data have their strengths and weaknesses. Exit polls capture a random sample but, when it comes to the lesbian, gay, and bi-

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sexual vote, tend to be more heavily bisexual. Vote tallies from heavily gay precincts can capture the actual vote of a much larger sample of people but tend to be more white, gay, male, metropolitan, and wealthy and are muddled by the votes of at least an equal number of heterosexuals. Egan said it’s hard to say which is “more accurate.” “Social scientists like to see lots of different pieces of evidence before coming to a firm conclusion about some kind of change,” said Egan. “But the fact that we’re seeing similar shifts in both [data sets], gives us much more confidence that a true change did happen between 2006 and 2010.” Other nuggets of information gleaned from the heavily gay precinct data include: • South Beach precincts voted more strongly Republican than any of the other cities – 48.8 percent. The closest second was Dallas with 41.9 percent. • San Francisco precincts had the strongest Democratic vote – 84.1 percent – with Provincetown in second with 83 percent. • The biggest uptick in voting Republican occurred in South Beach, which increased its gay Republican vote by 13.4 percent. • The biggest turnouts occurred in San Francisco – with 68 percent of registered voters casting ballots. Provincetown was second with 63.3 percent of registered voters casting ballots. • There was virtually no change at all in voter turnout in gay precincts in 2010 compared to 2006 – 51.7 percent of registered voters in gay precincts turned out in 2010, compared to 51.5 percent in 2006. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all in gay voting data, however, comes from looking at a chart published by the New York Times of all the national exit polling data collected which included “gay, lesbian, and bisexual” voter identification. It shows that the largest gay vote for Republicans was not in 2010, but in 1998. That’s the year voters shifted away from Republicans, many believe because of the unpopularity of the Republicanled impeachment proceedings against Democratic President Bill Clinton. But that was also just

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n October, the executive director of Academy of Friends, which is popular for its annual Oscar viewing gala, announced his resignation, declining to guarantee that the beneficiaries would receive full payment this year for the tens of thousands of dollars still owed to them. Earlier that month, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee’s board president and executive director both announced their resignations. They left the agency, which organizes one of the world’s largest Pride events, with a deficit estimated at up to $90,000, plus almost $50,000 more owed to beverage partners, who were out thousands of dollars from what they were expecting due to what has been described as a “misunderstanding.” Under One Roof, the shop in San Francisco’s Castro District that returns its net proceeds to numerous HIV/AIDS service organizations throughout the Bay Area, has also been struggling financially. Beneficiaries who in the past have received thousands of dollars a year are now getting only a small slice of that. Third-party fundraising – where one organization gathers money, usually through a large event – and distributes it to other groups, has long been a popular way to raise money in San Francisco. But money’s been tight for many nonprofits in the last two years, with everyone from individual

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Events set for World AIDS Day by Seth Hemmelgarn an Francisco City Hall will be awash in red lights next week as people around the Bay Area prepare to observe the 22nd annual World AIDS Day, Wednesday, December 1. The day is meant to honor people who have been affected by HIV/AIDS and as a reminder of the challenges ahead in fighting the epidemic. In San Francisco, the National AIDS Memorial Grove will mark the 20th anniversary of the Ryan White CARE Act, now known as the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, with two special events to commemorate World AIDS Day. The federal legislation generates more than $2 billion annually in AIDS care funding nationally. The act was named after Ryan White, a 13-year-old Indiana boy who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1984. Ryan, who had contracted the disease from a blood transfusion, became the center of a court battle and national crusade to remain in school. He died in April 1990 at the age of 18. The first-ever Light in the Grove fundraiser will be Tuesday, November 30, from 6 to 9 p.m., with a VIP reception at 5. The grove, located in Golden Gate Park, will be illuminated so guests can experience the evening sky from under a clear, heated tent. The event will feature imaginative lighting, unique performances, and inspiring art installations. At the event, grove officials will honor Pat Christen, a chief architect of the Ryan White act, former executive director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and current president and CEO of HopeLab. Vaidas Skimelis and Jurga Pupelyte, a world-class ballroom dance couple; Velocity Circus Troupe, the San Francisco-based, high-impact performance company; and several local professional dancers will be among the entertainment. Tickets for Light in the Grove are $150 for individuals and $250 for couples. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit

Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of Ryan White, will be recognized at the National AIDS Memorial Grove for her advocacy work.

www.aidsmemorial.org. On December 1, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the grove will observe World AIDS Day with the theme “We Will Never Let Our Nation Forget.” The event is free and will be held rain or shine under a tent in the meadow located in the center of the memorial, followed by a light lunch. The observance will honor people who have advocated for and maintained the political and community will needed to create, pass, fund, execute and reauthorize the CARE Act. Ryan White’s mother, Jeanne White-Ginder, who has been a longtime AIDS advocate, will receive the National Leadership Recognition Award. White-Ginder, who’s expected at the event, will share her reflections about the impact of the CARE Act over the past two decades. Laura Thomas will be receiving the Local Unsung Hero Award. Thomas is a local activist, CARE Council cochair, and deputy state director of the Drug Policy Alliance. The late Senator Edward Kennedy will be honored posthumously with a National Leadership Recognition Award for his role as champion of the original CARE Act, as well as all of his work for equality and respect for all Americans. “As the HIV/AIDS movement enters its third decade, we will remember all of those whose lives have been affected by the pandemic,” John Cunningham, executive director of the grove, said in a statement. “We are pleased to honor local and national leaders who have been an inspirational light in the local and global fight to improve the quality of life for people touched by AIDS.” A new boulder will be installed in the grove to recognize the passage of the CARE Act, the people who made the legislation possible, and the countless lives the CARE Act has saved. Also at the event, winners of the second annual Youth Scholarship Program will be announced. A dozen local high school students from lowincome, multicultural communities have submitted essays expressing the

significance of HIV/AIDS and the grove. Three winners will receive $1,000 college scholarships. “The scholarship program presents the voice of a new generation of activism, and guardians of the grove,” Gina Gatta, co-chair of the grove’s board, stated. “... Having scholarship applicants from the Latino community is especially inspiring, as we need to expand HIV/AIDS education in communities of color most at risk.” The Reverend Naomi Southard from the Berkeley United Methodist Church will deliver the opening invocation and spiritual message. Singer Paula West and the International High School Ensemble Voices are expected to perform at the event. The grove is located in the eastern end of Golden Gate Park at the intersection of Bowling Green and Middle Drive East, across from the tennis courts.

South Bay Also on December 1, at 6 p.m., the Silicon Valley AIDS Leadership Center invites the public to the San Jose City Hall Rotunda, 200 East Santa Clara Street, for a ceremony commemorating World AIDS Day. Doors will open at 5:30. The hourlong event will feature remarks from community leaders, reflections of those impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and a local call to action for those in need. Top Walk for AIDS participants will be recognized, and the event will also include the 20th annual Walk For AIDS museum. The Silicon Valley Gay Men’s Chorus is scheduled to perform.

In other news Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund has released a report examining the “continuing stigma and discrimination” that people with HIV face to policy makers and advocates. “Fear and ignorance about HIV and discrimination against people living with HIV remains a serious problem that both marginalizes people and poses barriers to treatment and care,” Scott Schoettes, HIV Project staff attorney at Lambda Legal, said in a statement about “HIV Stigma and Discrimination in the U.S.: An EvidenceBased Report.” “ ... All levels of government, organizations and individuals who serve and advocate for people living with HIV must work to increase the public’s knowledge about the ways HIV is – and is not – transmitted; eradicate policies and practices that discriminate against people based on their HIV status; and enforce antidiscrimination laws to protect the civil rights of people living with HIV.” The report notes the Obama administration’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy also talks about stigma and discrimination, and says Lambda Legal will continue to push government officials and policymakers.▼ To view a copy of the report, visit www.lambdalegal.org.

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New STD chief faces rising rates in SF by Matthew S. Bajko

Rick Gerharter

New STD chief Dr. Susan Philip

Local efforts Incoming Health Director Barbara Garcia said she has no plans to replace Philip as the city’s STD chief. “Dr. Philip will continue as the director of STD, before being appointed to this role she directed our city clinic where she has been an excellent administrator and clinician. She continues to be a strong STD director and works well with other important sections including HIV and TB,” wrote Garcia in an e-mailed response. Philip, 38, is a married straight woman who lives in San Francisco. She attended both the medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and the Harvard School of Public Health. She also trained as an internal medicine resident at the University of Chicago and was a fellow in adult infectious diseases at UCSF. She is an assistant clinical professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at UCSF and spends two weeks each year at San Francisco General Hospital as an attending doctor seeing patients with various infectious diseases. She also serves on the executive committee of the California STD Controllers Association and on the board of the National Coalition of STD Directors. She had been serving on the San Francisco HIV Health Services Planning Council, also known as the CARE Council, but stepped down after being appointed the acting STD director. Having spent the last five years treating gay men at the City Clinic and working alongside various community partners, Philip said she doesn’t see her own sexual orientation or gender as impediments to doing her job. It was a criticism Klausner often received from his detractors, who questioned how a straight married man could set policies that impacted gay men. “I can’t change that about myself. What I can tell people is I have spent time in this area, in San Francisco, in STDs since 2005. Before I shaped policy I had time to sit back and learn from a lot of community people and advocates,” said Philip. “My time on the CARE Council was very valuable.” Steve Gibson, the director of Magnet, the gay men’s health clinic in the Castro, has worked with Philip since she joined the health department. His clinic is partially funded by the STD section and works collaboratively with City Clinic, and Gibson expects the relationship will continue under Philip. “When she started as the medical director in 2005, we had a really great relationship with her, quite frankly,” said Gibson. “She is very practical and results oriented.” He predicted Philip’s top priority would be ensuring her section has the financial support it needs to combat STD rates.

On the local front, Philip plans to hold public meetings to meet community members sometime in early 2011. Up until now she has not had the time to do so because of her being both the medical director at City Clinic and the STD chief. She also has not made any major changes to the STD section over the last year and a half. She did make waves last year when she instituted limitations on asymptomatic straight men accessing STD tests at city clinics. She justified the cost-saving move by pointing to data that shows few straight men in San Francisco test positive for STDs. The bulk of the city’s STD cases are found in women or gay and bisexual men.

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he city’s new STD chief, Dr. Susan Philip, finds herself tasked with eradicating sexually transmitted diseases as San Francisco once again experiences a spike in rates of both syphilis and Chlamydia. Through September of this year, syphilis cases alone have increased 22 percent compared to the first nine months of 2009. The majority of the cases, 90 percent, remain among men who have sex with men, more than a third of whom have been previously diagnosed with syphilis. At the same time, Philip has fewer resources to do her job as governments at every level grapple with budget deficits. Her funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been cut 25 percent since 2007 and her section lost nearly eight full-time employees since 2009. Her staff now totals 65 people and a budget of $6.1 million for 2010. She has turned to using social media and mobile technology to better reach gay, bisexual, and transgender men. This month her section premiered a free downloadable application for iPhones and other hand-held devices called STD411 that allows users to check their risk for STDs based on their sexual activities. Her philosophy toward the job remains the same as her predecessor, said Philip, which is to focus on and promote sexual health. “I am not, and my section is not, in the business to tell people what kind of sex to have. We don’t see ourselves as the sex police,” said Philip. “We want to give people the best information to take care of their health and their partners’ health. That is our focus.” Outgoing Health Director Dr. Mitch Katz named Philip a deputy health officer and director of the health department’s STD Prevention and Control Services as of July 1. She had been the acting director of the section since July 2009, when Dr. Jeffrey Klausner took a leave of absence to conduct a research study in Africa. Her salary of $196,924 was cut 5 percent this year and next due to budget cuts. During his more than a decade overseeing the city’s STD control programs, Klausner built up a national reputation for his oftentimes aggressive and controversial stances. He battled with everyone from local gay men upset with his policies and owners of Internet hookup sites he accused of not doing enough to combat the spread of STDs to drug companies that make erectile dysfunction drugs, which he wanted to reclassify as illegal substances. The media savvy Klausner was also an innovator and early adopter of using online tools to help combat the spread of STD. He fought to have his staff be given access on hookup sites where they could answer questions about STDs and promoted an online site where people could download a slip for free screening for STDs and HIV. [It failed to attract many users and was shut down last year due to budget cuts.] Klausner resigned earlier this year when he opted to extend his stay in Africa. He is currently the chief of the HIV Care and Treatment Branch for the CDC’s Global AIDS Program in South Africa. Since 2005 Philip has been the medical director of the health department’s City Clinic and had reported to Klausner. She hopes to announce her replacement in mid-December but plans to continue treating HIV patients at the clinic half a day each week.

“Funding, funding, funding,” said Gibson. “The state’s economy is getting worse. I think that is going to be her biggest challenge.” Her methods could also generate scrutiny again from federal lawmakers now that Republicans have regained control of the House. The switch in leadership could also bring with it more pressure to cut spending even further on STD services. “I think it is a cause for some concern. We will have to watch closely and work with our partners who do advocacy for us,” said Philip. “There are going to be challenges and will be people who would like to take this opportunity to try to decrease funding for services like STDs.”

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Dems need to hold firm in Congress I t’s been amusing to watch the incoming Republican representatives and senators as they make their way through the thicket of cable news and Sunday morning talk shows. Almost to a person, they cite the need for the American people to have “adult conversations” about the budget deficit. But when the time comes to actually answer a question about the debt – like what specific budget cuts would be made – the squirming is accompanied by non-answers and vagueness. Of course, the problem is that no politician will publicly advocate cutting Social Security or Medicare. Republicans, especially, aren’t going to think about cutting the defense budget. Yet those three items comprise a significant chunk of the federal budget. If one were to eliminate the Department of Education, a favorite whipping post and red herring for GOPers, it would save such a small amount of money compared to the deficit that it wouldn’t be worth it. The budget deficit is a major problem. One of the reasons Democrats had their hats handed to them on Election Day was that they were perceived as being “big spenders.” But rather than an either/or plan, Congress must come up with a deficit reduction solution that includes both tax increases and spending cuts. At the same time, Congress must be brave enough to let the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans (above $250,000 a year) and extend unemployment benefits. When Republicans take control of the House in January, Democrats must hold firm against the GOP’s penchant for double talk. And Democrats must insist on getting real answers from their GOP counterparts for specific budget cuts. Even Tea Partier Rand Paul, the senator-elect from Kentucky, who campaigned on voting against raising the debt ceiling, won’t be caught on TV calling for a decrease in Social Security of Medicare. The New York Times created a deficit reduction puzzle to let readers weigh in. Nearly 7,000 people responded with a variety of suggested fixes; and while it’s not a scientific sample, one

Pentagon Working Group’s report on “Don’t consensus emerged: reduce the military to less Ask, Don’t Tell” on November 30, one day ahead than its size before the Iraq war. That does not of the original date. Congress doesn’t have include decreasing pay and benefits for much time left in this lame-duck session the military – the choice of only about and the Senate must act soon and vote to 40 percent of respondents. There was repeal this anti-gay policy. Gates has reagreement, too, for reducing nuclear portedly also warned leaders that if Conarsenals and space-based missile degress fails to repeal DADT, the courts may fense spending. order other changes that military leaders When the Republicans were in the miconsider too fast or too poorly thought nority, they became the party of no, criticizing out, according to an Associated virtually every Democratic proposal. Press report. There’s good reason When the next Congress convenes in January, Democrats in the Senate, E DITORIAL for military brass to be concerned. Earlier this fall, a federal judge in which they still control, must hold Riverside found DADT unconstitufirm and not allow House Republitional and ordered its enforcement to cease. cans to distort and obstruct proposals. Who However, an appellate court granted a stay to the knows? Maybe the country will get lucky and the judge’s order while the case makes its way House GOP will shut down the government. We through the appeals process, meaning DADT is remember how that turned out for them the last still in effect. time they did the same thing during the Clinton While Gates realizes that it would be better to administration. have the policy repealed along the careful timeDADT report on its way line he and the administration developed, it is dependent on congressional action. We’re pleased that Defense Secretary Gates Congress must repeal the ban.▼ pushed his staff to release the much-anticipated

Obstacles and challenges for LGBT asylum seekers in the U.S. LGBT immigrants. However, it is disconcerting that that there have been four federal cases at all surrounding n November 16, the San Francisco this issue, and that further emphasizes the need Human Rights Commission’s LGBT Adfor cultural competency and sensitivity training visory Committee held a panel at the for asylum adjudicators and immigration LGBT Community Center on the obstacles and judges. One of the goals of the LGBT advisory challenges in the U.S. asylum process faced by committee coming out of the November 16 LGBT immigrants. When I arrived at the center panel will be to work with the local asylum ofto help set up the room for the evening’s panel, I fices to enhance existing cultural competency was not prepared to be confronted with the realcurriculum for asylum adjudicators, immigralife emotional impact that this topic has on the tion judges, and ultimately detention center perlives of LGBT immigrants in our community. sonnel. Cultural competency is critical to the esBut before I even got past the lobby of the tablishment and maintenance of a fair and just center, a young Middle Eastern gay man process for LGBT asylum seekers who rely on approached me and asked me where he our system to provide an egalitarian process could meet one of the night’s panelists. in their quest for freedom from perseTears gliding down his face, he related cution in their home countries and asythe story of his arrival in the U.S. as a lum in the U.S. refugee just a few months earlier, and In 1996, Congress passed sweeping the agony he suffered over the changes to the Immigration and separation from his partner Nationality Act known as the IlleG UEST O PINION who remained overseas. At that gal Immigration Reform and Immoment, the emotional impact migration Responsibility Act. The of the topic hit me head on. I realized that what act changed asylum law by requiring immipotentially could be a dry panel on an internagrants seeking asylum to submit their applicational human rights issue and the surrounding tions to the government within one year of encomplex legal discussion would actually be a tering the U.S. After the law’s implementation chance for members of our community to learn it was clear that the new one-year filing reabout and discuss a deeply personal and proquirement had a particularly negative impact foundly emotional issue that affects the lives of on LGBT immigrants. Many LGBT persons are many LGBT persons in the San Francisco Bay not even aware that they can qualify for asylum Area. based on persecution for sexual orientation or San Francisco has always been a destination transgender identity. Furthermore, many LGBT point for LGBT immigrants seeking refuge from people live a life of secrecy or are so deeply persecution in their home countries on account traumatized by their persecution that they do of their LGBT identity. Great strides have been not even seek the counsel of an attorney or made over the last 20 years for gays and lesbians legal advocacy organization until well after one seeking asylum in the U.S., and transgender imyear of arriving in the U.S. While waivers of the migrants have also mounted successful asylum one-year filing requirements are available, cases in recent years. Despite these gains, LGBT LGBT immigrants have certainly faced a disasylum seekers have faced clear bias on the part proportionate negative impact because of the of asylum adjudicators and immigration judges rule. As part of a comprehensive immigration who sometimes make credibility findings based reform bill currently making its way through on inherent stereotyping and prejudices about Congress, there is a proposal to eliminate the what gay people “should look like“ and how they one-year filing deadline for asylum seekers. are expected to behave. Four federal circuit However, the poor state of the economy and courts have strongly rebuked a number of imthe high rate of unemployment have derailed migration judges that have made decisions support of any positive immigration reform based on their own false stereotypes and prejuand legislation. As a result, it is imperative that dices in order to deny the asylum applications of

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we support a local resolution to send a message to our national leadership in Congress to support comprehensive immigration reform, which specifically eliminates the prohibitive one-year filing deadline. Finally, the community discussion generated by the LGBT advisory committee’s panel demonstrated the need for a greater dissemination of available community resources to assist LGBT asylum seekers in the Bay Area. Legal services are costly and many seeking asylum in the U.S. cannot afford the assistance of a private attorney. Fortunately, there are a number of organizations and pro-bono legal referral services that provide low cost or free legal services to those seeking asylum. A centralized clearinghouse of available community organizations and resources is needed so that LGBT asylum seekers can easily find the assistance they need to mount successful applications for asylum in the U.S. Under the U.S. asylum laws and procedure, LGBT immigrants have continued to face obstacles and prejudices, despite the emergence of positive case law precedent supporting protection from persecution of gays and lesbians. The granting of asylum is more than a national issue of immigration rights – it is a human rights issue. Because of the various obstacles and difficulties faced by LGBT immigrants due to the misapplication of international and U.S. asylum laws and the prejudicial attitudes of some asylum adjudicators and immigration judges, many deserving LGBT immigrants are not afforded asylum benefits. This is unacceptable because these same individuals have suffered oppression of their human rights and dignity at the hands of their own government, and the denial of their right to asylum simply compounds this oppression and stands in direct opposition to the intent of international refugee and asylum laws.▼ Fayaz Rajani is a resident of San Francisco, and has been an advocate for immigrants for more than a decade. He is a senior immigration case manager at the San Francisco office of a prominent international law firm, and is a member of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission’s LGBT Advisory Committee.

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Friends tussle over gay consultant’s archives by Matthew S. Bajko hree years after the death of gay political consultant Jim Rivaldo, whose clients were a who’s who of progressive San Francisco politicians, his friends are tussling over the ownership of his archives. Rivaldo helped elect the city’s first openly gay leader, Supervisor Harvey Milk, in 1977. He was the last person to speak with Milk before he was murdered in 1978 in his City Hall office by disgruntled ex-Supervisor Dan White, who also gunned down then-Mayor George Moscone. Over the course of the next three decades, Rivaldo would help elect many other LGBT politicians as well as people of color to public office. He was particularly sought out for his deft use of campaign mailers to reach the city’s voters. He was also a pack rat, according to friends. Prior to his death he had accumulated scores of documents and ephemera related to his political work. Rivaldo’s collection filled three metal filing cabinets and up to 40 boxes, said longtime friend Ken Maley. “It was I who originally encouraged him that they needed to be preserved and I made that commitment to him,” Maley, a gay publicist, said of Rivaldo’s archives. P OLITICAL Struggling with life-threatening illnesses due to AIDS complications, Rivaldo moved out of his longtime apartment toward the end of his life into a smaller unit. Maley recalled that there was no room in the new place for his papers, so Rivaldo decided to place them in storage. The cabinets and boxes were moved to the offices of fellow political consultant Ray Sloan, a gay man who worked on White’s campaign and served as an aide to him in City Hall. Sloan said that he and Rivaldo had become friends later in life and worked on political campaigns together. The two would regularly meet for lunch and discuss what to do with Rivaldo’s papers, said Sloan. “Jim and I were going to go through everything when he passed away,” Sloan recently told the Bay Area Reporter. They never had the chance to do so, said Sloan, before Rivaldo died October 16, 2007 at the age of 60. Shortly thereafter San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ellen Chaitin, a close, personal friend of Rivaldo who was named executor of his will, contacted Sloan to take possession of the archival material. But he refused to relinquish them. “They weren’t given to the judge. They were given to me when Jim was alive,” said Sloan, adding that Rivaldo had given him very clear instructions on what to do with the material. “His instructions were to give them to New College or give them to the gay historical society or a museum.” Chaitin insists the archival materials are part of Rivaldo’s estate and should be turned over to her. “When I tried to get it, I was just stonewalled. At first it just appeared it was a scheduling problem. After a while it became quite clear he had no intention of giving it back,” she said. “Why he thinks he is entitled to it, I don’t know.” Rivaldo did not specify in his will where to donate his papers, and Chaitin wouldn’t say what she would do with the materials. “First I have to go through them. I would want to inventory everything and see exactly what is there. I am sure there is a lot of junk; Jim saved

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Jim Rivaldo, with some of the campaign materials he produced for Harvey Milk, was the recipient of the Harry Britt Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 by the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club.

everything,” she said. “You just can’t hand them over to an institution. I would want to whittle down the things of value and then make a decision on where the best place to place them and where the public will have the best access to them.” Sloan insists that is what he has tried to do. Following the closure of New College in 2008, he told the B.A.R. that he contacted a board member of the GLBT Historical Society about donating Rivaldo’s papers. After a year of getting no reN OTEBOOK sponse from historical society officials, Sloan said he recently contacted Susan Goldstein, the chief archivist at the San Francisco Public Library, to turn the papers over to her. “It has been recommended to me she is the right person for me to go through,” said Sloan, adding that he planned to meet with her earlier this month but their appointment was canceled. “Your telephone call reminds me I need to track her down.” Goldstein did not return calls for comment by press time. Karen Sundheim, who oversees the library’s James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, said Goldstein had not informed her about being given Rivaldo’s archive. Paul Boneberg, executive director of the historical society, said he recalls hearing about the material shortly after Rivaldo’s death but was never told that Sloan wanted to turn them over to the LGBT archival group. “I certainly never got a formal offer to donate the papers and I never talked to Ray,” said Boneberg. “We would be very interested in Jim Rivaldo’s papers.” Sloan insists he wants to preserve the materials and make them available to the community and researchers. “It is my commitment to get this to an appropriate venue. That is what I am trying to do,” said Sloan. “I don’t know what the judge’s motivation is.” Chaitin said her primary concern right now is the condition of the material and making sure they are stored properly. She has ruled out trying to obtain them from Sloan through a court issued injunction and hopes the matter can be worked out amicably. “I just didn’t want to go that route. First of all it is ugly. Second, if someone wants to be deceptive, they can be deceptive. They can say they don’t have it or there is nothing there,” said Chaitin. “It is best to try to deal with these things honorably.” At the request of Maley, City Attorney Dennis Herrera tried to reach Sloan to broker a deal this fall. But his entreaties went nowhere, said Herrera. “I believe that Jim Rivaldo’s per-

sonal archives are a treasure trove of information about the political development of the LGBT community in San Francisco going back 35 years,” said Herrera, who hired Rivaldo to work on his first campaign in 2001.“In my estimation it is imperative that his archives and materials be protected in recognition of the treasure they are.” Maley would like to see them become part of a larger collection of archival material culled from the collections of local political consultants, both gay and straight. “I promised Rivaldo on his deathbed I would place his archive in a place for the public to use,” he said. As for Sloan’s insistence the material belongs to him, Maley told the B.A.R. that, “No matter what this guy says, or what he claims his purpose is, I strongly challenge that Jim left his papers to him. Jim’s archive was very important to him and he would not have left them in this guy’s hands.”

Milk march Saturday The annual march to commemorate the lives of Milk and Moscone will take place this Saturday, November 27 in the Castro. It will mark the 32nd anniversary of the progressive leaders’ assassinations. “I think it is important that we celebrate Harvey Milk’s life and that we remember the tragedy and sacrifices of political leaders who came before us, especially Harvey Milk and George Moscone,” said Nathan Allbee, event and fundraising coordinator for the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, which organizes the yearly event. Speeches by community and political leaders are slated to begin at 6 p.m. at Harvey Milk Plaza, the corner of Castro and Market streets. A candlelight march to the site of Milk’s old camera shop at 575 Castro Street will commence at 7.▼ Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion, is on a holiday break and will return Monday, December 6. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 861-5019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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Reggae concert sparks search for common ground by Matt Baume ith just days before a scheduled performance in San Francisco by Capleton, a Jamaican singer with a history of antigay lyrics, organizers are scrambling to salvage the situation by opening a productive dialogue. Jonathan Mack, the event producer who booked Capleton (real name: Clifton George Bailey III), organized a meeting last Friday to discuss the historically adversarial relationship between the LGBT and reggae communities. He invited local leaders such as Supervisor Bevan Dufty and Equality California’s Andrea Shorter. Neither Mack nor the other invitees responded to requests for comment following the meeting. Capleton was scheduled to appear on November 26 at 1015 Folsom, but venue owner Ira Sandler stated earli-

er this month that he would not allow the singer to perform. Last week, Sandler said that he would reconsider that ban depending on feedback from LGBT leaders. Tanya Stephens, a Jamaican dancehall artist known for her highprofile opposition to discrimination, was invited to join Friday’s discussion as well. “I believe all humans are equal,” Stephens wrote in an e-mail to the Bay Area Reporter prior to the meeting. “I believe it is dishonest to expect an individual to contribute to socioeconomic development then be deprived of the benefits of said contributions. ... This is not an LGBT issue or reggae issue, this is a human issue.” Stephens’s song, “Do You Still Care” decries homophobia, comparing it to racism. “When I first performed the song ... the concern was raised by a few

It is unclear whether reggae singer Capleton will perform Friday in San Francisco.

people that it would be professional suicide to include such content,” she said in the e-mail. But, she added, “The feedback I got from Jamaicans was and still continues to be completely supportive.” She expressed confidence that there are other artists who share her views, and that the homophobic rhetoric is limited to a few performers. For his part, Capleton responded to protests by LGBT organizations last week by issuing a statement condemning bigotry and reaffirming his commitment to ending violent lyrics. According to translations by Stop Murder Music, his songs include such lyrics as “I burn everything as long as I know that they’re gay.” “My music does not advocate violence or abuse against anyone, nor do I support prejudice, bigotry or discrimination,” Capleton said in the statement. In the past, he has explained that “burn” is a metaphor for

Thanksgiving meals offered in SF compiled by Cynthia Laird ocal organizations are hosting free Thanksgiving meals for those in need and those who don’t wish to spend the holiday alone. In San Francisco, Tenderloin Tessie will once again hold its annual Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, November 25 from 1 to 4 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin Street (at Geary). The volunteer organization behind Tenderloin Tessie is always accepting donations. For more information, visit www.tenderlointessie.com. Also in the city, Glide Memorial United Methodist Church will hold its Thanksgiving dinner and celebration. The service takes place at 10

Obituaries >> William DelMonico 1965-2010

William Joseph DelMonico, age 45, of Connecticut and California, beloved son of Kathleen DelMonico, brother, relative, and true friend of many, died on Friday, October 29, 2010 in London, England. Bill created a successful business career in the financial, real estate, mortgage and property management industries in California. He received numerous awards for his leadership in the business community, and as founding CEO and President of Integrated Mortgage Corporation on Market Street in San Francisco, his IMC became widely known for customized, personalized services and efficient transactions. Bill worked with community groups helping people and was a friend and benefactor to the LGBT Community. He governed himself by the motto, “Help others achieve their goals.” He will forever be remembered for his generosity of spirit, his loving nature, and especially his perpetual beaming smile. Friends may leave a memory of Bill on www.imorial.com/billdelmonico. Those who wish may make memorial donations in Bill’s name to the American Cancer Society for cancer research. Friends and colleagues are invited to celebrate Bill’s big, beautiful life at A Celebration of Life on December 4 at 3pm at Sullivan’s Funeral Home, 2254 Market Street in San Francisco.

an all-time high over the past two a.m. in the sanctuary. A breakfast is years, while resources have decreased served beforehand from 7 to 8:30 steadily. Donations can be made ona.m. Then the annual line at www.glide.org. Glide Thanksgiving dinner will be served Sonoma Dining out event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers said Food for Thought-Sonoma that about 5,000 meals County AIDS Food Bank will will be served. All be the beneficiary of the ninth events take place at annual Dining Out for the church, 330 Life event scheduled for N EWS B RIEFS Ellis Street. Thursday, December 2. Organizers also noted that the Ron Karp, executive director, said need for Glide’s services has reached that this year 69 Sonoma County

restaurants are participating and will each donate 25 percent or 50 percent of their sales to Food for Thought. “In one day we hope to raise over $90,000,” Karp stated. He added that last year, 5,000 people went out to dinner to support the agency. Reservations are recommended and Food for Thought asks that diners let restaurants know they are coming for Dining Out for Life when making the reservation. For a list of participating restaurants, visit www.diningoutforlife

spiritual cleansing. “It bothers me deeply to hear that some of my past lyrics, which I no longer perform in concert, have been interpreted as offensive to gay and lesbian communities,” he wrote. “Through misinterpretation of my lyrical metaphors, I understand that songs can be interpreted to advocate violence towards gays. ... I no longer and will never play songs that advocates or suggests violence toward any community.” Prior to Friday’s meeting, Mack remained optimistic that common ground could be found between Jamaican reggae artists and the local LGBT community. “Dialogue is needed. That’s all,” he said. He acknowledged that progress in bridging the groups has been slow, but pledged to continue trying. “A lot of people are waiting to see what happens,” he said. “I do believe that I can create peace.”▼

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Few spots left for Walgreens window Castro businessman Patrick Batt, who coordinates the free, nonprofit window display at the Walgreens at 18th and Castro streets, reports that there are only eight spots left for 2011. The window space is available to area nonprofits for 13-day intervals and is a unique way for organizations to get their message out. Interested 501 (c)3 nonprofits should contact Batt as soon as possible at mmosf@aol.com for more information. The only caveats to the displays are nothing pornographic, political or provocative.▼

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by Seth Hemmelgarn t may not seem like it at first, but Baltimore – known as “Charm City,” among other nicknames – does indeed have some charm to it. There’s more to the Maryland city, settled in the early 17th century, than the scenery that filmmaker John Waters made famous in camp favorites like Pink Flamingos and Hairspray. Among the brick row houses and restaurants serving crab cakes, visitors can also find an art museum where a giant pink poodle is the star, and a cafe that celebrates women in beehives and leopard print jackets.

Main attractions The American Visionary Art Museum (www.avam.org), 800 Key Highway, is one highlight of the city. Co-curators for the “What Makes Us Smile” exhibit (through September

4, 2011) include The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Fifi, a giant pink poodle, is the “grand dame” of the museum’s Almost Famous Annual East Coast National Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race, where human-powered art compete for prizes like the Mediocre Award. The next race is May 7. The museum also includes a 12foot Divine, the star of Pink Flamingos and many other Waters films. Admission to the museum is $15.95 for adults, $13.95 for seniors 60 and up, and $9.95 for students. Members and children 6 and under get in for free. There are special rates for groups of 10 or more. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and closed Mondays, except Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January, 17. The National Aquarium (www.aqua.org), at 501 East Pratt Street, has everything from dolphins to birds. A main attraction at the aquarium is the 4-D Immersion Theater. Tickets that include admission to the aquarium, the theater and the dolphin show are $29.95 for adults 12-59, $28.95 for seniors 60 and up, and $24.95 for children 3-12.

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Anyone with an appreciation for kitsch and comfort food should enjoy Cafe Hon (www.cafehon.com), at 1002 West 36th Street in the city’s Hampden neighborhood. The cafe, owned by Denise Whiting, celebrates the women who embody the spirit of “hon,” as in “How ya’ doin’, Hon?” “Hons” have traditionally been known for beehive hairdos and leopard prints. Since the 1990s, the cafe has been behind the annual Honfest (www.honfest.net). The June festival, which stretches for several blocks, draws thousands of people. Thomas Whiting, Denise Whiting’s son, said that when Cafe Hon moved to the location in the 1990s, “we were the only restaurant in the area.” But they’re not alone anymore. The neighborhood, which one local said is “swarming with gays,” also features Japanese, Mexican, and other eateries. Sotto Sopra (www.sottosopra.us), at 405 North Charles Street in the historic Mount Vernon district, is next to the Basilica – the first Catholic cathedral in the country. The restaurant bills itself as “the soul of Italy in the

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Fifi, a giant pink poodle, is the “grand dame” of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.

heart of Baltimore.” The heavily mirrored and muraled contemporary Italian restaurant often features performances by singers such as Elio Scaccio, who’s known for familiar standards as well as classical pieces.

Lodging The Hotel Monaco (www.monaco-baltimore.com), 2 North Charles Street, was built in 1906 as the headquarters for B&O Railroad. Owned by the Kimpton Hotel chain, it’s been restored and features lots of high ceilings and marble. Rates appear to start at about $200 a night in the winter. In the historic Federal Hill neighborhood, the Scarborough Fair Bed and Breakfast offers literature-themed guest rooms that balance antique-looking decor with modern amenities such as flat screen TVs. The inn, at 801 South Charles Street, has six guestrooms. Barry Werner, 33, and his partner, Jeff Finlay, 44, have owned Scarborough Fair for about three and a half years. Werner said he wanted to be an innkeeper ever since he was a child, when he would use crayons to draw what the rooms would look like, and make up menus. Now, he offers homemade cookies and other treats. A love of literature is reflected throughout the bed and breakfast. One example is the Edgar Allan Poe suite, which is colored in plums and grays. Portraits of the author and his wife complete the effect. Room rates at the inn vary. The Poe suite is available for $219 to $229 through February 28. Special event prices may apply for certain dates. One special event could be if Maryland legislators approve same-sex marriage, which the Gay Politics site says they could do by spring. Asked in a recent phone interview if

he and Finlay would marry if it becomes legal in their state, Werner said they would. “We will be one of the first in line,” he said. He also said the assessment that no one area of the city stands out as “the gay neighborhood” is accurate. “Most gay bars are in the Mount Vernon area,” he said. “... But a bar does not a neighborhood make. Baltimore, for the most part, is a good enough city that we’re all over the place.”

Nightlife Indeed, there are several bars in Mount Vernon, and out of the handful that the Bay Area Reporter visited, Club Bunns – 608 West Lexington – stood out. The sign on the front door said, “Positively no transaction of illegal drugs or illegal drug use on the premises,” but nobody appeared to be letting those prohibitions stop them from having fun. There’s almost nothing to the place except for the dance floor, which was packed. Other bars in the area include Grand Central (centralstationpub.com), which on its website refers to itself as “Baltimore’s best gay and lesbian entertainment complex,” at 1001/1003 North Charles Street.

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Rugger pays surprise visit to SF weather was cold. There is an informal familiarity in rugby, a fundamental fellowship recognizable whether players hill was in the air, fog enare close teammates, longtime rivals, veloped the city, fickle rains or newly met strangers. The locals came and went, and constant teased Thomas about the breezes bit exposed faces and hands lovely weather as they lent as rugby players and fans him a cap and jacket and gathered Saturday on Treafetched him a cup of cofsure Island to see the San fee. Francisco Fog tackle the “Where I live in Wales is cold,” Mendocino Steam Donhe told them, “but we don’t have keys and San Jose Seahawks. this wind.” They swapped stoBut hearts were warmed with ries and asked him about his a surprise visit by Gareth plans and his travels. Thomas, the Welsh lion Those plans include a feawho is currently the only J OCK TALK ture film about his life openly gay man playing that is being discussed in for any major league proHollywood now. fessional team sport in the world. The visit was one of celebration It was a welcome as warm as the

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Gay man pushes for change in Cameroon our years ago Steave Nemande, a medical doctor in Cameroon, began organizing for change in how his country treated its LGBT citizens. Yet he kept running into a stumbling block. Because there were no openly gay people, Cameroonian leaders dismissed calls for reform. They insisted that the country had no homosexuals, and therefore, no action was needed. Backed by a supportive family and a growing network of fellow LGBT people and supporters, Nemande decided to publicly come out of the closet. At the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, held in Dakar, Senegal last year, Nemande became the first openly gay man to address a major official African forum, according to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. He is considered to be the first gay Cameroonian to publicly talk about his sexual orientation. “I am one of the very few Cameroonians to come out,” Nemande, 33, told the Bay Area Reporter in an interview Thursday, November 18 during a visit to San Francisco. “Before that people said there were no homosexuals. Now they cannot say it. There is a Cameroonian there to say he is homosexual. This has been an important step forward.” Nemande was born in Bafoussam in western Cameroon. He grew up and lives in the port city Douala, the country’s largest city with 2 million residents. He has two brothers and one sister; he lost his partner three years ago in a plane crash. His father is also a doctor and runs a medical clinic while his mother is an administrator at a high school. Nemande works alongside his father in the clinic, where he has been given permission to provide free medical care and HIV screenings to LGBT people. “Luckily, my family has been very supportive. They knew about my homosexuality before I came out,” said Nemande. “I can speak with them without reserve about my work.” Nemande is president of the human rights organization Alternatives-Cameroun, which operates an HIV clinic and community center called Access Centre in Douala. Other than a few bars known to be

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Steave Nemande speaks at the Human Rights Watch’s awards dinner in San Francisco, where he was recognized for his work in Cameroon on behalf of LGBT rights.

hospitable to LGBT people, he said gay life in Cameroon is “still underground.” “We can say there is a community more and more,” said Nemande. “People are coming out of the closet, not publicly, but to other gay people.” He was in the Bay Area to receive the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism from Human Rights Watch at the organization’s Voices for Justice dinner. He hopes the recognition of his work will push Cameroon officials to take LGBT rights issues more seriously. “We often hear that LGBT rights are not human rights,” said Nemande, who is also deputy chair of African Men and Sexual Health Rights, known as AMSHeR, a coalition of African-based LGBT groups. “We are doing this work because we are lesbian and gay ourselves and want to bring awareness around the issue in Cameroon and in Africa.” His San Francisco visit was part of a coast-to-coast trip that included meetings with State Department officials in Washington, D.C. and major donors of international rights groups in Los Angeles. Prior to leaving for the United States, Nemande and Human Rights Watch staffers, including LGBT rights advocacy director Boris Dittrich, held high-level talks for the first time with the new U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, Robert P. Jackson, and high-ranking government officials, including Cameroon Prime Minister Philémon Yang.

Jock Talk and symbolism. Thomas was here to watch rugby and express his support of the Fog’s mission of inclusion in the sport. He was able to meet new Fog head coach Kathy Flores, who is also coach of the women’s national team, and Alice Hoglan, mother of the Fog player Mark Bingham who was one of the passengers on Flight 93 who died fighting terrorists on the plane on 9/11. Past rugby player that I am, I got the chance to introduce Thomas to two local LGBT sports activists: Doug Litwin, marketing officer for the Gay Games; and Derek Liecty, honorary lifetime member of the Federation of Gay Games. And as Thomas was preparing for his trip here to visit friends in northern California, back in Great Britain representatives of the Rugby Football League, the national governing body for rugby there, were being received by members of Parliament to kickoff a campaign to fight homophobia in the sport. Players Corey Hanson and Mitch Stringer of the Sheffield Eagles showed MPs jerseys with the slogan “Homophobia Tackle It!” which their team

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Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas signs an autograph during a surprise visit to San Francisco last weekend.

will wear for a match during LGBT history month in February. “We’re hoping to make this an annual event with a different team each year wearing the shirts,” Lou Englefield of Pride Sports told Pink News. Stringer said he hoped players would be able to go to local schools to talk about homophobia and build LGBT

“Without Human Rights Watch, we would have never been able to meet them,” said Nemande. They presented the government officials with copies of a just released report on LGBT rights abuses in Cameroon that Human Rights Watch published at the start of November. The first-of-its-kind report documents the prejudice, harassment and imprisonment that LGBT people in Cameroon routinely face. Yang, having “listened carefully, read the report and said he was surprised by it and that he didn’t know such things were happening in Cameroon,” said Nemande. “What we can expect from those meetings is that officials will no longer pretend these violations are not occurring.” Dittrich added that his organization would be watching to see that the prime minister makes good on his promise. “He promised to read the report and act on it. Of course, he may forget about it. We will remind him about it,” said Dittrich, who was the first openly gay member of the Dutch Parliament. Under Article 347 in Cameroon’s penal code, anyone engaged in sexual relations with a person of the same sex can be imprisoned for up to five years and face fines of up to $400. Often relatives, neighbors, or even sexual partners, will report people to the police, said Nemande. “On a daily basis people are arrested for being homosexuals,” said Nemande, who despite, and likely because of, his public persona has never been jailed. “People are arrested and often spend more than a year in jail before they are charged.” The arrests of 32 people at a nightclub in the city of Yaounde in May 2005 was the start of a public campaign by Cameroonian media and political figures to demonize “homosexuels,” a French term that has taken on a new meaning “to suggest all things evil,” according to the Human Rights Watch report. One news outlet reported on a supposed “homocracy” taking over the country, said Nemande. His organization’s main focus right now is to push for the decriminalization of homosexuality. Last year it submitted a petition signed by 1,600 Cameroonians urging national lawmakers and the president, Paul Biya, to take action. “We received no answer,” said Nemande. “There has been no change in the policy.” Nemande said he does not expect

fan support. A statement from Thomas was read in his absence. “All sports have a significant role to play in challenging homophobia,” Thomas said, “and I am delighted to show my support to Rugby League and the RFL which has made such strong commitments to taking important issues like this seriously and is leading the way in terms of inclusivity.” Thomas, 36, is not just a good rugby player: he is a great player, one of the greatest ever to put on a kit for his country. He told me he thought it would probably have to be a player of that caliber to become the first openly gay man playing a major league team sport in the United States. But as equally important as the individual who comes out is the readiness of the leagues for the occasion. And there our leagues could learn a great deal from what rugby in Great Britain is doing. Go to the RFL Web site (www.therfl.co.uk) and you’ll find an equality and diversity section and statements declaring no tolerance for homophobia. Also available is a 24page “Guide for Rugby League Clubs – Challenging Homophobia.” It tells its clubs, among other things, that

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to see the law changed anytime soon, because the government is not very popular and any pro-gay moves would further weaken its standing. But he did express hope that at least the arrests of LGBT people would be curtailed. “We don’t think decriminalization will happen tomorrow,” said Nemande. “We are advocating for the arrests to stop. We feel this is possible.”

He said Americans can assist in his group’s efforts by pressing the U.S. government to address LGBT rights with African leaders and urge them to revise their anti-gay policies. “We know it works. The U.S. ambassador can meet with the president anytime he wants,” noted Nemande.▼ To contact Nemande, e-mail alternatives.cameroun@gmail.com.

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emy Awards party, still owes about $180,000 to its 2010 beneficiaries, board member Jon Finck recently told the Bay Area Reporter. The group had said it would pay the money by the end of 2010, but Finck said last week that AOF now intends to pay the money by May 31, 2011. He said the agency had a “very frank, honest” meeting with beneficiaries earlier this month. Alan Keith, board chair, said he didn’t see the arrangement as AOF breaking its contracts, explaining that they’ve been making payments and he sees the money the partners receives as a “gift … not a debt or an obligation.”

But those agencies that are accepted as beneficiaries have to do a lot of work themselves to reap the financial rewards. Through sales of raffle tickets, gala tickets, or other underwriting, beneficiaries have been required to raise 25 percent of their pledged grant. They also have provided volunteers who set up for the gala, distribute posters, and perform other tasks. For 2011, AOF’s partners (the same ones from this year) won’t be obligated to perform those duties. Also, AOF isn’t accepting new beneficiaries for the year as it works to pay off the 2010 groups. AOF officials also hope to build cash reserves for 2012. Ten of the 11 beneficiaries from 2010 have so far agreed to be beneficiaries again in 2011, according to Finck.

Keith said the organization’s budget for this fiscal year is $800,000, and the component for the 2011 gala is about $230,000. The 2010 gala budget was about 15 to 20 percent more than that. On top of the $230,000 figure, AOF expects at least another $250,000 for the gala to come in through in-kind donations. Matthew Demckla, AOF’s beneficiaries chair, said this is a “bridge year” and they’re re-examining their fundraising and grant-making model. He said the restructuring happening this year isn’t how AOF will do things every year. Rebecca Rolfe is executive director of San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center, an Academy of Friends beneficiary. She said last week that the center hasn’t decided whether it will return as a 2011 beneficiary. The center is still owed about $7,500. She said she hadn’t heard a timeline for when payments would be made. “We really appreciate their commitment to pay us and would love for that to be at the earliest opportunity ... . I know they’re working as hard as they can,” she said. Like Keith, she said that the agreement with AOF was not a contract. She also expressed support for the third-party fundraising model. Rolfe pointed to the success of Real Bad Party XXII, a dance event held on the weekend of the Folsom Street Fair in September. A check for $180,000 was displayed at the November 11 distribution party for beneficiaries, and Richard Dellefave, this year’s event chair, has told the B.A.R. that the groups all received their full payments at the presentation. “It would be interesting to look at who was able to be successful ... and what does that teach us?” Rolfe said. Dana Van Gorder, executive director of Project Inform, another AOF beneficiary, said the Academy Awards gala “continues to be very

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two years after Congress passed – and Clinton signed – the Defense of Marriage Act, and the exit poll data showed that 33 percent of the gay vote went to Republicans. In fact, the 29 percent for 2010 is not even the second highest gay vote for Republicans. That distinction came in 2000, when the exit polls indicated 32 percent of the gay vote went to Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush. Interestingly, the low-

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“Homophobia is never acceptable or excusable,” “Doing nothing is not an option,” and “See it, hear it, report it!” You won’t find anything else like it on any other major sports organization Web site. It details examples of homophobic language, lists possible responses, and details sanctions and steps to take. It is a straightforward, proactive document. It pulls no punches. It is like rugby itself: head-on, pow-

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co Department of Public Health’s HIV Prevention and Research Section. “It’s a tremendous breakthrough.” In this Phase 3 trial nearly 2,500 men who have sex with men and a small number of transgender women were randomly assigned to take either a combination pill containing tenofovir and emtricitabine (Gilead Science’s Truvada) or an inactive placebo once daily.

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Roger Doughty is the executive director of the Horizons Foundation, which gathers funding from various sources and funnels it primarily – but not exclusively – to LGBT organizations. Doughty declined to comment on other organizations, but said in a study Horizons did about three years ago, people’s perceptions about the management and efficiency of organizations ranked “very high” among the considerations they made when deciding where to donate money. “Close management is absolutely critical, as is the oversight of an engaged and thoughtful board of directors,” said Doughty, who said his organization in some ways is different from third-party fundraisers. For one thing, he said, his group is able to persuade larger, more mainstream foundations “not focused on the LGBT community” to give to LGBT community groups. At least at the San Francisco Pride

Committee, close management seems to have been missing in the last year. Board members, many of whom have been with the organization for several years, approved what turned out to be underpayments of thousands of dollars to several beneficiaries based on an apparent misunderstanding by Amy Andre, the former executive director, who had been on the job for less than a year. Andre, whose resignation was effective Friday, November 19, has refused to tell the B.A.R. exactly why she resigned. Mikayla Connell, the former board president, had previously expressed a desire to resign, and her term as president expired in October. She had decided not to run again, and her resignation was effective immediately. Mike Horak, who announced his resignation from AOF in October, has said his departure was unrelated to the group’s financial troubles. Keith said last week that Horak continues to assist the organization, and he estimated the new executive director would be named in two or three months. That could put the announcement in time for the 2011 gala, which will take place February 27. Beth Feingold, Under One Roof ’s executive director, has previously been unable to answer some questions, such as exactly what percentage of the shop’s money went to overhead and how much went to beneficiaries this fiscal year or the previous one. She hasn’t responded to requests for the shop’s most recent tax documents. Betty Sullivan, founder of Betty’s List, the Bay Area’s lesbian community and social event list, has also raised funds for other groups, including Lyon-Martin Health Services. She said one thing that’s helped her is low overhead. “We have to operate on a shoestring at Betty’s List because it’s a mom and pop organization ... and there is no pop,” she said.▼

est gay vote for Republicans came in 2008, when only 19 percent of gay voters supported McCain. The lowest gay Republican vote prior to that came in 1990, the first year the national exit poll sought to identify gay, lesbian, and bisexual voters. Voters overall gave only a slight edge to Democrats that year (52 to 48 percent), while gay voters issued a 78 percent to 22 percent preference for Democrats. The majority of the gay vote this year was 69 percent Democratic, according to the re-weighted exit poll data (and 69.7 percent Democratic, according to the precinct data). That

contrasted to voters overall, who went 54 percent Republican. But while all voters have swung back and forth between the two parties, the gay vote has consistently given the majority of its vote to the Democrats. But there are questions that loom inside the data. Will the swing of gay voters toward Republicans again last for two election cycles – 2010 and 2012 – as it did in 1998 and 2000? Will the potential failure to pass repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” act like a catalyst for gay Republican voting as DOMA did in 1998? The numbers don’t say.▼

erful, honest, tough, embracing, and relentless. That’s what it takes to tackle homophobia. No more excuses and wringing of hands, no more whispering behind backs and deaf ears for shouted slurs on the practice field and in the stands. Time for American sports to man up.

The Castro run starts and finishes at the Lookout bar, 3600 Market Street. Start time is 1 p.m. and will be followed by a party at the bar. For information or to donate or register to run, visit greaterthanone.org/events.

important,” and noted it’s been “highly successful” in the past. Over the years, AOF has distributed over $8 million to more than 60 Bay Area HIV/AIDS service organizations and other groups. AOF owes Project Inform $17,000, according to Van Gorder. “It reaches a donor who might not otherwise be giving to us, and that we need in the fight,” he said of the gala. “I think we all feel very comfortable about saying to the donor community it is an event we believe in, and we encourage them to actively support, because this is the way we’re going to keep HIV agencies alive during this ongoing fiscal freakout.” Asked about why AOF should continue to exist when the group has been unable to pay beneficiaries, Finck grew indignant and noted there’s no cure for HIV. He said the organization is “here for the duration.”

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Santa Skivvies Run The Santa Skivvies Run to raise funds for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation will be held Sunday, December 5. Called the “Santa Speedo Run” last year, the event raises funds by having supporters donate money to sponsor individual runners or teams.

They also received monthly HIV testing and state-of-the-art prevention services including risk-reduction counseling and free condoms. Participants came from six countries including Brazil, Peru, South Africa, and Thailand. San Francisco was one of two U.S. sites; the local study, dubbed PREPARE, included 140 gay and bi men. As a group, the participants were at high risk for HIV infection, with an average of 18 sex partners over the past three months and about 60 percent reporting unprotected receptive anal sex.

Team SF board elections Team SF will hold its year-end general membership meeting at 6 p.m. Saturday, December 4, at Magnet, 4122 18th Street. The main agenda item will be election of the Team SF board. For information about Team SF, visit www.teamsf.ning .com▼.

During an average follow-up period of just over a year, 36 men using Truvada PrEP were newly infected with HIV, compared with 64 men taking placebo – a risk reduction of 44 percent. But among participants who took their drugs as directed at least 90 percent of the time, the likelihood of infection fell by 73 percent. Contrary to some fears, men in the study did not engage in more high-risk behavior because they thought they might be protected, but instead reported more condom use and fewer sex partners.

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“In the current climate, we want to focus our resources on the populations that most need care,” she told the SF Weekly at the time. More of her imprint will likely be felt over the coming year as she is able to devote more time to focusing just on being the city’s STD chief. “The changes we have been making have been more gradual and somewhat in response to recognizing the high rates of STDs and in recognition budgets are smaller. We have had to consolidate and cross train staff but haven’t made any large policy initiative changes yet,” said Philip. “I feel the need to continue to evaluate what we are doing and strategically decide where we are going to move. Over the next year I expect to do more of that as I step back from my role at the clinic.” The most visible difference in the gay community since Philip came on board as STD chief has been a de-emphasis on the phallus and syphilis sore comic book characters in her section’s “Healthy Penis” social marketing campaign. While the penis characters maintain Facebook pages, as does City Clinic itself, the campaign’s focus has turned toward more text-heavy advertisements about STDs. “We haven’t abandoned the healthy penis. We are looking at this as more of a pivot,” she said. “We are keeping the brand but really expanding on the knowledge we have in the section with staff and emphasize what we see as important areas.” Due to the budget situation, Philip said she doesn’t plan to launch any new marketing campaigns anytime soon. “I don’t think we are planning for

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care, while redoubling advocacy efforts at all levels of government. Together, we are poised to make great progress against HIV/AIDS, in San Francisco and around the country.” Among other accomplishments, at GLAAD, Giuliano expanded the organization’s media advocacy and antidefamation work to include religious and faith-based communities, sports, and advertising media, according to the foundation. He was mayor of Tempe for 10 years, beginning in 1994. His memoir, Elected, Not Equal, is set to be published in 2011. He had been a Republican, but according to James Loduca, the foundation’s vice president of marketing and communications, he changed party affiliations in 2008 and

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“This study provides the first proof that oral PrEP works in people, and the first proof of any biomedical intervention to prevent infection in gay and bisexual men,” study chair Robert Grant from UCSF’s Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology said during a media conference call on Monday. These findings follow results from the CAPRISA study, released with much fanfare at this summer’s International AIDS Conference, showing that a tenofovir vaginal gel applied before and after sex lowered women’s risk of acquiring HIV by 39 percent. Grant emphasized that iPrEx only looked at daily Truvada use, not occasional use before or after sex. “Whether oral PrEP can be used in this fashion is completely unknown at this time,” he said. But daily use may be hard to maintain. While participants reported around 90 percent adherence, measurement of drug levels in blood and cells showed that about half apparently did not take Truvada regularly. In fact, only three people who

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any large advertising campaign given the limited resources,” she said. “We are excited about looking at ways technology and social media can help us with what we do.” For now Philip’s main concern is the latest upswing the city has seen in STD rates. Along with syphilis, cases of gonorrhea and Chlamydia have been on the rise this year. According to the latest data, the city reported 1,486 cases of gonorrhea during the first nine months of 2010. It is 112 more cases than during the same timeframe in 2009. Should the trend continue it would mark a reversal from last year, when the STD section reported that the rate of gonorrhea had declined by 10 percent in 2009 compared to 2008. Between 2009 and 2005 the city’s gonorrhea rate had dropped by 25 percent. Cases of Chlamydia also climbed during the first nine months of 2010, jumping 432 cases over the 3,049 cases reported during the same timeframe in 2009. Between 2005 and 2009 the city’s Chlamydia rate has increased 13 percent. The city’s syphilis rates continue to yo-yo after being relatively stable for several years. The number of reported cases of early syphilis in 2009 totaled 519, which marked an 8 percent decrease in the early syphilis rate from 2008. But compared to the rates in 2005, there has been a 26 percent increase in the city’s early syphilis rate. During the first nine months of 2010, the city reported 543 total cases of syphilis, including both primary and secondary as well as early latent cases. That was a 71-case increase over the same period last year.

Philip said it is near impossible to determine what is causing the periods of declines and then upswings from year to year. “It is hard to pinpoint a single reason why things decline. We would love to take credit and say we did that,” she said. “At the same time, it is hard to give one reason why rates went up.” STD rates historically have been shown to fluctuate, she said, and outbreaks of various STDs tend to be cyclical in nature. “There is usually a natural rise and fall to syphilis rates that occurs,” she said. “This is not isolated to San Francisco. This is happening in other large cities in the United States, in Europe and Australia.” The current upswing locally could be partly due to the fact that with decreased funding her section has had to downgrade its presence, causing rates to spike upwards. Or it could be that more gay and bi men are seeking out STD screenings, she said. So far there has been no indication that an increase in risky sexual practices is the cause, added Philip. “It isn’t any one particular thing we are doing or not doing or the community is doing. It is multiple factors,” said Philip. “There is more demand so there are lots more tests that are happening, so people are getting picked up and treated. If that is the case, that is a good thing.” The best prescription Philip can provide remains the same message that Klausner had long urged men who have sex with men heed. Any sexually active gay or bi men should be tested for STDs at least twice a year. “Getting screened every three to six months, as we continue to recommend, is really important,” said Philip. ▼

is now a Democrat. Barbara Kimport, who has been the foundation’s interim CEO, will return to her fulltime role as vice president of development. Mark Cloutier, SFAF’s previous CEO, resigned in February. Giuliano hasn’t headed an HIV/AIDS agency before, but Dr. Lorna Thornton, chair of SFAF’s board, said that’s not a cause of concern, “given his leadership with GLAAD.” She said Giuliano is “very engaged around HIV/AIDS issues,” and his background includes HIV prevention outreach he was involved in while Tempe’s mayor. Thornton predicted he is “going to do great things for the agency and for San Francisco, and we’re confident that in turn will lead to a very large impact in reducing HIV infections even nationally.” She said one reason for Giuliano’s hiring is “his demonstrated fundrais-

ing achievements.” The foundation’s confident that “even in these very difficult economic times,” Giuliano can “grow the foundation to allow us to do very impactful work,” said Thornton. Bob Rybicki, SFAF’s vice president of programs and policy, said he was impressed that Giuliano wants to meet with program staff and clients. Giuliano “wants to learn about this organization from the frontline,” he said. Openly gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty, whose term expires this year, said he’s known Giuliano for years and he’s “super excited” about him joining the foundation. He said Giuliano’s experience as Tempe mayor and as GLAAD’s leader is “absolutely transferable” to the foundation. “I think he’s going to be a tremendous advocate on a policy level, and I also think that he will expand awareness about HIV and AIDS issues nationally,” said Dufty. “I think he can be a national leader.”▼

became infected while on PrEP had detectable drug levels. Truvada was generally well-tolerated, but some people reported moderate and usually temporary nausea. Very few people showed signs of impaired kidney function, a known tenofovir side effect. But longer follow-up is needed to see if long-term toxicities emerge. PrEP also raises issues of cost and availability. How can using HIV drugs for prevention be justified when so many people who need treatment worldwide cannot get it? Will PrEP be cost-effective, and who is going to pay for it? While researchers and policymakers address these issues, some gay and bi men will likely seek off-label Truvada PrEP right away. “Don’t do this on your own,” Colfax advised. “People thinking of exploring this approach should have an

in-depth discussion with their doctor and think about what other prevention strategies they could use.” Despite these caveats, community advocates welcomed the news. “PrEP could be part of a comprehensive HIV prevention package in communities like ours with epidemics still disproportionately affecting gay men,” said San Francisco AIDS Foundation vice president Judith Auerbach. “If we can finally succeed in getting all gay and bi men to know their status and enter care and treatment if they are positive, we can extend their lives and prevent many infections,” Project Inform Executive Director Dana Van Gorder told the Bay Area Reporter. “If we can assure access to PrEP for all gay men who are having difficulty maintaining safe sex, we could prevent many more infections.”▼

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CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL NOTICES SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT (“District”), 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals for Community Relations Services for BART Construction Projects, Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 6M8042, on or about November 22, 2010, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, January 11, 2011. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED The District is soliciting the services of consulting firm or joint ventures to provide community relations services for BART Construction Projects.A PreProposal Meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, The PreProposal Meeting will convene at 10:00 AM in the District office located at 300 Lakeside Drive, 16th Floor, conference room No. 1600. At the Pre-Proposal Meeting the District's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Programwill be explained. All questions regarding participation should be directed to Mr. Don Demer, Office of Civil Rights at (510) 464-6884 – FAX (510) 464-7587. Prospective proposers are requested to make every effort to attend this only scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting, and to confirm their attendance by contacting the District's Contract Administrator, telephone (510) 464-6543, prior to the date of the Pre-Proposal Meeting. WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after November 22, 2010) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: (1) By written request to the District's Contract Administrator, 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612. Reference RFP No. 6M8042, Community Relations Services for BART Construction Projects and send requests to Fax No. (510) 464-7650. (2) By arranging pick up at the above address. Call the District's Contract Administrator, (510) 464-6543 prior to pickup of the RFP. (3) By E-mail request to the District's Contract Administrator, Aminta Maynard, amaynar@bart.gov Dated at Oakland, California this 17th day of November, 2010. /s/ Patricia K. Williams Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 11/25/10 CNS-1990231# BAY AREA REPORTER

STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547268 In the matter of the application of DENICE MARIE TUCKER for change of name. The application of DENICE MARIE TUCKER for change of name having been ﬁled in Court, and it appearing from said application that DENICE MARIE TUCKER ﬁled an application proposing that his/her name be changed to DEN KIRKWOOD TUCKER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 30th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

STATEMENT FILE A-033117100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BOISLAND ENTERPRISES, 84 Entrada Court, San Francisco,CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Den Tucker. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/26/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/26/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PAINT AND PLASTER SCENIC 1020 ‘B’ Alabama Street,San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Scot Velardo. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/01/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/01/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033109900

STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547175

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033111200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAYES VALLEY INN, 417 Gough Street, San Francisco,CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Stephan Forget. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 08/03/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033108800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PARSIA PRINTS, 1333 Gough Street, #4C San Francisco,CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Fargollyla Nazemi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/28/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/28/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033107800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HENRY’S HUNAN RESTAURANT, 4753 Mission Street,San Francisco,CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership, signed Jeff Zhu. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/25/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/27/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033103100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BASIN, 310 Berry Street,San Francisco,CA 94158. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Man Mohan Sahi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/27/09.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/25/10.

In the matter of the application of RYAN TOLAND for change of name. The application of RYAN TOLAND for change of name having been ﬁled in Court, and it appearing from said application that RYAN TOLAND ﬁled an application proposing that his/her name be changed to COCORYAN TOLAND. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 2nd of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-0323514-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as PHOENIX WORKSHOP, 271-15th Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94118. This business was conducted by an individual, signed Vivian Ju. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/09.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-0325004-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as CALABRIA BROS., 2249 17th Street,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business was conducted by a general partnership, signed Steven M. Maraccini. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/19/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033133000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.BACKLITPRINT.COM, 2.GOFF PHOTOGRAPHY, 3.HEADSHOT SAN FRANCISCO, 4.HEADSHOT SF, 5.SF HEADSHOTS,6.JESSE GOFF PHOTOGRAPHY,7.PRINTMYCANVAS.C OM, 358 Brannan Street,San Francisco,CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation , signed Jesse M. Goff. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/01/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/08/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033117900

STATEMENT FILE A-033109600

STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547225

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAX TREATMENT, 4346 18th Street,San Francisco,CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Laine Ballard. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/22/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/28/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JACK TRUX,660 Toland Place, San Francisco,CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation , signed Richard Springer. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/03/00.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/01/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033062500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAVE THANGS ENT., 40 Murray Street, San Francisco,CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Austin Smith. 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 10/04/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033101400

STATEMENT FILE A-033125800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCISCO NURSING CENTER, 5767 Mission Street,San Francisco,CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed James R. Preimesberger. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/01/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/22/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033113300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HENDERSON DESIGN GROUP, 380 Alabama Street, #23, San Francisco,CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Eric Henderson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/18/08.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033137400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as GREAT WESTERN BUILDING MATERIALS, 3000 3rd Street,San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Shaun Radcliffe. 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 11/04/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DCP, 2169 15th Street,#B, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed David Coddington. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/10/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/10/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-033135000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LUSTRAN CLEANING SERVICES, 1300 Golden Gate Ave.,#405,San Francisco, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Fernando Puglisi. 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 11/09/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033134800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SF GOLD RUSH, 1920 Market Street,San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Dmitriy Bluvshteyn. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/09/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/09/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033136000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DOES ARCHITECTURE,22 Montezuma Street,San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Eric D. Staten. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/09/10. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/09/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033126000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.MALIBU LENDING, 2.WWW.BAYBANKERS.COM, 88 Kearny Street,3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Brett McGovern. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 09/01/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/05/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547304 In the matter of the application of DONALD HAROLD DIAMOND for change of name. The application of DONALD HAROLD DIAMOND for change of name having been ﬁled in Court, and it appearing from said application that DONALD HAROLD DIAMOND ﬁled an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JACOB ELIJAH DIAMOND. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 18th of January, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033113900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY APPLIANCE REPAIR, 257 N. Lake Merced Hill, San Francisco, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Yevgeny Elin. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/28/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033144300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FOULADI PROJECTS, One Otis Street,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Alexandra Holly Fouladi. 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 11/15/10.

NOV. 18,24,DEC. 2,9, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033129600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.LITTLE BAT PHOTOGRAPHY 2.PRETTY FUN THINGS, 1509 25th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Jillian S. West. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/01/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/08/10.

NOV. 24,DEC. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033158200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 624 BRODERICK TIC, 620 1/2 Broderick Street,San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an unicorporated association other than a partnership, signed Marina Coleridge. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/05/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/19/10.

NOV. 24,DEC. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033157200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.FABRIX, 2.FABRIC FACTORY OUTLET, 101 Clement Street,San Francisco, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Bruce C. Taylor. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/03/02.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/18/10.

NOV. 24,DEC. 2,9,16, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033152700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BERENDT PROPERTIES 2443 Fillmore Street,#272,San Francisco, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Craig Berendt. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/17/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/17/10.

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In the matter of the application of BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY for change of name. The application of BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY for change of name having been ﬁled in Court, and it appearing from said application that BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY ﬁled an application proposing that his/her name be changed to BRENDAN MICHAEL MCGARRY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 9th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

STATEMENT FILE A-033123700

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033105300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as READ GLOBAL, 1016 Torrey Avenue, First Floor, San Francisco,CA 94129. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Nathan Joblin. 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 10/28/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as CALABRIA BROS., 2249 17th Street,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Michael Tufo. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/01/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/04/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033118300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BIOLOQUE, 1566 Guerrero Street,Apt. 3,San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Mary B. Rager. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/02/10.The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/02/10.

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misadventures ‘Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey’

Final illustration for “George climbed up until he was in the sunshine again, high above the rain cloud,” watercolor on paper, by H.A. Rey, from Raffy and the 9 Monkeys (1939).

~ by Sura Wood ~ hether gallivanting in the company of the Man with the Yellow Hat, clasping the long neck of Raffy, an exceedingly tall, very accommodating giraffe whose head reaches above the clouds (and whose body doubles as a sailboat and mast), or hanging out with penguins and polar bears, Curious George puts the monkey in monkey business. The playful, adventurous star of the beloved children’s books, whose antics have delighted readers for more than half a century, is such a sunny, gentle figure that it comes as something of a shock to learn that his German-born, Jewish creators, Margret and H.A. Rey, faced down a harrowing fate. They fled Paris on their bicycles only hours before the Nazis marched into the City of Light, barely escaping with their lives and a sheaf of drawings for their children’s stories, a prototype for the mischievous monkey among them. Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey, a new show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, presents 80 original drawings, vivid watercolors, charming decoupages and dummy books that chronicle George’s development, and laid the groundwork for other animal characters who populated the artists’ illustrated menagerie. It also includes travel documents, excerpts from journals and vintage photographs that chart the Reys’ itinerant existence during their four-month flight from Nazi-occupied Europe, a perilous sojourn that took them through France, Spain, Portugal and Brazil before they finally settled in New York in the fall of 1940. Illustrator H.A. Rey and his wife, author and artist Margret Rey, who were born in Hamburg and resided in Paris from 1936-40, produced a total of some 30 books, seven of which showcased George, who began life as Fifi. (Somehow the name Curious George portends literary mortality, while Fifi, which sounds like a wayward chorus girl, does not.) But, as the exhibition points out, the Reys had a life and a sense of humor before giving birth to George. On the couple’s wedding invitation, Margret, the photographer, is represented as a camera, and her husband-to-be, a painter, is depicted as an easel. In addition to the George canon that made them famous, they produced works such as the enchanting watercolor illustrations that accompany the scores in Au Clair de la Lune and Other French Nursery Songs (1941). In one that graces the back cover, a turquoise twilight falls over

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Rufus Wa inwright meets William Shakespeare by Philip Campbell fter postponing for a season, changing conductors and programming at the 11th hour, and spending untold time on last-minute tweaking, Rufus Wainwright finally premiered his San Francisco Symphony commission Five Shakespeare Sonnets at Davies Hall earlier this month. The glamorous pop divo wasn’t finished in time last April, so singer/songwriter Duncan Sheik (remember Spring Awakening?) substituted with an orchestrated set of his own songs from the stage piece Whisper House. It was not a particularly happy experience for Sheik or the patrons of the SFS. Crossing musical idioms is risky. Adding electronic amplification to the mix, especially in the traditionally microphone-free world of the concert hall, only makes the odds more unpredictable. Throughout his eclectic career, crossover experimentation has posed less of a threat to the classically trained Wainwright. His popular songs have always shown an inclination towards higher art, and he has the education to write his own orchestrations, de rigueur for a serious music-writer. If Five Shakespeare Sonnets ultimately scored less than a total

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by Roberto Friedman e guess since even old troubadour Bob Dylan has released a Christmas album, it’s no longer verboten for rock bands and pop-music acts to pour on the Yuletide schmaltz. Still, color us red-and-green surprised at some of the artists who are releasing Xmas recordings this year. Legendary pop vocalist Fred Schneider of new-wave greats The B-52s was first out of the gate with Destination: Christmas! (Fanatic Records), an album of 11 original holiday songs by his band The Superions, with lyrics and vocals by Schneider with Noah Brodie (keyboards and electronic drums) and Dan Marshall (programming). Said Fred: “It’s hard to say who our musical influences for this project were, because we don’t want to get sued.” We get the picture. Pop 1990s female group Wilson Phillips is back together again for the very first time with their virgin Christmas album, Christmas in Harmony (Sony Masterworks/DRW En-

tertainment). The trio of celebrity offspring Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips have recorded 13 holiday songs with their original producer Glen Ballard, best known for cowriting Michael Jackson‘s hit single “Man in the Mirror” and producing Alanis Morissette‘s Jagged Little Pill. Expect the classics: “Silver Bells,” “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “Winter Wonderland” and the like. The Puppini Sisters, a UK-based vocal trio who do 1940s-style close harmony backed by a jazz threesome, put a little red lipstick on their Xmas songs. You can slip into a silky ball gown and go glam by queuing up Christmas with the Puppini Sisters (Verve). The trio, retro-futuristic Marcella Puppini, Kate Mullins, and

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Stephanie O’Brien, three ladies whom Prince Charles himself called “splendid,” share a little swing with their take on sassy holiday classics like “Santa Baby” on this, their third album. Finally, former Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox has released her sixth solo album and first-ever holiday recording, A Christmas Cornucopia (Decca). A collection of interpretations of 11 traditional festive songs, the disc is rounded out by Lennox’s new composition “Universal Child,” the first single. “I’ve known these songs and carols all my life, and I’ve sung them since I was little,” said Lennox. They’re songs like “The Holly and the Ivy,” “Silent Night” and “The First Noel,” and, more unconventionally, “Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant” and “Lullay, Lullay.” Is that like “Louie, Louie?”

World AIDS Day screening The HIV Prevention Section of San Francisco Department of Public Health and a coalition of local HIV/AIDS organizations are presenting a special World AIDS Day screening of the HIV/AIDS documentary The Other City this coming Wed., Dec. 1, 5:45 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki Cinema, 1881 Post St. in SF. The film tells the story of a side of Washington, DC that visitors rarely see, a city where people are living with and dying from HIV at staggering rates. The documentary carries powerful messages about stigma, homophobia and racism that are relevant in San Francisco and most major cities nationwide. The program will begin with welcome remarks from the SFDPH’s HIV Prevention Section and other

The Superions are Noah Brodie, Fred Schneider, and Dan Marshall.

guests, followed by the 90-minute film. Tickets are available via sponsor organizations or online at www.sfaf.org/theothercity. Capacity is limited, and be advised that the event is expected to sell out.

Holiday ins Last week, Out There was part of a media preview party for the new holiday season attractions at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. So we were among the first to witness the holiday “pseudo-snow” that descends at designated times down through the city’s largest atrium lobby. We were advised that the “snow” is hypno-allergenic, nonpolluting and non-toxic. Whatever, it looks pretty, wafting down slowly from the hotel’s upper floors. Yessir, the holiday season has touched down already, hasn’t it? So we did our part by scarfing down samplings of Peking duck, O UT sushi, crabcakes and a new breed of dessert, an individual portion of frosted cake on a stick called a “Cake Pop.” A pastry professional assured us that cupcakes are so yesterday, and it will be all about “Cake Pops” tomorrow. Also, the Holiday Ice Rink at Embarcadero Center is now open and ready for astro-gliding. If, like Pepi, you took skating lessons in college and look great on blades, get your holiday butt down there and skate a session. After grooving on the scene at the Eclipse Lounge in the Hyatt Regency, we made our way over to the big-top tent now erected near AT&T Park for the premiere performance of Cavalia, billed as “a magical performance between human and horse.” Even though OT doesn’t know dressage from a dressing room, we enjoyed the horsey spectacle immensely. Perhaps our favorite segment was when a “horse whisperer” controlled a host of Arabian steeds with nothing more than her presence, her utterances and a few handfuls of thrown sand.

Creator Normand Latourelle and director Erick Villeneuve have packed in plenty of nouvelle circus – acrobats, tumblers, trapeze and other aerialists – along with the horsey action. Recommended for equestrians and non-equestrians alike. (Through Dec. 12 at the White Big Top, 4th St. at China Basin, SF. Tickets: (866) 999-8111 or www.cavalia.net.)

‘Howl’ encore If you missed the theatrical engagement of the film Howl, the story of the controversy and acclaim that greeted the publication of Allen Ginsberg‘s epic poem, from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and starring yummy James Franco as Ginsberg, it’s coming back for a two-day reengagement at the Red Vic Movie House in SF, Fri.-Sat., Dec. 17-18. Extra credit: Howl features animation designed by Eric Drooker ilT HERE artist lustrating the poem. Drooker, who collaborated with Ginsberg on his final book Illuminated Poems, will be presenting a short slide show and Q&A about his work on the film after the 7:15 p.m. show on Friday. More info at www.redvicmoviehouse.com. Finally, news of a coming attraction we’re eagerly awaiting. Principal photography has started on My Week with Marilyn at the UK’s Pinewood Studios, and on location in and around London. Michelle Williams will play the iconic Marilyn Monroe alongside a fantastic British cast including Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson and Julia Ormond. The film chronicles a week in the life of Marilyn in 1956, during which she escapes the shackles of her Hollywood career and embraces British life with production assistant Colin Clark. Directed by Simon Curtis and produced by David Parfitt, the film is based on Clark’s diaries and has been adapted for the screen by Adrian Hodges.▼

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by David Lamble arry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 finds the young wizards Harry, Ron and Hermione, having dropped out of Hogwarts, in the worst crisis of their young lives, faced with tracking down the evil one Voldermort, and putting their six years of witchcraft studies to its most ferocious test. As even the least-informed Potter addict knows all too well, Part 1 is at best a delicious tease, an anti-climactic bit of black-magic foreplay before next summer’s series-climaxing showdown. That said, the filmmakers – director David Yates, screenwriter Steve Kloves, director of photography Eduardo Serra and company – have made this one, the seventh and shortest of the series, feel in no way a cheat. One of the greatest thrills of this Potter-film decade, with J.K. Rowling’s seductive “kid’s story” becoming both a companion and welcome distraction for its audience to our age of terror, has been to watch the three Potter principals, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, go from wide-eyed newbies in a great

movie school, tutored by perhaps the finest theatre-trained adult supporting cast ever assembled, to seasoned pros able to steal the franchise back from their teachers. An illustration comes in a great fight scene between Harry and Ron. Tension has been building between the boy wizard and his once-dopey sidekick for a time, but now cold, lost and frustrated in their efforts to best the terrible powers aligned against them, the two old friends finally snap and duke it out – with words, of course. Harry kicks off the row with a question that releases all Ron’s pent-up anger. “What’s wrong?” “Nothing’s wrong, according to you, anyway.” “Spit it out.” “I’ll spit it out. But don’t expect me to be grateful because there’s another damn thing we’ve got to find!” “I thought you knew what you signed up for.” “Yeah, I thought I did, too.” “Did you think we were going to be staying in five-star hotels? Find a Horcrux every other day? Did you think you’d be back to Mummy by Christmas?” “I thought Dumbledore would

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have told you something worthwhile; I thought you had a plan!” “I told you everything Dumbledore told me, and in case you haven’t noticed, we’ve found a Horcrux already.” “Yeah, and we’re about as close to getting rid of it as we are to finding the rest of them, aren’t we?” “Do you know why I listen to that radio every night? So I don’t hear Ginny’s name.” “You think I don’t know how this feels?”

“No, you don’t know how it feels. Your parents are dead. You have no family!” Beyond its verbal firepower, this installment features some of the starkest and wittiest allusions by the filmmakers and Rowling to other great British writers who have opined against the darkest forces of the modern world, such as George Orwell. Much of the imagery and action surrounding Voldemont and his minions’ takeover of the Ministry of Magic has a distinctly Orwellian feel. Harry

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and his friends are constantly on the run from wizardry’s Big Brother. Some of the film’s juiciest moments come from brilliant dodges by the good guys, such as creating a small armada of Harry look-alikes to throw Voldermort and his Fascist-like army, the Death Eaters, off their trail en route to getting Harry to a safe house. For the first time in the seven-picture run, I found myself supplementing my enjoyment of the series with large doses of Rowling’s final volume. For the non-hardcore fan, it is often hard to keep up without her helpful reminders, such as just what is a Horcrux, and how does one kill one? One tiny quibble: I would have loved a full scene of Harry’s final parting from his annoying Muggles family. It would have been especially delicious to have another verbal duel between Radcliffe and Harry’s Muggle uncle Vernon Dunsley (Richard Griffiths) after the two actors’ lovely theatre holiday in the very adult Equus. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 is the sweetest of teases. I haven’t enjoyed the series so much since Rowling’s giddy revelation that Harry’s longtime mentor Dumbledore was gay.▼

Classic guilty pleasure by Tavo Amador avishly produced but inane melodramas from the 1950s and 60s inspired Charles Busch to satirize them with well-deserved success. One of the best of this deliciously awful genre, Where Love Has Gone (1064), has just been released on DVD, and proves to be a

sumptuous guilty pleasure. It’s based on a trashy Harold Robbins bestseller (excuse the triple redundancy) that is loosely derived from the notorious 1957 murder by Cheryl Crane of her mother Lana Turner’s gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato. Valerie Hayden (Susan Hayward) is a successful sculptor and the daughter of San Francisco’s reigning society

doyenne, Mrs. Gerald Hayden (Bette Davis), with whom she has a deeply troubled relationship. Valerie meets and soon marries World War II hero and aspiring architect Luke Miller (Mike Connors, billed as “Michael”). They have a daughter, Danielle “Dani” (Joey Heatherton). The film begins when Luke, long divorced from Valerie, is forced to re-

turn to San Francisco after learning that Dani has been charged with murder. A long flashback recounts his falling in love with Valerie, his attempts to be his own man, how his mother-in-law manipulated him into working for her company rather than succeeding on his own, and how that ultimately drove him to drink, and Valerie into the arms of many lovers. One of those lovers was the man Dani murdered, although why remains unclear. Was he threatening her? Her mother? Family attorney Gordon Harris (George Macready) plans the legal defense. The audience learns more about what ended the Millers’ marriage, and about how another one of Valerie’s lovers, local art critic Sam Corwin (pre-Star Trek Deforest Kelly), helped establish her reputation. Later, an earnest social worker (Jane Greer) reveals the shocking news that teenage Dani is no longer a virgin. John Michael Hayes’ screenplay is heavy on Freudian pop-psychology and filled with unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Valerie has an Elektra complex about her mother and hoped that Luke would slay her, but he failed. Mrs. Hayden (we never learn her first name) is obsessed with social position. “Somewhere along the way, the world has lost all its standards and all its taste!” she declaims. Amen to that. Letters written by Valerie and Dani to the dead man reveal a Mildred Pierce-like competition for his affections, but the murder is declared justifiable homicide. The judge, however, must decide whether Dani will be institutionalized to get psychological help or be allowed to live with her family. Valerie and Mrs. Hayden both want custody, and battle each other in court for that right. “Will you shut up for once!” yells Valerie at her mother. The operatic ending has Valerie making the final sacrifice for her child. Oscar winners Hayward and Davis, with many fine performances in other movies to their credit, are dreadful but mesmerizing. Hayward wins their big confrontation, but in the courtroom scenes, Davis rolls her eyes during her rival’s big speech and steals Hayward’s thunder. She refers to her daughter’s home as “that bordello you maintain.”

When Sam asks her if she ever considered letting Valerie run her own life, she snaps, “Only in moments of weakness.” Connors also delivers howlers to Hayward. “You’re not a woman, you’re a disease.” Hayward has a few classics of her own. When she first learns Luke is an architect, she says, “I never thought carpentry was an art-form.” Later, she laments, “I used sex the way you used alcohol.” Conners is at best sincere, more often dim-witted. Heatherton looks dense, and seems to be suffering from chronic constipation. “I’m tired of being helped,” she whines. “I want to be punished!” Greer is portentous and humorless. “Your wife should have been wrapped around a fire extinguisher,” she tells Luke. Edward Dymtryk’s direction lacks the irony Douglas Sirk would have brought to the material. Edith Head designed the elegant and numerous outfits worn by the stars. The lush cinematography and location shots of San Francisco are splendid. Jack Jones sings the title song over the credits with all the subtlety of the story itself. Shooting was tense. Hayward, once dubbed a “bargain-basement Bette Davis” by Time, didn’t like her co-star. Davis asked to add a scene showing the audience what a monster she was, but her request was refused. She complained, “Unfortunately, Miss What’sher-name didn’t see it that way, and she did get top billing, so –” Towards the end of the movie, Hayward slashes a full-length portrait of Davis. It’s one of the few moments she seems to be having fun in the film. Viewers, on the other hand, will have many of them. ▼

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or Coraline Jones, 2009 was a very good year. First her freakyFreudian through-the-lookingglass story became a successful animated feature, and then some very interesting adaptors made her the star of an off-Broadway musical. Coraline, the musical, is now having its West Coast premiere at SF Playhouse, and a curious affair it is indeed. Neil Gaiman’s 2002 sophisticated novel of juvenile terrors has been adapted for the stage by David Greenspan, a gay legend of New York’s “downtown” theater scene and a purveyor of camp as high modernism. SF Playhouse previously produced Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy, a farce in which cross-dressing is doubled then squared. While there is no gay content in Coraline, Greenspan shares with Gaiman a kind of queer sensibility where little Coraline shares a creaky house with dotty old actresses, a mysterious trainer of circus rodents, and a talkative cat with a lot of attitude. The only boring people around

are her workaholic parents, who can barely bother to acknowledge her when they cross paths. No wonder she goes looking for a new family in all the wrong places. The original New York production was certainly more transgressive than what director Bill English has brought to SF Playhouse. For one thing, and it’s a big thing, 11-year-old Coraline was played by the middleaged and amply proportioned actress Jayne Houdyshell, whom you might remember as Lisa Kron’s invalid mother in Well at ACT. This countercasting immediately yanks us into an alternate reality. At SF Playhouse, Coraline is being played by the ageappropriate Julia Belanoff and Maya Donato on alternate nights, and while Donato was pleasant, perky, and professional at the final preview, it’s a casting choice that tamps down the surrealism in favor of the ordinary. In New York, Greenspan himself cross-dressed into the role of Other Mother, the increasingly sinister maternal force that Coraline discovers on the other side of a mysterious door. This must have further added to the off-kilter aura, though I think

it also makes theatrical sense to have both Coraline’s Mother and Other Mother played by the same actress. And that’s especially true if you have the estimable Stacy Ross in the roles. The father figures are played with a henpecked frailty by Jackson Davis. Maureen McVerry and Susi Damilano merrily played the elderly former showgirls, and Brian Degan Scott periodically pops in with his miniature bigtop housing his acrobatic mice. Brian Yates Sharber quite deliciously plays the acerbic cat, who seems to know all the answers to the secrets held by this old house. Lest we have forgotten, this Coraline is a musical, but music is not the first word that comes to mind upon hearing the songs that Stephin Merritt has provided. Merritt is best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the Magnetic Fields, a quirky group whose fungible sound is variously described as synthpop, indie pop, noise pop, and folk pop. After hearing 25 of his songs for Coraline, I’m hard pressed to find much of any musicality in his compositions here, and as performed by a cast not geared toward melodic interpretations. The

Stacy Ross plays the sinister Other Mother and Brian Yates Sharber an acerbic cat in the musical Coraline at SF Playhouse.

lyrics do carry some prickly energy, which is perhaps the best description of the music as well. What this production does have is ample imagination that can weave a fantastic world from simple things. But that may not be enough. Coraline, as a book and as a movie, created scary worlds that both children and

10 queer classics in one box by David Lamble he Cinema Pride Collection is a mixed bag: all these films succeeded at the box office, and several were actually quite good. Here are my picks. Special features are indicated at the end of the applicable film capsule. My Beautiful Laundrette Basking in the 20/20 hindsight of how queer culture has evolved in the last 25 years, there’s a disconcerting innocence to this mid-1980s gem about a white punk and his Anglo-Paki boyfriend using a London slum Laundromat as a dodgy front for drug dealing and passionate shagging. This TV-commissioned production was a brilliant career-christening vehicle for director Stephen Frears, writer Hanif Kureishi and the enchanting bottle-blonde punk boy Daniel DayLewis. Day-Lewis’ saucy insolence was all the more effective contrasted to his Edwardian prig in the simultaneously released A Room with a View. Kureishi’s one-liners, drawn from life, still sting: “Squeeze the tits of the system,” or his knowing description of modern Pakistan as a nation: “sodomized by religion.” Boys Don’t Cry Never was an Oscar more deserved than the one Hilary Swank snagged for her nervy turn as a biological girl who’s more of a boy than any shit-kicking lout in this lonely stretch of abandoned Nebraska farmland. Swank’s Brandon Teena is a unique, before-your-startled-eyes screen creation: a plucky outlaw/romantic whose ability to seduce country girls is exceeded only by a trail of unanswered warrants and misdemeanors. Filmmaker Kimberly Peirce wrests a Bonnie and Clyde-worthy crime-spree adventure from the messy details of a real-life pre-op trans-boy’s tragic downfall. Swank is supported by a scary, loose-cannon, rotten cast of redneck knaves headed by Peter Sarsgaard and Brendan Sexton III. Sarsgaard and Sexton fascinate, with stomach-turning attacks that undermine Brandon’s humani-

ty before ending his life. Jeannetta Arnette tops this Dallas-filmed queer masterpiece with an intuitive performance as a life-of-the-party mom who tosses a brave boy to the dogs. Features director’s commentary and a making-of short. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Stephan Elliott’s instant camp classic – two mad lip-synching guys and one

post-op lady hitting the outback in a funky old bus – is a madcap goulash of pristine Aussie desert, your favorite disco/ABBA hits and a bitch-pitch perfect round of insult humor. The chemistry of Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce adds fresh sass to even the creakiest cross-dressing humor. Bent Martin Sherman’s harrowing theatre piece doesn’t pack quite the same punch in this star-studded adaptation by the playwright, but a few moments sparkle, like the exchange between a doomed queer boy (Clive Owens) and a truly decadent queen cleaning up her act, a ferociously cynical Mick Jagger, following “the Night of the Long Knives,” the 1934 Nazi slaughter of its queer division, headed by brownshirt leader Ernst Rohm. “Is it safe for us to go home?” “You fucking queers, don’t you have any brains at all? No, it’s not safe! My Fuhrer had Rohm murdered last night, and his tricks, and whoever happened to wander by. So queer is out. Queer is dead.”

“And you?” “Me? Everyone knows I’m not queer. I’ve got a wife and kids. I’ve had every whore on the street. I’m just an average type of guy.” “Where are you going?” “Prayer. I won’t say a word to the Gestapo until after the service.” La Cage aux Folles, The Birdcage Watching this duo back-to-back is

trippy. The Mike Nichols/Elaine May “improvement” is remarkably faithful (word for word, scene by scene), but the French original does delight more in skewering the Catholic Church (the mother-in-law saddled with the enormous crucifix is a Joe Orton-worthy touch), while the American version with Nathan Lane and a restrained but hilarious

adults could happily, if a bit trepidatiously, enter. The Coraline at SF Playhouse doesn’t seem to know quite what tune it should be playing.▼ Coraline will run at SF Playhouse through Jan. 15. Tickets are $30$50. Call 677-9596 or go to www.sfplayhouse.org.

Robin Williams is a secular Jewish joy, with great May-added rightwing- and tabloid-media-bashing jokes. The French film does have an age-appropriate son, sweetly played by Remi Laurent, who succumbed to AIDS at 32. Imagine Me & You Writer/director Ol Parker’s reverse-twist romance is based on the French notion of “the catch,” whereby lovers fall the moment their eyes meet. Parker gets off to a rocky start with an embarrass-

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Intricate sonic web by Tim Pfaff y the time Wagner reached Gotterdammerung in Der Ring des Nibelungen – having, after completing the second act of Siegfried, further stretched his compositional powers with Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger – the orchestra had gone from what is often called “another character” in the drama to a second, inseparable but equal set of characters. So when Ring lovers, most of whom hold Gotterdammerung in special reverence, hear it with a great orchestra, it’s a high old time. The concert performance by the Halle Orchestra under Mark Elder, performed in two back-to-back concerts May 9 and 10, 2009, and issued on the orchestra’s own label, was decidedly one of those times. Given the general level of perversity or banality in Wagner productions today, many devotees might actually prefer a performance as distinctive and powerful as this one, which bows to no other in theatricality while rendering the score with arresting clarity and purpose. This is the farthest extreme from mere orchestral exhibitionism. It’s in every respect a whole Gotterdammerung, which can feel a lot like a once-in-a-lifetime experience while it’s happening. Jump straight to Siegfried’s little narrative just before Hagen kills him, one of many internal retellings of the story within The Ring, this one recapping about six hours of music in as many minutes. As Siegfried tells his story, the orchestra fills it in with a kaleidoscope of musical motifs, simultaneously condensing and expanding the experience in that remarkable way of Wagner’s. While Lars Cleveman, as good a Siegfried as has been captured on disc, spins the yarn, Elder and his magicians wrap it in its intricate sonic web with magisterial ease. It’s the kind of experience – of time standing still, yet hurtling inexorably forward – that keeps people coming back to the theater. To forget that’s

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where they are. The Ring orchestra is rarely as exposed as it is under these conditions, and even more rarely as flawlessly and meaningfully deployed. Elder’s unerring feel for pace and line render his a highly individual Gotterdammerung that at the same time feels like it hasn’t been tampered with. He’s as good with the rests as he is with the notes, with the hushed private utterances as with the big public scenes. (The Halle Choir and BBC Symphony Chorus are as magnificent as the orchestra.) You always know where you are in this Gotterdammerung, despite the many moments you feel you’re there for the first time. Elder’s cast is all you dare hope. If you need a dose of dumbkopf in your Siegfried, you won’t find it in Cleveman, who sings the most uniformly heroic Siegfried in my experience, as well as one of the most detailed. His Brunnhilde, fellow Swede Katarina Dalayman, has a similarly tight bead on her character, even if her vibrato spreads uncomfortably when her otherwise lustrous voice is under pressure (as the Gotterdammerung Brunnhilde so often is). Andrew Shore, who until recent-

ly had cornered the role of Alberich, gives his best recorded performance here, and Attila Jun hands in a highly inflected Hagen in many shades of black. Peter Coleman-Wright and Nancy Gustafson sing splendidly while actually making you care about the Gibichungs. Susan Bickley’s Waltraute steals her part of the show, and the Norns and Rhinemaidens are collectively ideal and individually memorable. With San Francisco’s Ring just a half-year off now (with, in my opinion, the most covetable Swede of them all as Brunnhilde), it’s hard to imagine a better tide-you-over Ring installment than this Gotterdammerung, or, if you have yet to get it under your belt, a better way to do that. What could yet get me to swim the Pacific for that Ring is Anja Kampe’s company debut as Sieglinde. I’m haunted by her Carlotta from LA’s production of Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten this spring, and I’ve been stalking her on recording ever since. The place she turned up most recently is as Leonore in a live 2006 Glyndebourne Fidelio, on that company’s own label and also under Elder (and yet again with Coleman-Wright, as Don Pizarro). She’s reason enough to take in this exemplary performance, but again it’s Elder who makes this such a treasurable experience. He nails the elusive idiom and sound world of Beethoven’s only opera – what Germans call its Klang – and, as he did in Gotterdammerung, makes everything individual and all things right. Kampe’s acting is so arresting that for once, you don’t regret a syllable of the spoken dialogue. Her singing is musically and textually fine-grained, exquisitely controlled, always involving, and emotionally shattering at full throttle. She’s flanked by fine colleagues and too conscientious musically too steal a show, but you think about her Leonore long after the sound has died away.▼

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fter tonight (Nov. 11), we’ll know if Clocks, a 19-minute composition on this CD devoted to the chamber music of Miguel del Aguila, has won the Latin Recording Academy’s Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. One of two CDs I’ve reviewed that contains music nominated for a 2010 Latin Grammy (the other is Antonio Lysy at the Broad (Yarlung Records), whose rendition of Lalo Schifrin’s Pampas is also up for Best Classical Contemporary Composition), it is filled with irresistible music. Del Aguila wrote Clocks on commission for the Ventura Chamber Music Festival, which engaged the composer and Cuarteto Latinoamericano for the 1998 premiere. Here performed by Camerata San Antonio, and recorded with rather bright, upfront sonics, Clocks takes the listener on a fanciful tour through a clock museum. Each movement represents a single timepiece (as in the fourth movement, which receives its inspiration from a Sundial of 2000 B.C.), a group of them, or a story told by clocks. Clocks is one wild ride. Somehow,

four chamber musicians, including Kristin Roach on piano, manage to hammer, chant, bang, and saw their way through a bizarre assortment of mechanical sounds, zany effects, charmingly antiquated melodies, thoroughly modern mish-mashes, and ecstatic excess. “While writing this work,” del Aguila proclaims in the liner notes, “I

tried to avoid the expected piano quintet sound and Brahmsian drama. As often happens with my works, the element I strive the hardest to obtain is the one the press misunderstands. At its premiere, a Los Angeles Times reviewer objected that ‘it didn’t sound like a piano quintet.’” Except for the ending of the last

movement, “The Joy of Keeping Time,” which juxtaposes distinctly Latin rhythms with a short, concluding Brahmsian romantic flourish that over-winds itself until its springs pop, Clocks doesn’t sound in the least like a traditional piano quintet. And that’s just fine. It’s hard not to love this zany work. The remainder of the CD is devoted to four other compositions: Charango Capriccioso (2006), Presto II (derived from the last movement of Aguila’s String Quartet No. 2 of 1998), Salôn Buenos Aires (2005), and Life is a Dream (2002). Most juxtapose quintessentially Latin elements, be they Argentinean or, in the case of Life is a Dream, the Spanish flamenco atmosphere of Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s 17th-century Spain, with distinctly modern compositional techniques. The title work, Salón Buenos Aires, paints a portrait of the city in the 1950s, during the prosperity and optimism that preceded the collapse and repressive dictatorships of the 1970s. That may sound like all fun, but the work is far deeper than you might expect. The charango is as lively as you might expect, the Presto II a mix of classic jazz and Caribbean elements that mock the Viennese tradition. Traditionalists may not approve, but those with a spirit for adventure and rhythm will kick up their heels and stomp with delight.▼

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Cavalia @ AT&T Park Sweeping and acclaimed multimedia show in a gargantuan tent, with 100 human performers, 50 horses, music and pageantry, aerialists, acrobats, and family entertainment. $64.50-$229.50. 24 Willie Mays Plaza at Embarcadero. (866) 999-8111. www.cavalia.net

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ot being much for material object acquisition, and being allergic to corporate-induced buying binges like Black Friday, perhaps you share my sentiment, and seek alternative, local and unique giftshoppertunities for ... stuff. The shops at local museums and galleries offer a plethora of unusual and tasteful items, from Cezanne mugs to art nouveaux clocks (okay, taste is subjective). Kids toys abound at MOMA, the de Young and Legion of Honor. Who doesn’t like an artsy coffee table book? The Celebration of Craftswomen at Herbst Pavilion is the mother of arts and craft sales. The 32nd annual event showcases fine crafts by more than 200 women artists, many of them out lesbians. Jewelry, furniture, clothing, sculpture, ceramics, -all for saleare complimented by gourmet food, live music and a benefit silent auction for the Women’s Building. $7-$12. 10am-5pm. Nov. 27 & 28, Dec. 4 & 5. Fort Mason Center, Buchanan St. at Marina Blvd. www.celebrationofcraftswomen.org

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The annual Holiday Studio Sale at Pizzichillo & Gordon Studio showcases uniquely designed ceramics, glassware and more. Nov. 26-28, and Dec. 4 & 11. 10am-4pm. 2680 Union St. in Oakland. (510) 832-8380. www.quepasaglass.com For Kwaanza gifting, see Art/Object at The Golden Girls Museum of the African Diaspora, an exhibit of masks, costumes, sculptures and objects from ancient Africa, which shows how they’re used in rituals and contemporary settings. The gift shop’s full of fascinating items, too. Thru Jan. 16, 2011. 685 Mission St. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org Find that special vintage something at the Antiques and Collectibles Fair at Candlestick Park. Select from items showcased by more than 500 vendors; furniture, gifts, knick-knacks, silverware, and lots more. $5-$10. Nov. 28, 6am-3pm. www.candlestick-antiques.com For one of a kind holiday art, the Holiday Art Sale at Creativity Explored is stellar. Dec. 2 is donor preview night ($200 and up) for the exhibit and sale of art works by developmentally challenged artists. 6pm8pm. Opening reception’s Dec. 3, 6pm-9pm. The exhibit runs thru Dec. 22 and is a must-see. Mon & Tue 10am-3pm. Wed-Fri 10am7pm. Sat 12pm-6pm. 3245 16th St. 863-2108. www.creativityexplored.org Holiday Art Sale After all that shopping, take a load off your at Creativity Explored dragging feet for two hilarious drag shows. The Kinsey Sicks, our favorite roving dragapella quartet, brings their “new and disapproved” version of Oy Vey in a Manger to stamp out holiday cheer in four-part harmony with songs like “God Bless Ye Femmy Lesbians” and “Oh, Hoey Night.” $25-$35. One night only: Nov. 26 at 8pm. Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave. 392-4400. www.kinseysicks.com The holiday edition of The Golden Girls, the popular drag stage version of two episodes of the classic TV show, with nightlife queens Heklina, Cookie Dough, Matthew Martin and Pollo Del Mar, is now at CounterPulse. Guest stars include former Gogos band member Jane Wiedlin. $25. ThuSat 7pm & 9pm thru Dec. 23. 1310 Celebration of Craftswomen Mission St. at 9th. (ceramics by Eileen Goldenberg) www.trannyshack.com▼

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The Color Purple @ San Jose Center for the Arts

The Play About the Naked Guy @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley

Evren Odcikin directs David Bell’s hilarious Off-Broadway hit about schlocky empresarios who produce a Naked Boys show and strike a deal with a porn star to save their theatre. Yes, there will be male nudity. $10$20. Thu-Sat 8pm. 1834 Euclid Ave. www.impacttheatre.com

The Real Americans @ The Marsh

South Bay production of the musical based on the Alice Walker book and the Stephen Speilberg film. $20-$75. Tue-Wed 7:30pm. Fri-Sat 2pm & 8pm. Sun 1pm & 6pm. Thru Nov. 28. 255 Almaden Blvd. 792-4111. www.broadwaysanjose.com

Dan Hoyle’s (Tings Dey Happen) multiplecharacter solo show based on his road trip to Middle America to explore the profound disconnect in a politically polarized country. $15-$50. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Extended thru Dec 4. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Cultural Encounters @ de Young Museum

The Tempest @ Exit on Taylor

Weekly parties that mix live and DJed music, hands-on art projects for all ages, and drinks and a fun scene. Free-$12. 5pm8:45pm. Golden Gate Park. www.famsf.org

Cutting Ball Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s classic, about an exiled king, his family, and a big storm. $15-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Nov. 28. 277 Taylor St. (800) 838-3006. www.cuttingball.com

Forever Tango @ Marines Memorial Theatre Luis Bravo’s dance show stars former local instructor (and Dancing With the Stars pro) Cheryl Burke, with 12 dancers, a live band, and hot tango dancing. $55-$100. Tue-Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm. Also Wed, Sat, Sun at 2pm. Thru Jan. 9. 609 Sutter St. 2nd floor. 7716900. www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com

Girl Trouble-Boy Trouble @ Oddball Film A night of vintage teen guidance films. Get retro tips on the “difficult years,” from zits to pits, juvies to squares. $10. 8:30pm. More odd films Nov. 27, 8pm. 275 Capp St. www.oddballfilm.com

Hayes Valley Show @ Marlena’s Galilea’s weekly drag show starts off your weekend. No cover. 9:30pm. 488 Hayes St. at Octavia. www.marlenasbarsf.com

Kuroneko @ Castro Theatre New 35mm print of Kaneto Shindo’s 1968 Black Cat, a horror classic about a demon who murders samurai. $7-$10. 2:30, 4:45, 7pm, 9:15. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead @ Berkeley Rep Previews begin for the witty, musical comedy based on the author’s orchestral narrative work; developed by Phantom Limb Company; music by Nathaniel Stookey; directed by Tony Taccone. LGBT Night Out Dec. 1. $14.50-$73. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Thu, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Jan. 15. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Mummenschanz @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley Swiss pantomime-puppet troupe returns with 3x11, a retrospective of the company’s 33 years of work. $22-$52. 2pm. Also Nov 27 at 2pm & 8pm. Nov. 28 at 3pm. Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave. (510) 6429988. www.calperformances.org

Or @ Magic Theatre West Coast premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ crossdressing political comedy inspired by 17th-century writer Aphra Behn, who may have also been a government spy. $30-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2:30pm. Thru Dec. 5. Bldg D, Fort Mason Center, 3rd floor. www.magictheatre.org

Ottmar Liebert @ The Rrazz Room Acclaimed solo guitarist performs flamenco, jazz, and world music. $42.50. 8pm. Also Nov 27, 7pm & 9:30pm. Nov 28, 7pm. 2drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Palomino @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley David Cale’s multi-character solo show about a Central Park carriage driver. $10$55. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, Tue & Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 5. 2081 Addison St. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Ghetto Disco @ The Endup

A Perfect Ganesh @ New Conservatory Theatre

DJs Hawthorne and guests spin dance grooves til dawn, Friday, November 26. Burn off those holiday stuffing calories as you shake your giblets. $15-$20. Free before 12am. 11pm-11am. 401 6th St. at Harrison. 646-0999. www.theendup.com

Terrence McNally’s drama about two women who go on a trip to India in search of enlightenment. $22-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 19. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

West Side Story @ Orpheum Theatre Touring production of the classic Robbins/Bernstein/Sondheim musical update of Romeo and Juliet set in 1950s New York. $30-$180. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7:30pm. Thru Nov. 28. 1192 Market St. at 8th. (888) SHN1799.www.shnsf.com/shows/westsidestory

Sat 27 >> Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Special holiday shows, schedules, including under-21 matinees, thru Nov & Dec. $25$80. Wed, Thu 8pm. Fri, Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Blowoff @ Slim’s Bob Mould and Rich Morel return with another edition of their groovy bear dance night. $15. 10pm-2am. 333 11th St. www.blowoff.us www.slim-sf.com

Cinderella Enchanted @ Julia Morgan Center, Berkeley Grammy nominee Frenchie Davis stars in Berkeley Playhouse’s production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, with aerial dancers, kids and animalls and diverse cast. $15-$25. Thru Dec. 6. 2640 College Ave. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

Documented @ Café Flore Garza presents a fundraiser for Priscilla Murray Projects, a collective of photo documentaries about social justice. Drag show and DJ Ken Vulsion. 10pm-2am. Market St. at Noe. www.cafeflore.com

Forrest Williams @ Marx & Zavattero Gallery Fourth solo exhibition of contemplative male figure studies by the New York painter. Thru Dec. 18. Tue-Fri 10:30-5:30. Sat 11am5pm. 77 Geary St. 2nd floor. 627-9111. www.marxzav.com

Group Exhibit @ Tenderloin Art Lending Library Exhibit of loanable paintings and other works made by local artists. 134 A Golden Gate Ave. 756-2325.

Japanesque @ Legion of Honor Exhibit of Japanese prints from 1700-1900, and its relationship to Impressionism. Thru Jan. 9. $6-$10. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. 100 34th Av. at Clement, Lincoln Park. www.legionofhonor.org

11am, 2pm, 4pm. Sat & Sun at 11am, 2pm, 4pm (Sat only) thru Dec. 19. 221 Fourth St. www.mfdpsf.org www.zeum.org

Pastor Tom Show @ KUSF Dr. Tom Polcari’s LGBT music and talk show. 4pm. Weekly on 90.3 FM.

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Richard Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture; with an all-star cast. $30-$69. 18 and over only! Extended, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, thru Dec 19. 575 10th St. at Division. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

SF Hiking Club @ Point Reyes Join GLBT hikers for an 11-mile hike along the Sky Trail/Woodward Valley/Coast Trail loop at Point Reyes National Seashore. Bring warm clothes, hat, water, food, head lamp, sturdy boots. Carpool meets 9:30 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. (510) 910-8734. www.sfhiking.com

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 License to Kiss II is the new show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza with Kevin Kent, twin acrobats Ming and Rui, Vertical Tango rope dance, plus magic, comedy, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63—$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm). Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Tracy/Hepburn Films @ Castro Theatre Comedy and drama classics starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Woman of the Year, 2:50, 7pm. Pat and Mike 1pm, 5pm, 9:15pm. Nov. 28, Adam’s Rib, 3pm & 7pm. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? At 12:55, 4:55, 8:55pm. $7-$10. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Unveiled @ Femina Potens Women and Power in the Middle East, a group exhibit of photos and art about Arab women’s struggles. Thu-Sun 12pm-6pm thru Nov. 28. 2199 Market St. at Sanchez. www.feminapotens.org

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond @ de Young Museum Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, the second of two exhibitions from the Paris museum’s permanent collection, thru Jan. 18. Also, Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes, thru March 6. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am5:15pm. Thru Jan. 18, 2011. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, www.famsf.org

Sun 28 >> Curious George Saves the Day @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Fascinating exhibit of 80 drawings by Margret and H.A. Rey, cocreators of the impish monkey books. Also, Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker and Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations (both thru March). Thu-Tue 11am-5pm. Thu 1pm8pm. 736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800. Thru March 13. www.thecjm.org

Design & Wine 1976 to Now @ SF MOMA Exhibit of the rich culture of wine, with historical artifacts, art, installations designed by Diller Scofidio and Renfro. Special contests with prizes, including hotel stays in Napa, SF and Sonoma. 151 3rd St. www.sfmoma.org

Marilyn Pittman @ The Marsh Popular local lesbian stand-up comedian and NPR host performs her personal and darkly comic solo show, It’s All the Rage, about a tragic family murder-suicide. $20$50. Saturdays 8:30pm, Sundays 7pm. Thru Dec. 5. 1062 Valencia St. (800) 8383006. www.themarsh.org

Nutcracker @ Zeum Mark Foehringer Dance Project’s hip shortened one-hour update on the classic Tchaicovsky ballet, with live music. $25.

Paula West in Songs of the Season, Mon.

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Yoga Classes @ The Sun Room Heated, healing weekly yoga classes in a new location. Suggested donation $10-20. 12pm-1pm. Tue & Thu. 2390 Mission St, 3rd floor. 794-4619. www.billmohleryoga.com

Wed 1 >> Angels in America at 20 @ Museum of Performance & Design Exhibit documenting the award-winning Tony Kushner drama, with array of original costumes, props, manuscripts, video clips, photos, designs and audio interviews. Wed-Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Mar. 26. 401 Van Ness Ave. 255-4800. www.mpdsf.org

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 Country-western dancing for the LGBT community and friends two night a week, every Sunday and Thursday. $5. 21+. Sundays 5pm-10:30pm, lessons 5:30–7:15pm. Thursdays 6:30–10:30pm, lessons 7pm8pm. 550 Barneveld Ave., near Bayshore and Industrial. www.sundancesaloon.org

Swing-out Sundays @ Rock-it Room Slim Jenkins and other bands play weekly for your same- and opposite-sex swing dancing pleasure. $5 includes a lesson. 8pm11pm. 406 Clement St. www.SwingChampionships.com

Mon 29 >> Donna Sachet’s Songs of the Season @ The Rrazz Room Annual gala songfest with the popular host and columnist; Paula West, Sharon McNight, Abigail Zsiga, Vicki Sheppard and more perform. Proceeds benefit the AIDS Emergency Fund. $75 and up for opening night (reception 6:30pm). $50 Nov 30 & Dec. 1. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.donnasachet.com www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Randall Sexton, Steven J. Levin @ John Pence Gallery Realist still lifes duo exhibittion at the prominent Union Square gallery. Thru Dec. 18. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am5pm. 750 Post St. 441-1138. www.johnpence.com

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Tom Hill @ Magnet Exhibit of pop art-styled works by the gay painter. 8pm. Exhibit thru Nov. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Weezer @ Masonic Auditorium Dude. That cool band performs new songs from Hurley, and other tunes as hipster fans go wild. $28-$117. 8pm. 1111 California St. Also Nov. 30. www.weezer.com

Tue 30 >> Frank D’Ambrosio @ ArtHaus Broadway singer (Phantom of the Opera) showcases his expressionist paintings. TueFri 11am-6pm. Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Dec. 23. 411 Brannan St. www.arthaus-sf.com

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Give the Gift of Success @ Monaco San Francisco Holiday party with cocktails, live and silent auction (travel packages, dining and entertainment). Proceeds benefit Dress for Success San Francisco, which provides business clothes and career development for men and women returning to the workforce. $85-$500 (VIP includes private reception with Project Runway designer Christopher Collins). 5:30pm-9pm. 501 Geary St. 362-0034. www.dressforsuccess.org/sanfrancisco

Meditation Classes @ Kadampa Buddhist Temple Tessa Logan teaches drop-in meditation classes. $10. 7-8:45pm. 3324 17th St. 503-1187. www.meditationin northerncalifornia.org

States of Kinesis @ Nieto Fine Art Exhibit of works by a trio of artists –Eric Bailey, Peggy Gyulai and Fernando Reyesusing colorful imagery of the human form. Tue-Sat 10am-6pm. Thru Dec. 11. 565 Sutter St. 393-4511. www.nietofineart.com

Badly Happy @ Performance Art Institute Pain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, a group exhibit representing a generation which struggles to make sense out of the rapidly changing post-communist world. Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm. Thru Jan. 8, 2011. 575 Sutter St. 501-0575. www.theperformanceartinstitute.org

Cocktails for a Cure @ Harbor Court Hotel Kimpton Hotels hosts a fundraiser for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation; MC Pollo Del Mar, singer Jason Brock, DJ Josh Dukes. $10. 5:30-8pm. 165 Steuard St. www.richmondermet.org

The Other City @ Sundance Kabuki World AIDS Day screening of the documentary about AIDS patients living in poverty in Washington, D.C. 5:45pm. 1881 Post St. www.sfaf.org

Shrek, the Musical @ Orpheum Theatre The hit musical based on the Disney animated film plays through the holidays. $30-$99. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Sun 7:30pm. Thru Jan. 2. Market St. at 8th. www.shnsf.com/shows/shrek

Sing-Along Sound of Music @ Castro Theatre How can you not sing along to “Doe, a Deer”? Enjoy the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical film starring Julie Andrews, in digital Cinemasope, with subtitles and a fun costume contest. Yodel-ayhee-hoo! $10-$15. 7pm. Also Sat & Suna t1pm. Thru Dec. 5. 429 Castro St. 6216120. www.castrotheatre.com

Thu 2 >> Dirty Little Showtunes @ New Conservatory Theatre Tom Orr’s wicked and wacky musical revue of campy parody songs includes six special guest performers. $24-$40. WedSat 8pm. Sun 2pm. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Drag Queens on Ice @ Union Square Rink Watch or join in as local celebrity queens skate. $5-$9.50. Skate rentals $4-$5. Show at 8pm-9:30pm. Powell St. at Geary. 781-2688. www.unionsquareicerink.com

John Adams, SF Symphony @ Davies Hall Acclaimed composer (Nixon in China, Dr. Atomic) conducts a semi-staged production of his oratorio El Niño. Also, works by Cowel and Mozart. $22-$140. 8pm. Dec 2-4. (Also, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Adams’ Harmonielehre Dec. 811). 201 Van Ness Ave. www.sfsymphony.org

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Weekly parties with different themes at the new museum of life sciences. Enjoy the exhibits while drinking and schmoozing. Enjoy the exhibit, Life: A Cosmic Story, narrated by Jodie Foster in the Planetarium. $12. (Reg, admission $20-$30). 21+. 6pm-10pm. Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy.org/nightlife

Super 8 Hanukkah Festival @ Various Venues Eight Ways to Burn Bright, a weeklong celebration of Hanukkah, with food, films, music, comedy and more. Dec. 2, Good for the Jews at Café Du Nord. $12-$15, 8pm. 2170 Market St. Other events through Dec. 8. www.jccsf.org/thehub

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Forever Tango with Cheryl Burke, Fri.

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by Donna Sachet appy Thanksgiving to one and all! We spend so much time moaning and groaning about what’s wrong with the world, let’s take at least a day to pause and be thankful for all that is wonderful in our lives here in San Francisco! Last Friday’s amfAR Gala at the Four Seasons Hotel set a new standard for black-tie dinners. First of all, the elegant dining room was set with elaborately decorated rectangular tables, suggestive of a home dining room, lending a more intimate opportunity to converse with companions. Then, the entertainment was world-class, including a moving set by a quartet from the San Francisco Symphony, beautiful songs Donna Sachet with Ethel Merman and Tony Rich at the GGBA gala at Hard tenderly performed by the sizzling Rock Cafe, earlier this month. Cheyenne Jackson, and an extraordinary performance by legendary enough excitement for one Monday with incredible dance and singing, Broadway star Betty Buckley. The night, at the reception afterwards a delivered with youthful exuberance, attendees were that rare mix of acnumber of cast members were lookprofessional polish, and a generous tive members of the LGBT commuing for a place to wind down after dose of humor. The most shownity who often attend these kinds of the show, and minutes later we stopping numbers were from West galas and more traditional San Franfound ourselves at Martuni’s piano Side Story, but with the gender roles cisco society members, joined tobar. Pianist Joe Wicht and the staff reversed. Imagine, for example, a gether in commitment to ending the of Martuni’s made everyone feel chorus of guys performing “I like to AIDS epidemic. Honorees Michael welcome as singing and merriment be in America!” Beyond their musiTilson Thomas and Marcia and continued into the night. cal talents, these guys and girls often John Goldman brought out a stellar Under One Roof in the Castro ofdonned skimpy costumes revealing assembly, including Congressficially kicked off the holiday shopthe toned bodies that nightwoman Jackie Speier, State Senaping season last Thursday. We joined ly Broadway caliber tor Mark Leno, City Treathe party, singing a few holiday tunes shows demand. surer Jose Cisneros, with Alan Choy at the piano, as Rounding out the show Mario Diaz, John Rosin, shoppers enjoyed Barefoot wines were emcees Jai RoMark Calvano, Joel and nibbles from surrounding driguez and Robert Goodrich, Vanessa Getty, restaurants. The store is packed with Williamson and musicians Beth Townsend, Kenneth seasonal decorations, unique gift Wesla Whitfield, Mike Cole, Timothy Wu, Ken Fulk, items, and all things gay, so you may Greensill, and and Gari James. begin and end your shopping right Kalil Wilson. The RichO N T HE T OWN there! Among the supmond/Ermet One Later that same night we joined portive audience Night Only benefit the party called Bedtime Stories alwere Beth Schnitzer, Raghu Shivshow with members of the national aram, Richard Sablatura, Larry ready in progress at Supperclub for touring company of West Side Story Horowitz, Randy Schiller, Marcus Bay Area Young Positives. This last Monday at Marines’ Memorial Wonacott, Patrik Gallineaux, and unique setting was perfect for the vaTheatre was an unqualified success. Don Berger. As if that weren’t This company amazed the audience page 33

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Coming up in leather & kink >> Thu., Nov. 25: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom), 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drink specials. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

All you can drink Bud Light draft or sodas from 5-9 p.m. for $8. Bar opens at 4 p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Thu., Nov. 25: Edges Wet Munch at Renegades Bar (501 W. Taylor St., San Jose), 7 p.m. Happy hour for the sexpositive and alternative communities from 4-7 p.m. Go to: www.edges.biz or www.renegadesbar.com.

Sun., Nov. 28: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. DJ Keith. Dollar Drafts. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Thu., Nov 25: Locker Room Thursdays at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Featuring DJ Hotwire. Pumping music at 9 p.m. Comp clothes check provided by the SoMa Guardians. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com. Fri., Nov. 26: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.1 a.m. $25. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Fri., Nov. 26: Black Friday Bar Crawl through SoMa produced by the SoMa Bar & Business Guild: The Eagle Tavern, Lone Star Saloon, Hole in the Wall, Truck, Chaps and The Powerhouse. Look up “SOMA Bar & Business Guild” on Facebook for details. Fri., Nov. 26: Truck (1900 Folsom) teams up with Dudes Nude. 9 p.m.-Midnight. See what these guys really look like, and win the SoMa Bar & Business Guild’s biggest prize ever! Go to: www.trucksf.com. Sat., Nov. 27: Back Bar Action at The Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.) Back patio and bar open to all gear/fetish/leather. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com. Sat., Nov. 27: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse, 10 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Sat., Nov. 27: Castrobear presents 100% SOMA Beef & Co. All Beef Saturday Nights at The Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison). Go to: www.castrobear.com. Sat., Nov. 27: Hell Hole Fisting Party. Doors open 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Party ends at 4 a.m. $25, free clothes check. For an invitation, visit: www.HellHoleSF.com. Sat., Nov. 27: 15 Association Men’s Dungeon Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Doors close at 11 p.m. Go to: www.the15association.org. Sat., Nov. 27: Boots at Chaps Bar. Calling all boot pigs. Drink specials, bootblack on duty. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com. Sun., Nov. 28: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com. Sun., Nov. 28: Bud Light Beer Bust at Chaps Bar.

Sun., Nov. 28: Chicken (Turkey) Bear at The Powerhouse. An in-between party for everyone in between! 610 pm. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Sun., Nov. 28: Dee’s Meander: An easy walking group for kinksters at Bestor Art Park, Bestor St. at S. 6th St., San Jose. 4:30 p.m. Go to: http://fetlife.com/events/28662. Mon., Nov. 29: 18th Annual Donna Sachet’s Songs of the Season at the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko (222 Mason). Reception at 6:30 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. Through Dec. 1. Get tickets at: www.songsoftheseason.eventbrite.com. Tue., Nov. 30: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel, 6:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Tue., Nov 30: Beautiful Bondage, An Intermediate Bondage Class with Waldemar at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m. $20. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Tue., Nov. 30: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse, 9 p.m. Celebrate your tats and piercings, then have some nasty fun! Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com. Tue., Nov. 30: Skins N Punks at Chaps Bar. Drink specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com. Wed., Dec. 1: Naked Buddies at Blow Buddies. Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m., play til late. Go to: www.blowbuddies .com. Wed., Dec. 1: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse. 10 p.m. Drink specials if you’re shirtless. Go to www.powerhousesf.com. Wed., Dec. 1: Dominant Discussion Group at the SF Citadel. Doors open at 7 p.m., discussion at 7:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org. Wed., Dec 1: The Watergarden (1010 Alameda, San Jose) launches WOLF! For Furry Men on the Prowl. 4 p.m.-Midnight. Adult videos of hairy guys, plus a new red zone and club music. Go to: www.thewatergarden.com. Wed., Dec. 1: SoMa Men’s Club. Every Wed., the SoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star, Hole in the Wall, Eagle) have specials for those with Men’s Club dogtags. See your favorite SoMa bar for details.

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looks great, boner bulging in white briefs. When they come off, his cock and balls are once again wrapped in a neck-tied stranglehold. Paul’s rapt gaze at Hunter’s crotch as the latter undresses is priceless, as is the sight of Hunter’s tongue tickling Paul’s expansive hole. While Hunter shows no special technique as a fucker, he’s sturdy, and Paul’s responsive. Especially when he’s straddling Hunter, and bouncing heavily on his dick. It makes him shoot, coating his hairy pecs with white pecker-tracks. I liked seeing Sean Stavos top Rod Daily. Rod’s been adding to his tattoos, but I don’t find Albrecht Durer’s praying hands or the commonplace, scythe-like design surrounding it on his abdomen particularly attractive. What is attractive is the invigorating cocksucking session they share. The movie’s finale is good, too – Christian Wilde topping Trent Diesel. Christian’s got a whitetrash kind of look, and a trashy fuck style that’s as rewarding to Trent as it is to the viewer.▼ www.MassiveStudio.com

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On the Town riety of entertainment, including Marga Gomez, Sister Roma, Mercedes Monro, and Raya Light. An incredible meal was enjoyed as we learned more about the 20 years of work this agency has done with the under-26 set faced with challenges of HIV/AIDS. This Monday, Nov. 29, at 6 p.m., the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro (MUMC) light the traditional holiday tree in front of Bank of America in the heart of the Castro. Enjoy holiday music from the Gay Men’s Chorus, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus, and the Freedom Band, while elected officials and other community speakers help kick off the holiday season. While we find it difficult to “toot our own horn,” so to speak, we warmly invite you to attend the 18th Annual Songs of the Season musical variety show benefiting AIDS Emergency Fund at the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko this Mon., Tues., and Wed., Nov. 29, 30, and Dec. 1. When we originated this event around a piano with friends and a jar for tips, we never imagined that it would grow into the three-night, highly anticipated, successful fundraiser it is today. Lu Conrad generously presents Opening Night with a Tastecatered reception starting at 6:30 p.m., followed by the 8 p.m. show, featuring a stellar cast of Vicki Shepard, Kelly Houston, the SDK trio, Sharon McNight, Abigail Zsiga, and

Rehearsing backstage with the national touring company of West Side Story for One Night Only. legendary Val Diamond. The entire cast, save Val, returns for the next two nights, with the addition of sultry Paula West. Don’t worry, this isn’t your typical Christmas pageant but a spirited evening of song and laughter, celebrating the feeling of generosity that San Francisco and

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the LGBT community so aptly represents. Supported by wonderful donations from the Bob Ross Foundation and many others, tickets are reasonably priced and readily available at www.songsoftheseason.net. Act soon; it looks like a three-night sell-out!▼

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For those of us who have been watching TV and politics, she looks like the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan. h, the holidays, also known as And she rocks those kayaks on her the black hole of the TV landSarah Palin’s Alaska TV show. scape. Starting with the Palin is omnipresent on the tube Thanksgiving Day extravaganzas of these days, not just on her own show. parades and patdowns – rather, touchTry and find a newscast on any netdowns – the endless holiday shows work that isn’t mentioning something begin. B-list celebs at Rockefeller Cenabout Sarah, or a tabloid-TV show ter, the time warp of the Rockettes at without some Palin item. A day or Radio City Music Hall, various A-list even two might go by without Obama celebs with their own specials. Hallin the news, but not without Sarah. mark movies about sundered families Plus, other politicians, doesn’t matter magically reuniting. The ubiquitous what party, can’t shut up about her, Charlie Brown Christmas, It’s from Joe Biden to Joe Scarbora Wonderful Life, The ough. (BTW, ScarborGrinch Who Stole ough got suspended this Christmas, A Christmas week from MSNBC for Carol, Handel’s Messiah campaign contributions, and the animated verjust as Olbermann was. sion of our very own Good to know those rules ancestor’s opus, Twas apply to both sides of the the Night Before punditry aisle.) Christmas. Oy. Palin’s so powerBut there are L AVENDER T UBE ful, PBS censored some good shows Tina Fey last week still pumping out the when she said untoward things about occasional new episode between now her in her acceptance speech for the and, gasp (is it almost 2011 already?), Mark Twain Award. PBS asserted they the New Year. And then the whole cut the speech due to time constraints, used-to-be-midseason, now a third but the edits completely altered Fey’s season, begins, especially on cable. But comments on Palin. no matter what, there is always reality Palin’s TV powers allegedly extend TV and politics, and in the case of the to her daughter, Bristol. Fans of the Palin family, both. top-rated Dancing with the Stars Pity poor John McCain. Wonder brought Bristol to the finals when why he’s so angry all time? Because he pundits thought she would be axed in created a TV/political superstar and he the first few weeks. Bristol really was can’t share in the glory. He should just the most improved dancer this season. take credit for it, bask in the afterglow She started out moving with all the and have done with it. Stop with the grace of one of those grizzlies her crankiness, already. mama keeps referring to. Was she betWe really didn’t think Sarah Palin ter than Brandy and Jennifer Grey? was going to run for president right up Hardly. But she was never a profesuntil we saw the Nov. 17 clip of her insional dancer or actress, unlike those terview with Barbara Walters. (The two born-graceful finalists. full interview is part of Walters’ 10 The View women, always eager to Most Fascinating People show airing make asses of themselves, weighed in on ABC Dec. 9.) In the Walters interon Bristol, repeating the Internet view, Palin’s dewy fresh skin, everprememe that it’s “unfair” that Tea Party sent smile and peripatetic perkiness people allegedly voted en masse for were like a perfect storm as Walters Bristol, and that it was a Tea Party conasked her if she thought she could beat spiracy to keep her on the show. (AlBarack Obama for the presidency in though we did like the news story 2012. She said yes. about the guy who shot out his TV You gotta give Palin props: she’s got when she made it to the finals and guts. Must be that pageant preparation Brandy didn’t.) The chatter about the paired with basketball playing with a alleged Tea Party conspiracy either little moose- and bear-tracking tossed makes Mama Palin and the Tea Party in. She doesn’t care what anyone powerful enough to sway votes even thinks, she just goes for it. Conflates on a TV contest, or it’s just irritation words? So what. Refudiate this. Can’t that there isn’t the child of some proremember what she read with breakgressive politician on the show. As fast? Whatever. Pro-life and a gunwith all the other vote-in shows, there lover? Well, that’s just the Republican are restrictions on voting. So just like way. Why do you hate America? with the Nov. 2 elections, if you didn’t She’s the most charismatic politivote, you don’t get to complain. (We cian since Bill Clinton and Barack were voting for Grey all along.) Obama, but her luster isn’t dimming.

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China basin Speaking of being beaten, ABC did some disturbing reporting last week from China. Diane Sawyer and her news team decided to check out the nation that owns us. It was an eyeopening series of reports. (Check it out at ABCnews.com.) The water is polluted, the air even more so, but the Chinese are beating the US in just about every arena except human rights, according to these reports. Chinese children are learning English in the majority of their schools (kindergartners were conversing fluently with Sawyer), where students spend 30% more time in the classroom per year than American students and are computer literate in preschool, workers are churning out goods at a rate so astronomical it would make Santa’s elves’ heads spin, and technology is making tremendous strides in areas like electronics and travel (the fastest trains in the world are now in China). Predictions are that China could be the world’s premiere economy, surpassing the US, by 2020. Conversely, ABC reporter David Muir couldn’t report on the smog without being asked for his papers, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo, may have to forfeit because both he and his wife have been imprisoned and the Nobel Committee has strict rules about who can accept the prize, the recipient or a family member. Speaking of family, Cher and Chaz Bono were stepping out into all the tabloid TV shows now that Cher’s new

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The furor over Bristol got her younger sisters all a-Twitter, and as all the tabloid shows reported, Willow said some rude and homophobic things about the anti-Bristol backlash, for which Mama Palin and Bristol later apologized. This is just the preview of the 2012 season. Watch and weep, watch and weep. Meanwhile, in the news you’re not seeing: The Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have expanded women’s recourse against wage discrimination, as women still make only 77 cents for every dollar men make for the same work, died an ignominious death in the Senate on Nov. 18. Every single Republican voted against it (including several female senators), as did quite a few Democrats. This is still the Democratic-led Senate. Voting once again for discrimination. Yet not worthy of reportage when there’s Bristol Palin DWTS dish to include in the actual, real-not-tabloid TV news. No wonder Palin thinks she can beat Obama in 2012.

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ing homage to the vastly superior ensemble comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. Gradually the piece starts to assert itself, due in no small measure to the comic adroitness of Matthew Goode as the husband spurned. Goode’s Hector is such a remarkable sweetheart that he creates a lot of goodwill for the two female leads (Piper Perabo, Lena Headey), whose clumsy pairing is a tad formulaic. Credit also goes to child actor Boo Jackson, who becomes a most unlikely shoulder for Goode to cry on. The commentary track is great for aspiring romanticcomedy writers: Parker fesses to his freshman-director mistakes while exhibiting a whole lot of heart. Kissing Jessica Stein In this innovative but undernourished romantic comedy, two women debate their future together while hailing a cab. With an intriguing premise – what keeps so many women from harvesting the fruits of intimate friendships and crossing the thin line between girlfriends and girlfriends? – Stein makes a serious bid to be an all-girl

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film Burlesque has opened. (Memo to Chaz: double-breasted suits are neither ironic nor your best look.) Cher slipped regularly in talking to reporters, referring to Chaz as “her,” not “him,” which led other reporters to ask if the diva was unhappy with Chaz’s gender reassignment. In an interview with Nightline host Cynthia McFadden, which aired in part on Nightline Nov. 18 and in full on 20/20 on Nov. 19, Cher asserted of Chaz’s transition, “I have two sons.” (She has another son, Elijah Blue, from her marriage to Greg Allman.) She told McFadden she was frightened at first, but was as supportive as she could be. “We’d talked about it before, over the years. So I said, ‘If you need to do this, you’d better do it.’ This is the way I felt about it, and this is how I tried to explain it to my son Elijah. I like being a girl, if I woke up tomorrow and I was in a guy’s body, I would just be flipped out, and it would just be horrendous for me. And that’s all I can think of. That’s the way I put myself in Chaz’s place.” (Check out the full interview at ABCnews.com.) Katy Perry may have kissed a girl and liked it, but it wasn’t Perry but Cher’s Burlesque co-star Christina Aguilar on the American Music Awards (Nov. 21) hanging out with lesbian DJ Sam Ronson, former flame and longtime love of Lindsay Lohan. Hmmm. La Lohan is said to be crushed. Speaking of crushed, just when we were sure Grey’s Anatomy‘s dyke doctor duo Callie and Arizona were going to be our fave TV lesbians for like ever, Arizona got a grant to do her special pediatrics thing in Africa, and Callie was whining so much about going that Arizona dumped her right in the airport. Right there. We loved this couple, so it was like we broke up with Arizona, too. Sob. While the door is still open for the dynamic dyke doc duo to get back to-

Annie Hall. Despite a great cast including the screenwriter leads (Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt), this slapstick feminist romp is a film you want to like more than you actually do. Features two filmmaker commentaries, deleted scenes and a makingof short. The Object of My Affection God forbid they should turn your favorite novel into a movie! OMF gets its title, plot and self-deprecating, nebbish hero from Stephen McCauley’s hilarious satire of downwardly mobile Park Slope, Brooklyn denizens, circa 1987. In the book, feckless preschoolteacher George is sharing a sparsely furnished walkup with uberfeminist Nina. Both are in exile from charismatic, bullying boyfriends. Amidst the haphazard kitsch of their lives – fried-egg sandwiches, Glenn Miller records and the wartime diaries of Siegfried Sassoon – McCauley’s George and Nina are on a collision course: they will fuck, and destroy what’s special about their bond. In Wendy Wasserstein’s screenplay, George and Nina make only farcical stabs at each other’s erogenous zones. The seriously miscast Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston sidestep

gether next season (Jessica Capshaw, who plays the delightful Arizona, is on maternity leave), on this week’s episode Callie got drunk and after weeks of weeping and asking everyone if they had heard from Arizona, Callie landed where she so often did in the past: in the bed of her good friend Mark Sloan. Augh! Some holiday gift. Capshaw had talked about her onscreen relationship on The View, noting that “it’s awkward kissing both men and women on camera.” She also said she thinks there’s “more honesty present in a girl-girl kiss. Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they’re awkward. There’s nothing sexy about it. There’s a lot of people standing around. With the ladies, I do have to say you’re a little more honest with each other maybe. There’s a sisterhood. There’s a vulnerability, where you can go, ‘You brushed your teeth, right?’” We so hope she comes back to Grey’s, and to Callie. Fortunately, we were able to assuage our own misery over C&A with a hilarious Oprah romp with queen for any day Carson Kressley, who did makeovers on the Jersey Shore (where he had a Situation look-alike take off his shirt and show his abs) and in the studio (where our favorite makeover was Kressley getting a professed kiltwearer to give up the skirts and put on some pants). Kressley is Oprah’s go-to gay for man makeovers, and she revealed that Kressley will be hosting two shows on Oprah’s new network, OWN: Your OWN Show, co-hosting with Nancy O’Dell, which is a talent search show to choose a host for a new OWN show; and Carson Nation, in which Kressley will be taking his man makeovers all over the country via tour bus. That should be interesting. As Kressley told Oprah, “I came from a small town, and I love what clothes can do for you. They can change your life.” He began his career as a stylist with Ralph Lauren, and certainly has changed his life through clothes. Expect to see much more of him in the new year on OWN. There can never be enough flaming queens dictating fashion. Finally, the holiday wouldn’t be the holiday without a turkey or two. The funniest line of the week we heard was in somewhat poor taste, but nevertheless hilarious. Mike on CBS’ Mike & Molly pulls the gizzard pack out of the turkey, holds it up and says, “It’s like a gift bag from Jeffrey Dahmer.” With bon mots like these, you know you have to stay tuned. Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the turkey and the tight ends.▼

sexual compatibility simply by finding obliging new partners who don’t mind being human orgasmatrons. The only heartfelt new twist is Nigel Hawthorne’s elderly theatre critic, who loses his young platonic boyfriend to George, allowing us to feel the pain of thwarted love. The deletion of McCauley’s gay-boy-centric feminist satire earns this disc a skip: grab a fried-egg sandwich and the paperback, and take in a piercing queer wit. The Children’s Hour William Wyler’s 1961 remake benefits from changing mores that allowed the characters to actually name the love that dare not speak. Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn are fine as two old friends who are dismayed to discover that the lie that destroys their livelihood contains a kernel of truth. The kids are straight out of Children of the Corn, while grandma is a bad Margaret Dumont impersonator. Vito Russo wrote a chapter on why we should care about this misshapen melodrama. Apparently, young fans on IMDB find it a useful departure for debating same-sex bonds. Everyone else has been warned.▼ www.foxconnect.com

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Putting the top down with Dave Koz by Gregg Shapiro t’s hard to imagine a more perfect title for Dave Koz’s new album than Hello Tomorrow (Concord). After almost 20 years on Capitol Records, Koz has relocated to the Concord label, and the album feels like a fresh start. “I feel like a brand new artist, too,” Koz said as we began our interview, shortly before the release of the disc. “That’s a great thing to be able to feel. I have had a wonderful career and feel very blessed, yet in many ways it’s like starting from scratch again, because the business has changed so much, and also new people, new companies, new producers and new ways of recording. Everything has changed. And everything was brand-new this time around. For someone who’s been around for a lot of years, it was very refreshing and right on time. I needed that new dose of energy and new way of looking at things.”

Gregg Shapiro: Dave, you have always been generous in the way that you share space on your CD, by collaborating with vocalists and other musicians. How did you go about selecting collaborators for the songs on Hello Tomorrow?

Dave Koz: Each song had its own unique calling. It was kind of like a casting session, really. I have two coproducers who have so much prestige that people really wanted to be involved in this project. When we called Herb Alpert, for example. “This Guy’s in Love with You” is a personal song

of Desperate Housewives, heard it and loved it as well, and said, ‘I want to make this one of the cornerstones of episode five, and a theme running through this episode,’ is a dream come true. Then he invited us to be a part of the episode. Dana is actually a housewife who plays a “desperate housewife.” It’ll be very interesting to see how it all comes together. It’s a very powerful song, and it speaks to a lot of people’s journeys right now. At any point in time, as long as you’re breathing, as long as you’re alive, you can reinvent yourself.

for me. I have always connected to it. When I heard it with fresh ears in 2010, it sounded like a song written for gay marriage. In my head, it sounded like a marriage-equality theme song. That song is simple, poignant and a sweet message about love, of any kind. I said, “We really should send this to Herb Alpert, just for him to hear,” because he has been a mentor of mine for many years. I love that man. So I sent it to him. He called me back and said, “I not only give you my blessing, but I would like to play on it.” So he came in and played on the track, and truly that was a Hello Tomorrow moment. He was playing on a song that he made famous in the late 1960s.

Speaking of reinvention, I know it was 20 years ago, but do you have any regrets about the mullet you were rocking on the cover of your first album?

“Put the Top Down” is the perfect opening track. It feels like driving along the California coast, or Lake Shore Drive in Chicago for that matter, in a convertible.

I remember writing that song with one of my collaborators, Brian Culbertson, and the name of that tune just came, it sounded like a breezy, fun kind of track. It’s funky, it’s got kind of a carefree attitude to it. Each song on this album feeds this message of embracing our future and change. I don’t know anybody who hasn’t felt the monumental amount of change that is swirling around us in our lifetimes. Many people waking up in 2010 are saying, “My life looks a lot different than I thought it would be.” That’s what this album addresses. I used the songs and the music as a kind of survival guide through that stage in my own life. I think that’s

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what the message is of the album, embracing change, just surrendering and going with the flow, seeing where these changes and these new things lead you. I say, put the top down on your imaginary convertible. If you don’t have a convertible, you can put the top down in your life, because that’s what it is. It’s about making the most out of whatever you find yourself doing. It’s about being present and coherent in the moment.

What can you tell me about the upcoming Desperate Housewives appearance you are making with Dana Glover?

I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t know what to make out of it just yet. That song, “Starting All Over Again,” it’s Dana’s piece of music, she wrote it and sings it. Once I heard it again in the context of this album, I said, “That’s the tree trunk to this album.” The fact that Mark Cherry, the creator

I have only regrets about the mullet I was rocking! You’re very cute in saying that I was “rocking” it. That’s probably different from the way I would refer to it. I would probably say that it hasn’t worn well. It’s rather embarrassing when it’s a record cover that never goes away. The truth is that everybody had that haircut. I wasn’t the only one. Unfortunately, I had to have a picture of me on my first CD. So it rears its ugly head constantly in my life. I wear it proudly as a symbol of staying power.▼ Dave Koz will perform in San Francisco at the Nob Hill Masonic Center (12/11), in Santa Rosa at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts (12/14), and in Sacramento at the Radisson Hotel (12/15).

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utspoken San Francisco author, blogger, Smack Dab open-mic co-host, and pianoplayer Larry-bob Roberts has produced a little book that packs a big wallop, The International Homosexual Conspiracy. He calls his essay-format “rant style,” and these informative, sassy, hyper-opinionated pieces fill up the pages of Holy Titclamps, a website Roberts has owned and operated since 1989, when it was originally a zine on printed paper. Collected in boundbook format, there are 88 (!) bits of Larry-bob wisdom in varying lengths, split into eight sections ranging (and raging) from community and communication to popular culture and homosexuality. Pages of notions, opinions, ideas, rants, raves, and cultural criticisms are

crammed into this deceptively slim volume, and while entertaining and smartly thought-provoking, Roberts leaves it up to the reader to decide if what he has written is actually what he believes. In promotional materials, the author comments that many of his opinion pieces reflect his true feelings on the subject matter at hand; however, others may include material “contrary to what I actually believe,” and “the variation in tone should cue the reader to discern the sarcastic from the sincere.” From the opening pages, Roberts urges everyone to clear away their lifetime of “mental debris” and to see “beyond the denial.” He hates astrology, sports, Segways, and scooters on the sidewalk, but raises both hands up in futility when discussing vegetarians vs. carnivores. He enjoys people when they behave, yet freely admits to being “socially promiscuous,” with lots of casual acquaintances. In a particularly hilarious descriptive run, Roberts acquiesces to being a “filthy homosexual,” the type of guy who is

completely comfortable with a home environment populated by “papers everywhere, thriftstore sofa, toys on the mantel, dirty clothes on the floor, unmade bed, cat hair in the corners, unmopped floor, plaid curtains, dirty dishes, soap-scum shower, unflushed toilet, overflowing litterbox.” Snarky sarcasm abounds in pieces about his alienation from the Castro crowds, and in a hypothetical essay where Roberts imagines himself a smarmy real estate agent doing condo conversions in already-overpriced San Francisco. When on more serious tan-

gents, the author shares a few timely thoughts on bears, love, gender identity, modern rock divas, bullying (a form of “domesticated terrorism”) and the sense and sensibility of living a drug-free lifestyle (“drinking and doing drugs is the mark of someone who hasn’t worked through the underlying reasons that they’re self-medicating.”) In the closing essay, the author quips, “I know I complain a lot,” and rather than personifying the labels of “curmudgeon“ or “malcontent,“ stands by his often-contentious, feather-ruffling viewpoints, simply believing that “a lot of things are wrong with the world, and I’m speaking up about them.” Brazen, culturally aware, intelligent, and refreshingly blunt, Larrybob Roberts firmly cautions his audience that “if anyone doesn’t think that things are on the wrong track, they’re not paying attention.”▼

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Senior moments by Gregg Shapiro n one of the most talked-about collaborations of the year, Elton John, 63, and Leon Russell, 68, bring their mutual admiration society to bear on The Union (Decca/Rocket). Contemporary rock’s original piano men (sorry, Billy) touch on a variety of musical styles over the course of 14 tracks, most composed by Elton and longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin. It’s a pleasant if surprisingly low-key affair. The guys alternate vocals and really heat up the piano keys. Live at the Troubadour (Hear Music) reunites 70s singer/songwriter icons Carole King, 68, and James Taylor, 62, for a concert of their classic tunes. They both sound great, and the energy of the grateful audience must have been a source of inspiration for them. The chill-inducing rendition of “Up on the Roof,” which incorporates the arrangement from Taylor’s hit version of the song, is one of the disc’s high points. And just try not to get choked up when they team up to sing “You’ve Got a Friend.” On the shallow end, check out the DVD to see how

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a village street, and a luminous crescent moon hangs overhead. We spy a white cat slinking its way into town and a red clown walking ahead of it across the street. It’s a bowl-like image, as if viewed through a wide-angle camera lens. In an unpublished illustration for Tit for Tat (1942), which previously appeared as one of a dozen cartoons that H. A. planned to rework for a book and was thought lost, a

the once-hot Taylor didn’t age so well, while King has never looked better. Songs from the Road (Columbia/Legacy) is another concert CD/DVD from another living music legend, Leonard Cohen, 76. A compilation of live recordings from Cohen’s 2008-09 World Tour, songs such as “Bird on the Wire,” “Chelsea Hotel,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” Suzanne,” and more recent selections including his signature song “Hallelujah,” are performed in his renowned spoken/sung style, to the delight of the riveted audiences. Also going the live route, Richard Thompson, 61, delivers Dream Attic (Shout Factory), recorded in February 2010. But instead of playing the familiar songs of his back catalog, Thompson unveiled 13 new songs for his fans in Seattle, Portland and Eugene, Oregon, and Arcata and San Francisco, California. Luckily for Thompson and those in attendance, the new material is solid and well-received. Best-known as the lead singer of Canadian hit-makers the Guess Who and as a solo artist (remember “Stand Tall”?), Burton Cummings, 63, rises to the occasion on Above the Ground

(New Door/Ume). Still rocking his trademark mustache, Cummings rocks harder than you might expect, and isn’t afraid to dabble in country and R&B, or just mellow out (“A Touch of Morning”). The bonus DVD takes us behind the scenes during the making of the disc. Intended to be a tribute to the late Mary Travers, who passed away at 72 in 2009, one-third of folk heroes Peter (Yarrow), 72, (Noel) Paul (Stookey), 73, and Mary, The Prague Sessions (WB/Rhino) sets politically conscious songs by the trio to arrangements including the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Classics such as “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” “Day Is Done,” “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” benefit from the orchestration. Following the massive success of the Beatles reissues, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are getting the reissue treatment this season. So where are the Ringo Starr reissues? Until they show up, Starr’s fans can occupy

themselves with Y Not (HipO/Ume), on which he teams up with Joe Walsh, Dave Stewart, Gary Wright, Van Dyke Parks, Richard Marx, Joss Stone, Ben Harper, Edgar Winter, and others. McCartney makes a guest appearance on a couple of tracks, including “Peace Dream,” on which Starr gives a shout out to Lennon. In addition to containing “Only an Expert,” one of the best and most unexpected dance tracks of the year, the CD Homeland (Nonesuch) by performance artist turned pop star Lau-

fetching black feline regards its reflection in a vanity mirror; a sinewy woman in gingham is wrapped around its neck like a feather boa. Complete with a reading room, cushy, kid-friendly seating and a painted archway over cobbled streets that announces the cheerful entry to the Hotel de L’Europe, this is a perfect exhibition for young children. The sweet misadventures of George are nowhere near as threatening as the night terrors and cranky monsters of Maurice Sendak, displayed at CJM last year, but the illustrations on view here also

don’t possess the intensity, mastery or beauty of Sendak’s dark fantasies. In contrast, George’s exploits are marked by a buoyant optimism that must have been an antidote to the fear and anxiety that haunted the Reys. After all, George always managed to save the day and elude capture. Forced to seek safety in the countryside, the Reys set up their studio in the towers of an old castle, Chateau Feuga, in Southern France. The French authorities, suspicious that the visitors were making bombs on the premises, raided the place, only to find dear George, in

nascent form, adorning the drawing boards. Perpetually in trouble, George’s narrow escapes, whether from the zoo, jail or the authorities, and his experiences of being snatched from the jaws of calamity after falling overboard when attempting to fly like a seagull, for instance, or being carried aloft high above Paris by a cluster of balloons, are a benign reflection of the real dangers and obstacles the Reys encountered. George’s stories also provided the Reys with an outlet for wish-fulfillment without their having to leave the con-

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victory for Wainwright the composer, critics, devoted fans and regular SFS subscribers hardly judged it a failure. The audacious vocalist’s endearing sincerity and obvious ambition helped in selling the song cycle to both hesitant listeners and outright skeptics. His choice of lyrics didn’t hurt, either. Setting to music some of the greatest poetry ever written might seem foolhardy, but other writers (think Benjamin Britten) have gone beyond merely gilding the lily, and have actually managed to further illuminate the words of the Bard. It was the curiously crude amplification at Davies Hall that proved the greatest disservice to Wainwright’s brave attempts. As a seasoned vocalist, he should have insisted on better sound quality. His unique timbre and breathy vibrato were often stretched to the limit, and the harsh electronics only added some painfully unnecessary distortion. It seemed weird to be constantly looking at the text when the lyrics were set in the original English and fairly well-remembered to most lovers of the sonnets. Even so, the blame could not be totally attributed to the poor acoustics. Wainwright’s dense and rather simplistic scoring also swallowed up most of the words. Audience members appeared to agree on the lush seductiveness of the overall sound, and that the melodies were characteristically pretty and appealing, too. They also noticed that less of a good thing might have been more (again, think Britten). Could Five Shakespeare Sonnets have benefited from a more chamber-sized scoring? Listen to Wainwright’s simple accompaniment to three of the Shakespeare sonnets

▼ rie Anderson, 63, features Anderson’s distinctive perspective on society and history. It’s powerful stuff, and in Anderson’s hands it’s never short of riveting. The DVD includes Homeland: The Story of the Lark and Laurie’s Violin. The late Johnny Cash would have turned 78 this year. As the title of his last studio recording with Rick Rubin, American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American), suggests, the mood of the disc is funereal and final. Mournful and resigned, Cash put his spirit into the original “I Corinthians 15:55” and renditions of songs by Sheryl Crow (“Redemption Day”), old friend Kris Kristofferson (“For the Good Times”), and Tom Paxton (“Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound”). Still going strong are Neil Sedaka, 71, on The Music of My Life (Razor & Tie); Seasick Steve, in his late 60s, on Man from Another Time (Atlantic); and Abba’s Benny Andersson, 64, on Story of a Heart (Decca) by Benny Andersson Band.▼

fines of the studio; George scores an acting job as soon as he rolls into Hollywood (but of course), contributes to human progress by boldly voyaging into the unknown frontiers of outer space – he’s pretty adept with a parachute, too – and achieves instant fame when he lands on the front page of the newspaper. How great is that?▼ Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum through March 13, 2011. Info: (415) 655-7800 or www.thecjm.org.

(Nos. 43, 20 and 10) on his latest album All Days are Nights: Songs for Lulu, and the prosecution rests. Adding sonnets 129 and 87 to the aforementioned three and orchestrating all of them certainly plumped the set to song-cycle size, and it was filled with many thrilling moments. It was also impossible to avoid a visceral response to Wainwright’s sometimes startling details and passionate performance. Will the piece survive for future interpretations? I hope so, and I think hearing it with another singer before that big wall of sound could be both fascinating and revelatory. It might even vindicate some of the orchestral excesses. It is ironic that a vocalist of Wainwright’s stature couldn’t be a better advocate for his skills as an arranger. There was never a doubt about his courage or artistic integrity. Conductor Michael Francis, subbing for an ailing Jeffrey Kahane and making his SFS debut, seemed to be remarkably in synch with the star of the show. Considering the brevity of their collaboration, Francis came across as not only supportive, but talented in his own right as a director. Kahane was originally scheduled to open the bill conducting Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major from the keyboard. His absence necessitated a change to Darius Milhaud’s jazzy Le Creation du Monde, a haunting and catchy piece filled with uncanny preechoes of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. International influences and tastes are obvious in Wainwright’s persona and extravagant talent as well. He took his commission from the San Francisco Symphony seriously, and he delivered a work that deserves to be heard again. If he doesn’t record the Five Shakespeare Sonnets, it would be a real shame. That might also offer a solution to some of the sonic glitches heard in “live” performance at the world premiere.▼

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