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beloved San Francisco drag star who had traveled the world and was known for his impeccable performances as Patsy Cline died August 25 after an altercation in Dolores Park.

Cindy Goldfield Arthur Francis Galster, 55, known widely Arthur Francis as Arturo, passed away Galster at California Pacific Medical Center, Davies Campus, leaving behind generations of fans and friends. A public memorial is planned for 7:30 p.m., September 22 at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street.

Marc Huestis, 59, who regularly produces shows at the Castro and worked with Mr. Galster numerous times, called him “a total theatrical chameleon.”

“He was good at everything he did,” said Huestis, who knew Mr. Galster for more than 30 years. “You would tell him to do something and he would just do it.”

The circumstances around Mr. Galster’s death aren’t totally clear.

In a statement provided by a friend of Mr. Galster’s, a man who was with him the night he was injured said that he, Mr. Galster, and another man went to see the drag star Peaches Christ’s showing of Showgirls Saturday night, August 23.

Afterward, early in the morning of Sunday, August 24, the three went to Dolores Park to “see the view,” and he and Mr. Galster went swinging at the playground, the man, who told the Bay Area Reporter he didn’t want his name published, said. A young man and woman were also there, the witness said. He indicated that Mr. Galster asked the woman to move so that the other man, a guest of his, could also swing, but she refused because “her grandmother died.”

Mr. Galster “said something bad about her grandmother,” the witness said, and the man who was with her “got angry” and punched Mr. Galster, who fell and hit his head on the ground, he said.

The witness said Mr. Galster declined to go to the hospital, and he and the other man carried him home, where Mr. Galster called the police.

The witness described the man who hit Mr. Galster as in his 20s, wearing jeans, black shoes, a black hat, and a black shirt with white markings and a white, long-sleeve shirt underneath.

In a brief phone call, the witness, who told the B.A.R. that he would respond to See page 10 >>

rganizers of the annual Pink Saturday street festival, officials associated with the pre-Pride fundraising party in the Castro, and community members are set to meet next week to discuss the future of the event, which has been marred by assaults and other violence in recent years.

Members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, gay Supervisor Scott Wiener – whose District 8 includes the Castro – and police staff will be on hand at the meeting, which will start at 6 p.m. Wednesday, September 10 at Eureka Valley Recreation Center, 100 Collingwood Street. Among other issues, safety, costs, and “options for the evolution of the event should the Sisters plan to host the event in 2015,” will be explored, according to Wiener’s office.

Expressing fatigue with the problems facing the party, some Sisters have raised the possibility of giving up control of the June event, which has been organized by the group for 16 years and raises thousands of dollars for charities.

Sister Mora Lee D’Klined, whose real name is Kevin Roberts, is abbess and president of the Sisters. Roberts said the meeting is meant “to flesh out whether the Sisters even host Pink Saturday again. ... If the end result can-

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Crowds spilled into Market Street during Pink Saturday in 2009. In the background, the lighted pink triangle is visible on Twin Peaks.

not be a fun, queer-centric, safe event, then the Sisters most likely will not host the event again” and “we will turn it back over to the city. We don’t want to be responsible for people getting hurt or getting killed.”

Concerns about safety have grown since

Stephen Powell, 19, was shot to death around the time the festival ended in 2010. This year, one of the Sisters was attacked in an apparent hate crime.

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Leather dust-up rankles Oakland Pride

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he first Oakland Pride parade almost went off without a hitch Sunday but organizers ended up doing damage control after a newspaper quoted one of them saying some San Francisco leather groups were told not to come so as to keep the event “family-friendly.”

Pride organizers were forced to issue an apology Saturday night after a front-page San Francisco Chronicle story included a quote from spokesman Carlos Uribe that said, “We had some leather groups from San Francisco who wanted to come, and we politely declined.

We want to keep this G-rated.” Some in the leather community took offense, and one person announced via Facebook plans for a protest at the parade. By late Saturday night, however, the protest was canceled after what Pride officials apologized for what they claimed was a “misquote.”

What Uribe meant to say, he said Sunday, was that public nudity and sexually explicit material wouldn’t be allowed at the parade.

And while the 43-contingent parade did put children and families front and center, later contingents included the drag characters from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and anti-circumcision “intactivists,” complete with inflatable penises.

In a brief interview at the festival Sunday, August 31, Uribe said everyone was welcome at Oakland Pride.

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The Tykes on Trikes led off Oakland’s first LGBT Pride parade Sunday, August 31.

“We apologize for that,” he said, referring to the Chronicle quote, adding that he blamed the “straight, white reporter” for the error.

Carolyn Jones, the Chronicle reporter who wrote the story, told the Bay Area Reporter that Uribe’s original quote was accurate. But she apologized for any misunderstanding. In a phone interview Tuesday, she said that she was shocked that Uribe would assume her sexual orientation and ethnicity as a result of one phone conversation.

“I don’t see what that has to do with any-

thing,” Jones said. “How does he know I’m straight and white?”

Several members of the leather community, who were aware of the controversy, watched the parade and indicated that groups would like to participate next year.

“I ran Albuquerque Pride and it was very family-friendly,” said Pat Baillie, who is board president of the International Ms. Leather Foundation, adding that leather groups were welcomed.

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Facing eviction, gay Jackie Kennedy admirer ponders selling collection

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he collection began with a pair of salt and pepper shakers modeled after the heads of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy.

Despite the presidential tchotchkes being “poorly designed and tacky,” admitted Chris Lenwell, he began looking for other Kennedy memorabilia to purchase. Soon he had amassed a plethora of knickknacks, kitchenware, and other kitschy items.

“A lot of it was tacky tourist stuff, probably sold in Washington, D.C. or on Cape Cod,” said Lenwell, 64, a gay man who moved to San Francisco in January 1976 shortly after graduating from Indiana University.

The dining room of his apartment on Jones Street, nestled between the city’s Nob Hill and Tenderloin neighborhoods, stands as a shrine to all things Kennedy, particularly Jackie.

A built-in glass and wood hutch displays the various ceramic pieces

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Chris Lenwell stands in his apartment in front of a small portion of his collection of Jacqueline Kennedy items.

in his collection, including a small statue depicting John F. Kennedy Jr.’s iconic salute of his father’s casket during his state funeral in 1963 following his assassination that November in Dallas.

There are also miniature replicas of the convertible the Kennedy’s were riding in that horrific day and of the Texas School Book Depository building from which Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have fired the fatal shots that killed the president.

Lenwell also has arranged inside the cupboard wine bottle stoppers resembling the heads of the Kennedys, cream pitchers of various sizes and trivets depicting the first family, and a paper doll set of the first lady. Two postcards, featuring Jackie Kennedy-inspired works by Andy Warhol and signed by the famous pop artist, sit in frames.

“It became kind of a sport. It was a hobby,” said Lenwell, who retired years ago from a major local law firm where he worked first as a librarian and then in marketing. “The more unusual the items, the more I wanted to collect them.”

Inside another glass cupboard sit flower vases – some colored, others ivory white – depicting Jackie Kennedy as Mary of Magdalene. Below are four record albums featuring the former first lady.

Another wall in the room is devoted to posters and paintings that feature Jackie, including one artistic rendering signed by former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who served as Kennedy’s vice president.

The most salacious item Lenwell owns is a 1976 calendar poster that features nude photos of Jackie, taken while she was sunbathing on a private Greek island owned by her second husband, Aristotle Onassis.

“The Jackie stuff is harder to find,” said Lenwell. “I did go to Jackie’s estate auction in either 1996 in New York at Sotheby’s.”

Jackie Kennedy died in May 1994.

His fascination with the first lady began in his childhood and was shared by his mother, who “was very apolitical but she was fixated by Jackie,” said Lenwell, who grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Lenwell admired Jackie Kennedy for not being a “cookie-cutter” first lady.

“She didn’t buy into the bullshit of what a first lady is supposed to be,” he said.

Having created a drag persona in college named B, short for Bianca Jagger, one Halloween Lenwell dressed as Jackie Kennedy and wore a pink suit splattered with blood modeled after the Chanel dress the first lady wore on the day of her husband’s assassination.

He would reprise the look several times during his early years in San Francisco. And he recreated the moments just after the shooting for a photo essay in the November 22, 1976 issue of White Arms Magazine, See page 10 >>

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GBT history was cemented, literally, into the fabric of San Francisco’s Castro district this week with the official unveiling of 20 bronze sidewalk plaques honoring LGBT individuals who left a lasting mark on society.

Known as the Rainbow Honor Walk, the project aims to educate visitors and residents of the city’s gay neighborhood about often overlooked aspects of the LGBT community’s contributions to the arts, sciences, and social policy through a select group of deceased men and women who lived openly as either gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

“I am completely thrilled this is happening. We all have ridden on the shoulders of the LGBT people who came before us. It is important to honor them,” said author Armistead Maupin, who helped dedicate the plaque for author Virginia Woolf.

“They showed pride in who they were. As a consequence, they became great leaders and great artists.”

Among the several hundred people who attended the dedication service under foggy skies Tuesday, September 2 was Glenne McElhinney, a California oral historian and filmmaker who has documented the state’s LGBT history.

“It is awesome. It honors 20 of our finest,” McElhinney said of the honor walk, modeled after Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

The project was the brainchild of Castro business owner Isak Lindenauer, who first started pushing for its creation in 2009. Local gay public relations professional David Perry, who had suggested a similar proposal two decades ago, soon signed on to assist Lindenauer.

By 2011 the names of the first inductees had been selected and fundraising had begun. Last week city workers installed the bronze plaques into the sidewalk along the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street and a portion of 19th Street.

Lindenauer preferred to stay out of the limelight Tuesday, pointing the Bay Area Reporter when contacted for comment to a post he wrote on Facebook last week in which he described the first plaques as looking “beautiful and powerful.”

He congratulated and thanked “all of you who worked so hard to make this project happen. At last, these wonderful women and men, pioneers of life and members of our LGBTQ community are being honored in this everyday, public manner. The walk starts!!!”

Organizers would like to see additional plaques be embedded in the sidewalks along Market Street between Castro and Octavia Boulevard where the LGBT Community Center is located. The process to select the next set of 20 inductees will commence later this month, with the public expected to be able to nominate individuals by the end of the year.

To date more than $110,000 has been raised from corporate sponsors, individual donors, and sales of honor walk branded mugs and pins at the Human Rights Campaign’s store on Castro Street.

“It is important our community stay in touch with its history,” said gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who represents the Castro at City Hall. “This will be a permanent reminder of what this neighborhood is and what this community is.”

Gay state Senator Mark Leno (DSan Francisco) added that, “not unlike slaves, the LGBT community has been denied our heroes and our history” as part of the discrimination it has faced.

“Today we take a giant step forward by embracing our heroes and full-fledged pride,” added Leno.

“People who have changed the his-

tory of the course of our planet come from our community.”

Among those given their own plaques as part of the first stage of the project were San Franciscans George Choy, an early member of the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance known for his AIDS activism and work to support LGBT youth; disco drag star Sylvester James; and LGBT rights activist Del Martin, who with her widow, Phyllis Lyon, co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis. Lyon was on hand Tuesday to help dedicate Martin’s plaque.

Another honoree with local ties was Harry Hay, who founded one of the first gay rights groups in the U.S. called the Mattachine Society and whose papers are housed at the San Francisco Public Library.

“It is a great idea and it is long overdue,” said Joey Cain, a close friend of Hay’s who attended the unveiling ceremony this week to document it for the Hay archives. “I am really impressed with the folks who persisted and made it happen.

I am really impressed with the selection of the first 20 people. A lot of them were socialists or communists, like Jane Addams and Harry Hay.” A social worker, Addams in 1931 became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Others honored this week included civil rights activist Bayard Rustin; author James Baldwin; Mexican artist Frida Kahlo; and the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.

The list also includes San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts, one of the first out reporters to cover a gay beat; Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell; pop artist Keith Haring; poet Allen Ginsberg; and Japanese playwright Yukio Mishima. Other famous authors selected are Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, and Tennessee Williams.

Rounding out the group are Christine Jorgensen, who in 1952 became the first person to receive widespread media coverage of her sexual reassignment surgery, and Alan Turing, who cracked the German’s coded messages in World War II but was later prosecuted for being homosexual and opted to be chemically castrated to avoid a prison sentence.

‘Hiccups’

A typo was found in Wilde’s plaque, due to the misspelling of the phrase “biting wit” as “bitting wit.” According to a Facebook post

by Maupin, the local manufacturer of the plaques will replace it and the original will be auctioned off to raise money for the honor walk campaign.

And complaints also surfaced online about the wording of Jorgensen’s plaque, which partly says she was the “first trangendered (sic) American publicly to announce her change of sexual identity ...”

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Daniel Bergerac, left, president of Castro Merchants, joins Richard Magary and Tim Denike by the plaque honoring Alan Turing during dedication ceremonies of the Rainbow Honor Walk September 2.

Local historian Gerard Koskovich noted that the use of “transgendered” instead of transgender “would be bad style, but ‘trangendered’ isn’t even a word. And can we note that gender transition generally doesn’t involve a ‘change of sexual identity’; it may involve a change of gender identity – and it always involves bringing one’s body and public presentation into conformity with that identity.”

He dinged the walk organizers with his own “biting” remark, writing, “Folks, if you’re going to cast a text in bronze, at least spend a few bucks to hire a copyeditor and proofreader.”

Perry told the B.A.R. Tuesday afternoon that both plaques will be replaced before the Castro Street Fair, which will be held this year on Sunday, October 5, free of charge by the manufacturer, Mussi Artworks of Berkeley, California.

“Ultimately, I take responsibility. I signed off on everything,” said Perry, who added that the copy for the plaques was written by an LGBT historian and “vetted by a number of people, including the GLBT Historical Society.”

He pointed out that, “any project this complex has little hiccups” and the organizers want to ensure the plaques are correct.

“They understand this is the first 20 of, hopefully, every year 20 plaques. We want to get it right,” said Perry. “We are all so pleased now in the Castro people will never be able to walk these streets and not know this is and was the heart of the Castro LGBT community.”

As for the possibility of the plaques being tagged with graffiti, they have a protective coating that should make they easy to clean, said Perry, as well as protect them from being scuffed up by pedestrians.

The honor walk committee will be responsible for replacing the covering after five years.

“We are responsible for their upkeep,” said Perry.

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our years ago there were four qualified LGBT candidates vying for an open seat and it was a hard-fought contest with lots of forums and an engaged electorate. Scott Wiener won the race and immediately set about to implement policies that were supported by a great many of his constituents. Wiener is hard working and one of the few board members willing to take on unpopular issues because they needed to be addressed, like the public nudity law. It’s telling that this time around, only four minor candidates have filed in the District 8 race. And while progressives don’t agree with Wiener most of the time – and some are downright vulgar in commenting about him – even they have to acknowledge that he has created programs, particularly for housing, that are aimed at keeping people in their homes and boosting affordable stock. He was at the forefront for backfilling nearly $20 million federal HIV/AIDS funding shortfalls since 2011. Wiener was instrumental in securing money for major neighborhood improvements, like the Castro sidewalk widening project that is almost complete.

All in all, Wiener accomplished much in his first term and he has earned the Bay Area Reporter’s endorsement for his re-election.

In his questionnaire, Wiener told us that he has pursued an aggressive policy agenda, focusing mainly on housing, transportation, public health, and public safety.

On housing, perhaps the most critical issue facing San Francisco, Wiener passed legislation to create more affordable housing, create new in-law units, and reduce evictions and displacement. He opposes the Ellis Act, which allows landlords to evict tenants to get out of the rental business. But as most people are aware, despite the best efforts of lawmakers like state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), it is a state law that has resisted repeal, much less amendment.

Given this significant restraint, housing advocates and elected officials had to find creative ways to increase the housing stock and keep people in their homes in response to a booming economy and skyrocketing rents.

Of the several pieces of housing-related legislation that Wiener has had passed by the Board of Supervisors, two stand out. First, the affordable housing density bonus relaxes density use limits when at least 20 percent of the project’s units are affordable, creating an incentive for developers to include more affordable units in

concluded that nightlife contributes a project. If that’s the case, the af$4.2 billion to San Francisco’s econfordable units don’t count against omy, provides 48,000 jobs, and genunit density limits. The current 12 erates $55 million in tax revenues. percent affordable unit requirement In other words, the nightlife sector often discourages developers from is an economic engine for the city, including more because they would and Wiener wants to make sure that have to eliminate a market-rate unit. as various components are reguUnder Wiener’s ordinance, the delated, they are done so with an eye veloper can add more affordable toward the big picture and not done units while keeping the same numRick Gerharter in isolation. In a related matter, Wieber of market-rate units. It does not Supervisor ner passed legislation that increased change height or bulk limits.

Scott Wiener the Entertainment Commission’s Second, allowing in-law units in enforcement power and effectivethe Castro will also increase affordness, and created new permits for able housing stock, albeit the more live music in public spaces. modest units are typically a converted garage In his next term, Wiener told us that he or basement. Nevertheless, they could be a wants to continue working for his district, good alternative for older LGBTs who want which also includes Noe Valley, Glen Park, to remain independent, students, and Diamond Heights, Corona Heights, Mission others. If units are added to a rentDolores, and Duboce Triangle. He’s right that controlled building they are also various approaches are needed to stem the rent-controlled. housing crisis and to create housing for midSpeaking of LGBT elders, Wiener, dle class people. As we’ve noted before, along along with Supervisor David Camwith many others, the city’s housing stock has pos and former Supervisor Chrisnot kept up with demand for years and it’s not tina Olague, created an 18-month going to be solved by blaming tech workers or expert task force to study and ofopposing every single proposed development. fer policy recommendations for San Francisco is a collection of unique this population. There are around neighborhoods and that community fabric is 20,000 LGBT seniors in San Franone of the great qualities that draws people cisco, and that number will only increase as the here. Many small businesses are thriving now community ages. The LGBT Aging Policy Task that the economy is on the rebound. SuccessForce, which the B.A.R. extensively covered ful supervisors strive to improve their districts during its existence, was a success, drawing while at the same time helping and representa cross-section of LGBT people to the table, ing the city as a whole. As a gay man reprewhere they held public hearings, conducted a senting the district that’s home to the Castro, wide-ranging survey, and came up with 18 recWiener is well versed in the neighborhood; ommendations. Wiener and Campos are now citywide he is knowledgeable about transporin the process of drafting legislation to follow tation needs, the importance of big events like up on the report.

Pride, and nightlife.

Wiener is a strong advocate for public transSome of the challenges that pertain to Disportation and several of his initiatives address trict 8, especially the Castro, include filling vathe ever-struggling Muni system (procuring cant storefronts with non-chain shops to make buses, investing more money, improving the the neighborhood more robust and continuJ-Church line). He supported a task force that ing to protect renters, particularly those who is now looking at late-night transportation. are most vulnerable such as the disabled, peoHe is committed to enhancing public safety ple living with HIV/AIDS, and seniors. Wiener (parking lot safety standards, pedestrian and has proved that he is committed to working on traffic safety improvements, like the sidewalk widening project). He supports animal welfare all of these issues, and has been extremely efby opposing the oppressive dog restrictions fective. Most importantly, he is a tireless advoproposed by the Golden Gate National Recrecate for his district and is not afraid to tackle ation Area. vexing problems.

Of importance to the LGBT community, as Wiener is likely to win re-election in Nowell as plenty of other folks in the city, Wiener vember. That we’re endorsing him should not is a champion of nightlife. He commissioned be a surprise. He works hard to deliver for Disthe city economist to conduct a study, which trict 8.t

Oakland Pride learns a lesson

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t could have been a lot worse but clueless when we asked around an Oakland Pride organizer’s for comment. Just about everyone boneheaded comment last Saturwas willing to give Pride organizday to the San Francisco Chronicle ers the benefit of the doubt, and – that the group “politely declined” in this cynical age, that’s saying parade participation by some unsomething. named San Francisco leather Of course, the bigger probgroups in order to keep the event lem with Uribe’s comments is “G-rated” – struck a sour note for just how wrong they are. There many on the eve of what promised are lots of people in the leather to be a fantastic event. Thankfully, community raising families. In by late Saturday, Oakland Pride isfact, one of the benefits of being sued an apology and said leather in an LGBT family is that parents groups were welcome to particiare generally a lot more willing to pate. Of course, by that time it was discuss issues with their children too late for leather groups to actulike leather and other communially march in last Sunday’s parade, ties that come under the LGBT Rick Gerharter but it still included lots of diversity, umbrella. If anyone should know Seduction Feroce Cabaret was one of 43 contingents in Oakland’s including drag, families, seniors, first Pride parade August 31. that, it’s Oakland Pride organizpeople of color, and community ers, as one of them, board Chair groups. Watching the contingents Amber Todd, said in the statetook responsibility for any misunderstanding. march past were several members ment. Todd, an African American Uribe didn’t stop there, though, and blamed the of the Alameda County Leather Corps, who aplesbian mom, said that she is “personally comentire incident on the “straight white repreciated the apology but wondered mitted to fighting discrimination of any kind.” porter.” Jones was taken aback by that why someone representing one of The leather community, as Todd readily accharacterization and correctly said the country’s most diverse Pride knowledged, has been at the forefront of the her gender, sexual orientation, and events would utter such a comment fight against HIV/AIDS, and has raised milethnicity are irrelevant. So another in the first place. lions of dollars for charity. San Francisco foot-in-mouth award to Uribe.

Carlos Uribe, who made the remark, residents know that some of the most effecThe thing is, Oakland Pride has alclaims he was misquoted and it’s untive community organizations, like the AIDS ways emphasized its family-friendfortunate that Oakland Pride used Emergency Fund, came out of the leather liness. The Family and Children’s the tired “blame the media” stratcommunity more than 30 years ago.

Garden area was packed Sunday, as egy rather than simply owning up So the day went on, with some of the biggest it usually is. But hot bodies took to to Uribe’s ill-chosen words. Uribe’s crowds we’ve seen since Oakland Pride was the dance areas and drag was present, quote – “We had some leather groups relaunched five years ago. The parade, while as was leather, bears, and the like as always. who wanted to come, and we politely declined. small at 43 contingents, went smoothly, and Oakland Pride lucked out in that the smolderWe want to keep this G-rated” – was accurate, provides a foundation for next year, as seving controversy failed to ignite. Some folks did according to Chronicle reporter Carolyn Jones. eral people pointed out. However, we have a plan a protest for Sunday’s parade, but canceled What Uribe meant to say, according to him, was suggestion for 2015: Todd should handle the it after the apology was released on Facebook that public nudity wouldn’t be allowed, which is pre-event publicity, and that should include a and Twitter. And no one at the packed Pride a far cry from people in leather gear. Jones did tell personal invite to East Bay leather groups to breakfast seemed to have read the article or were us that Uribe didn’t mean to offend anyone, and participate in the parade.t

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Ugandan MP visits San Francisco compiled by Cynthia Laird

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he San Francisco Africa Leadership Institute and the San Francisco LGBT Community Center will hold a town forum with a Ugandan member of parliament Thursday (September 4) at 5:30 p.m. at the center, 1800 Market Street.

MP Nabilah Naggayi Sempala will be in conversation with SFALI founder Melanie Nathan, Michelle Meow of Swirl Radio, and community center Executive Director Rebecca Rolfe.

Sempala will discuss the complexities surrounding the anti-gay milieu in Uganda, the internal politics, and the impact of the anti-gay laws on human rights issues facing the country.

Last month the country’s constitutional court struck down the Anti-Homosexuality Act on a technicality. But the court did not rule on the constitutionality act in relation to the human rights arguments brought by the petitioners, creating the possibility for its reintroduction into the Ugandan Parliament.

In a statement, Nathan said that people in the West made mistakes during the years-long fight over the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was introduced in 2009 and delayed numerous times before its eventual passage.

“We participated in the scapegoating of LGBT Ugandans, by allowing ourselves to focus on the single issue, allowing the politicians to use gays to distract the world from the real ills facing all Ugandans,” Nathan said.

Nathan started SFALI earlier this year with a grant from the Arcus Foundation. The amount of the grant has not been made public.

Thursday’s event is free.

SF Job fair takes place next week

Bay Area residents seeking employment will find plenty of opportunities at a job fair in San Francisco Tuesday, September 9 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Hotel Whitcomb, 1231 Market Street.

Organized by HIREvents, a division of the Job Journal, recruiters from private and public sector employers will look to fill immediate job openings ranging from entrylevel to management positions in a variety of fields. For those who would like to improve their resumes, free consultations will be available.

Jobseekers should come dressed to impress and ready to market themselves. For more information, visit www.jobjournal.com and click on “Job Fairs” or call 888-843-5627.

Giants game to honor nonprofits

The San Francisco Giants will recognize area nonprofits when they take on the Arizona Diamondbacks Tuesday, September 9 at 7:15 p.m. at AT&T Park.

Prior to the first pitch, there will be a special pregame ceremony at home plate where Huckleberry Youth Programs will be honored along with Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, At the Crossroads, Larkin Street Youth Services, HealthRight 360, and Project Homeless Connect. A portion of the proceeds from every special event ticket will benefit the abovementioned organizations.

Tickets to the event include a Javier Lopez bobblehead and can be purchased at http://sanfrancisco. giants.mlb.com/sf/ticketing/group_ special_events.jsp - stepup?utm_ source=SUTTP+Sept+2014&utm_ campaign=eNewsletters&utm_ medium=email.

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Melanie Nathan, shown here celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court victories for marriage equality in June 2013, will lead a discussion at the LGBT Community Center with a Ugandan member of parliament.

Street Sheet turns 25

The Coalition on Homelessness’ Street Sheet newspaper turns 25 this year and the milestone will be celebrated at the group’s annual art auction benefit Thursday, September 11 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street in San Francisco.

The Street Sheet is the country’s oldest, continuously published street newspaper; it is sold for $1 by clients of the coalition. The paper started after the Coalition on Homelessness had extra newsletters left over from a Phil Collins benefit concert. Homeless members tried selling them on the street and reported that people were buying them. The paper remains independent, advertising free, and provides a perspective rarely seen in mainstream media. It combines artwork, poetry, and hard-hitting journalism and is distributed to over 17,000 readers.

The coalition’s 14th annual art auction will include works by over 100 local artists in live and silent auctions. The featured auctioneer will be Tom Temprano, co-president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. Enjoy live music by Quinn DeVeaux and the Blue Beat Review from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., exciting raffle prizes, complimentary dinner, and an open wine and beer bar.

Tickets are $35, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds. To purchase tickets, visit www.brow npaper t ickets.com/ event/714005.

Maupin book chosen for ‘One City One Book’

Gay author Armistead Maupin’s novel, Tales of the City, has been chosen by the San Francisco Public Library as its selection for “One City One Book.” During September and October, the library is encouraging the community to read (or re-read) this classic book. Books Inc. is on board with the promotion, and will donate 10 percent of sales of every copy purchased during the two months to Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. The store is also holding several discussions about the book next month, including one on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Castro store, 2275 Market Street.

NLGJA Fall Honors coming up

The northern California chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association will hold its annual Fall Honors reception Thursday, October 9 at Bloomberg.

This year’s award recipients include Bay Area Reporter assistant editor Matthew S. Bajko and KGOTV reporter Sergio V. Quintana.

Additionally, the chapter will pay tribute to the late Stu Smith for his contributions at the San Francisco

Bay Times and his philanthropic activities for the LGBT community.

Additionally, chapter officials announced that there is still time for students to apply for the Bob Ross Student Scholarship. This $2,500 scholarship is given to a student who embodies the spirit of the late Ross, founder of the B.A.R. The scholarship is sponsored by the Bob Ross Foundation, but it and the newspaper are separate legal entities and the newspaper is now owned by BAR Media Inc. The deadline is September 15 and the application is available at http://www.nlgja.org/article/ northern-california-scholarship.

For questions about next month’s reception, including tickets, or the scholarship, email norcal@nlgja.org.

SFFD is hiring

The San Francisco Fire Department is hiring and a gay firefighter was outside last weekend’s Oakland Pride festival to get the word out to potential LGBT firefighters.

Keith Baraka said that testing is going on now for firefighters.

According to a brochure Baraka was handing out, there are several qualifications to be placed on the eligible list, including passing the FireTEAM exam.

“We need more LGBTs,” Baraka said.

For detailed information, visit www.jobaps.com/sf and click on “Entry-level Firefighter.”

AIDS grove vandalized

Police are investigating another incident of vandalism at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, as noted in recent media reports.

John Cunningham, the grove’s executive director, said the latest damage was discovered the morning of Monday, August 25. He said someone struck the Circle of Friends, where people’s names are engraved in stones, as well as several memorial benches and trees. It appeared the vandal had used “large river rocks” to cause damage to approximately 70 names, “basically obliterating” them, Cunningham said. The branches of several trees were also broken off.

Patching the damages would cost at least $100,000, while replacing the entire circle could cost $750,000, he estimated. A decision hasn’t been made about which approach will be taken. Cunningham said the money would come from his organization’s endowment.

Cunningham said the loved ones of many people who are memorialized at the grove have been expressing “loss and devastation.”

Previous vandalism in August, which had mainly involved trees, had also been reported.

Officials believe the same person was responsible for the incidents, based in part on how the damage was inflicted, Cunningham said.

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Pink Saturday

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While many worry about violence increasing at Pink Saturday, crime data show there have been serious incidents, but the numbers haven’t risen recently.

“Pink Saturday has been a wonderful event for many, many years, and there have been some great things that have come from it,” Roberts said, noting the event “is one of our largest fundraisers of the year.”

However, he said, “Pink Saturday has kind of outgrown itself,” and there are some “major changes that need to be made.”

Among other things, Roberts said, there needs to be “a little more assistance from the city with regards to security and police monitoring.”

Some have suggested starting the party earlier in the afternoon and ending it by about 8:30 p.m.

Roberts also brought up the idea of ending the event earlier, since the crowd and tone of the event seem to change about halfway through as more out-of-town people arrive.

“I would not support shutting down Pink Saturday in total, but I would definitely not support running Pink Saturday the way it’s been running,” he said. It’s “grown too big” and there are “too many people who are not part of the queer community coming in just because it’s a free place to drink on the streets.”

Roberts also added that the Sisters’ relationship with police is “very good” and they “very much appreciate” the efforts of the San Francisco Police Department and other officials.

Asked previously whether he’d support canceling the party, which raises thousands of dollars for charities every year, Wiener said, “I’m not prepared to go there. Pink Saturday has been such a terrific annual event for the community.”

The party may have grown too large for the Sisters, who aren’t paid for their work on the event, to handle.

Wiener said he thinks the Sisters “have the capacity” to organize the event, and they “do a remarkable job.”

Crime incidents

The B.A.R. analyzed individuallevel crime data available through SFPD’s website, which show incidents for the past six months, including this year’s Pink Saturday.

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cific crimes for previous years, so the B.A.R. used past reports from Community Patrol USA, which shows incidents that were reported to police.

According to data from the SFPD site, in 2014, there were 12 incidents within half a mile of 18th and Castro streets during the hours of the event. There was one case of aggravated assault/assault with a deadly weapon, five incidents of assault/ battery, and one report of someone with a gun.

In 2013, according to the patrol group data, there were 23 incidents around the approximate times of the party. That included two counts of aggravated assault/assault with a deadly weapon and six cases of assault/battery.

Numbers for 2012 were similar.

The patrollers’ data reflect police reports for 23 incidents during the festival, including one case of aggravated assault/assault with a deadly weapon, four instances of assault/ battery, and one report of a person with a gun.

The analysis doesn’t include incidents that happened after midnight on the Sunday of each year. Pink Saturday officially ends before that time. The radius used by the patrol group, which says its report doesn’t record every crime, is slightly different than the area the B.A.R. used.

It’s not possible to tell whether every case was directly related to Pink Saturday.

Asked about Pink Saturday in a recent Bay Area Reporter editorial board meeting, District Attorney George Gascón said, “I hope it’s not shut down.” He said the party is “part of the fabric of the city” and “the great majority of people” who attend “come out to have a good time, and that’s all they do.” Security should be improved, he said, but “we should look for ways to fix the problems,” rather than just end the festival.

Greg Carey is with Castro Community on Patrol. The volunteer group regularly patrols the Castro, including on the night of Pink Saturday. The organization is also a beneficiary of the event. Carey said if the Sisters do turn operation of the party over to someone else, that entity may have trouble finding as many volunteers to be involved.

He said that overall, “things went better” this year than they previously had. One reason for improvement he cited was that the main

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dance area was moved away to a space where there was less room for people.

Each year, people coming into the party are checked for weapons, and people aren’t supposed to have alcohol on the streets within the footprint of the event. Carey said that even if Pink Saturday were canceled, people “are going to come in as a random mob with whatever they want to bring with them.”

Captain Dan Perea, who heads the Mission police station, which oversees the Castro and other neighborhoods, was event commander for Pink Saturday and several other facets of Pride weekend this year. Perea didn’t respond to emailed questions for this story. However, he has previously said in an email that the decision on whether to have Pink Saturday “belongs to the community who celebrate Pride,” the Sisters, “and the residents of the area where the event is held. My personal opinion is the decision should not be made by outsiders and troublemakers who disrupt the celebration of Pride for those who gather to celebrate.”

Finances

Sister Selma Soul, whose real name is James Bazydola, had been in charge of Pink Saturday for the last three years before stepping down since she fulfilled her commitment. Bazydola recently estimated that the 2014 party raised $90,000, with $22,500 distributed to 15 other organizations and $5,000 more set aside for community grants.

Other costs included security and insurance.

In response to an email seeking more financial figures, Roberts said, “My question for your is why the focus on Pink Saturday finances? Typically, the majority of money raised goes towards those volunteers who earn money for their organization by volunteering with us at gates.

Typically, that is the largest share of the PS intake,” with another $5,000 to $10,000 “given out in grants any given year, depending on the amount of donations we collect.”

Roberts said while finances are important, “what I’d focus on is the fact that for the last five years, we have been seeing higher attendance and lower donations. For instance, this last PS, after configuring the number of attendees versus the amount of donations taken in, we got less than 80 cents per attendee.”t

Oakland Pride

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“There are trans families and leather families.”

She added that the parade “was a good first start.”

Beth Elliott of the Alameda County Leather Corps pointed out that her organization has raised about a half-million dollars over the years for such causes as the Charlotte Maxwell Comprehensive Clinic and Children’s Hospital.

“The thing about our butts and children is how we work them off raising money,” Elliott said.

At the Oakland Pride Breakfast, hosted by Mayor Jean Quan and the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club, many of the attendees the B.A.R. talked to were unaware of the kerfuffle involving the leather community.

Judy Appel, executive director of Our Family Coalition, which organizes the very popular Family and Children’s Garden area at the Pride festival, spoke generally about LGBT families.

“I appreciate how Oakland Pride embraces the diversity of the community and our families,” said Appel, who also sits on the Berkeley school board.

There’s a balance between diversity and families, she added, but noted that LGBT “families are very diverse.”

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Sheila E, center, performed on the main stage at Oakland Pride with Eddie M., left, and B. Slade.

Parade rolls on

The cute Tykes on Trikes and Our Family Coalition led off the inaugural parade, followed by several church congregations. The small train from Children’s Fairyland was also featured, along with the gay-straight alliance from Chabot College.

Grand marshals, including Sheila E, who headlined the main stage;

promoter Joe Hawkins; and youth activist Lirio Zepeda were featured. The Old Lesbians Organizing for Change had a contingent, as did Black Women Organizing for Political Action.

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Gay El Cerrito City Council candidate looks to make history

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hould he win a seat on his hometown’s city council this November, Gabriel Quinto would be El Cerrito’s first out LGBT and first Filipino American council member. He would also be only the third person of color to serve on the council since the East Bay city’s founding in 1917.

Quinto, who grew up in El Cerrito and moved back there in 2001 with his companion of 17 years, Glen Nethercut, would also be one of the few HIV-positive people to win elected office in the country.

It is believed he would be the first person living with HIV to serve on a city council in the Bay Area.

While several candidates for public office in San Francisco in recent years have been public about their living with HIV, none won their races.

During an interview last week with the Bay Area Reporter, Quinto said, “I know the importance of that” when asked about the possibility of his being the region’s first known HIV-positive elected official.

“Being an out gay man living with HIV, I have always advocated for HIV-positive men and women,” said Quinto, 53, who has served on his city’s Human Relations Commission for five years, currently as its chair, and is a longtime volunteer with San Francisco-based AIDS nonprofit the Shanti Project.

Located in western Contra Costa County, El Cerrito numbers more than 23,500 residents and is considered to be progressive, said Quinto.

He does not expect that his HIVpositive status or sexual orientation will be an issue with voters.

“We are one of the most diverse cities in the East Bay,” said Quinto, noting that El Cerrito’s police chief, Sylvia Moir, identifies as gay.

Quinto is one of three candidates seeking two council seats this fall.

Janet Abelson, the city’s current mayor, which rotates among the five elected council members, is seeking re-election. Both Abelson and Quinto filed to run by the August 8 deadline.

Community activist Nick Arzio entered the race after the filing deadline was extended due to incumbent Councilwoman Rebecca Benassini opting not to seek re-election. Because of the now contested nature of the race, Quinto has set a goal to raise $10,000 to fund his campaign.

“I plan to work on that everyday,” said Quinto, who had been living in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood before he and Nethercut bought their home in El Cerrito.

While he is running a grassrootsbased campaign, Quinto has lined up the endorsements of all five current council members, as well as four former members. He also has the backing of the Sierra Club, on whose regional board he serves, and SEIU Local 1021.

One of his main campaign platforms is ensuring El Cerrito has the funds to pay for such city services as police, fire, and other amenities.

“I believe in making sure city staff, police and fire have all the means they need to maintain the beautiful and safe city we have,” said Quinto.

He also is an advocate for building more affordable housing in the city, particularly at or near El Cerrito’s two BART stations.

“We are an urban city and we have a responsibility as an urban city to provide housing for seniors

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who live up in the hills and want to downsize and not use a car anymore, and to young families that can’t afford San Francisco and move here because of the schools, and also to students from UC Berkeley. We have a lot of them living here as well,” said Quinto. “We also have a large community of artists, musicians” that needs affordable housing.

Quinto graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a B.A. in communications and worked for a time at a Los Angeles law firm in recruiting and human resources. His father passed away in 2009, and his mother still lives in El Cerrito; his sister moved out of the Bay Area.

He and Nethercut hadn’t planned to relocate to El Cerrito but landed in the city as it was affordable and a convenient commute via BART to Nethercut’s job in downtown San Francisco.

“We just wanted to find a home and a place we could call home,” said Quinto. “It ended up being here in my hometown.”

In addition to his serving on the city’s human relations advisory panel, Quinto also serves on the city’s Committee on Aging. He is also a member of the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club’s executive board, and in 2012, attended the Democratic National Convention as a delegate-at-large for California.

When it became clear there would be an open seat on the council this fall, Quinto discussed his running for office with Nethercut, who supported his doing so.

“There was an opening. I gave it some thought and I thought, ‘Why not?’ I have always helped other folks through the years,” said Quinto. “I believe with my experience in advocating for myself, my family, advocating for people with HIV, advocating for seniors, advocating for the LGBT community through the years, I am qualified to serve on the council.”

Lesbian Richmond councilwoman attends Oakland Pride

At Sunday’s second annual Oakland Pride Breakfast, hosted by Mayor Jean Quan and the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club, emcee Michael Colbruno mentioned a recent San Francisco Chronicle article about Richmond City Councilwoman and Vice Mayor Jovanka Beckles, who is a lesbian. The article by reporter Carolyn Jones detailed numerous instances of disparaging remarks made at city council meetings by members of the public and some of the other council members.

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Richmond City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles attended last weekend’s Oakland Pride Breakfast, where she received a standing ovation.

Then, Colbruno introduced Beckles, who attended the breakfast with her wife, Nicole Valentino, as she received a standing ovation from about 100 people in the audience.

Beckles is running for re-election citywide this November for her second term. In a brief interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Beckles said her reelection campaign is going well.

“It’s so heartening to see the queer community mobilizing against this level of hatred,” she said, crediting the Chronicle article with getting the word out.

The next council meeting is September 16, and supporters are mobilizing LGBTs to attend in an effort to “outnumber the haters,” Beckles said.

“Up until now, no one has really BAR 3.75x5 online appointment ad v3.indd stood up and said, ‘Stop it,’” she said.

Meanwhile, East Bay Stonewall club members will be holding one of their endorsement meetings in Richmond, specifically as a response to the verbal harassment Beckles has experienced. That meeting is scheduled for 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, September 18 at the Richmond Public Library, 325 Civic Center Plaza.

The club is expected to make endorsements in the Richmond City Council races, along with the council race in El Cerrito, the contest for state controller, two Berkeley City Council races, the state propositions, and local Berkeley measures.

The Stonewall club will then reconvene from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday, October 1 at the West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, for a second fall endorsement meeting where it will consider endorsements in the races for Oakland mayor and auditor, as well as for city council and school board seats in districts 4 and 6.

Also under consideration that evening will be the club’s endorsements in the Alameda mayor and council races, the Emeryville city council contest, BART’s District 4 seat, the Peralta Community College District’s Board of Trustees Area 5 seat, and several Oakland ballot measures.t

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News editor Cynthia Laird contributed to this week’s column.

Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion.

The column returns Monday, September 8.

Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes.

Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8615019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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midst the changing cityscape of downtown Oakland, Betti Ono Gallery has become a steadfast reference point for unharnessed creativity since its establishment in 2010.

To celebrate four years of art, culture, and community, the gallery is hosting an anniversary art party on Friday, September 5, which doubles as the highly anticipated exhibition opening of AMEN: A Collaborative Meditation for Survival.

Co-created by visual artist Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski and writer Carrie Y.T. Kholi, AMEN will prove nothing short of its description – “a supraliminal experimentation” that integrates history, myth, and magic to re-imagine a future grounded in the “affirmation and history of all people, and intentionally inclusive of marginalized queer people of color.”

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Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, left, and Carrie Y. T. Kholi, are cocreators of AMEN: A Collaborative Meditation for Survival, opening Friday, September 5 at Oakland’s Betti Ono Gallery.

Rican, Afro-Latina, queer, femme, unabashed art geek, and Kholi, 29, a self-identified goal-digger, dreamcatcher, and black lesbian, have taken their combined prayers, visions, and spiritual emissions, and translated them into meditations for survival. The body of work is dreamlike: some pictorial, some textual, all emanate a visual rhythm meant to invoke feelings of self-affirmation, curiosity, and resolve.

Gallery owner Anyka Barber, an Oakland native, is known for curating provocative and inspirational art shows – the kind grounded in experimentation, independent thinking, social justice commentary, and spirit. DeJesus Moleski and Kholi, friends for three years, had individually worked with Barber before and, on account of Betti Ono’s principles, Barber thought the two would be perfect for a collaboration show.

“Betti Ono is about presenting shows that unlock the gates to art and culture,” Barber said. “It’s about shifting the perception around who can participate. It’s about validating marginalized voices, othered identities, and showcasing work in an accessible way. Amaryllis’s work is about imagining the brown femme body as an ancient powerful figure, and Kholi is interested in how writers shape and push culture forward. Betti Ono is named for women who were futurists: Yoko Ono and Bette Davis.

They’re also female archetypes. Both Amaryllis and Kholi understand what it means to be an archetype, and are interested in understanding how archetypes shape and give them power.”

DeJesus Moleski and Kholi started having conversations about the show’s concept in June. It quickly grew into something grounded in a shared experience they felt thematically symbolizes how marginalized people are forced to engage with the world, by means of survival.

“It started with surviving academia,” DeJesus Moleski said. “I’d just graduated from California College of the Arts and Kholi is in the process of getting her Ph.D. in English literature. We were having conversations about being working class queer women of color in academia, and what it means to survive an institution that was built to keep us out. Then it evolved into this larger idea of cultural, mythological, and spiritual survival.”

“Particularly in this moment,” Kholi said, “in being aware of what’s happening nationally and internationally, it feels necessary to present work that not only says the rest of the world gets to exist, we get to exist, too. The world we live in will, literally, kill us. There’ve been acts of survival that have gotten us here, and we want to make sure we’re contributing to tomorrow. I want to make sure we have a future.”

AMEN explores how marginalized people, particularly queer femme women of color, have been expunged from mainstream historical myths and imaginations of humankind’s future. In identifying the omissions, both artists reassert visibility in powerful, integral forms through time and space.

“I’m a huge sci-fi fantasy nerd,” DeJesus Moleski said. “One of the reasons I love the genre is because people are working out difficult things: themes of survival, apocalypse, cultural anxieties. Right now, I see a lot of apocalypse stories, but they’re filled with white, straight, middle-to-upper class people. In these futuristic stories we have the opportunity to create something new, but the same systems of oppression are being reinforced. I don’t think that’s by mistake. We’ve been written out of the past already.

People of color have experienced cultural genocide. And now future stories are being created and we’re not there either. For me it feels urgent to contribute, to play around with future myths. We existed yesterday and we exist tomorrow. We’re integral to the integrity of our planet.”

Kholi said that she’s studied the works of several writers.

“I’ve studied writers like Amiri Baraka, Toni Cade Bambara, and Alice Walker,” Kholi explained. “Even in the academic world we don’t talk about these writers because they’re ‘crazy’ or ‘different.’ It’s actually because they’re people of color taking very seriously their future, magic, and talents. We get to have a future.

We have a voice of authority. Not superiority, but authority, which is different. And our exhibition is also celebrating Betti Ono’s anniversary.

That’s really important because for four years Betti Ono has been in the middle of downtown, a place not controlled by black women. That right there is survival. The work really locates where we are, where we’ve been, and how we get to tomorrow.”

And, Kholi and DeJesus Moleski emphasize, AMEN is for everyone.

Both agree that the exhibit is a public conversation to be witnessed and experienced by viewers from wherever they exist.t Betti Ono Gallery is located at 1427 Broadway. The opening of AMEN, from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, September 5, coincides with Oakland Art Murmur’s First Friday event, a free monthly art walk in downtown Oakland.

On the web Online content this week includes the Bay Area Reporter’s online column, Wedding Bells Ring, and the Out in the World and Transmissions columns. www.ebar.com.

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NFL faces challenges on homophobia and domestic violence

by Roger Brigham

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ports sociologists, whip out your iPads and take note: the National Football League is in the process of providing us two case studies that will explore the degree to which our society internalizes homophobia and an acceptance of violence.

On Saturday, August 30, the St. Louis Rams cut gay defensive player Michael Sam, who had been a major conference defensive player of the year, from their roster, and for awhile it did not appear any other team was prepared to sign him. The next day, San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald was arrested after a party in San Jose on suspicion of felony domestic violence, just three days after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced a get-tough policy on domestic violence that mandates lengthy suspensions for first-time offenses.

Taken together, the two cases provide a severe challenge to the league’s desire to promote itself, in the wake of its scandalous attempts to buy off its concussion liability for pennies on the dollar, as a kinder, gentler, more supportive institution that actually gives a rat’s ass about the human condition.

In the Sam case, the biggest question is which is most shocking: the length of time it took for a team to draft Sam (three days of drafting before he went as the 249th pick, far and away the lowest slot ever for a Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year); the depth of the journalistic wasteland into which ESPN reporter Josina Anderson would sink by asking Rams players if there was anything queer about Sam’s behavior around the communal shower; or the degree to which naive LGBT apologists were willing to see the league’s collective snub of Sam as a sound football decision based on performance rather than what it really is: unspoken homophobia.

Sam’s value as a potential NFL player was seemingly reaffirmed when the defensively challenged Dallas Cowboys decided to offer Sam a chance. Sam was scheduled to take a physical exam with the team Wednesday, September 3 and later signed a contract to join the practice squad, according to multiple reports. The Cowboys were Sam’s favorite team while he was growing up in Texas and they are particularly inept at pass rushing, Sam’s specialty. If he lands on the active squad, he’ll be suiting up in a state whose governor earlier this year compared homosexuality to alcoholism.

Hey, I’ll drink to that possibility!

Upon releasing Sam, Jeff Fisher, head coach for the Rams, told reporters, “I will tell you this: I was pulling for Mike, I really was. And I don’t say that very often. Mike came in here and did everything we asked him to do. ... It was a football decision, and the decision is no different than any other decision that we make. It was a football decision. It was a football decision back in May to draft Mike. ... There was no distraction. If someone perceived or thought there may be a distractionthey weren’t in the building. We’ve said that all along. This was a football decision. Mike fit in very, very well. He was fun to be around. He was a good teammate. There was no issue there. Again, as I said earlier, I was pulling for him and it didn’t work out. It just didn’t work out.”

And many people who were very supportive of Sam bought the statement that this was just business.

GoAthletes posted on its Facebook page that Sam was “a victim of the numbers game, not of homophobia,” a line used by Outsports.com in its coverage.

Perhaps they are right. Or perhaps homophobia doesn’t always walk down the street waving signs that say, “God hates fags” and “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.”

Perhaps sometimes homophobia just doesn’t answer the phone when you call back to see if you got the job you applied for or the apartment you were trying to rent.

Fisher says Sam, whom the Rams used only sparingly late in the preseason games, did everything that was asked of him.

Anthony Nicodemo, a high school basketball coach who has been quite outspoken since coming out of the closet two years ago, wrote in an opinion piece on outsports. com that he thought the NFL’s reluctance to engage Sam before Dallas expressed its interest would cause many young athletes to remain closeted, and that NFL personnel he had spoken to told him if Sam had waited until this month to reveal his sexuality, he’d be playing today.

“It’s much easier for teams to not sign Sam,” Nicodemo wrote. “The risk-reward isn’t worth it, some believe. This is where the homophobia kicks in. Michael Sam is not being signed because he is gay, not because he is not good enough.”

Before Dallas agreed to try out Sam, Mike Freeman, the lead NFL writer for BleacherReport.com, wrote, “Sam not being signed with a team isn’t solely because of the media. Or even mostly. Him not being signed is because of fear, shameful excusemaking and old-fashioned bigotry.

It can’t be stressed enough how Sam not being signed despite a productive preseason is almost unprecedented. In my two decades of covering the NFL, it isn’t just rare; it’s basically unheard of for a player to not make the league after playing well in the preseason.

A player who produces like Sam did almost always makes it on some roster in the league, either on a practice squad or a 53-man roster. Sam not making it is like seeing Bigfoot on the hood of a UFO.” And I cringe when I hear people trying to parse where the homophobia began in the Sam saga, absolving the Rams entirely (he just didn’t fit their scheme, which they knew when they drafted him, and they had too much depth at that position) and thinking it started at some nebulous point where the other teams weren’t picking him up. Fisher praised Sam by saying he had kept his head down and didn’t call attention to himself.

Just love it when I hear the hired folk aren’t being too uppity; perhaps we should say he’s a credit to his orientation? Sound familiar?

Test of values

An equally curious test of values faces the NFL and the 49ers in the wake of McDonald’s arrest by police after responding to a party two days before the player’s 30th birthday and found bruises on his pregnant girlfriend’s arm and back. McDonald said little to the media after his release – “The truth will come out, you know. I can’t say too much right now but the truth will come out. Everybody knows what kind of person I am. I’m a good-hearted person.” He faces a September 15 court date on felony domestic violence charges.

Until then, the 49ers are swimming in those murky waters between accusation and conviction, or between allegation and absolution.

“You ask me how I feel about domestic violence,” Jim Harbaugh, the 49ers head coach, said on his radio show on KNBR two days after the arrest. “I can be very clear about that. If someone physically abuses a woman and/or physically or mentally abuses or hurts a child, then there’s no understanding. There’s no tolerance for

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Michael Sam was cut from the St. Louis Rams, and signed with the Dallas Cowboys, where he’ll be on the practice squad.

that. There are going to be two principles at play here. And one is, we’ll not tolerate domestic violence. The second principle, we’re firm believers in due process. And I ask for your understanding on those two principles.”

The Niners have allowed McDonald to continue to suit up and practice. And thus it was that standout linebacker Aldon Smith was allowed to suit up and play last year despite criminal charges hanging over his head. And thus it was that in 2012, two weeks after former Denver Broncos defensive back Perrish Cox was acquitted of raping an unconscious woman (although he lied to police about having sex with her and the fetus proved to be his), he was signed by ... Harbaugh’s 49ers.

Goodell drew praise when he announced enhanced guidelines last week for swift and heavy sanctions against any instances of domestic abuse, including a mandatory sixgame suspension for a first-time offense. This followed the universal criticism of his decision earlier in the summer to suspend Ravens defensive player Ray Rice for just two games after security video in a casino showed him dragging his unconscious fiancee off an elevator af-

San Francisco 49er Ray McDonald was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence.

ter slugging her. Overall, a statistical analysis by sportswriter Benjamin Morris on www.fivethirtyeight.com shows domestic abuse as being the most relatively common of criminal complaints against NFL players.

In the Rice case, the victim did not report a complaint. In fact, she ended up “apologizing” for her role in becoming an assault victim and married her assailant.

But amidst all of the praise for

the NFL’s “new” tough stance, I wondered if there would be a chilling effect, an increased pressure on victims to enable their assailants out of fear of losing the symbols of security in their lives.

“I think abusers tell victims that if they report the assaults there could be repercussions, but it’s lifesaving to pick up the phone and try to get some help,” said Beverly Upton, executive director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium. “Assailants need to know that whenever you commit a crime, you run the risk of losing your job.

We applaud the NFL’s decision and progress on this. We don’t think it will discourage people from reporting. We think it’s important because people look up to professional athletes.”

Alex Bastian, spokesman for San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, concurred.

“It is of vital importance to maintain a justice system where members of our community feel comfortable to report crimes as they occur,” Bastian said.t

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a zine he and his friends produced.

“As I got to be known for doing Jackie drag, people would give me things” for his collection, recalled Lenwell, including a note the first lady wrote on blue stationery to the fashion designer Halston explaining why she needed a pair of pants and a dress altered.

After spending decades amassing his Kennedy collectibles, including thank you notes the family sent while living at the White House and Christmas gifts depicting the building – a photo from 1961, and watercolors of the Red Room from 1962 and the Green Room from 1963 – given to White House staff, Lenwell is now considering selling all or parts of his collection as he is facing eviction.

“I don’t want to leave it as a burden to someone else after I am gone,

in progress to call 911.

A volunteer workday is planned at the grove September 20.

For more information, visit http://www.aidsmemorial.org.t Seth Hemmelgarn contributed to this report.

Mr. Galster, who was born May 7, 1959, grew up in Philadelphia.

Greg Galster, who lives in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, referred to his younger brother as “Artie,” and said his brother was “a nice guy” who “was very clever and showed talent from a very early age.

“He was, I think, a performer from the beginning,” he said.

Mr. Galster moved to San Francisco in 1978 and attended the San Francisco Art Institute, according to a biography provided by friends. The bio says he left the school “one class short of the requirement to receive a degree,” but over the next several decades, he developed a long resume.

Beginning in the 1980s, Mr. Galster appeared in plays, musicals, cabaret shows, and films in the U.S. and abroad. His roles included Noodles Nebula in the cult drag film Vegas in Space (1991) and Fabrege, “a dragqueen streetwalker,” in a 1996 episode of the TV show Nash Bridges.

He worked several times with Huestis, including the first show Huestis put on at the Castro, 1995’s The Stepford Wives.

One of the performances Mr. Galster was best known for was taking on Cline. He spent several summers in the 1980s touring as the country music legend, along with the Memphis G-Spots.

“Patsy took over his whole spirit and his body,” Huestis said.

Gay publicist Lawrence Hellman, who knew Mr. Galster for more than 20 years, recalled how as Cline, Mr. Galster would say, “Ladies and gentlemen, I put the cunt in country music.”

Hellman also recalled Mr. Galster’s professionalism. He said when looking to Mr. Galster for help, “You just could check him off like, ‘Okay, that’s going to be taken care of.’ It was perfect, always, every time.”

Mr. Galster lived in Japan from 1986 to 1990, where he learned Japanese and performed kyogen comedy, according to his bio. He also performed in drag there and appeared on Japanese television, winning second prize on a show that featured foreign singers.

Recently, back in the U.S., he appeared in the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and he also performed in Pearls Over Shanghai.

Helen Shumaker, who wouldn’t share her age but said, “I am older than Arturo,” was another longtime friend.

She said Mr. Galster had been living with HIV for 30 years, but he “never talked about that.” He was “uncomplaining and tough,” Shumaker said.

Like many others, Joshua Grannell, 40, who’s better known as his drag persona, Peaches Christ, recalled Mr. Galster’s kindness and generosity.

Grannell said he was “a young queen who moved here just after college” when he met Mr. Galster over 18 years ago. He said his first memory “is just being in awe of his talent.”

“I was very intimidated by him,” Grannell, who ended up working with Mr. Galster, said. “I assumed he was going to be a bitch.” However, he said Mr. Galster was “completely normal, sweet, open, and generous.”

Of course, he also “had the wit and sass of any great drag queen ...”

Asked toward the end of a phone interview if there was anything else she wanted to share about Mr. Galster, Shumaker said, “You would be here all night.”

Mr. Galster’s survivors include five brothers and three sisters, and numerous nieces, nephews, greatnieces, and great-nephews, along with friends around the world.t

and I don’t want to box it up and have it go to Goodwill,” said Lenwell.

Last December, his landlord, Vince Young, attempted to evict him and another tenant in order to move himself and his ailing father into the building.

With Lenwell fighting the eviction, this past February Young informed all of the tenants in the six-unit building he was leaving the rental market and terminated their leases.

All but two, Lenwell and another tenant, have since moved out.

Claiming senior protected status under the city’s rent control rules, Lenwell won a reprieve to remain until February 24. As he continues fighting to stay in his apartment, Lenwell would like to find another collector of Kennedy memorabilia to buy his collection.

“I don’t want to leave it to someone who doesn’t know its value or appreciate it,” he said.

For now, Lenwell is waiting to see what his landlord will do next. He

has started blogging about his eviction fight and recollections about the nearly four decades he has spent in the city.

“The owner really hasn’t made a serious offer of any kind,” he said.

“I was advised to let them make the first move.”

Denise A. Leadbetter, Young’s attorney who has represented him during the eviction appeal process, did not respond to requests for comment by press time Wednesday afternoon.

Lenwell has contemplated the possibility he will have to relocate, either to the East Bay or Palm Springs, but is holding out hope he will be able to remain in his home.

“I thought of all kinds of options, but I really want to stay here and fight it to the end,” said Lenwell. “Of course I have thought of possibilities, but I haven’t made anything concrete.”

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questions through email, hasn’t responded to a message from the paper or confirmed he made the statement about what happened.

A second man who had been with Mr. Galster said in a statement posted on Facebook that the incident happened between 1 and 2:30 a.m. The second witness, who also did not want to be named, said the man who punched Mr. Galster was wearing a “black hoodie/black cap.”

The medical examiner’s office is investigating Mr. Galster’s death, a staffer at the agency said, but he declined to say why.

Greg Galster, 58, one of Mr. Galster’s brothers, said he learned from the medical examiner’s office that Mr. Galster had “suffered a blow” from being “punched in the head,” and he had a “small” abrasion on his head from when he fell, but the medical examiner’s office told him “that was not in any way related to his passing.” He said the agency hasn’t determined the cause of death because toxicology tests are still being performed. Galster said his brother had been “in good health.”

Another brother, Joe Galster, issued a statement Wednesday morning saying the medical examiner’s office had notified the family that Mr. Galster’s death was not related to the fall.

“The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the City and County of San Francisco has ruled that homicide was not the cause of Arturo Galster’s death,” Joe Galster stated.

“Arturo was the victim of a violent attack 36 hours before he died, but it was unrelated to his death. The medical examiner has not issued his final report but has stated to the family that the most likely cause of death was congestive heart failure.”

The doctor at the medical examiner’s office the Galster brothers said the information came from didn’t return the B.A.R.’s call Tuesday.

Despite the agency’s stance, Mr. Galster’s family wants police to investigate the assault, Greg Galster said.

“We don’t feel it was a hate crime,” Galster said. “We feel the assault happened as a result of a little altercation.” He indicated family members don’t think the assailant intended to kill Mr. Galster, but they want the man and woman to “think about” the “possible result of his actions.”

Asked in an email last week whether the San Francisco Police Department’s homicide unit is investigating the death, spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said, Mr. Gal-

and trying to “prevent anything else from happening in there.”

Silverman said the case is “front and center” of the station’s attention.

Anyone with information in the case may call the station at (415) 666-8000, although Silverman encourages anyone witnessing a crime

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Arthur Galster, appearing as Patsy Cline, performed at an October 2004 benefit for the Harvey Milk bust in City Hall.

ster’s death “is a medical examiner case only at this time.”

The medical examiner’s office isn’t likely to publicly release the manner and cause of Mr. Galster’s death for several months.

Mindy Talmadge, a spokesman for the fire department, said in an email that a 911 call was made from Mr. Galster’s Dolores Terrace address at 3:09 p.m. last Monday “reporting an unconscious male whose breathing was abnormal.”

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO BEVERAGES, 295 TERRY FRANCOIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN VANLOO VALEER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/14.

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS -GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT (“BART” or the “District”), Oakland, California, is advertising for Request for Statement of Qualifications (“RFSOQ”) to provide SUSTAINING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR BART PROJECTS, RFSOQ No. 6M8076, on or about September 2, 2014. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that SOQs will be received until the hour of 2:00 P.M. local time, Tuesday, October 21, 2014, at the District Secretary’s Office, 23rd Floor, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, 94612 (mailing address: P.O. Box 12688, Oakland, California, 94604-2688). Proposers are responsible to ensure that their SOQs are received at the time and location specified. The Proposers should note that the District intends to engage the services of up to two (2) consulting firms (“CONSULTANTS” or, individually, “CONSULTANT”) to provide Sustaining Construction Management Services for BART Projects (“Project”). Accordingly, BART is issuing this Request for Statement of Qualifications from each proposer (“Proposer”) as specified herein. The District intends to award two (2) separate independent agreements resulting from this single RFSOQ as set-aside contracts for Micro Small Business Entities (“MSBE”), in which only certified MSBEs will be eligible to bid. MSBE set-aside contracts are part of BART’s small business element to BART’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program. Small businesses are eligible, regardless of race and gender. The owner(s) and firm must meet requirements of the applicable small business size and personal net worth (see the District’s MSBE application for details). MSBEs must be certified by BART’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and, Proposers will need to complete the certification process prior to the RFSOQ submission due date.

MICRO SMALL BUSINESS ENTITY (“MSBE”) SET-ASIDE AGREEMENTS PROPOSERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS (“SOQs”) MAY ONLY BE SUBMITTED BY FIRMS CERTIFIED AS A MICRO SMALL BUSINESS ENTITY (“MSBE”) UNDER THE DISTRICT’S SMALL BUSINESS DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM ELEMENTS (“SBE ELEMENTS”). A MSBE IS A SMALL BUSINESS ENTITY (“SBE”) CERTIFIED BY BART, WHOSE AVERAGE ANNUAL GROSS RECEIPTS (INCLUDING THOSE OF ITS AFFILIATES), FOR THE PREVIOUS THREE FISCAL YEARS DO NOT EXCEED $6 MILLION FOR FIRMS WHOSE PRIMARY INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION IS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. IN ADDITION, THE FIRM SHALL MEET THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (“SBA”) SIZE STANDARD FOR THE SPECIFIC NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (“NAICS”) CODE FOR WHICH THE FIRM HAS REQUESTED CERTIFICATION. ANY FIRM SEEKING TO BE CERTIFIED AS A SBE SHALL COMPLY WITH BART’S SBE CERTIFICATION PROCESS DETAILED IN BART’S WEBSITE WWW.BART.GOV/OCR. INQUIRIES REGARDING THE DISTRICT’S SBE ELEMENTS ARE HEREBY DIRECTED TO THE DISTRICT’S OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS, 300 LAKESIDE DRIVE, 16TH FLOOR, OAKLAND, CA 94612, TELEPHONE (510) 464-6100, OR TO BART’S WEBSITE WWW.BART.GOV/OCR. The application for certification as an MSBE can be found on BART’s website at: http:// www.bart.gov/sites/default/files/docs/SBEApplication.pdf.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED CONSULTANT shall assist and advise the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District in construction management and related issues associated with BART construction projects.

CONSULTANT shall manage and monitor BART construction contracts by providing services which include technical support, project communications/record keeping, meeting coordination, cost and schedule management, coordination with other agencies, project reporting and project close-out. Construction management services include the following: manage, administer, monitor, oversee and interface with the construction contractor (“Contractor”) on BART construction projects in accordance with BART’s Resident Engineer Manual and the construction contract documents. Anticipated staffing includes, but is not necessarily limited to: a Program Manager, Resident, Field, and Office Engineers.

The aforementioned services shall be provided by the prospective Consultant on an oncall support services basis for a variety of required BART tasks. Projects for which the CONSULTANT may be called upon to provide services includes, but is not necessarily limited to the following: Stations and Buildings, Yards and Shops, Mainline and Yard Infrastructure, Parking and Intermodal Access. The Scope of Services and other pertinent requirements of the work required are further described in detail within the BART RFSOQ No. 6M8076.

Estimated Cost and Time of Performance: The District intends to make two (2) separate stand-alone awards as a result from this Request for Statement of Qualifications (RFSOQs).

Each of the two (2) anticipated agreements shall not exceed the amount of Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00); however, the Consultant may receive a lesser amount contingent upon funding availability, and depending upon the District’s actual need for the Consultant’s services. The term of each agreement entered into pursuant to this RFSOQ will be three (3) years, subject to termination and the limit on compensation as provided for in the Agreement.

A Pre-Submittal Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. The Pre-Submittal Meeting will convene promptly at 1:00 P.M., local time, at BART’s Offices, located at the Kaiser Center, 300 Lakeside Drive, 15th Floor – Main Conference Room # 1500,Oakland, California 94612. At the Pre-Submittal Meeting the District’s DBE Program and MSBE element will be explained. All questions regarding DBE and the MSBE certification process should be directed to the District’s Office of Civil Rights representative: Andrew Houston, Principal Administrative Analyst, at email: (ahousto@bart.gov), or at telephone (510) 4647578; or FAX (510) 874-74570. Prospective proposers are requested to make every effort to attend this only scheduled Pre-Submittal Meeting, and to confirm their attendance by contacting the District’s Contract Administrator, telephone (510) 287-4775, or FAX (510) 464-7650; prior to the date of the Pre-Submittal Meeting.

RFSOQs must be received by 2:00 P.M., local time, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at the address listed in the RFSOQ. Submission of a RFSOQ shall constitute a firm offer to the District for one hundred and eighty (180) calendar days from date of the RFSOQ submission.

The District may reject any and all Proposals.

WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFSOQ DOCUMENTS (Available on or after September 2, 2014) Copies of the RFSOQ may be obtained: (1) By written request to the District’s Contract Administrator, 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612. Reference RFSOQ No. 6M8076 – Sustaining Construction Management Services for BART Projects; or by sending requests to Fax No. (510) 464-7650.

(2) By E-mail request to the District’s Contract Administrator, Ron Coffey, at rcoffey@bart. gov ; or by calling the District’s Contract Administrator, (510) 287-4775.

(3) By attending the Pre-Submittal Meeting and obtaining the RFSOQ at the meeting.

Dated at Oakland, California this 26th day of August 2014. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 9/4/14 CNS-2661174# BAY AREA REPORTER

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In the matter of the application of: LE LE DO for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LE LE DO is requesting that the name LE LE DO be changed to EDWARD LUY DO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 9th of October 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 14, 21, 28, SEPT 04. 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14-550497 In the matter of the application of: SAMANTA GURUNG for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SAMANTA GURUNG is requesting that the name SAMANTA GURUNG be changed to SAMUEL TILAK GURUNG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 7th of October 2014 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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up on Bay Area stages Coming right Stephen McFarland finds himself torn between two lovers in Cock, a hit London play that will open New Conservatory Theatre Center’s season.

by Richard Dodds

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pring is the season of renewal, except if you are a theater company, when season renewals are targeted for the fall. Some folks like to buy into a particular theater’s full package, while many prefer to go wherever the theatrical flow takes them. This column favors the latter category, as the spotlight swerves among theaters with highlighted selections grouped into various categories – such as world premieres, which is how we will now begin.

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s we go to press, summertime fades to fall, and a small but dedicated band of arts writers and editors gird themselves for “hell week.” That’s what we half-jokingly call the welter of opening nights and galas that signals the official start of the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony seasons. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it, and if the truth be told, a lot of feverish fun. As we slip (or in some cases, torture ourselves back) into evening clothes fresh from the closet, we can still offer some notice of promising concerts and productions scheduled between now and December on both sides of the corner at Grove and Van Ness.

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Opera in your living room

by Roberto Friedman

W

e won’t deny it, we get a little thrill when we see the crews set up the tent for the San Francisco Symphony opening gala each year.

The start of the fall arts season is here, not only on Grove Street, and this week brings our previews in theatre, music, galleries and DVD/Blu-ray releases. Jump right in.

There’s great classical music coming to the concert halls and over the airwaves this fall as San Francisco Opera and KQED 9 partner to broadcast grand opera. Recorded in high-definition and 5.1 surround sound at the War Memorial Opera House, their TV specials will showcase the stagings and all-star casts from SF Opera’s recent productions

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Single tickets for the San Francisco Symphony season have been available since July 21, and judging from press releases and the calendar, there is a positive emphasis on American composers that may help guide your decisions. There is at least one work by an American writer on most programs, and more than 20 works and two new recordings are scheduled through late June. Of course, the season ends with one of Musical Director Michael Tilson Thomas’s trademarked mini-festivals, dedicated to none other than Beethoven. But his loyalty to fellow Americans is featuring prominently during his 20th season with the SFS. Yes, 20th season! Once the jum-

of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Verdi’s Attila, Boito’s Mefistofele, and Verdi’s Rigoletto. Hosted by beloved mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, the operas will premiere Thursdays, Sept. 4-Oct. 2, on KQEDTV, Channel 9. Also, SF Opera’s Porgy and Bess, first aired locally on KQED last year, will be broadcast nationwide as part of the PBS Fall Arts Festival on Fri., Oct. 17. Each opera is presented in its original language with English subtitles, and features the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

Following are some brief crib-notes.

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Sept.

4 at 8 p.m.) The bel canto masterpiece inspired by that tragic teenage tale of Romeo and Juliet stars Joyce DiDonato and Nicole Cabell as the bled bill of the opening gala is behind him, MTT will get down to business and celebrate his anniversary with characteristically cohesive focus. Opening-week concerts excise the glamorous but vaguely irrelevant pieces from the first night, and feature instead young “Golden Age pianist” Benjamin Grosvenor in Ravel’s jazzy and delightful Piano Concerto in G Major. The rest of the bill is devoted to Russians: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.

Mid-September brings another gifted pianist to Davies Symphony Hall, with Leif Ove Andsnes in Beethoven’s Concerto No. 1, and SFS’ first performances of Alternative Energy by youthful American Mason Bates. I’m still a hold-out on the jury about this endlessly promising composer, but his music is never less than attractive, and he

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Joyce DiDonato (Romeo) and Nicole Cabell (Giulietta) in Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi.

star-crossed lovers. This new coproduction with Munich’s Bavarian State Opera features costumes

by renowned fashion designer Christian Lacroix. “It’s Lacroix, sweetie darling.”

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Attila (Sept. 11 at 8 p.m.) The cast of this new SF Opera/Teatro alla Scala co-production includes legendary Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto in the title role of the Hun. Not hon, Hun. Mefistofele (Sept. 25 at 9 p.m.)

The title role in this reimagining of Goethe’s Faust is sung by Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov in his staged role debut. Amazing staging.

Rigoletto (Oct. 2 at 8 p.m.) The cast, led by SF Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti, features Serbian baritone Željko Lučić in the title role, and the SF Opera debut of Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak as Gilda.

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Oct. 17 at 9 p.m.) Director Francesca Zambello’s critically acclaimed production stars bass-baritone Eric Owens as Porgy and soprano Laquita Mitchell as Bess. Make the popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the operas!t

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The Partenope production coming to the War Memorial Opera House.

always has some interesting things to say.

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eron Carpenter playing the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ice Field by American Henry Brant, written specifically for the orchestra and the spatial acoustic of DSH. There is some Bach and the Tchaikovsky Fifth added to lure listeners in. American composers Lukas Foss and Charles Ives feature in a program that finishes the busy month on a bill weighted by Richard Strauss’ monumental Also sprach Zarathustra. The grand Ruffatti organ is certainly getting a dusting this month.

October is looking like a sort of Rachmaninoff tribute, with the SFS featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson essaying the exciting and beautiful Concerto No. 3 on one bill, as the SFS’ Great Performers series features Jean-Efflam Bavouzet ripping through the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with conductor Vladimir Jurowski conducting the visiting London Philharmonic Orchestra. The SFS rounds it all off with Rachmaninoff ’s thrilling Symphonic Dances on a program that includes violinist Isabelle Faust playing Benjamin Britten’s Concerto, with Stephane Deneve conducting.

There is also a chance to experience American Samuel Barber’s rightfully admired Adagio for Strings.

Copland’s Appalachian Spring is another revered bit of Americana, and it opens a concert in late October that includes the far less-known Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety by American iconoclast Morton Feldman. Visiting conductor and pianist Christian Zacharias will also play some Mozart and lead

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Soprano Patricia Racette sings the title role in composer Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah.

a Haydn symphony. I’m thinking this is looking like one of those unexpected treasures.

Late October and early November return MTT to the podium with the Mahler Seventh, and there is no need to discuss. Just hope it isn’t too late to grab some seats. The SFS continues through Thanksgiving with terrific guest soloists joining MTT (violinist Gil Shaham) and guest conductor Susanna Malkki (pianist Jeremy Denk).

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September treats at the Castro Theatre

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he Castro Theatre programmers outdo themselves with a month’s worth of classic movies – some popcorn, some champagne.

Starman (1984) Director John Carpenter creates a sly sci-fi fable by placing two talented actors in a car. He (a still-boyish Jeff Bridges) is a space alien looking to get back to the ship; she (Karen Allen) is a young widow, perplexed at how her abductor has managed to resemble her late husband. (Plays with Under the Skin, 9/5) Sweet Charity (1969) The auspicious film debut of director Bob Fosse, this big-cast, big-budget version of the hit Broadway musical based on a Fellini film (Nights of Cabiria) will be a different treat depending on which version the Castro chooses to screen. Each version (happy ending/sad ending) features the talents of Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera, Ricardo Montalban and Sammy Davis, Jr. Leonard Maltin claims that really sharp eyes will spot newbies Bud Cort and Kristoffer Tabori as flower children.

All That Jazz (1979) The genius of Bob Fosse shines through this darkly funny auto-bio of a jaded choreographer (a career-topping Roy Scheider) who plays a highwire game of chicken with his personal demons, daring death to take him at the moment of his greatest career triumph. “It’s showtime!” (both 9/6) Robin Williams Tribute The Castro presents a once-a-week salute to our city’s brilliant clown prince.

Good Will Hunting (1997) Williams shines as the grieving philosophy teacher/mentor to the film’s Southie heroes, actors/screenwriters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Gay director Gus Van Sant displays a keen eye for framing boymen fighting, boozing and making lovely fools of themselves. Worth the price of admission for the moments where Damon’s snotty punk baits Williams’ heartbroken widower, paving the way for Williams’ Best Supporting Actor Oscar. (9/7) The Fisher King (1991) The unstoppable cinema prankster Terry Gilliam gives Williams a surreal canvas as a sly homeless person who enters the life of a troubled radio talk-host (Jeff Bridges). This is one of those “not for everyone” classics whose excesses prompt its fans to love it all the more.

Good Morning Vietnam (1987) Barry Levinson lets Williams roar as authority-bashing Armed Forces Radio DJ Adrian Cronauer. This tour de force finds Williams improvising saucy one-liners to GIs’ delight, while infuriating a bythe-books officer (scary-good J.T. Walsh). Supported by a sublime ensemble led by Forest Whitaker, with Bruno Kirby as an unctuous junior officer. Homo subtext pops up in the droll turn of Vietnamese actor Tung Thanh Tran as Williams’ charming native guide. (both 9/14) If (1968) Malcolm McDowell’s career got off to a roaring start in this incendiary English boys-school satire. He plays a sarcastic schoolboy rebel who takes his revolt against authority right over a cliff. Gay director Lindsay Anderson’s decision to alternate sequences in color and b&w was widely misinterpreted by critics at the time. It’s a volcanic chamber piece that features some of the most provocative homoerotic footage in the history of British cinema.

The Chocolate War (1988) Based on Robert Cormier’s acute and funny novel about the side-effects of a Catholic education, the film follows the travails of freshman Jerry Renault (Ian Mitchell-Smith) as he

fends off a secret cabal of school bullies. “The Vigils” pressure him to boost the school’s annual chocolate sale in a corrupt bargain with sadistic priest-teacher Brother Leon (wickedly funny John Glover). The film skewers anti-gay bully-boys while making allusions to Nixon and Watergate. (both 9/10) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Al Pacino steals this true tale of a bank holdup staged to pay for a sex change with a loose-limbed take on a little guy who goes for broke, capturing the attention of a jaded Gotham. Pacino gets a big assist from New York-savvy director Sydney Lumet and an unflappable police detective, a breakout for character actor Charles Durning. (Plays with The Dog, a newly released doc on the same story, 9/11) Sixteen Candles (1984) This Brat Pack 1980s classic finds geeky Anthony Michael Hall pursuing a birthday girl way above his station, John Hughes’ “It girl” Molly Ringwald.

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) This three-drag-queen road movie is enlivened by an unbilled cameo from Robin Williams. (both 9/12) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Author Ken Kesey,

A boyish Jeff Bridges in director John Carpenter’s Starman.

whose masterful novel is the source for this uneven film, told me he refused to see it. The curdled black comedy, about a man (Oscar-winning Jack Nicholson) who leads a revolt inside a state mental hospital, is a quirky provocation whose basic concerns are still valid. (Plays with Alive Inside, 9/16) Petulia (1968) ever-so-slightly eclipses Bullitt, released the same year, as the definitive portrait of San Francisco the year following “the Summer of Love.” Beatles di-

rector Richard Lester delivers his most adult portrait of lonely folks looking for love. The film’s astute quartet (Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Knight) provides a rare chance to view this city in the 60s as a stage for carnal and emotional angst not set among “flower children.” (Plays with SF-based Experiment in Terror, 9/18) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) The Coen Bros. offer a trip through the Greenwich Village folkie scene one

week in 1961 before Bob Dylan hit town. Oscar Isaac gives us a fool that’s a picture-long audition from an actor who will someday make a terrific Lear. (Plays with Coal Miner’s Daughter, Michael Apted’s 1980 version of the life of C&W singer Loretta Lynn, an Oscar turn from Sissy Spacek, 9/19) The World According to Garp (1982) Williams leads an absurdist comedy charge in George Roy Hill’s ambitious take on the sprawling John Irving novel, with the screen debut of Glenn Close.

The Birdcage (1996) The French cult drag hit La Cage Aux Folles gets a big-budget American makeover that demonstrates another facet of Williams’ titanic range. He’s paired with another scene-stealer, Nathan Lane, as a flamboyant male couple who must clean up their act to please their straight son’s prospective in-laws. (both 9/23) Red Desert (1964) Michelangelo Antonioni leaned rather heavily on red pigment in his first color drama.

Monica Vitti and Richard Harris, riding the wave of his brutal working-class hit This Sporting Life, star.

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What’s up at the galleries this fall?

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by Sura Wood

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f there’s any doubt that fall is underway, look no further than the offerings at local galleries. Here’s a brief survey of what’s out there.

SF Camerawork Dear Erin Hart In 2011, Jessamyn Lovell’s identity was stolen by a woman who then used it to run a drug syndicate, rack up astronomical fines for unpaid parking tickets, rent cars and commit crimes in the artist’s name.

Lovell pursued the woman and developed this exhibition, employing video, photographs and assorted documents to respond to the crime and tell an all-too-familiar story.

Armed with a camera, Lovell exacted a form of retribution in an examination of the uneasy coexistence between our digital selves and real life. (Sept. 3-Oct. 18) John Berggruen Gallery David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri: Figures and Landscapes is a historical survey and celebration of four independent, forward-thinking artists who were key actors in the Bay Area Figurative movement. Though the tonal emotional content varies with the individual artist, their work, inspired by their surroundings but not exclusively tied to a specific place, is imbued with an innate love of nature, a sunny native optimism, serenity and solitude. (Sept. 4-Oct. 18) Dolby Chadwick Gallery Between Head and Hand Standing at the intersection of figuration and abstraction, plumbing his unconscious and referencing black & white and color photographs, altered digital imagery and fragmented visuals of corroded metal, Kai Samuels-Davis’ richly textured de-saturated oils are (mostly) fractured portraits of solitary individuals – maybe facets of the artist himself – refracted through a hall of distorted mirrors. (Sept. 4-27)

SETH RUDETSKY September 13 - 14

Courtesy the artist and Haines Gallery

The Simpson Verdict (2002), video with sound, 3-min. loop, by Kota Ezawa, showing at Haines Gallery.

Courtesy of the artists and Gallery Wendi Norris

“T+85 red” (2013), Lego, by Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, showing at Gallery Wendi Norris.

Jack Fischer Gallery Familiars Bay Area artist Lauren DiCioccio is most readily associated with her finely crafted replicas of everyday items destined for obsolescence, from hand-sewn plastic shopping bags and embroidered dollar bills to encased or bagged copies of The New York Times. In her most recent work, she retains a palette of colored threads and fabrics to sculpt heretofore unknown, often biomorphic forms with deliberately inflicted mistakes that reflect the artist’s hand. (Sept. 6-Oct. 18) Gallery Wendi Norris Architects of Destruction Sydney-based collaborators Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, a husband-and-wife team who witnessed their city’s makeover for the 2000 Summer Olympics, spe-

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cialize in investigating the destruction and resurrection of objects and the relationship between innovation and extinction. They deploy boldly colored, textured Legos in their abstracted explorations of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle catastrophe, linking child’s play to disaster, and in a series of brightly-hued embroidered tapestries that evoke notorious oil-industry explosions, they connect the wages of progress with calamity.

(Sept. 4-Nov. 1) Hosfelt Gallery Lightmaster Jim Campbell, expanding his oeuvre with full-color LEDS, ventures into new sculptural frontiers. Two of the works are part of his ongoing Home Movies series; others incorporate carved, semi-transparent resin “screens,” multiple wall-mounted

panels and arrangements of LEDS that produce three-dimensional effects. (Sept. 6-Oct. 18); Surabhi Saraf ’s show Remedies is comprised of a series of multi-channel video installations inspired by his family’s pharmaceutical factory in India.

(Oct. 25-Nov. 26) Robert Tat Gallery 20th Century Salon Photography: A Tribute Before photography was considered fine art, and at a time when galleries and museums rarely mounted exhibitions, salons played a crucial role in elevating the status of the bastard medium and laying the foundation for a commercial market. Early in their careers, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston were among the notable artists who participated in these groundbreaking exhibitions, which offered the only venues for their work and the lesser-known figures showcased here. (Sept. 4-Nov. 29) Catharine Clark Gallery Chris Doyle: The Fluid Water as muse and theme dominates the work of Doyle, a Brooklyn-based artist whose latest “immersive” multi-media exhibition is loosely based on one of his favored sources: Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire, a cycle of allegorical 19thcentury paintings that depicts the transformation of the landscape and the destructive impact of civilization.

Delving into humanity’s precarious balancing act with the natural world, the show includes large-scale watercolors based on photographs of a frozen waterfall and the snowy environs of upstate New York, and a site-specific multi-channel video, sound and music installation that taps into the anxiety – in some parts of the country one might call it panic – about water. (Sept. 13-Nov. 1) Museum of Craft and Design Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066 Maruyama, a furniture designer and third-generation Japanese-American, created these works to reflect the shameful period in American history when the U.S. government interned thousands of Japanese Americans in the 1940s. (Oct. 4-Jan. 4); Second Life Glass features pieces by Amber Cowan, who refashions discarded glassware turned out in prodigious quantities by now-defunct American

factories. (Oct. 18-Jan. 4) Haines Gallery Political Fictions, a thought-provoking show that takes its title from Joan Didion’s essay collection on the brazen packaging of the American electoral process, assembles a roster of international artists who explore the media and its reportage. In his video The Simpson Verdict, for example, Kota Ezawa animates, in a cartoonish style, television footage of the dramatic conclusion of Simpson’s widely publicized, avidly followed 1994 murder trial. Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Le’s 150-foot scroll appropriates and digitally elongates Eddie Adams’ infamous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the public execution of a Vietcong prisoner on a Saigon street, an image some credit with turning the tide of American public opinion against the war. Jeanne Friscia, Taha Belal, Alfredo Jaar and Todd Lavine also weigh in. (Sept. 4-Nov. 1) In a concurrent exhibition, San Quentin Prison Report, photographer Nigel Poor, who has an abiding interest in society’s management of crime and punishment, invited prison inmates to react to images by William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore and other masters by writing and drawing directly onto the prints. The three-part, collaborative project includes Poor’s reprinting of archived negatives taken at the prison between 1960 and 1987.

David Brower Center (Berkeley) Art/Act: Maya Lin Though she’s disinclined to discuss it these days, Lin’s controversial design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. made the Chinese-American, Yale-educated architect/artist famous and thrust her into the middle of a firestorm at the age of 21. That was 1982, and since then, she has forged a body of work addressing space and the emotions it engenders, among other subjects.

In addition to the recent abstract sculptures here is Lin’s first interactive multi-media artwork and final memorial to vanishing species and environments, What is Missing?, which asks viewers to contemplate the fragility of the Bay Area. (Sept.

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Double trouble during the war

by Erin Blackwell

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he Hungarian writer Agota Kristof, considered one of the greatest French-language authors of the 20th century, died at 75 in 2011.

Her first novel, Le Grand Cahier (The Notebook, 1986), translated into 30-some languages, reaches the Embarcadero Center Cinema screen on Fri., Sept. 5, directed by János Szász. I wish I could recommend it.

Independent movies are rare. European films rarer. When was the last time you heard Hungarian at the local movie-house? You could go for the ambience. There is one fantastic sequence, almost worth sitting through all 109 minutes for, of bombers flying over a narrow village street. What’s fantastic is how low-budget and yet effective those shadows are. It makes you think of all the people all over the world being bombed out of their houses as you read this. It makes you wonder when it will ever stop.

Le Grand Cahier, which might be translated as The Big Notebook, refers to a blank book given to twin boys at the start of World War II by their soldier father, who tells them to record everything that happens.

The twins assiduously follow his

instructions. Every once in a while the camera pans over their efforts, which look like an Academy of Art student’s work in mixed media, featuring cut-outs and graphite. Fairly standard war-is-icky-and-kills-people visuals, plus rows of squashed beetles, which serve as over-obvious metaphors for concentration-camp victims. It’s all very unimaginative and literal-minded.

The twins’ scribblings are read in a stilted voiceover that never cedes primacy to filmed images serving as predictable illustrations that rarely reward the viewer’s brain with an unexpected detail or camera move.

It’s heavy-going, made heavier by the narrative thrust: the amoral education of two teenage boys, autodidacts adrift in solitary duplicity, who train themselves to survive the Nazi, then Russian occupations by incrementally weaning themselves of sensitivity to their own and others’ pain. If that sounds like a fresh idea to you, by all means go see this film. I have a hunch the book is better.

These twins aren’t exactly cruel.

They simply decide they can’t afford to care, if they want to survive to adulthood. Thirty years after the book appeared, Kristof ’s thesis seems painfully obvious. I’m not

sure that’s a reason, though, for director Szász to make a painfully obvious film. The Notebook is like an uninspired sermon by a middle-brow priest in a rough-hewn church, a form of purgatory, an insult to your intelligence you can’t wait to be over.

We get a glimpse of an urban childhood before the twins are separated from their parents and sent

to live in the country, away from the bombing raids. Here they come under the tutelage of their grandmother, a fantastic creation by actress Piroska Molnár, who holds the screen when all else fails. As wide as a barn door, an Earth Mover of an Earth Mother, Grandma gives the twins lashings of tough love. She never distinguishes between them.

Indeed, the twins never emerge as

individuals. She calls them “bastards,” makes them earn their keep on her isolated farm, and ends up making them her heirs. They oblige her after her second stroke by giving her poison, as requested.

There are other murders along the way. The twins place ammunition in the stove of a young woman, who predictably is injured by a big, scary, cartoonish kaboom when she lights it with a match. Why would they do that? Because she mocked the Jews being force-marched out of town, holding a piece of bread out the window, then snatching it away when one reached for it. That’s how it happens in the book. The director gilds the lily, making her also denounce a nice Jewish shoe-salesman who once gave the boys two for the price of one. This annoying rewrite clouds Kristof ’s clear logic and sentimentalizes this narrative, which is about the End of Sentimentality.

We’ve all seen too many WWII movies, starting with those made in Hollywood as propaganda. It’s a war Hollywood never grows tired of, maybe because it’s the last time we won one, were good guys, had a democracy. Maybe that’s why the movie was the Hungarian entry for Best Foreign Film Oscar. It didn’t win.t

off to Cork, Ireland, where they finally felt safe enough to reproduce.

Ungerer’s daughter succinctly explains that her dad still feels haunted by his past, and Ungerer himself notes that while New York was the city he was searching for as a kid, Ireland is truly his country. The point is driven home by a montage of scruffy, weather-beaten, honest Irish faces. Ungerer notes his com-

fort at living with people who had to endure centuries under the British boot.

Still haunted by Hitler’s unspeakable crimes – his mature work is informed by the techniques if not the content of the Nazi propaganda machine – Tomi Ungerer comes off now as a very happy man, whom one could actually drop in on, if one happened to be in Cork, didn’t

object to second-hand smoke (at one delicious moment, Tomi asks permission to light up on camera) and was open to a free-floating discussion of all the terrible truths of the modern world.

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Christian Berger, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

László Gyémánt as Egyik Iker and András Gyémánt as Masik Iker in The Notebook.

Artistic license

by David Lamble

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’m a huge fan of a subspecies of film documentaries I call biodocs. At their best, as in the case of this week’s subject, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, bio-docs allow the easily distracted to dig in for 100 minutes or so and get cinema “Cliff Notes” on some important somebody who has inexplicably escaped their notice altogether.

Tomi Ungerer had the great luck and the bloody misfortune to be born in Alsace-Lorraine in 1931, just before Adolph Hitler began shopping for distressed properties to attach to an ever-expanding Germany. As a child, Tomi was forbidden to speak French. His mom was even hauled off to a German police station because a neighbor had ratted her out for speaking French at home. After the war, the French got their revenge. German was banned, and great German libraries sacked.

As you might imagine, a child raised under such linguistic peril might grow up a tad bent, especially if the kid was drawn to artistic images involving swine and female buttocks. Filmmaker Brad Bernstein is shrewd enough to allow the now 83-year-old, chain-smoking, Ireland-residing Ungerer to tell his own story, aided by guest turns from fellow children’s book creator Maurice Sendak and Pulitzer Prize-

winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer. It’s quite a tale, provocatively lit up by some of Ungerer’s thousands of illustrations, first for kids’ books, and later, the erotic fantasy drawings that would inspire devotion and ire. Among the most representative of Ungerer’s images are giant jaws clamping down on flesh, devouring holes, supplemented by whips, chains and headless Barbie Dolls.

In America, Ungerer’s crime was becoming known for works of art that, to the prudish or Puritan mind, either shouldn’t have existed at all, or should not have been allowed to intrude on the “innocence of children.” It was the vast network of children’s librarians who first blew the whistle on him and subsequently refused to order his books.

Ungerer argues that children need to be traumatized in order to develop emotionally. In the film’s third act, we watch enchanted school-age tots relishing their time with this genial old storyteller.

In 1971, the exile began, first across the Canadian border to Nova Scotia. Sadly, the locals proved to be murderous when intoxicated, which they frequently were, and none of Ungerer’s New York artist friends bothered to make the trek up to visit.

“Tomi, it’s fucking Nova Scotia,” explained Feiffer when he finally made the trip.

In 1975, Ungerer and wife packed

On view April 24–October 6, 2014 The Contemporary Jewish Museum Plan your visit at thecjm.org

Subject of Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story.

Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.

Major sponsorship for this exhibition is provided by Osterweis Capital Management, the Jim Joseph Foundation, Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt, and the Seiger Family Foundation. Patron sponsorship is provided by the Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, Alison Gelb Pincus and Mark Pincus, The Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation, and Phyllis Cook. Supporting sponsorship is provided by AIG Private Client Group, an Anonymous donor, Judy and Harry Cohn, Dana Corvin and Harris Weinberg, G2 Insurance Services, Peggy and Richard Greenfield Foundation, Siesel Maibach, Dorothy R. Saxe, and Barbara and Howard Wollner. Participating sponsorship is provided by Shelli Semler and Kyle Bach, Ruth and Alan Stein, and Susan and Joel Hyatt. IMAGES: Alvin Lustig, Paramount Chair, 1948. Upholstery, 37 ½ in. x 37 ½ in. x 32 ½ in. Collection of Elaine Lustig Cohen. Photograph: John Halpern.

George Nelson, Bubble Lamp, 1947. Plastic on wire frame, 33 x 15 in. Photograph courtesy of Modernica.

Essential support for catalog publication has been provided by Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston, The Shenson Foundation, in memory of Ben and A. Jess Shenson.

Major support for The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s exhibitions and Jewish Peoplehood Programs comes from the Koret Foundation.

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Wed 10 Old Hats

Curtain up

Joan Marcus

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ith the slow ruffle of a magic red plush curtain, the fall theatre and arts season is upon us, in abundance. Take a bow as you support enlightened entertainments.

Thu 4 Angie Stone @ Yoshi’s The soulful singer-songwriter returns to the nightclub-restaurant. $49. 8pm & 10pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Big Joy @ Roxie Cinema The acclaimed documentary about poet and gay activist James Broughton screens. $11. 7pm. 3117 16th St. www.roxie.com Also Sept. 10 at Berkeley Art Museum. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

Linda Eder @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Pichai Pongsasaovapark @ Misho Gallery Bangkok-based gay artist’s exhibit of abstract paintings. Thru Sept. 20. 680 8th St. 655-1838. MishoGallery.com

Year of the Rooster @ La Val’s Subterranean Impact Theatre’s West Coast premiere of Eric Dufault’s acclaimed comedy about a fighting rooster (played by Caleb Cabrera) and his troubled owner. Beer and pizza available. $10-$20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Sept. 21. 1834 Euclid Ave., Berkeley.

(510) 224-5744. www.impacttheatre.com

The Broadway and pop singer performs her new cabaret show, A Walk Down Memory Lane, which includes Broadway classics and her own music. $70-$85. 8pm. Also Sept 5, 8pm & Sept. 6, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Noises Off @ Shelton Theater Michael Frayns’ hilarious theatre comedy of onstage and backstage pratfalls returns. $20-$48. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 25. 533 Sutter St. at Powell. (800) 838-3008. www.sheltontheater.org

Wait Until Dark @ Victoria Theatre Circle of Life Theatre, the new disability-inclusive theatre and cabaret company, presents a new and updated production of Frederick Knott’s taut thriller, with a blind actress playing the lead role. $20-$35.

Season tickets $60. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 21. 2961 16th St. 3924400. www.circleoflifetheatre.org

West Wave Dance Festival @ Z Space SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts’ 23rd annual season of the multiplecompany series of concerts by Bay Area dancers and companies, including Harper Addison, Marika Brussel, Elizabeth Castaneda, Amelia Eisen, Alyce Finwall, Christy Funsch, David Herrera, Emma Jaster, Kevin Jenkins, Anne-Renee Petrarca, and Katerina Wong. $10-$20. 8pm.

450 Florida St. Thru Sept. 7. 626-0453. www.westwavesf.org

Wicked @ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts The new touring company of the mega-hit Broadway musical (music

by Stephen Schwartz, based on the Gregory Maguire novel) returns to South Bay; with Emma Hunton as Elphaba and Chandra Lee Schwartz as Glinda. $44-$168 (special $25 ticket lottery each night). Tue-Thu 7:30pm.

Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Thu 2pm, Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. Thru Sept. 14. 255 South Almaden Blvd., San Jose. (800) 9822787. www.broadwaysanjose.com

Rapture, Blister, Burn @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

The LA-based growly folk rocker and the Oakland band perform at the art gallery. No cover. 8pm. 314 15th St., Oakland. www.sidequestgallery.com

Gina Gionfriddo’s Pulitzer-finalist drama compares the lives of two women –a mother with a family, and an accomplished academic– with a comic feminist flair. $32-$60. Tue & Sun 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 24. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Flower Drum Song @ Woodminster Ampitheatre, Oakland Local outdoor theatre production of the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical with a new 2002 script by David Henry Hwang. $28-$59. Fri & Sat 8pm; Thu & Sun 7pm. Thru Sept 14. Joaquin Miller Park, 3300 Joaquin Miller Road, Oakland. (510) 531-9597. www.woodminster.com

Funny Girl @ Hillbarn Theatre, Foster City The Jule Styne/Bob Merrill/Isobel Lennart musical about Vaudeville legend Fanny Brice (which made Barbra Streisand famous), gets a South Bay production. $23-$42.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 21.

1285 East Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City.

(650) 349-6411. hillbarntheatre.org

Fri 5

Theory of Survival: Fabrications

Fri 5 Act 1, Scene 2 @ 580 Hayes Second (and last) larger group exhibit of varied-media works by local artists, including Gareth Gooch, Rhonel Roberts, Jose Guzman-Colon, Madline Behrens-Brigham and many others. Partial proceeds benefit the Hayes Valley Art Coalition (which sponsors the Burning Man sculpture installations in Patricia’s Green, among other projects). Visit the loft space before it’s demolished to make more condos (seriously). Tue-Sun 10am-6pm. Thru Sept 28. 580 Hayes St. www.hayesvalleyartcoalition.org

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Village Theatre, Danville Role Players Ensemble’s production of Tennessee Williams’ classic Southern family drama. $20-$28. Thu-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 20. 233 Front St., Danville. (925) 314-3400. www.RolePlayersEnsemble.com

Cock @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Michael Bartlett’s highly acclaimed comedy about a gay couple, one of whom falls in love with a woman, gets a West Coast premiere (previews; opens Sept. 13). $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. nctcsf.org

Cops and Robbers @ The Marsh, Berkeley Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira’s compelling multi-character solo show about his life in the worlds of hip hop (he’s toured with Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and others) and law enforcement. $20-$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, thru Sept 13. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley.

282-3055. themarsh.org

The Taming of the Shrew @ Memorial Park Ampitheater, Cupertino San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s summer outdoor shows commence, with shows in Pleasanton, Redwood City, San Francisco and Cupertino Free. Mostly Sat & Sun 7:30pm, Sun 2pm. Thru Sept 21. www.sfshakes.org

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Local production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s acclaimed musical that takes an ‘after Happily Ever After’ look at fairy tales. $20-$120. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm & Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 6. 450 Post St., 2nd floor of Kensington Park Hotel.

677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

King Fool @ Various Locales We Players, the innovative sitespecific theatre ensemble, presents a two-actor multi-venue updated version of Shakespeare’s King Lear. $30-$50. Locations TBA. Fri-Sun. Thru Sept. 28. 547-0189. WePlayers.org

Song-filled musical about a doo-wop band that undergoes problems when a woman manager changes their lives. $37-$66. Tue & Wed 7:30pm. Fri-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. Thru Oct. 5. 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek. (925) 9437469. www.CenterRep.org

Love at Home @ Exit Theater Mary Matoula Webb’s drama about two sisters; one a lesbian, the other a Mormon. Part of the SF Fringe Festival. $10-$13. Sept. 5, 9, 10 7pm. Sept.

11 & 14 9pm. 156 Eddy St. www.LoveAtHomeThePlay.com www.sffringe.org

Love Is Strange @ Landmark Embarcadero Alfred Molina and John Lithgow star in the acclaimed new film about an older gay male couple in New York City facing modern challenges. $11-$14.

Various times. One Embarcadero, Promenade level (Also Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley). sonyclassics.com

Motown the Musical @ Orpheum Theatre Clifton Oliver and Allison Semmes costar in the first national tour of the musical treasure about the life and career of Berry Gordy, featuring dozens of performers singing and dancing to Motown classic hits. $45-$210. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7:30pm. Also Sat 2pm. Thru Sept.

28. 1192 Market St. (888) 746-1799. www.motownthemusical.com www.shnsf.com

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Sept 5: Starman (7pm) and Under the Skin (9:10). Sept. 6: Frozen SingAlong (1pm), Sweet Charity (6:20) and All That Jazz (4pm, 9:15). Sept.

7: Frozen Sing-Along (1pm), Robin Williams tribute screening of Good Will Hunting (7pm) and Dead Poets Society (4:30, 9:20). Sept 9: InForum lecture with Sheryl Sandberg and Marianne Cooper. Sept. 10: If… (7pm) and The Chocolate War (9:05).

Sept. 11: The Dog (7pm) and Dog Day Afternoon (8:55). $12. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Dan Hoyle @ The Marsh The award-winning solo performer premieres his new show, Each and Every Thing, a multi-character play about the search for real community in a hyper-connected world. $20-$50.

Thu & Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru Oct. 4. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st.

282-3055. www.themarsh.org

David Johnson @ Harvey Milk Photo Center Opening reception for a retrospective exhibit of the accomplished local photographer, who was Ansel Adams’ first African American student. 1pm4pm. Reg hours Tue-Thu 4pm-8pm.

Sat & Sun 12pm-4:30pm. Thru Oct. 19. 50 Scott St. www.harveymilkphotocenter.org

Frank Pietronigro @ Johnston Gallery Exhibit of gay-themed paintings (“Great American Patriots”) and “Documents,” an unusual installation that uses anti-gay words. Thru Sept.

2327 Market St. www.pietronigro.com www.johnstontaxgroup.com/art

An Ideal Husband, Romeo and Juliet @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael

Into the Woods @ San Francisco Playhouse

Life Could Be a Dream @ Center Rep, Walnut Creek

Napantla Contributors @ SF Public Library Radar Readings presents contributing writers to the journal for queer poets of color, sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation. 6pm-8pm. 100 Larkin St., lower level. www.sfpl.org

Flip Cassidy, Feral @ SideQuest Gallery, Oakland

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Theory of Survival: Fabrications @ Southern Exposure Opening reception for a group exhibit and pop-up bazaar of art works inspired by traditional Persian marketplaces, made by a dozen California-based Iranian artists.

Saturday events include daytime workshops and panel talks; night events include music, readings and storytelling. Thru Oct. 25. Tue-Sat 12pm-6pm. 3030 20th St. 863-2141. www.soex.org

Tofu Art @ Glama-Rama Salon Collage + Landscape = Collagescape, the local artist’s new exhibit of works in mixed media, collage and paintings, and a second group exhibit of mixed media work by a dozen artists. Thru Sept. 28. www.tofuart.com www.glamarama.com

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival @ Esplanade The months-long free performance series continues, with weekend outdoor dance, music and theatre concerts, on various days and evenings. Sept. 4: Valerie Troutt and Mooncandy (12:30pm). Sept 5 (7pm) and 6 (1pm), RAWdance performs three dances in a one-hour program.

Shows thru Oct. 773 Mission St. at 3rd. 543-1718. www.ybgfestival.org

Sat 6 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160.

Beer/wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Marin Shakespeare Company continues its 25th anniversary summer series with William Shakespeare’s classic underage teen romantic tragedy; in repertory with Oscar Wilde’s witty comedy, An Ideal Husband. Ampitheatre open one hour prior to showtime for picnicking; Bring overwear; it gets chilly. $12$240 (season pass) and ‘pay as you like.’ Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru Sept 28. 499-4488. Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, 890 Belle Avenue, Dominican University of California, San Rafael. marinshakespeare.org

Matisse from SF MOMA @ Legion of Honor Matisse from SFMOMA traces four decades of the artist’s career, from his early, Cezanne-inspired still lifes to his richly patterned and brightly colored figural paintings made in the 1920s and 1930s, with 23 paintings, drawings, and bronzes; thru Sept.

7. Also, Matisse and the Artist Book (thru Oct. 12), and The Poetry of Parmigianino’s “Schiava Turca.” Thru Oct. 5. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Semi-Famous @ The Marsh, Berkeley Don Reed’s new solo show, SemiFamous: Hollywood Hell Tales From the Middle, includes tales of panicridden auditions and almost being shot by the Secret Service. $20-$100.

Sat 5pm, Sun 7pm. Thru Sept. 7 (moves to SF Marsh Sept 13-Oct. 19).

2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

SF Hiking Club @ Point Reyes Join GLBT hikers for an 11-mile sunset hike at Point Reyes. Climb Mt. Wittenberg on the Sky Trail and then hike down to the ocean on the Woodward Valley Trail; fantastic views and sunset; dinner at the beach and return by the Coastal and the Bear Valley Trails. Bring flashlight or headlamp, sturdy boots, layers, sunscreen, hat, water, food. Carpool meets 2:30 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. (510) 910-8734. sfhiking.com

Carving Through Borders @ Galeria de la Raza Exhibit of wood carving prints by undocumented artists in the Bay Area, LA, New York and Florida.

Also, Blooming in the Midst of Gentrification. Both thru Sept. 19.

Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm.

2857 24th St. 826-8009. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Confide in Me @ Mission Cultural Center One-night performance of a new drama about gay/lesbian youth coming out. $5-$10. 7:30pm. 2868 Mission St. www.missionculturalcenter.org

Fri 5 Flower Drum Song

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Fri 5

RAWdance: See Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

Variety show celebrates the indie bookstore’s four decades; with Barbara Stauffacher, Rene Yanez, Rebecca Solnit, Jaime Cortez, Heather Smith, Ulfer Hansson and others. $20-$45.

5pm. 2919 24th St. 282-9246.mtbs.com

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni’s Joe Wicht, Katya Smirnoff-Skky cohost the cabaret singing competition, this month Best Male Crooner, with guest singer Mark Johnson (the two-year winner), plus guest judge Russ Lorenson. $7. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. 241-0205.

Chomp! @ Conservatory of Flowers They Came From the Swamp, a new floral exhibit of carnivorous plants, includes exhibits, docent talks, and a giant replica model so you can feel like a bug about to be eaten. Thru Oct. 19. Reg. hours, 10am-4pm. Free-$7.

Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm. Thru Oct. 19.

100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 8312090. conservatoryofflowers.org

Gorgeous @ Asian Art Museum New exhibit about 2,000 years of unconventional visualizations of beauty at the contemporary and historical museum. Thru Sept.14. Also, Enter the Mandala: Cosmic Centers and Mental Maps of Himalayan Buddhism (thru Oct. 26); Dual Natures in Ceramics: Eight Contemporary Artists from Korea (thru Feb 22, 2015).

Permanent exhibits as well. $15. Thru Sept. 14. 200 Larkin St. asianart.org

Skulls @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth, including the new popular exhibit of animal and human skulls (thru Nov. 30). Special events each week, with adult nightlife parties most Thursday nights. $20-$35. MonSat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. calacademy.org

Tue 9 Circle of Life Cabaret @ Martuni’s A C.O.L.T. Following, the disability and LGBT-inclusive theatre company’s music and variety show, includes raffles and tickets to their upcoming shows. No cover. 6:30pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St. circleoflifetheatre.org

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Maya Beiser @ Yoshi’s The virtuoso cellist performs unique arrangements of popular rock songs

by Led Zeppelin and other bands, plus original music. $30-$35. 8pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. yoshis.com

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Tue-Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru Sept 28. 100 California Shakespeare Theatre Way, Orinda.

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The New Electric Ballroom @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ production of Tony Award-winning playwright Enda Walsh’s drama about the fantasy of youth between sisters determined to live in the past. $20-$30. Wed-Sat 8pm (some Wed & Thu 7pm). Sun 5pm. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Old Hats @ Geary Theatre American Conservatory Theatre presents Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s clownish two-man comedy, with music written and performed by Shaina Taub. Previews; opens Sept 17. $20-$120. Tue-Sat 8pm (some Tue 7pm). Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Oct. 5. Geary Theatre, 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

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Naked Boys Reading @ Shelton Theatre Fundraiser for the AIDS Emergency Fund features BAR Leather columnist Race Bannon, Richard Bolingbroke, Justin Hall, Tim Shaw and Jake Wetmore reading great literary excerpts – naked! $30-$55. 7:30pm.

533 Sutter St. www.eventbrite.com

Tours and Exhibits @ The Old Mint New Sunday program offers tours and exhibits about San Francisco’s history.

Explore the fascinating building’s grand halls and vaults. $5-$10.

Weekly, 1pm-4pm. 88 5th St. 5371105. www.SFhistory.org

Mon 8 10 Percent @ Comcast David Perry interviews Liss Fain, artistic director of Liss Fain Dance, about the world premiere of The Imperfect is Our Paradise ; and with Olga Talamante, executive director of the Chicana Latina Foundation.

11:30am & 10:30pm. Also Sept 6 & 7, 10:30pm. Channel 104.

1964: The Year San Francisco Came Out @ GLBT History Museum New exhibit focusing on San Francisco’s emerging gay culture at the time of the pivotal LIFE magazine feature “Homosexuality in America.” Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm5pm. ($5/free for members). 4127 18th St. 621-1107. glbthistory.org

Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay @ de Young Museum Exhibit of photos, and an audiovisual installation, by the Los Angeles artist who focused on gay underground culture of the late 1960s and early ‘70s in SF and LA. Thru Jan. 11, 2015. Lines on the Horizon: Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collection, thru Jan. 4, 2015. Free/$10. Tue-Sun 9:30am5:15pm. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. deyoungmuseum.org

Drawings @ John Pence Gallery Group exhibit of beautiful realist drawings; portraits, figure studies, animals and plants. Reg hours MonFri 10am-6pm. Sat til 5pm. Thru Sept.

27. 750 Post St. 441-1138. www.johnpence.com

Gay Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels LGBT night at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space. Actually every night is gayfriendly, including Saturday’s Black Rock night (Burning Man garb encouraged).

Also Wed, Thu, 7pm-10pm. Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm-5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St at Fell. churchof8wheels.com

Meditation Group @ LGBT Center Weekly non-sectarian meditation group; part of the Let’s Kick ASS AIDS Survivor Syndrome support group.

Tuesdays, 5pm, 1800 Market St. www.letskickASS.org sfcenter.org It’s Everything @ KOFY-TV Local nightlife host and singer BeBe Sweetbriar’s new streaming web talk show welcomes local celebrities. 7pm.

Audience welcome at KOFY-TV, 2500 Marin St. www.BeBeSweetbriar.com

The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm. Also Thursdays & Fridays.

JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

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1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Nava Dance Theatre @ CounterPulse The Cloud Messenger, a Bharatanatyam dance production inspired by the poem Meghadhootham by fifthcentury Indian poet Kalidasa. $20$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Sept. 14. 1310 Mission St. www.counterpulse.org To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication. For more bar and nightlife events, go to On the Tab in our BARtab section, online at www.ebar.com/bartab

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ost of this fall’s releases of LGBT DVDs are movies released late last year or this year.

Their maturity in theme and execution is striking; they often delve into the complexities of relationships that defy labels. There has never been a better time to appreciate LGBT movie artistry and originality than now.

I’m a Porn Star (TLA, Sept.) is a documentary by Charlie David following the lives of four Internet gay pornographic stars who might seem like ordinary guys the rest of the time. We are given behindthe-camera insight into this $13 billion business, as well as several scenes of graphic sexuality.

So if you have ever wondered what the real life of an adult entertainer might be, the ins and outs, the ups and downs, this might be that rare opportunity to take a look.

Sordid Lives (Wolfe, Oct.) The 2001 cult classic comedy, written and directed

by Del Shores, starring Olivia Newton-John, Beau Bridges, and the incomparable Leslie Jordan, is back in print in a combo pack: a DVD and, for the first time, Blu-ray version.

A gay West Hollywood actor returns to his small Texas town for his grandmother’s funeral. We are introduced to his colorful, dysfunctional family, including Jordan’s Tammy Wynette-obsessed, institutionalized gay uncle, Brother Boy. Features a killer country soundtrack.

Among the bonus materials is a fresh interview with Shores and most of the original cast members.

You and the Night (Strand, Oct.) is a French sex comedy written and directed by Yonn Gonzalez, with music by the band M83.

At Midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Bitch, The Star, The Stud, and The Teen. As each guest arrives, they tell their story. Then their hosts tell their story of immortality and a love that transcends death. The orgy begins intermingling fantasy and reality so the characters both watch and participate at the same time. With its monologues about sex, life, and death, as well as its surreal atmosphere, the film has drawn comparisons with Fassbender’s Querelle, as

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liams is delightful, and the movie is a funny and sentimental treat. It should be a nice oasis in the seasonal madness.

Operatic buzz

Across Grove Street, the San Francisco Opera opens the 92nd season with Bellini’s glorious bel canto opera Norma. The symphonic sweep of the score is always irresistible, and all a good performance really needs are the best soprano and mezzo-soprano available. The new SFO production stars Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, and she has already garnered some raves for her performances at the Met. Music Director Nicola Luisotti will also conduct the SFO debut of American mezzo Jamie Barton, stepping in for Daveda Karanas, who has withdrawn from the production for personal reasons. Barton has also garnered praise for her Met appearances as Adalgisa. As long as the chemistry works between the stars (and their individual lung power), it would take a really bad production to take down this immortal score. I haven’t heard any troubling

experimental filmmaking pushing boundaries.

Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption (Breaking Glass Pictures, Oct.) is a candid documentary focusing on Terrence McNally’s controversial Broadway play Corpus Christi, which imagines Jesus as a gay man living in Corpus Christi, Texas. The film follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey complete with protests, as well as supporters.

Floating Skyscrapers (TLA, Oct.) A breakthrough gay film from Poland, this is the story of Kuba, who lives at home with his mother and his girlfriend, Sylwia. He is also an aspiring champion swimmer who trains every day. At an artgallery opening, he meets Michal, and begins experiencing feelings that are totally intoxicating to him.

What will be the consequences of his relationship on his family and Sylwia? How will the rampant homophobia of Polish society impact the romance?

Tru Love (Wolfe, Nov.) Canadian buzz about this co-production with Canadian Opera Company, Gran Teatre del Liceu and Lyric Opera of Chicago, so I’m looking forward to an old-fashioned opera-lover’s wallow in Bellini’s masterpiece.

Hard on the heels of the tragic Druid priestess, another embattled heroine enmeshed in religious turmoil takes center stage at the War Memorial Opera House. American composer Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, set in a rural Appalachian setting, tells the story of an unjustly accused and victimized young woman in an allAmerican score that retells the Biblical tale of Susanna and the elders.

The hardest-working act in opera, soprano Patricia Racette sings the title role, with Brandon Jovanovich as her brother, and Raymond Aceto as the frightening traveling preacher Rev. Olin Blitch. Conductor Karen Kamensek makes her SFO debut in the company premiere directed by Michael Cavanagh (Nixon in China, 2012).

General Director of the SFO since 2006, David Gockley has a long and fruitful history with the 87-year-old composer. His support of Carlisle Floyd has proved exceptional. Susannah is a great American opera, right up there with Porgy and Bess,

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filmmakers Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald have fashioned a bittersweet lesbian love story, a big hit at this year’s Frameline. Fast-lane, commitmentshy Tina, helping her friend Suzanne, agrees to entertain, for one night, her mother Alice, an attractive and recent widow trying to rebuild her life following her husband’s death. What type of connection will develop between these women?

Snails in the Rain (TLA, Nov.) This intelligent Israeli film, set in 1989 Tel Aviv, was a breakout hit at this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Boaz (sexy male model Yoav Reuveni) is a linguistic graduate student set on marrying his longtime girlfriend Noa. But soon he starts receiving intimate love letters, from a secret male admirer, that raise disturbing questions. Haunted by guilt and internalized homophobia, he both dreads and anticipates his daily trip to the post office to pick up his letter, while Noa begins to suspect what is happening.

The Circle (Wolfe, Dec.) A critical and audience smash at this year’s Frameline, this docudrama by Stefan Haupt details Zurich’s era of gay freedom in the 1950s, when a band of writers published the groundbreaking gay magazine Der Kreis (The Circle). This group became a social network hosting sumptuous balls. At one such occasion in 1958, a closeted schoolteacher meets a local out drag celebrity, and a love affair commences. A dramatic re-creation of this period (which ends after a gay prostitute murders a prominent client of Der Kreis) alternates seamlessly with poignant testimonies of surviving participants. The ending will leave you on a high for days.

Matterhorn (TLA, Dec.) A Dutch comedy about Fred, a middle-aged widower, leading a solitary existence in a pious Protestant town, and how his life is turned upside down when Theo, a mentally impaired adult newcomer, is taken in by Fred. Fred grows to appreciate Theo’s company, defending him against bullies, until the town suspects they may be lovers and decides to intervene. The interweaving of loneliness and sexuality, rarely addressed in LGBT films, makes this a fascinating exploration.t and anyone who has heard the exciting piece, filled with rich melody and stunning drama, will not want to miss this one. Heck, fans of Racette (and increasingly, Jovanovich) alone should create a need for more standing room.

The season continues with Verdi’s own glorious cavalcade of good tunes, A Masked Ball, with a cast starring Ramón Vargas (Mephistopheles, 2013) and local and worldfavorite Dolora Zajick as Amelia.

Sharing in repertory the role of Amelia’s husband will be two baritones, personal favorite Thomas Hampson (Heart of a Soldier, 2011) and Brian Mulligan (Nixon in China, 2012). Nicola Luisotti conducts.

I can’t wait to see how La Zajick is doing after her rather abrupt withdrawal from the title role in Dolores Claiborne last season, but it is obvious Gockley is holding no grudge.

Starting mid-October, Handel’s Partenope, with a libretto by the famed Anonymous, promises to be audiences’ treat, with a plot featuring disguises and cross-dressing.

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ovies are routinely called a director’s medium, but they are actually a collaborative art. While inventive directors can make ordinary material seem good, they are still dependent on actors, script, cinematography, costume design, and a musical score to attain the desired result. During the Hollywood studio era (ca. 1930-60), some gifted directors, often working within the limited budgets of B-pictures, were fortunate enough to have all the right elements assigned to a particular film, allowing them to create an unexpectedly brilliant and timeless picture.

That happened occasionally to Jacques Tourneur (1904-77), the Paris-born son of French silentscreen director Maurice Tourneur.

The younger man had a long apprenticeship before getting steady work helming Hollywood programmers (second features) cranked out by the studios to play with their major productions at local theaters.

He’s remembered today for three atmospheric, frightening supernatural films – Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Leopard Man (1944) – and a noir masterpiece, Out of the Past (1947), just released in a new Blu-ray/DVD edition.

Robert Mitchum plays Jeff Markham, a former private detective now living under a different name in a small California town.

He hopes to keep his past secret. But Joe Stefanos (Paul Valentine) arrives with a message from a former client, Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas). Whit wants to see him. Jeff ’s girlfriend Ann (Virginia Huston) agrees to drive him to Whit’s Lake Tahoe home. During that long trip, a flashback explains how Jeff met Whit, and what he did for him.

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tor Christopher Alden has moved the action to 1920s Paris. Christian Curnyn, a baroque music specialist, is conductor for a cast that includes the adorable Danielle de Niese and countertenor David Daniels (Xerxes, 2011). Where Daniels sings, we should follow.

Puccini’s Tosca follows in repertory, and it will undoubtedly be a hit just on the strength of everyone’s fondness for the score. The return of the well-reviewed SFO mounting features soprano Lianna Haroutounian in the title role. She is paired with Brian Jagde as her lover Cavaradossi, and she will fight off the advances of the evil Scarpia sung

by Mark Delavan. Riccardo Frizza conducts.

Rossini’s Cinderella arrives in time for Thanksgiving, and I can’t think of a more appropriate timing. Karine Deshayes makes her San Francisco Opera debut in the tuneful and heartwarming fairy tale.

Spanish conductor Jesús López-Cobos is in the pit.

More Puccini concludes the fall season as his beloved La Boheme returns to the War Memorial mid-November. John Caird, director of two acclaimed recent productions of Les Misérables and Nicholas Nickleby, is in charge, and Resident Conductor Giuseppe Finzi leads two casts.

Greek soprano Alexia Voulgaridou will make her company debut, and Michael Fabiano, known for his gorgeous tenor and attractive stage presence, will also appear with Nadine Sierra. Another cast features Leah Crocetto and tenor Giorgio Berrugi.t

what actually happened. Whit hired Jeff to find Kathie, his mistress, who he claimed stole $40,000 from him, shot him, then disappeared. Whit insisted he just wanted Kathie back, he wouldn’t harm her.

Jeff located Kathie in Acapulco, became ensnared by her potent allure, and told her what she had already suspected, that he was hired to bring her back to Whit. She had other plans, however, and didn’t trust Whit. When Whit and Joe unexpectedly showed up in Acapulco, they confronted Jeff, who wanted to quit. No chance, replied Whit. But he believed Jeff when he said that Kathie eluded him. Jeff again promised to find her. Instead, he and Kathie fled to San Francisco, and began living a quiet life. But Jeff ’s old partner, Jack Fisher (Steve Brodie), spotted the couple at the races. He knew he could make some money by letting Whit know where they were. Jack’s involvement resulted in unexpected consequences for him, Jeff, and Kathie.

Jeff finishes his story just as Ann arrives at Whit’s estate. Whit seems genuinely pleased to see Jeff, perhaps because Kathie has come back.

Also present is another beauty, Meta Carson (Rhonda Fleming). Whit wants Jeff to get some incriminat-

ing tax records from his attorney, Leonard Eels (Ken Niles), who is blackmailing him. Having no desire to become a private eye again, Jeff refuses, but it’s too late – he soon is dealing with more trouble. Will Jeff survive? The fatalistic, stunning ending unforgettably answers that question.

Top-billed Mitchum’s Jeff is conflicted about Kathie and Whit. He knows better than to trust her, but initially cannot help himself. Yet his sense of justice is stronger than her fatal attraction. He’s determined to do the right thing, regardless of the price he will pay. Mitchum had been a star for a few years before making this film, and gave a landmark performance in it. He would remain a star for over 40 years, playing heavies, romantic leads, and gunslingers.

The smoldering Greer is justly celebrated for her Kathie, the quintessential desperate dame residing in the Noir City. She’s sexy, manipulative, totally convincing. It’s a multi-

layered characterization that should have opened up a huge career. It didn’t, although she worked steadily on the big and small screen for almost half-a-century more.

Douglas is chilling as Whit – his

icy smile, cool voice, and flawlessly tailored suits fail to hide a fierce, unscrupulous man. This was his second film, following a memorable debut in The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers (1946), another excellent noir. For the next three decades, he was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and gave many more exceptional performances. The rest of the cast is excellent.

Daniel Mainwairing wrote the crackerjack screenplay, adapted from his novel Build My Gallows High. The dazzling black-and-white cinematography is by Nicholas Musuraca. Roy Webb wrote the powerful score.

Tourneur would continue directing second features and television shows until 1966 without ever coming close to matching Out of the Past. The disappointing 1984 remake Against All Odds starred Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, and James Woods, featured Greer in a small part as Kathie’s mother, and was directed by Taylor Hackford.t

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Making their debuts

Berkeley Rep describes singer/ comedienne Meow Meow as “an international superstar.” If her fame hasn’t yet pierced the Bay Area, perhaps that will change with the premiere of An Audience with Meow Meow. The post-modern diva, better known to her parents as Melissa Madden Gray back in Australia, promisingly has Emma Rice of UK’s Kneehigh Theatre (Brief Encounter, The Wild Bride) as her director. Runs Sept. 5-Oct. 19. berkeleyrep.org.

Small but intrepid, Wily West Productions will offer two world premieres running in repertory at Exit Theatre. Krista Knight’s Un-

Hinged focuses on a house that got away, as a man who once played there as a child now obsessively tries to regain entry. Morgan Ludlow’s Drowning Kate is about a different obsession, that of a doctor for his late wife who believes he has the skills to revive her. Runs Oct. 2-25. wilywestproductions.com.

With complacency rattled by the Napa quake, Angela Santillo’s Faulted gains extra relevance. The foolsFURY premiere concerns an earthquake empath, someone who can sense a coming temblor before any technology gets its first hints. Her skills collide with a Caltech seismic emissary’s traditional views, as a chorus of godlike figures embodies California’s fault lines. Runs Nov. 14-Dec. 7 at Thick House. foolsfury.org.

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by Sarah Palin) in a comedy about ambitions run amok. Runs Nov. 22Dec. 21. zspace.org.

Local audiences were first introduced to gay playwright Samuel D. Hunter last year with A Bright New Boise at Aurora Theatre, and he followed up with The Whale, which is having its Bay Area debut at Marin Theatre Company. The funny/poignant play is the story of a 600-lb. man eating himself into oblivion following the death of his gay partner. When death becomes a real fear, he reaches out to his long-estranged

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Musical worlds

The composer of Wicked, Godspell, and Pippin will be on hand and performing in Celebrating Stephen Schwartz, a musical revue that opens Bay Area Cabaret’s season in the VeneSee page 23 >>

Celebrity sightings

Having had goes at Edward Albee and Tallulah Bankhead on local stages, Kathleen Turner returns in a onewoman show unequivocally titled Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. The much-revered late political columnist and humorist’s words have been adapted into a solo show that comes to Berkeley Rep after several other big-city stops.

Ivins is the one who came up with the nickname “Shrub” for George W. Bush. Runs Nov. 21-Jan. 4.

The Old Woman offers the somewhat unexpected pairing of Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov, not to mention direction and design by the iconoclastic Robert Wilson, in a Cal Performances offering at UC Berkeley. Daniil Kharms’ piece has been variously described as abstract, surreal, vaudevillian, and laugh-out funny as two inhabitants of a disorienting world try to cope with an unwanted houseguest. Runs Nov. 21-23. calperformances.org.

Broadway luminary and Tony nominee Emily Skinner helps 42nd Street Moon get its season off to a starry start with Do I Hear a Waltz? at the Eureka Theatre. In this 1965 collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, Skinner plays a lonely woman, worried that love has passed her by, who finds stirrings of romance during a Venice vacation. Runs Oct. 1-19.

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While we’re in celebrity mode, mention should be made of Celebrity Autobiography, coming to Feinstein’s at the Nikko. A team of six performers, including Laraine Newman, Fred Willard, and Roger Bart, offer verbatim readings from autobiographies by, to name a few, Vanna White, Tiger Woods, Sylvester Stallone, Diana Ross, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, and Cher. It all falls into the we-couldn’t-makethis-stuff-up brand of humor. Runs Sept. 20-21. hotelnikkosf.com/feinsteins.

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Kathleen Turner stars as the late political columnist and humorist Molly Ivins at Berkeley Rep in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins.

Emergent playwrights

British playwright Mike Bartlett had made a minor name for himself as a radio playwright when Cock cracked open his career with a 2010 production at the National Theatre. New Conservatory Theatre Center is opening its season with the area premiere of this unusually constructed tale of a love triangle among two men and a woman. If you’re Googling it, the play was demurely advertised and reviewed in New York as The Cockfight Play.

Runs Sept. 5-Oct. 12. nctcsf.org.

Lucie Jansch

Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov co-star is the surreal theater piece The Old Woman, which Cal Performances is bringing to the Bay Area.

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Cat Cabral and Tygar Hicks play sisters sparring over Mormonism and lesbianism in Love at Home, part of the SF Fringe Festival.

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n “Secrets,” her profoundly revealing new single, a smiling Mary Lambert happily sings about her bipolar disorder, her dysfunctional family, and her own stepping out of the closet. “I’m over it,” she sings. “I don’t care if the world knows what my secrets are. So what?” The song tells listeners much about who Mary Lambert is.

Earlier this year, Lambert made history when she performed at the Grammy Awards. Joining Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and Madonna, the four performers brought down the house. The set began with the marriage equality anthem “Same Love,” which samples from Lambert’s lesbian love ballad “She Keeps Me Warm.” Madonna and Lambert then did a rousing duet of “Open Your Heart.” As they sang, the audience cheered while Queen Latifah per-

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tian Room on Sept. 27. Ana Gasteyer of Saturday Night Live and Broadway’s Liz Callaway will help offer up the evening of Schwartz’s Broadway melodies. bayareacabaret.org.

TheatreWorks has had a long love affair with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, and it continues with its return to the formidable Sweeney Todd at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Runs Oct. 8-Nov. 2. theatreworks.org.

The Top 40 song factory known as Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote one Broadway musical together, Promises, Promises, and even though it was a big hit of the late 1960s, it has largely been revival-deficient.

San Francisco Playhouse is taking on this musical adaptation of the 60s movie The Apartment, which, with its Mad Men sensibilities, has gained a renewed nostalgic resonance. Runs Nov. 11-Jan. 10. sfplayhouse.org.

Before Kinky Boots came along, one might not have predicted that Cyndi Lauper would become a Tony Award-winning songwriter. Her collaborator, Harvey Fierstein, arrived at the table with an armful of Tonys, and together they created the show (itself a Tony winner for Best Musical) coming to the Orpheum Theatre as part of the SHN series. Based on a semi-obscure 2005 British comedy, it tells the story of a struggling shoe factory that reinvents itself as cobbler to drag queens. And as they say, it was inspired by a true story. Runs Dec. 2-28. shnsf.com.

formed a wedding ceremony for 33 couples, many of them same-sex couples. It was an unforgettable television moment that moved many to tears.

“I can’t think straight, I’m so gay,” Lambert sings, as she literally steps out of a closet in the video for “Secrets.” The song, now available, will be included on Lambert’s upcoming CD Heart on My Sleeve. The B.A.R. was thrilled to have been granted an interview by Lambert, who spoke by phone from her home in Seattle.

David-Elijah Nahmod: How did you feel during the Grammy wedding?

Mary Lambert: It was really huge, pivotal, an affirmation of what I do and what we’ve accomplished. As the date came closer to the performance, I realized that it has nothing to do with me. This is about the shift in our culture. at the SF Fringe Festival that returns to the Exit Theatre with 35 shows performed over 14 days. Three shows with particular LGBTQ relevance are Mary Matoula Webb’s Love at Home, focusing on two sisters, one a lesbian and the other a Mormon; Harry Cronin’s Matthew Shepard Meets Coyote, a solo

Was it difficult for you to come out as a lesbian?

My mom came out when I was six or seven. That’s not difficult to process before you’re tainted by society. I came out much later. Before that I was boy crazy, so it hit me like a ton of bricks. The only lesbians I knew in high school were very femme, not my type. I like more of a tomboy type, so I thought, “I’m not gay.” One of the people who helped me come out was a close friend who was thrown out of a Christian school for being gay. His parents sent him to [ex-gay ministry] Exodus.

be empathetic and compassionate. People don’t relate to each other or see each other as equals, and this causes problems. I want to open up and be vulnerable, and to encourage others to be vulnerable.

ry. I have a strong faith that I prefer to keep personal.

What kind of reactions are you getting for your openness? How did people respond to the Grammy appearance?

I’ve gotten nothing but support. It’s all about love. If I had heard songs like “Same Love” and “She Keeps Me Warm” at 17, it would have been lifechanging.t

How were you able to reconcile your own Christian faith with your lesbianism?

Our faith is our own personal sto-

How would you describe your music?

I like to say that I never intended to be a pop singer, I intended to be a healer. I hope to urge people to

Mary Lambert will appear with special guest Young Summer at the Nourse Theater in SF on Sat., Sept. 27.

piece performed by Christopher P. Kelly about a Native American spirit who visits the gay-bashed Laramie resident in his final moments; and Dominika Bednarska’s solo piece about being queer and disabled and finding joy in her body. The festival runs Sept. 5-20. sffringe.org.

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Hats, the new-age vaudeville show that opens ACT’s season? Wherever it belongs, the show heralds a welcome reunion of Bill Irwin and David Shiner, who brought abundant merriment to the Geary Theatre in Fool Moon nearly 15 years ago. Runs Sept. 10-Oct. 5. act-sf.org.

A steam-punk essence hangs over

Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities, the latest big-top show from Cirque du Soleil to pitch its tent near AT&T Park. In the well-received show, a turn-of-the-century inventor uses all the technological wonders of his age to play with reality and introduce world-class circus acts. Runs Nov. 14-Dec. 31. cirquedusoleil.com.t

Two in the Busch

Drag performer extraordinaire Charles Busch will be in the spotlight twice this fall, both in person and as the author of one of his most popular comedies. His in-person turn happens Sept. 25-26 at Feinstein’s at the Nikko, as he plays out scenes as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and his long-running alter ego of cabaret wannabe Miriam Passman. In Die Mommie Die!, Busch played has-been star Angela Arden on stage and screen, a role that will pass to J. Conrad Frank (aka Katya Smirnoff-Skyy) in New Conservatory Theatre Center’s production running Oct. 13-Nov. 2.

Explore the exuberant charm of Mary Blair, one of Walt Disney’s most inventive and influential designers and art directors. Blair’s joyful creativity, her appealing designs, and her energetic color palette endure in numerous media, including the classic Disney animated films Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, and also in the theme park attraction it’s a small world.

The curiosity shop

Not everything falls into a neatly defined category, and that is certainly the case with I Love Lucy Live on Stage at the Curran Theatre. Theater audiences are asked to imagine they are studio audiences in 1952, as two episodes from the classic TV series are being filmed. Comes complete with period commercials and the sounds of the Ricky Ricardo Orchestra (and it’s in color!). Runs Nov. 11-23.

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n evening of music, sensuality and unforced masculinity dedicated to the men we see all around us each day, helping great men who volunteer their physicality and time to helping people with HIV. What could be better than that?

I interviewed producer extraordinaire Gehno Sanchez Aviance, whose Hardbox events blend capioera demonstrations with cruisy bar fun.

His new event, Construction Zone, will hopefully become one of SoMa’s hottest nights, along with The Powerhouse’s weekly array of sexy-themed events.

Now, if I could just find my 501s and construction boots.

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t’s a reboot for the Women’s Weekend at the Russian River in Guerneville this fall, with headlining acts and excursions among the vines in Sonoma’s wine country at Women’s Weekend 2.0.

The revived women’s weekend in California’s wine country September 12 through 14 is re-launching in a way that is reminiscent of its storied past when women flocked to the Russian River in Sonoma County in the fall and the spring, said Carmen McKay, the original producer of the former Russian River Women’s Weekend.

McKay, a 55-year-old lesbian comedian and 30-year veteran producer of women’s events, decided to revive the once popular women’s weekend that she launched in the late-1980s, which had waned in attendance after she handed it over to the community.

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Cornelius Washington: The Bare Chest Calendar truly represents the sensuality and diversity of gay men in San Francisco, and it’s one of my favorite charities.

What made you decide, with DJ Sergio Fedasz, to dedicate an event to fund them?

Gehno Sanchez Aviance: I have been producing fundraising events in San Francisco for over 14 years and have collaborated with many non-profit organizations such as Project Open Hand, St. James Infirmary, P.A.W.S. and Abadá Capoeira, to name a few. The decision to

fundraise for the Bare Chest Calendar competition is that they also raise funds for a variety of causes.

They have been around for quite a while and the majority of its members take a very active and visible role in our community. As a group, they have put in countless volunteer hours.

With Under Construction, what do you expect to bring to the gay club event scene that’s unique to San Francisco?

In the last decade I have found that many events that are marketed to “masculine” men seem to only focus on exaggerating stereotypes to the exclusion of those who do

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not fit those stereotypes. Dancing, communicating, loving and even vogueing can be extremely masculine expressions. We want to take the drama out of the party.

What do you see as the attraction that working-class men hold for gay men?

That is a tough one. There have been many studies and theories around that issue. I can only speak for myself. I am sure that social influences might have played a large role in the development of my attraction towards that Blue Collar look and personality. Also, most of my life I have been surrounded by and have developed deep friendships with working-class straight

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Do you want to have “workingclass realness” be a part of San Francisco’s vogueing/ballroom scene?

Personally, I would. I feel that the earlier Ballroom scene in the 1990s had a wider range of styles beyond Femme and Queen. Realness categories were not only confined to emulating traditional feminine “traits.” You had Trade, Banjee, Executive, Military, Town & Country and countless other categories that encouraged us to also explore our more outward masculine expressions of self. I’d like to see a return to a ballroom scene that reflects the wide variety of styles and behaviors in our community.

The Powerhouse is one of my favorite bars. It has a great sexual aura. What made you want to hold the event there?

I have been working at the Powerhouse since 1999. When I first started working there, I was 26 years old, so I pretty much grew up in that bar.

From the beginning, I felt accepted into a family with deep roots in San Francisco’s gay history. Scott Peterson, the general manager, has done an incredible job of creating a space for generations of men and women to come together on a multitude of

levels from light-hearted and fun to life-changingly serious.

Music, of course, sets the mood for all of life’s sensual acts, and Sergio is very popular. What sounds will he serve the studs ‘under construction’?

Sergio is a multi-faceted DJ and music producer. Recently, he has received a lot of attention along with Steve Fabus for their Atomic Disco Dancefloor Action party called Go Bang! which is held every first Saturday night of the month at The Stud.

He is also a part of the SythTigers, a project that has been making waves in the Bay Area and beyond. That being said, all I know is that he will be throwing down grooves to make your booty shake; be it House, Disco or whatever other style he decides to play. And he will rock the house.

There is a lot of construction going on in the South of Market area, and the guys doing it always look great. Have you noticed anything that they wear that ‘sets you off ’?

For sure! Their utility belts and those work boots!

When did you first notice working-class men?

Hmmmm. Since I noticed men!

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One of Construction Zone’s hot gogo guys

What is your dream/goal for Under Construction?

Under Construction is a celebration of unexaggerated and unaffected masculinity without all of the trappings of the the “pop” gay scene.

We aim to raise money for various Bay Area non-profits while providing some of the best House, Disco and Techno around. The Gay/Bar scene and San Francisco in general is changing so fast that once again we are “Under Construction.” We strive to provide an encouraging environment to promote a positive outcome for all those involved.

Who is your favorite workingclass man?

My homie, Mike! A sexy, tall, tattooed, pierced construction man who can kill it in a dance battle.t Under Construction at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom Street at Dore) is every first Sunday, 10pm-2am.

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The San Diego-based McKay has recently been touring with her successful one-woman show, Elvis’ Secret Dyke Daughter. She also promotes her women’s vacations and popular women’s dance parties that attract upward of 400 women monthly in San Diego and that is expanding to Los Angeles through She She, her production company.

“This is a completely different and new festival,” said McKay, described it as a beautiful and classy event with quality entertainment.

“This is something that I think is really needed in our community.”

“Where do women go to have a really extraordinary fun and classy weekend?” asked McKay, wondering how lesbians, particularly those who have hit their mid-30s and beyond, can meet other women like themselves and be proud of who they are.

“It’s really, really needed. There is a great demand out there and I think that we are filling it.”

For the first time in more than a decade, women will head to the Russian River to enjoy a stellar lineup of entertainment. Beverly McClellan, one of the lesbian favorites from NBC’s The Voice, is headlining the weekend along with NBC’s XFactor Lorie Moore and blues and jazz musicians. They will be joined by comedians Julie Goldman and Suzanne Westenhoefer and DJs, such as DJ Rockaway, at the River Theater in Guerneville and at the outdoor Monte Rio Amphitheater in Monte Rio. The weekend, themed “Practice random acts of kindness,” also features fun excursions from golf to wine tasting.

There will be prizes for guests, and ten percent of the weekend’s proceeds will be donated to animal rescue organizations, said McKay. Women’s Weekend 2.0’s Associate Producer Dale Jenkins is excited to see the comedy and musical performances as well as the audiences’ response from behind the stage.

“More than anything, I want to watch the women out in the audience as they are talking to each other, getting to know each other like we used to do,” said Jenkins, a 51-year-old lesbian resident of Sonoma who was once a regular attendee of the former Russian River Women’s Weekend in its heyday.

The entertainers are excited to perform at the women’s weekend in California’s wine country. This will be Goldman and McClellan’s first time in Sonoma.

McClellan plans to not only rock the socks off of the up to 1,200 women estimated to attend the weekend, said McKay, but to also enjoy the entire weekend hanging out with attendees.

“It’s going to be fun,” said McClellan, who is about to release her latest album, Roots, before the end of this year. “I just hope they have a great time with me because I’m going to bring my ‘A Game.’”

Women at a recent She She event.

The all-girl weekend was one of the first women’s events Westenhoefer performed at the beginning of her career and she has great memories. She said she’s looking forward to returning after more than two decades.

“Guerneville and that whole area is ridiculously beautiful. You want to go up there. It’s beautiful,” said Westenhoefer from her home in Los Angeles.

At Women’s Weekend 2.0, she promises to be as funny as possible.

“I’m excited. I’ve heard that the Russian River is gorgeous,” said Goldman, who hopes to explore the area and do some wine tasting in between her performance.

Glory days McKay and her business partner and girlfriend, Annie Albright, are taking back the former women’s weekend along with their team to revive it to its glory days when an estimated 6,000 women enjoyed years of great entertainment and fun in the sun along the Russian River in Guerneville during the fall and spring.

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She She producers Annie Albright and Carmen McKay.

“It was more about reinventing, back to music and comedy, more like what we had years ago. We did more than just drink and dance, we got to know each other. We had a chance to bond. An event that can create those kind of connections is what appeals to me and that’s what Carmen is doing,” said Jenkins.

The legendary weekends started in 1986 as a fluke, when McKay brought the women to the popular gay resort town after a fire broke out and surrounded the former West Coast Women’s Music Comedy Festival in Yosemite. The funny girl donned a Wonder Woman costume she had with her and rounded up an estimated 3,000 women on her

motorcycle and led them off the mountain. About 600 disappointed festival goers followed McKay all the way to the popular gay resort town Guerneville to the now defunct Atlantis Resort.

The women took the town by surprise and had a great time. They had such a good time that McKay was tapped by The Woods Resort and its then-business partner, Fifes Resort, to produce their May Day weekend for women. The event started in 1982 was small, but McKay turned it into a premiere women’s weekend with top notch entertainment.

That same year she was the assistant producer of the March on Washington.

The women’s getaway to wine country exploded with thousands of women heading up to the Russian River twice a year.

In the 1990s, McKay turned the popular lesbian getaway over to the local community, but the event lost its luster during the past 15 years, and dwindled to only the spring event two years ago that attracted only an estimated 300 women.

McKay, along with her team, believes that they will be able to resuscitate the women’s weekend by spanning interests for party-going 20- and 30-somethings to a diversity events that are of interest to the 35 and up crowd.

She’s driven by the need to create spaces for queer women and their friends to come together, be themselves, and have fun.

“It’s just going to be a really festive, celebratory kind of atmosphere … to just really, really have a great time,” said McKay, where people connect, dance, laugh and play.t Tickets to Women’s Weekend 2.0 are $12 - $202 for general admission to weekend passes. For more information, visit www.womensweekend2.com Save the date! Women’s Weekend 2.0 returns to Sonoma May 15 – 17, 2015. http://sheshefun.com Heather Cassell is a travel and entertainment writer for the Bay Area Reporter and other publications. www.GirlsThatRoam.com.

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Women’s Weekend talents include (from left): singer Lorie Moore, comedian Julie Goldman, comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer, and musician Beverly McLellan.

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A DJ Saved My Life Disco is Alive and Thriving on San Francisco Dance Floors

by Ray Aguilera

Before you’re even in the door, you can tell that Go Bang! is different. People spilling out onto the sidewalk are happy, chatty...and sweaty! The doorman greets you warmly, and you enter into a swirl of lights and sound. It’s not the synthetic lockstep oontz-oontzoontz of EDM, but rather the warm, pulsating beat of disco that draws you to the dance floor. You’ll find the space absolutely packed with a cross-section of San Francisco clubland spanning several decades. Guys who probably still have their Trocadero membership cards in their back pockets turn it next to cute baby dykes, flaggers, twenty-something gay boys, bear cubs, a drag queen or three… and yes, straight people.

They’ve all come for for Go Bang!’s signature blend of disco jams from resident DJs Sergio Fedasz and Steve Fabus, who is a veteran of SF’s disco scene since the 1970s. Go Bang! has a strong “friends and family” vibe, evidenced by all the blissful smiles, Go Bang! t-shirts, and above all, the hard dance floor action. People come to Go Bang! to work it out, and it shows. In fact, Go Bang!’s flyers advise you to “dress to sweat,” and the cell phone-free dance floor policy encourages focusing on the groove, rather than the screen of your tiny robot overlord.

Meanwhile, Bus Station John serves up classic dance tracks at two monthly parties, the long-running weekly The Tubesteak Connection, and now monthly at Disco Daddy.

BSJ describes Tubesteak Connection as a laboratory where he experiments with all sorts of dance music from the 1970s and ‘80s including Italo-disco, funk, and electro. Now in its eleventh year, Tubesteak still brings the faithful out to celebrate classic sounds every Thursday.

Disco Daddy, Bus Station John’s latest creation is a celebration of— well, the disco daddies who turn up at The Eagle for classic disco hits from back in the day. Bus Station John says his intent with Disco Daddy is to entertain the generation who heard these songs the first time around, “But the kids are welcome too!” he quickly adds.

“There’s zero attitude,” Bus Sta-

Your parties prominently encourage people to get off of their phones and into the music. Why is that?

Sergio Fedasz: Go Bang! celebrates disco, the spirit of San Francisco, and the art and culture of the DJ. It is very important to us that everyone be present. The energy exchange from the dancer to dancer, dancer to DJ, is a factor which slowly got lost in time, as technology has made us less in the moment.

We want people to get lost, taken away, in that special trance you get in when you find the sweet spot.

Bus Station John: Our “No Cell” policy keeps the tech-addicted clueless at bay, liberating the crowd to enjoy the music and each other.

Sergio Fedasz and Steve Fabus

tion John says, “It’s hard to be an ice queen when Chaka Khan’s on the sound system!”

After spending several nights sweating it out to the classics, I couldn’t resist sitting down with Sergio Fedasz and Steve Fabus of Go Bang! and Bus Station John of Tubesteak Connection and Disco Daddy to talk about the resurgence of classic dance music in San Francisco, and what it is that makes their parties work so damn well.

Ray Aguilera: Tell me a little bit about where your parties come from.

Sergio Fedasz: As a straight boy who always felt weird and different, targeted and laughed at, this music and the stories of the lives it touched spoke to me. Disco songs are a unique and beautiful combination of love and pain and passion and sex all combined.

Bus Station John: I began The Tubesteak Connection in 2004 at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, one of San Francisco’s last remaining gay dives.

The dot-commoner invasion was seriously threatening to bland-out San Francisco, not unlike what we’re suffering from today. I saw a major void as far as there being no queer corners for the homosexual who had no interest in assimilation. I filled it with The Tubesteak Connection.

What’s the atmosphere you’re trying to create when you’re mixing these tunes?

Sergio Fedasz: We want to make the party feel like the ideal of the original discotheques. There will always be carefully- and thoughtfullyselected guest DJs who curate and present the disco music in a passionate, heartfelt, and professional manner. Friendly, light-hearted, and inclusive—no pretension or airs.

No matter who you are, how old you are, what gender you are, if you are a shy dancer or flashy dancer, it’s where you can be happy and carefree and dance freely.

There’s a bit of a disco revival happening around town. Why is this music coming back right now?

Steve Fabus: People are connecting and reconnecting, because the music moves them in a special way.

Most disco has great production values and is multi-textured with an array of feelings: emotional, spiritual, romantic and sexual. The lyrics are important and tell a story. Melodies are rich. And disco can be intense, serious and dramatic as well. When people hear this music presented well, they surrender themselves to it.

Steve Fabus: It wouldn’t be the same if Sergio and I weren’t doing it together and it wouldn’t exist at all without our dancers. It’s a relationship of trust and an interchange of energy. We’ve had the time to build Go Bang! with their support and love and it means everything to us.

Bus Station John: I dig deep, and have a devoted following of music heads and open-minded dancers who are wiling to go wherever I take them. I love watching people really get off on music they’ve never heard before. It’s testament to the quality of the songs. While it may seem trivial on the surface, the fact is the best dance music simultaneously moves your body and feeds your soul.

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Bus Station John: People are starved for something substantial rather than disposable. I pity the child—if there are any—who’ll be nostalgic for “product” like Ke$ha in thirty years. My generation continues to derive joy from people with actual talent, from Ashford & Simpson and Loleatta Holloway to Eartha Kitt and Sylvester—and countless other artists who could sing and/or play instruments.

The good news is that hundreds of younger people who’ve come to my clubs over the years have responded just as enthusiastically to the music as their elders, and together we have a beautiful, diverse, inter-generational vibe—not terribly common in the nightclubbing world, and a dynamic I’m very proud to have created.

Speaking of Sylvester, the next Go Bang! is a tribute to him.

What is it about his music that inspires you?

Sergio Fedasz: Not only does Sylvester’s musical journey mirror the musical evolution of San Francisco, but his free expression, selfdefinition, and being himself at a time when it was harder to do so is an inspiration. I didn’t really fall in love with the songs at first, it sat on my shelf for a few years. I don’t think I was ready yet, my palate wasn’t refined. One day I popped this into my CD player. And I played it over and over—that’s how I fell in love with Sylvester. That is when the disco I played began to be me speaking from the heart. That’s when the seeds of what would become Go Bang! were planted. I am lucky we can thank him for what he has done for us all. I love Sylvester.t The Tubesteak Connection Thursday, Sept. 4 (and every Thursday).

Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, 133 Turk (aka Vicki Mar Lane) near Taylor St. 10P-2A. $5 Go Bang! Saturday, Sept. 6 (and every first Saturday). The Stud, 399 9th St. at Harrison St. 9P-3A. $7, Free/optional Admission Before 10 Disco Daddy Folsom Week Kickoff Party Sunday Sept. 14th (Usually 3rd and 5th Sundays). The SF Eagle, 398 12th at Harrison St. 7P-12A. $5 (Note: Date change to second Sunday this month only)

Maya Beiser Cellist ‘Uncovers’ classic rock hits

by Jim Gladstone

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aised by a French mother and Argentinian father, cellist Maya Beiser has memories of listening to vinyl recordings of Jacques Brel and tango as a young girl. She recalls hearing the strains of Arabic folk music being played in the villages that surrounded the kibbutz her family lived on in Israel.

“The original musical landscape of my childhood was rather expansive,” says Beiser, who will perform selections from her new album, Uncovered –which engrossingly reinterprets rock songs including Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir,” Jimi Hendrix’ “Little Wing” and Nirvana’s “Lithium”– at Yoshi’s, San Francisco on Wednesday, September 10.

When Beiser was eight years old, her academically-minded parents introduced her first cello instructor, and she became deeply immersed in western classical music.

“I would practice for hours and hours a day,” Beiser recalled in a recent phone conversation. “The Dvorak concerto, the Bach variations...”

Beiser’s focus was rewarded when, at age twelve, her playing caught the attention of celebrated violinist and

conductor Isaac Stern, who took her under his wing. A dedicated mentor, Stern ultimately helped Beiser launch a career that has included performances with orchestras from the Shanghai Symphony to the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

For all her precocious classical virtuousity, Beiser –perhaps attuned to the vaster sonic realms of her earliest childhood– soon realized that she wanted to embrace a more diverse repertoire.

“One day when I was fifteen,” Beiser says, “I was at a friend’s house and she played a Janis Joplin record. It shook me to the core. Somehow, her raw energy and the way that she went about singing made its way to this inner shrine in me, this place where I’d come to feel that only the Bachs and the Schuberts were allowed to go. I wanted to be able to play my cello the way that Janis Joplin sang.”

She began to listen to the work of other progressive popular musicians of the time, including King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, and Genesis. These auditory explorations were, in fact, the genesis of the boundary-stretching music Beiser is now best known for as a founding member of the Bang On

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A Can All-Stars and a collaborator with avant garde composers including Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Brian Eno. But Beiser’s road to headlining performances at the likes of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Barbican, and the TED conference began with a sense of teenage repression. She empathized with the way her best cellist-friend adolescent had to hide his homosexuality as an adolescent, in part because she felt a need to hide her own sense of secret identity.

“The music that I was loving so much was forbidden fruit for a classical music kid like me. I couldn’t talk to any of my teachers about it, let alone Isaac Stern. They would have been horrified. God forbid you take on music like this.”

“The classical music world has been so judgemental about other forms of music,” said Beiser. “For years, I lived this sort of double life.

But when I started to think about the classical musicians I loved the most –Pablo Casals, Jacqueline Du Pré, and Glenn Gould– it became really clear that what was attracting me to particular performers was that they had their own quirky,

personal takes on the music. It was not necessarily clean and polished and ‘exactly as it should be,’ which is how you learn in conservatory.”

Over the course of a career in which she refers to as “a journey of left turns,” the one-time orchestral prodigy has thrived on doing the unexpected.

“I’ve done work that’s very sparse and cerebral and work that’s very ambient,” said Beiser. While the reconceived rock songs on Uncovered fall between those poles, they nonetheless serve one of Beiser’s overarching musical goals: “I want to take the cello into uncharted territories and find new ways to express things with the instrument.”

The range of expression on Uncovered is extraordinary. While Beiser’s cello is the only instrument on the entire album, the multitracked recording features as many as forty layered lines of music at a time.

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Leather “Cruising”

by Race Bannon

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s many people who read this column know, much of what I do is commentary rather than reporting. However, one of the other uses I try leverage this column for is to encourage people to attend some of the many wonderful events and venues of interest to leatherfolk and kinksters who live in or visit the Bay Area.

I try to err on the side of promotion of events rather than reporting on them afterward because I feel that gets more people to these events and does the most good in terms of fostering a more vibrant and connected community of like-minded people. But I do on occasion report on certain events as well. So this column is indeed a mixed bag of focus, but that’s just how I roll.

My column this week is about event promotion, and the event I’m highlighting here is the upcoming Fourth Annual Leather Cruise hosted by the Golden Gate Guards (www.ggguards.org) and BLUF (www.bluf.com). The Leather Cruise will take place on San Francisco Bay on Saturday, September 20, 2014, starting at Pier 3 Hornblower Landing in San Francisco.

Golden Gate Guards was originally founded in 1976 as the Imperial Guards of San Francisco. At that time the club served as an unofficial liaison between the Imperial Courts and the Leather-Levi community.

In late 1986 they became an independent organization known as the Golden Gate Guards.

BLUF, which is an acronym for “Breeches, Leather and Uniform Fan club,” started in October of 1997 as a simple website for men into full leather uniforms and has since grown into a worldwide organization with members in dozens of countries around the world.

The late afternoon cruise around San Francisco Bay takes place the day before Folsom Street Fair. The cruise will travel under the Bay Bridge to pass Angel Island and Treasure Island. Going north, passengers will cruise near Sausalito and take a turn around Alcatraz Island. From there, the cruise moves west to the Golden Gate Bridge for a chance to see the bridge and the city of San Francisco at sundown. As the cruise comes to an end passengers will see the Bay Bridge Lights as they dock again at Pier 3.

The Golden Gate Guards will be selling drink tickets on board for the full, no-host bar to fulfill any passenger needs for cocktails and drinks, and there will also be a late

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painting, putting down one color and then adding another, and continuing to build it up.”

Each cello line, Beiser explains, becomes part of one of three general groupings: those in which her playing approximates a singer’s vocal tones, those that emulate electric guitar solos, and a middle ground of harmonies and fills.

“The cello is very much in the human vocal range,” says Beiser, whose own murmuring voice can be heard on her version of Zeppelin’s “Black Dog.” To emphasize the instrument’s ability to capture the raw tones of a Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain, the lines that represent singers have all been recorded completely acoustically, without any processing, and played without vibrato and very close to the bridge. They have, says Beiser “an anti-classical sound.”

afternoon buffet.

There will be music provided for those who want to dance and all attendees will receive a commemorative pin, sailor cap, and lei. A souvenir photo will be taken on the dock and provided during the cruise also.

I asked a couple of guys who have attended the cruise in the past for their impressions.

Joel Evans offered this. “The cruise was a big success. Kudos to the Golden Gate Guards for bringing the tribe together for an afternoon on the bay – one of Northern California’s greatest features, but which so many of us rarely take advantage of. We had crystalline weather conditions last year, which made the whole bay sparkle as it got dark. We met leathermen from around the world who were taking advantage of this alternative activity.

Nothing wrong with hanging out at the Eagle all afternoon, but this is really unique to the Bay Area. Glad that the Guard is doing it again. And really glad they’re benefiting Openhouse as their chosen charity.”

Net proceeds from this event benefit Openhouse (openhousesf.org). Openhouse is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that enables San Francisco Bay Area LGBT seniors to overcome the unique challenges they face as they age by providing housing, direct services and community programs.

As a result, they have reduced isolation and empowered LGBT seniors to improve their overall health, well-being and economic security.

Openhouse has also always been open and welcoming of the leather and kinky among us. They sure are a great choice as the beneficiary for this fundraising cruise.

Leather or uniform attire is expected to keep the atmosphere as leather and kink as possible. The cost of the cruise is $75.00 per person. To purchase tickets for the Leather Cruise, go to the Golden Gate Guards site at www.ggguards. org Since this week’s column is about promoting future events, check out the calendar that accompanies this column. You’ll see a wide assortment of leather and kink events you can attend, many of which are part

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Colorful leather at the 2013 Golden Gate Guards cruise.

Local leatherman Lexx King had this impression. “This was a great activity to do with our leather tribe during the high holy days of Folsom week. Any cruise around the beautiful Bay is awesome, but to do it with a boat of hot-looking men and women all geared up and decked out, many of whom are our closest friends and family, is truly an amazing experience. It is always nice that there is food and a bar available to celebrate the moment. Beautiful views, great company and an overall a great experience.”

Of the fuzzbox distortions and other amplified effects she applies to her instrument to evoke guitar lines, Beiser says, “You might not even recognize some of the sounds as coming from a cello; it has this wild range that can go so high and so low. When you put distortion on it, you get these amazing subharmonics. And I bow these lines differently to get a wailing sound.”

New York-based Beiser performed versions of some of her Uncovered material when she visited San Francisco last spring for two large scale multi-media concerts at the Yerba Buena Center. The shows mainly drew listeners from a ‘contemporary classical’ fan base, already familiar with Beiser’s original commissioned cello works.

In part, the Uncovered album and small club tour that brings Beiser to Yoshi’s next week with a drummer, a bassist, and a small arsenal of electronics is a further effort to build

of the leather week leading up to Folsom Street Fair.

And speaking of Folsom Street Fair, check out my next column where I write about that iconic event in detail.t Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. You can reach him through his website, www.bannon.com.

For Leather Events listings leading up to Folsom Street Fair, see page 33>>

bridges between musical genres and audiences.

“All classical music is basically cover tunes,” she remarks. “When you play Bach or Brahms, you are covering compositions that are written as sheet music. There are no composer-authorized ‘original’ recordings. Each player can imagine it differently, but when each person plays it, they have all the previous covers in their heads. Classical musicians are interpretive cover artists.

That’s what we do.”

With her new album, says Beiser, “I’m trying to show that this music is just as great as Schubert and Bach.

There’s just as much to discover in it as a musician and a listener. These composers are geniuses.”t Maya Beiser performs Wednesday, September 10, 8pm, at Yoshi’s, 1330 Fillmore Street. Tickets $30 in advance, $35 day of show. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

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Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

Bearracuda @ Beatbox

The weekly live rock shows feature local and touring bands. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

It's another underwear/under bear night at the dance event popular with bears, otters, and their pals; DJs Steve Sherwood and James Torres. $6-$10.

9:30pm-3am. 314 11th St. www.bearracuda.com www.beatboxsf.com

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Bad Girl Cocktail Hour @ The Lexington Club Every Friday night, bad girls can get $1 dollar margaritas between 9pm and 10pm. 3464 19th St. between Mission and Valencia. 863-2052. www.lexingtonclub.com

Flip Cassidy, Feral @ SideQuest Gallery, Oakland The LA-based growly folk rocker and the Oakland band perform at the art gallery. No cover. 8pm. 314 15th St., Oakland. www.sidequestgallery.com

Hard French @ El Rio

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar's most popular Sunday daytime event now also takes place on Saturdays! 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Bleaux @ Beaux Lindsay Slowhands, Castro DJ Prince, Haute Toddy and their gang return with a rowdy glam drag and gogo hunk-filled night. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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re you back to school or in a schooling mode? Ready to learn new grooves and matriculate some new scenes? Move up a grade with your nightlife.

Thu 4

Mary Go Round @ Lookout

The soulful singer-songwriter returns to the nightclub-restaurant. $49. 8pm & 10pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Suppositori Spelling, Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes host the weekly night with DJ Philip Grasso, gogo guys, drink specials, and drag acts.

10pm-2am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Diva @ Longboard Margarita Bar, Pacifica

The Monster Show @ The Edge

Ana Mae Coxxx and her drag crew (Sasha Stephnae, Vanity Ytinav, Ker Hanna, Bebe Sweetbriar, Directa Deposit and more) turn the surfer bar into a queen's paradise at this monthly show. 10pm show. 180 Eureka Square, Pacifica. (650) 7385905. www.thelongboardbar.com

Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Angie Stone @ Yoshi's

Beats Reality @ Trax Resident DJs Jim Hopkins and Justime welcome guest DJs and play groovy tunes. Weekly, 9pm-2am. 1437 Haight St. 864-4213.

Bulge @ Powerhouse Grace Towers hosts the weekly gogotastic night of sexy dudes shakin' their bulges and getting wet in their undies for $100 prize (contest at midnight), and dance beats spun by DJ DAMnation. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Club Yass @ City Nights Frisco Robbie presents a new 18+ LGBT weekly night, with live sets by guest performers, DJ TwistMix, with a Latin room up front, gogo guys and gals. $10. 9:30-3am. 546-7938. www.sfclubs.com

La Femme @ Beaux Weekly ladies' happy hour at the Castro nightclub, with drink specials, no cover, and women gogos. 4pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose Weekly event, with Latin music, halfoff locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men's bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com

Funny Fun @ Club 21, Oakland New weekly LGBT comedy night hosted by Dan Mires. $10. 8pm. 2111 Franklin St. Oakland. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Linda Eder @ Feinstein's at the Nikko The Broadway and pop singer performs her new cabaret show, A Walk Down Memory Lane, which includes Broadway classics and her own music. $70-$85. 8pm. Also Sept 5, 8pm & Sept. 6, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

My So-Called Night @ Beaux Heklina hosts a new weekly '90s-themed video, dancing', drinkin' night, with VJs Jorge Terez and Becky Knox. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90-cent drinks!

'90s-themed attire and costume conest. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. Sept 4: Motown on Mondays, with storytelling, W. Kamau Bell, Chinaka Hodge and others; wordsmithing installations and The Bold Italic's temp tattoo, R&B music, and T-shirt silkscreening (bring a tee!)

Sept. 11: Forests, with live sets by bands Kelley Stoltz and Mystic Braves.

Art displays, nature docents from the California Wolf Center, Rainforest Connection and others. $10-$12.

6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Pan Dulce @ The Cafe Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. 12pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland

The popular video bar ends each week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. Check out the new expanded front lounge, with a window view. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

R&B legendary vocalist Sugar Pie De Santo performs at the lively outdoor dance party.; DJs Carnita, Brown Amy, gogo gals and guys, and BBQ while it lasts. $7. 2pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.hardfrench.com www.elriosf.com

Sing-Along Saturdays @ Martuni's Join Joe Wicht for a new weekly night of top 40 rock and pop sing-alongs.

9pm-1am. 4 Valencia St.

Sun 7 Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar's most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. 3pm-6pm. Now also on Saturdays! 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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House Party @ Powerhouse Red Light District-themed night with DJ Guy Ruben; leather-clad gogos and Magnitutde ticket giveaways. 9pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland The Oakland nightclub continues its 22nd-year anniversary with Hip Hop, Top 40, and Latin music, gogo dancers and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $6 afterward. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

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Manimal @ Beaux Gogo-tastic night starts off your weekend. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Ryan Rose, Ricky Roman @ Nob Hill Theatre Boy-next-door Falcon porn stud does a live strip show, then a sex show with tattooed twink Roman. $25. 8pm & 10pm. Also Sept 6. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Some Thing @ The Stud Mica Sigourney and pals' weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Terminator Too: Judgement Play, Point Break Live @ DNA Lounge Those wacky dudes from LA return with their surf show (11pm) and a new comic version of the Terminator flick (7:30pm), where lucky audience members get to play parts. $20-$50.

375 11th St. 626-1409. www.DNAlounge.com

Sat 6 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160.

678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Fri 5

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland

Beer Bust @ SF Mix

Get groovin' at the weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am.

510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

The popular Castro bar hosts its weekly softball team beer bust fundraiser. 3pm-7pm. 4086 18th St. 431-8616. www.sfmixbar.com

Doll House/Gay Rodeo @ Midnight Sun

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni's

Gay rodeo participants and fans get in hoe-down mode at Kit Tapata's afternoon beer bust. 4pm-8pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Go Bang @ The Stud

Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am.

6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge The intimate groovy retro disco night with tunes spun by DJ Bus Station John. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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Flip Cassidy @ SideQuest Gallery

Sylvester is celebrated at the classic disco night, with DJs Steve Fabus, Sergio Fedasz, guests Paul Goodyear, a vogue performance by Jocquese Whitfield. $7. 9pm-3am.

399 9th st. www.gobangsf.com www.studsf.com

Joe Wicht, Katya Smirnoff-Skky cohost the singing competition; this month Best Male Crooner, wit Mark Johnson, plus guest judge Russ Lorenson. $7.

7pm. 4 Valencia St. 241-0205.

Under Construction @ Powerhouse Gehno Sanchez Aviance’s newest night offers hard-working hardhat gogos, toolbelt sexy dress code and house grooves. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Full of Grace @ Beaux Weekly night with hostess Grace Towers, visiting DJs, and pop-up drag performances. No cover. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Swagger Like Us @ El Rio The monthly queer hip hop and performance party (first Sundays).

3pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com Sugar Pie De Santo @ Hard French

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

Under Construction @ Powerhouse

Gehno Sanchez Avaince’s newest night offers hardworking hardhat gogos, toolbelt sexy dress code and house grooves. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pmclosing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Broadway Bingo @ Feinstein's at the Nikko

Open Mic/Comedy @ SF Eagle

BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly musical trivia challenge and drag show. 8:30-11:30pm. 4146 18th St. at Castro. www.toadhallbar.com

Joe Wicht and J. Ronard Frank return for the monthly (2nd Wed) sing-along musical trivia night, with featured singer William Giammona. $15. 7pm.

Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (855) 636-4556. www.ticketweb.com

Kollin Holts hosts the new weekly comedy and open mic talent night.

6pm-8pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

No No Bingo @ Virgil's Sea Room

Bromance @ Beaux

Weekly LGBT and friends skate night, with groovy disco music and themed events. $9. 8pm-10:30pm. 1303 Main Street, Redwood City. www. rainbowskate.net www.facebook. com/rainbowskating/

Name That Beat @ Toad Hall

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

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni's Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

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

Tue 9

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

Gay Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels LGBT night at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space, hosted by John D. Miles, the "Godfather of Skate."

Actually, every night is gay-friendly, including Saturday's Black Rock night (Burning Man garb encouraged). Also Wed, Thu, 7pm-10pm. Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5.

Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St at Fell. www.churchof8wheels.com

Meow Mix @ The Stud The weekly themed wild variety cabaret showcases new and unusual talents; MC Ferosha Titties. $3-$7.

Show at 11pm. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Liquid Brunch @ Beaux No cover, no food, just drinks (Mimosas, Bloody Marys, etc.) and music. 2pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The popular country western LGBT dance night; enjoy fun foot-stomping two-stepping and line-dancing. $5.

5pm-10:30pm with lessons from 5:30-7:15 pm. Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave., and Tuesdays at Beatbox, $6. 6:30-11pm. 314 11th St. www.sundancesaloon.org

Sunday's a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko's weekly drag and dance night.

9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 6523820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany's weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm, 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Monday Musicals @ The Edge The casts of local and visiting musicals often pop in to perform at the popular Castro bar's musical theatre night.

Dare 2 Bare @ Club OMG New weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, no cover, and drink specials. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Dream Queens Revue @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge

Lonesome Leash @ The Northern

A C.O.L.T. Following, the disability and LGBT-inclusive theatre company's music and variety show, includes raffles and tickts to their upcoming shows. No cover. 6:30pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St. www.circleoflifetheatre.org

Mon 8

Women's burlesque show performs each Wed & Fri. Karaoke follows. $5$10. 7pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Bombshell Betty & Her Burlesqueteers @ Elbo Room

Circle of Life Cabaret @ Martuni's

The weekly jock-ular fun continues, with special sports team fundraisers.

3pm-7pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ El Rio

Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The weekly burlesque show of women dancers shaking their bonbons includes live music. $10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. 552-7788. www.elbo.com

Jock @ The Lookout

DJ Kidd Sysko spins tunes for the bro-tastic midweek night, with $2 beer pitchers, beer pong, $1 shots served by undie-clad guys. It's like a frat house without the closet cases.

8:30-10pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

San Francisco's most fabulicious drag show celebrates its eighth anniversary this month, featuring Collette LeGrande, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, Sheena Rose, Kipper, and Joie de Vivre. No cover.

9:30-11:30pm. 133 Turk St. 441-2922. www.dreamqueensrevue.com

Block Party @ Midnight Sun

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Rainbow Skate @ Redwood Roller Rink

Rookies Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Watch newbies get nude, or compete yourself for a $200 prize. Audience picks the winner. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www. 0thenobhilltheatre.com

So You Think You Can Gogo? @ Toad Hall The weekly dancing competition for gogo wannabes. 9pm. cash prizes, $2 well drinks (2 for 1 happy hour til 9pm). Show at 9pm. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Sony Holland @ Level III The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm. Also Thursdays & Fridays.

JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

New Orleans-based multiinstrumentalist-vocalist Walt McClements stops by for a show on his West Coast tour. Carletta Sue Kay and Daniel Redman share the bill. $7. 8:30pm. 1131 Polk St. 923-0925. www.hemlocktavern.com

Trivia Night @ Harvey's BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 4314278. www.harveyssf.com

Money, There's Talk, Debbie Neigher @ Rickshaw Stop The Manchester pop band, the electronica trio and the evocative ethereal San Francisco vocalist perform. $10-$12. 8pm. 155 Fell St. www.debbieneigher.com ww w.rickshawstop.com

Wooden Nickel Wednesday @ 440 Buy a drink and get a wooden nickle good for another. 12pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. www.the440.com

Good Times @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Olga T and Shugga Shay's weekly queer women and men's R&B hip hop and soul night. No cover. 8pm-2am.

510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

Mad Manhattans @ Starlight Room The new weekly event includes classic cocktails created by David Cruz, and inspired by the the show Mad Men, plus retro food classics like prawn cocktails and Oysters Rockefeller, all with a fantastic city view. 6pm-10pm.

21st, Sir Francis Drake Hotel. 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

Maya Beiser @ Yoshi's The virtuoso cellist performs unique arrangements of popular rock songs

by Led Zeppelin and other bands, plus original music. $30-$35. 8pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Thu 11 Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap whiskey shots from jock-strapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar.

10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet Lickers Band @ Yoshi's The local queen of classic jazz and blues performs with her rousing band at the nightclub/restaurant, in an open dance floor show. $24.8pm.

1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Pan Dulce @ The Cafe Enjoy amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am.

2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

Wed 10

Strip down at the strip joint. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Piano Bar @ Beaux Singer extraordinaire Jason Brock hosts the weekly night, with your talented host –and even you– singing.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Switch @ Q Bar Weekly women's night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Wed 10 Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm.

2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Lonesome Leash @ The Northern

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

424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

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Packin’ it in

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’m sure there’s a big audience for the über-butch sport-fucking of the new Naked Sword flick, The Pack. Asses are shredded, that’s for sure.

The action in all four scenes of the 90-minute movie is a touch S&M-y. Not in a pursuit of pain or in the employment of apparatus, but in the nature of sex as conquest, the give and take within the dominance and submission that informs the movie’s partnering, and, certainly, in the roughness of its sex—which nonetheless always has an element of play. The bamboozlement of fucking thrown down on each other by the handful of guys who call themselves “The Pack” could seem callous, but for the underlying bond of brotherhood they share. The success of director mr. Pam with The Pack (which she also wrote, filmed and photographed) lies in her consistently capturing this elusive, contradictory tone.

The story begins as young Cam Christou (for clarity’s sake I’ll use performer names, not their character names) arrives in New York, seeking an undefined “new start,” and is drawn toward the Pack. It’s quickly clear that Boomer Banks is the leader of the pack—he tells the guys what to do, and whom to do it to. For the guys, it’s sort of a sexual servitude. For Boomer, it’s a sexual ‘Serve it, dude.’

Boomer ultimately has the Pack initiate Cam, and the deal is sealed

gantuan tool up his ass, he takes it.

In the third scene, handsomely salacious Marcus Isaacs is ordered

by Boomer to make out with a bar’s stripper, played by Rafael Alencar.

The scene’s really about sex hunger—submission is eager, holes are open, and insertions are abrupt, to full depth. Rafael’s general “Fuck you” attitude is well matched to mr. Pam’s intent. And, just as Marcus begged to be fucked, now he begs for Rafael’s cum. Which he gets, placed precisely on his tongue in a copious bingo. Rafael orders, “Swallow my load,” but Marcus is way ahead of the command.

I’m gonna gush more about flash

spit you out, their fascinating conversation seems to be probing Cam’s psychological make up. But they’re talking sex.

“Do you wanna get fucked?” they demand.

And Cam answers in all caps, “YES!” Cut to The Black Party, a bacchanal in full swing. The Pack are on stage with Cam, holding his mouth open for their invasion. The scene looks angry, but that’s just impassioned ferocity. When the maelstrom’s over, and Cam’s swallowed the last load, the doors swing shut on the Black Party, and Boomer looks back at us with a hard stare.

Just like New York City, you don’t know if he’s daring us, or damming us. If you wanna be pummeled, pi-

Boomer Banks rocks Cam Christou in a screengrab from The Pack.

Cam Christou (in profile) gettin’ ganged at the Black Party, in a screengrab from The Pack.

when they gangbang Cam on stage as part of the frenzied live sex show they perform at the 2014 Black Party. Well, they call it a gangbang, but Boomer’s the only one who gets a crack at Cam’s crack.

Pack member Leo Forte gets it on in the first scene with the movie’s only non-Packman, Blue Bailey.

Blue is fierce, but with an under layer of fun—like the rest of the cast, who throughout the movie flash quick, flickering smiles during the fiercest moments of sex. And you know how I like smiles. There’s something so, I don’t know, human about them.

As Blue and Leo’s passion mounts in a kitchen, Leo grabs a rubber out of a cabinet. What, you don’t you keep your condoms in the kitchen?

It’s so handy when you wanna add one, along with maybe a bay leaf, to your Bolognese. The guys need several condoms, since theirs is a flip scene, with both taking turns holding on for dear life during a furiously impetuous session.

Then Boomer gets it on with packmate Seven Dixon. Whatta hunk. Seven withstands and absorbs each power thrust during a nasty face fucking. And thought he grimaces when taking Boomer’s gar-

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star Cam Christou in the next issue.

It was his look that first fascinated me a movie or two ago—it’s pretty stark Scally boy, with his shaved head and thin, scrubbed face. Yet his deep-set eyes are softening, with their vulnerable, empathic gaze.

Before the last scene, Cam is taken by the pack. As they warn the still directionless Cam that New York can swallow you whole and then

rated and piranha-ed unto orgasm, The Pack is gonna pack it all in for you.

Before we go, I wanna talk about the gentlemen’s plentiful tattoos.

There’s a lot of creative ink, but maybe some of it needs subtitles.

Spanning Cam’s clavicle, above tattoos of a golden heart and rhapsodic red roses, is the legend, all in caps, LA VIE EN ROSE. That seems to say something about him that might be out of place for his character in The Pack, but which I’d like to see explored.

A gigantic flourish across Boomer’s lower belly spells out, Courage.

Does this fierce lookin’ guy need such a supportive mantra?

The dime-sized Star of David on Rafael’s left hip makes me wonder if, like Michael Lucas, he’s an uncut Jew. Does that mean his cum is kosher?

And, finally, what are we to make of the slogan spanning Seven Dixon’s shoulder blades: Well Bred.

Somehow I don’t think it means he’s been to a finishing school.t www.NakedSword.com

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Thu 4 RubbDown 2015 Volunteer Committee Meet @ Bulldog Tattoo Rubber is for everyone and that’s why we are inviting anyone, male or female, who loves it to be part of the RubbDown event. 2275 Market St., 7:30pm. www.rmsf.org

SCCLA: Trash or Treasure? @ Renegades Bar

This Aint No Disco @ SF Citadel

A kink friendly flea market, kinky stuff, non-kinky stuff, collectibles, clothing, costuming stuff. Renegades Bar, 501 W. Taylor St., San Jose, Noon-5pm. www.sccleather.org

A men’s BDSM play party. 181 Eddy St., 8pm, request invitation at www.the15sf.org

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Kick of your Folsom weekend with a night of fetish, beats and sweat.

1347 Folsom St., 9pm. www. powerhousebar.com

Boot Fest @ Eros

Fri 5 SCCLA Bar Schmooz @ Renegades Bar Informal social where friends, prospective members and anyone else who wants to relax, laugh, talk and hang out with like minded people. 501 W. Taylor St., San Jose, 9pm.

Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club Officially a CMA meeting, but open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members. 4058 18th St., 9:30pm.

Sat 6 Flagging in the Park @ AIDS Memorial Grove Not specifically a leather/kink event, but lots of kinky folks attend. Golden Gate Park, 1pm. www.flaggercentral. com/tag/flagging-in-the-park

Help inaugurate and bless the new bootblack stand at Eros and raise funds for International Mr. Bootblack Scout’s Travel Fund. 2051 Market St., 6pm.

Tue 16 Beyond Vanilla @ Renegades Bar, San Jose With interviews, demonstrations and a good dose of how-to instruction, this documentary covers the gamut of fetishes and SM practices. 501 W. Taylor St., San Jose, 7:30-10pm.

Wed 17 Leathermen’s Discussion Group @ SF LGBT Community Center

Leather, gear or fetishwear required for back patio entrance. 398 12th St., 9pm. www.sf-eagle.com

History of Folsom Street Fair with Gayle Rubin, a guided tour through the past of the world’s largest leather event with Gayle Rubin, the world’s foremost historian of San Francisco leather. 1800 Market St., 7:30pm. www.sfldg.org

Sun 7

Handball Academy @ Center for Sex & Culture

Kontrol @ SF Eagle

Naked Boys Reading @ Shelton Theater Five smart, sexy guys read great literature - naked! - to raise money for AIDS Emergency Fund.

533 Sutter St., 7:30pm. www. nakedboysreadingsf.wordpress.com

Wed 10 Golden Shower Buddies @ Blow Buddies A men’s water sports night, Golden Shower Buddies. $15 with membership, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Fri 12 Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club Officially a CMA meeting, but open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members. 4058 18th St., 9:30pm.

Sat 13 Alden Spafford Progressive Dinner @ SOMA Progressive dinner held annually in memory of Alden Spafford. Limited $15 tickets available, 5-9pm. www.leatheralliance.org

Animals @ Powerhouse The Boys of Bearlesque San Francisco are back for their monthly night of fun and debauchery. 1347 Folsom St., 6-9pm. www.powerhousebar.com

Sun 14 LeatherWalk 2014 @ Harvey Milk Plaza Route begins at the Harvey Milk Plaza with a short rally and entertainment and includes stops at some of San Francisco’s favorite watering holes, ends with a beer bust dance party at the SF Eagle.

Noon. www.leatherwalk.org

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about fisting, but were afraid to ask, with Larry Shockey. 349 Mission St., 7:30pm. www.handballacademy.org

Leather/Naked Buddies @ Blow Buddies Official play space for Folsom Street Fair, gear or nudity required. $15 with membership, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Thu 18 Leather & Feathers @ Temple SF AIDS Emergency Fund’s annual gala paying tribute to their supporters in the kink and drag communities. 540 Howard St., 7pm. www.aef-sf.org

BLUF San Francisco Folsom Dinner @ Don Ramon’s Mexican Restaurant Dinner for men into leather, gear and uniforms. 225 11th St., 6pm no host bar, 7:30pm buffet, $30 cash at door, reserve seats by emailing to blufsf@ yahoo.com.

Play Party @ Blow Buddies Official play space for Folsom Street Fair, gear and nudity welcome. $15 with membership, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Fri 19 Bay Area boys of Leather: Boy Friday @ SF Eagle Bay Area boys of Leather monthly cocktail social. 398 12th St., 7pm. www.bayareaboysofleather.org

Gear Buddies @ Blow Buddies Official play space for Folsom Street Fair, gear and nudity welcome. $15 with membership, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Folsom Fetish Friday @ Powerhouse

Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club Officially a CMA meeting, but open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members. 4058 18th St., 9:30pm.

Haus of Stiel @ Beatbox Folsom weekend dance party. 314 11th St., 10pm. www.beatboxsf.com

Sat 20

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Kink Salon @ Powerhouse Erotic open mic and show benefiting LeatherWalk 2015, AIDS Emergency Fund and Breast Cancer Emergency Fund. 1347 Folsom St., 2pm. www.powerhousebar.com

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Cigarmen, Pipemen & Bootmen @ SF Eagle Bay Area Cigar Buddies and HotBoots get together at the SF Eagle for a free no-agenda gathering. 398 12th St., 3pm. www.sf-eagle.com

4th Annual Leather Cruise @ Pier 3 The Embarcadero Golden Gate Guards and BLUF host the Fourth Annual Leather Cruise on San Francisco Bay. $75, 4:30pm. www.ggguards.org

VICE: Folsom 2014 Rubber Party @ Powerhouse Rubber Men of San Francisco host your chance to let the rubber pig inside loose. 1347 Folsom St., 5pm. www.rmsf.org

Golden Shower Buddies @ Blow Buddies A men’s water sports night at the Official Play Space for Folsom Street Fair, gear and nudity welcome. $15 with membership, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Magnitude @ Treasure Island Official Saturday night dance event for Folsom Street Fair, see website for ticket information, 9pm. www.folsomstreetevents.org

Sun 21 After Shock @ City Nights Dance your ass off all night until the sun comes up on Folsom Street Fair, see website for ticket information, 715 Harrison St., 4am. www.thediscosf.com

Folsom Street Fair @ SOMA The world’s largest leather and fetish event. Folsom Street between 8th and 13th, 11am-6pm. www.folsomstreetevents.org

Play Party @ Blow Buddies Official play space for Folsom Street Fair, gear and nudity welcome. $15 with membership, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Deviants @ Mezzanine Official Sunday night dance event for Folsom Street Fair, see website for ticket information, 6pm. www.folsomstreetevents.org

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