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San Francisco nonprofit that provides health care to women and transgender people, regardless of their ability to pay, is facing the possibility of having to move in the coming years. Officials with Lyon-Martin Health Services, at 1748 Market Street, are also preparing for changes under national health care reform that they expect will mean they can pay off more than $1 million in long-term debt. The clinic, which serves thousands of patients and almost had to shut down in 2011, recently held an open board meeting to update community members on its plans. Dr. Dawn Harbatkin, Lyon-Martin’s executive director, said in a phone Rick Gerharter interview after the meet- Dr. Dawn ing, “the landlord came Harbatkin to us a few months ago and told us he was putting the building on the market. He said it would happen within two weeks.” Harbatkin emphasized that a move is not imminent, but she said even though the landlord hasn’t yet put the building up for sale, she thinks it will still happen. The nonprofit’s landlord couldn’t be reached for comment. Other businesses at the site include a tax preparer. “Based on what we see up and down Market Street, my guess is he’s going to sell it to somebody who’s going to tear it down and build condos,” said Harbatkin, referring to the spate of residential construction in the Castro and Upper Market neighborhood. She said her “favorite choice” among prospective new sites for her organization would be the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, which is at 1800 Market Street, near LyonMartin. Discussions with the center about a possible move are “very preliminary,” she said, but the space is “in our neighborhood, and in the right location.” “It’s a beautiful space, and it would fit with our brand,” she said, noting that 60 percent of Lyon-Martin’s patients identify as LGBT. The agency’s current rent is $5,922 a month for 5,023 square feet. Asked about what rent would be at the LGBT center, Harbatkin said, “We haven’t gotten that far in conversation.” However, she said, “Anywhere we move is going to be a lot more than we pay now.” “We always thought we’d have to move, but it wasn’t in our short term plan,” she said, calling relocating “very disruptive” and “very expensive.” As part of a move, Lyon-Martin would have to build out whatever space it relocates to in order to make the site into a clinic, and See page 10 >>

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n Vogue, which got its start in Oakland in the late 1980s, returned home to headline the fourth annual Oakland Pride festival Sunday, September 1. The day was proclaimed En Vogue Day by

Mayor Jean Quan, who presented the group with a proclamation. All in all, Oakland Pride was a success this year, with a strong turnout of about 45,000 people. For more on the politics of the day, see story, page 4.

he impact of the United States Supreme Court ruling striking down the core provision of the Defense of Marriage Act continues to roll out, both within the Obama administration and in court. Two major federal departments announced that their interpretations of the Supreme Court ruling in U.S. v. Windsor will bring benefits to married samesex couples regardless of whether a couple’s state of residence accepts or Treasury Secrebans their marriage. The most far-reaching tary Jacob J. Lew announcement came last week from the Internal Revenue Service, the tax-collecting arm of the Department of the Treasury. An IRS press release announced that legally married same-sex couples “will be treated as married for all federal See page 13 >>

Films depict Castro fairs of yore

by Matthew S. Bajko

of Market to view the several hours worth of film for themtreet performers, from ethnic selves. dancers and magicians to jug“We knew they probably glers and stilt walkers, entertain had some artifacts, old posters the crowds. Local artisans sell their or programs. The video was a wares. surprise to us,” said Ridgely, Booths promote gay organizawho was hired in 2006. tions, such as Bay Area Gay LiberaHe was struck by how simition, or BAGL for short, where bagels lar the early fairs appear comwith cream cheese are available, and pared to today’s incarnations. the Gay Teachers Coalition. “It is not unlike today. You The scenes aren’t that different see the roots of the event in the from today’s Castro Street Fair, which footage,” he said. “Quite honcontinues to celebrate the neighborestly, other than some layout hood, its merchants, and its LGBT changes, the fair is still true to community. This year’s outdoor fesits roots.” tival, set to take place Sunday, OctoThe fair organizers decided ber 6, marks the 40th anniversary of screening the footage for a the event. larger audience during this Courtesy GLBT Historical Society Yet the images captured in grainy, year’s event would be an apblack and white home movies were The scene at the 1976 Castro Street Fair is remarkably similar to propriate way to mark the shot during the 1976 and 1978 Cas- the current festival. fair’s ruby anniversary. tro Street Fairs. Part of the Daniel A. “This is a good opportunity Smith (Queer Blue Light) video colto celebrate it and highlight lection at the GLBT Historical Socithis particular footage,” said archival footage’s existence. ety’s archives in San Francisco, the footage has Lopez, who began volunteering at the fair “Earlier this year we heard the footage exrarely been seen by the general public. seven years ago and joined the board in 2010. isted and that parts of it had been screened A roughly two-minute clip of the donated Stephen Quinones, a San Francisco-based at the historical society’s Castro museum for films that was posted to the society’s YouTube visual artist, filmmaker, and photographer, is Harvey Milk Day,” said Fred Lopez, president page last October has racked up slightly less working with the fair organizers on editing the of the fair’s board of directors. than 5,300 views. It was only in the spring that footage down into a three-minute clip that can He and George Ridgely, the fair’s executive fair organizers themselves learned about the director, recently visited the archives South See page 10 >>

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Support for Vicki Marlane block grows by Matthew S. Bajko

worked for many years to establish the transgender comommunity backing conmunity as part of the city’s tinues to grow for dedicatrich culture. She was a caring, ing a Tenderloin block in honthoughtful person who often or of a transgender performer set personal interests aside for two years after her death. the benefit of her contempoThe grassroots effort aims raries and those yet to come.” to designate the 100 block of A change.org petitioned Turk Street after Vicki Marlaunched earlier this year lane, who died in 2011 at the seeking the Board of Superage of 76 due to AIDS-related visors’ backing for the street complications. For years Marname effort has netted 402 lane hosted a popular drag resignatures. vue show at the gay bar Aunt Kim did not return a call Charlie’s, located at 133 Turk seeking comment. between Jones and Taylor. Born Donald Sterger in The block is also where the Crookston, Minnesota, MarCompton’s Cafeteria revolt by lane started out as a traveling transgender people, upset at circus performer before setpolice harassment, occurred tling in San Francisco in 1966. in 1966. Today, a sidewalk She underwent sex reassignmarker commemorates the ment surgery in the 1980s and site of one of the earliest acretired from performing after tions in the country for LGBT moving to San Diego. rights. A decade later Marlane had Last summer the Bay Area returned to the city by the bay Rick Gerharter Reporter’s Political Notebook and came out of retirement. suggested renaming that block Vicki Marlane In 1998, her show “Girls Just of Turk as Vicki Marlane Way. Wanna Have Fun” debuted Members of the Harvey Milk at Aunt Charlie’s. It evolved LGBT Democratic Club in into popular weekly Friday month. The two groups have begun January announced they would petiand Saturday shows called “The Hot contacting the property owners on tion the city to officially call that porBoxxx Girls.” the 100 block of Turk Street to seek tion of the street Vicki Mar-Lane. Marlane earned the honorific their backing. The club later decided to take an “the lady with the liquid spine” for “Property owners must buy in easier route than seeking an official her performance moves. Michelle with a statement of support for the street name change. Instead, it optLawler documented Marlane’s life project,” explained Englander in an ed to ask the city to merely alter the in the 2009 independent film Foremail. street signs to include Vicki Marlane ever’s Gonna Start Tonight. In July, the Log Cabin Republican in parenthesis below the word Turk. The Vicki Marlane Street Name Club of San Francisco voted to enUnder such an approach mailAddition Campaign still needs to dorse the effort. Club President Fred ing addresses would not need to raise $500 toward a total of $2,500 Schein also sent a letter of support to be changed, thus businesses and in order to submit the proposal to District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who residents on the block would avoid the city’s Department of Public represents the Tenderloin at City the hassles and expense of having to Works. A fundraiser hosted by ColHall, seeking her help “in achieving change addresses. lette LeGrande Ashton and Felicia this recognition” for Marlane. Over the summer the North of Elizondo, a.k.a. Felicia Flames, is “We believe that Vicki Marlane Market/Tenderloin Community being held this weekend to raise adwas an important part of the city’s Benefits District agreed to assist ditional funds for the effort. proud history of demonstrating how the Milk club with its effort, Sue It will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, persons of all backgrounds can build Englander, the Milk club board’s September 8 at Aunt Charlie’s with a a stronger and more successful socorrespondent, told the B.A.R. last show and raffle at 5 p.m.t ciety,” wrote Schein. “Vicki Marlane

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Castro man who is a candidate for the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee board of directors has made explosive charges of threats, coercion, and possible blackmail against SF Pride CEO Earl Plante, who, he says, threatened him if he continued his candidacy. The dispute traces back to a May 7 disagreement over the board’s botched grand marshal honor for transgender WikiLeaker Army Private Chelsea Manning, recently convicted of espionage and sentenced to 35 years in military prison. After Jesse Oliver Sanford, 35, sent board President Lisa Williams an email stating his intention to run for the board, he said he received a reply from Plante’s SF Pride account. “You will need to resign from board consideration by 5pm Thursday or I will be forced to go to police informing them that you assaulted me earlier this year,” the email from Plante’s account said. “Current board members also have already been informed and all were shocked that you were considering running after what you did ...” The incident Plante is referring to occurred at the Pride board’s May 7 meeting when the Manning grand marshal fiasco resulted in chaos, with angry Manning supporters demanding the honor be restored. Sanford,

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who identifies as gay, said in an email that he was part of a crowd outside the SF Pride office who was angry when the meeting was abruptly canceled. Sanford and “about 100” fellow Manning supporters, angered they would not be able to give their feedback to the board on the grand marshal controversy, encountered a standoff at the door off Market Street, with Plante, Justin Taylor, and other Pride board members or employees. When Sanford and others surged against the door and into the foyer

of the building Plante claimed he had been assaulted. Sanford said he was not arrested or cited at the time. After the evening demonstration ended, the B.A.R. confirmed with police no arrests occurred. Sanford said he “never touched Earl” and was never close to him. A web and mobile app developer, Sanford said Plante’s email “reads like blackmail,” adding, “it certainly feels like a threat and an attempt at coercion.” Sanford is concerned about his See page 4 >>

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board candidacy and the fairness of the board elections on September 15. “It also feels like an improper attempt to influence an election that is taking place in less than two weeks – and of which [CEO Plante] is the main administrator and vote counter.� “Absolutely,� was Sanford’s reply when the B.A.R. asked if he felt threatened by Plante. He questioned why Plante did not pursue assault charges in May rather than waiting four months to bring the matter up. “It appears he is singling me out from the crowd because I’m standing in the board election and I could potentially become one of his directors,�

Sanford questions how effective Plante can be in administering the election process at SF Pride’s Annual General Meeting in 10 days “when he is trying to influence the outcome by threatening a candidate unless that candidate withdraws?� “How can he be CEO of San Francisco Pride when he acts in such an unhinged way?� Sanford asked. In an email Wednesday, September 3 Plante acknowledged sending Sanford the email but said he did so “acting as a member of SF Pride and not in my capacity of CEO.� Plante said that he did file a police report in May and the case is still open. “I strongly believe members of

onstrates that she/he does not have the temperament to serve, especially if that potential board member has shown a propensity for violence ...,� Plante said.t There will be a forum for Pride board candidates Monday, September 9 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Metropolitan Community ChurchSan Francisco, 150 Eureka Street. The group San Francisco Pride Members for Democracy, Accountability and Transparency is sponsoring the forum. A related Pride story about the board election is online at ebar.com.

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ployees’ Retirement System inquiring about the extent of San Francisco’s financial relationship with Russia. Specifically, Wiener asked if the city purchases goods or services from Russia and if the city invests pension funds in Russian securities. Wiener’s letter notes that he will make an assessment of next steps once he receives the information. In a related effort, a state Senate committee last week passed state Senator Mark Leno’s (D-San Francisco) resolution that urges two large state retirement systems to discontinue directly investing in Russia. Senate Resolution 18, which Leno introduced last month, is aimed at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. On August 26, the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee passed the measure by a 4-1 bipartisan vote. The resolution now heads to the Senate floor. State Senator Mimi Walters (R-Irvine) voted against the resolution.t

sands of miles away was something we could not abide,� said Waksberg. “So often nothing is done, so I’m glad that this group is here talking about this.� Kahn also urged those who are able to actually visit Russia and meet members of the LGBT community. “Witness the reality firsthand,� he said. “Continue to boycott Russian goods.� Waksberg emphasized the importance of direct aid to the Russian community. “We wanted them to tell us what they needed,� he said. He noted that the Soviet leadership was very sensitive to political threats because of their interests in the United States. “How could we threaten those interests?� he asked. “We got good at talking to people in government,� Waksberg recalled. “Right, left, middle, it didn’t matter. We spoke to everyone on a human level.� Media was also crucial, Waksberg pointed out. “The more press we get the more we can embarrass them,� he said. “Acts of civil disobedience and op-eds can paint a picture of an oppressive system oppressing a minority. We can be sure of what will happen if we do nothing.� Kahn recalled going to the Soviet Consulate to hold rallies during the

ctivists from the Bay Area Jewish community held a community forum last week where the harsh new Russian anti-gay law was discussed, along with a history of oppression faced by Russian Jews. The meeting, “To Russia With Love,â€? was held at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, and organized by Elka Looks and Joe Goldman of the Jewish Community Relations Council. The speakers were both gay and Jane Philomen Cleland straight, and were veteran activists in the fight to liberate the Soviet Rabbi Doug Kahn, left, and David Waksberg talked about their Jewish community, which faced opexperience trying to help Russian Jews during the Cold War. pression during the Cold War. The speakers came forward to offer their expertise to the local LGBT comJewish Holy Day of Simchat Torah. “It’s important to find out what munity, which has been united in its “We brought 5,000 people to the the Russian LGBT activists want,â€? he condemnation of the harsh anti-gay consulate,â€? he said. “We left petisaid. “Send them images of actions propaganda law signed by Russian tions under the door because they so they can see that people outside President Vladimir Putin. The law wouldn’t answer. But after Glasnost of Russia do care.â€? includes stiff fines and jail time for they welcomed us.â€? Jones also mentioned that aspect. Russian citizens and others in the Networking was important, “We need to listen to the Russian country who “propagateâ€? homosexKahn noted. “Anyone in this counLGBT community very carefully,â€? he uality to minors. This could include try fighting for LGBT rights can be said. hand-holding and other public disreached out to here,â€? he said. There are a number of local plays of affection, and broadcasting and national events coming up David Robinson of Keshet, an adInvestment questions around the plight of the Russian positive news stories about LGBT vocacy group for the Jewish LGBT Locally, this week Wiener sent a LGBT community. For more people. Putin claims that he’s not community, urged attendees to letter to the city administrator and information, email Joe Goldman homophobic, and that the law is “likeâ€? the Russian LGBT Network the head of the San Francisco Emat jgoldman@jcrc.org. meant to “protect children.â€? on Facebook. The LGBT community in San Francisco and elsewhere, however, has not been united in its response to the anti-gay law. Some have called for a boycott of Russian vodka and other products, while others have put pressure on sponsors of the Winter Olympics, set to take place in the Russian town of Sochi in February. Still others want to hear from the Russian LGBT community, which itself doesn’t seem united, based on social media postings. The small meeting room was packed with about 50 attendees. Openly gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who hails from a Russian Jewish immigrant family, sat quietly in the back and listened to the proceedings. Also present was veteran gay activist Cleve Jones and Arthur Slepian of A Wider Bridge, an organization that seeks to connect the American and Israeli LGBT communities. The meeting opened with remarks from Rabbi Doug Kahn, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, and David Waksberg, CEO of Jewish Learning Works, and former director of the Bay Area Council of Soviet Jews. Both shared the techniques they used to get the former Soviet government to soften its stance and allow its Jewish citizens to leave the country. 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t’s been over four years since Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Drug Enforcement Administration would end its raids on state-approved medical marijuana dispensaries. Of course, that statement was undermined when U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, based in San Francisco, joined with her California counterparts two years ago to raid and shutter numerous medical cannabis dispensaries, including many in the Bay Area. Last week in a major development, the Justice Department said it would not seek to block laws legalizing marijuana in 20 states and the District of Columbia. For California, which was the first state to legalize the drug for medicinal use in 1996, the news was a long time in coming. For Colorado and Washington state, where voters last year okayed legalizing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, the news means that the feds won’t file suit to block the new laws. Under the new guidance, according to the New York Times, “a large scale and a for-profit status would no longer make dispensaries and cultivation centers a potential target for criminal prosecution.” That should come as a relief to those here who seek cannabis for medical use. Since the U.S. attorney’s crackdown, hundreds of patients had to find new avenues to acquire their medicine, and landlords of buildings that house dispensaries have been skittish about extending existing leases or entering into new agreements. At one point Haag had threatened landlords with prosecution if they continued to lease their property to dispensaries. The American Civil Liberties Union supports Holder’s new policy and noted that states must have regulations in place. California developed its regulations years ago under Senate Bill 420, which went into effect on January 1, 2004 as California Health and Safety Code 11362.7-.83. This law broadens the existing Proposition 215 to include transportation and other offenses in certain circumstances; allows patients to form medical

cultivation “collectives” or “cooperatives;” and establishes a voluntary state ID card system administered by county health departments. SB 420 also establishes guidelines or limits on amounts patients can possess and cultivate. Legal patients who stay within the guidelines are supposed to be protected from arrest, noted California NORML, the state chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws. Ever since voters approved Prop 215, there has been conflict between state and federal laws over marijuana. Holder’s announcement will help decrease the conflict. Once depicted as a public menace (think: Reefer Madness), today research is increasing scientific knowledge of marijuana’s medical benefits that have long been seen in patients with AIDS, glaucoma, and other illnesses. Regulating cannabis also has an economic benefit. Cities like Oakland have taxed revenue

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was 12 years old when my parents went to the United States in search of a better life, leaving me behind in Mexico, in the care of my grandma. I didn’t know then that my dad was ashamed of me and my mom simply couldn’t understand why I acted like a girl. All I knew was that they lived in the land of opportunity and I wanted to be there with them. As a young person struggling with my gender identity in Mexico, I was harassed mercilessly and the victim of violence. The town police laughed at me after I was physically assaulted and they did nothing to persecute my aggressor. Despite the violence and constant harassment, I started taking hormones and grew my hair out. I knew who I was deep down, and I realized I had to live in a more inclusive society if I was ever to move forward. At the age of 17, I used my savings to pay someone to transport me across the Arizona border. I quietly established a life in Arizona, meeting new people, securing a job and saving enough money for the breast augmentation surgery I had when I turned 19. As I grew to accept myself, I felt increasingly liberated and ready to take on the world. After a few years happily living and working in Arizona, immigration officials showed up at my workplace one day and placed me in a detention facility. Even though I had established my feminine identity through breast augmentation, they still put me on the men’s side. The 45 days I spent there were awful. I was sexually harassed, propositioned, and bullied constantly. Every night I slept next to the guard room because that was the only place I felt safe. Finally, I was deported back to Mexico where I lived and worked for three years. Eventually, I decided to cross the border again. This time, I went to San Francisco because it seemed like a welcoming, inclusive city. I was right. At a street fair, I met people

from the National Center for Lesbian Rights who agreed to help me apply for political asylum. I was granted asylum due to the persecution I faced in Mexico, and now I am applying to become a United States resident. I know how fortunate I was to meet the folks from NCLR who put me on the path to citizenship. But there are 11 million men, women, and children living in this country – including at least 267,000 LGBTQ undocumented immigrants – who deserve that same opportunity. That’s why I’m fighting for comprehensive, compassionate immigration reform. The Senate recently passed an immigration bill that includes a path to citizenship that would give all aspiring Americans the same opportunity I had. In addition, the bill includes many provisions that would particularly benefit LGBTQ immigrants, including an elimination of the one-year bar on applying for asylum; improved conditions for people held in detention facilities; limited use of solitary confinement and Victoria Ruiz a prohibition of its use based solely on a detainee’s the shadows and have a clear and direct path sexual orientation or gender identity. These to citizenship. changes would have made a remarkable differAs a transgender woman who experienced ence when I was detained. many dark times in Mexico, I can empathize The time is now for a real solution: reform with why people want to come to the United with citizenship. We want nothing less than States. It is the land of the free and full of opan inclusive path to initial immigration status portunities for those who work hard. It’s up to and an achievable path to citizenship for our the House of Representatives to take the next nation’s aspiring Americans. The Senate has step toward ensuring people who work hard done its job, it’s time for the House of Reprehere also have a chance to succeed here.t sentatives to step up to the plate when it returns next week from summer recess. No more Victoria Ruiz is a transgender writer for posturing, no more piecemeal provisions, and the Spanish-language magazine Adelante. no more extremist amendments. The House She lives in Los Angeles, California and needs to introduce serious legislation that respends her time working with various flects the will of the country: to give undocuorganizations and nonprofits that advocate for social justice and equality. mented immigrants the chance to come out of

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or the last six years health officials in 16 states, six cities, and Puerto Rico have surveyed thousands of HIV patients about their health care. California’s state Office of AIDS, as well as local health departments in Los Angeles and San Francisco, is among the jurisdictions taking part in what is known as the Medical Monitoring Project. Referred to simply as MMP, the surveillance project of HIV-positive Americans has been collecting data on everything from the patients’ behaviors and clinical outcomes to their use of HIV prevention Courtesy Medical Monitoring Project and support services to the care and treatment provided Data from the Medical Monitoring Project is being used locally and nationby their doctors. ally to estimate items along the HIV cascade including linkage to care, retenWith a budget nationally of tion in care, treatment utilization and viral suppression. $11.2 million from the Centers for Disease Control and learn that his cellphone number and Prevention, the project aims up taking part in the survey. A few name had been given to the local to provide health officials and polihave negative reactions similar to surveillance unit. cy makers a better understanding of Sheehy’s response, said Scheer. If “Why are they using my cellhow the approximately $20 billion they decline to take part, their name phone number to call in federal funding for HIV care is is added to a list of people not to be me in the evening to being spent. called again. talk about private The data derived “For the most part, people are health information? from the project helps very happy to tell their story and It is a little scary,” said health officials deterwant to participate,” she said. “We Sheehy, a spokesman mine “how well we decertainly understand nobody likes for the AIDS Research liver HIV care in the U.S.” to be cold called by anybody. We try Institute at UCSF and and “pinpoint where we to do everything we can to make it the HIV/AIDS patient need to be targeting not as disturbing to people.” advocate on the board our resources,” said Dr. As for the privacy concerns of of California’s stem Jacek Skarbinski, a the people who do answer the surcell agency. “I don’t member of the clinical vey questions, their names and the personally believe it is outcomes team in the names of their provider are not givappropriate for anyone Behavioral and Clinien to the CDC, noted Scheer. to contact me about my personal cal Surveillance Branch within the “Any data is never sent to the health information, especially my CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS PreCDC with personal identifiers. HIV status.” vention. There is no way to identify who we Sheehy insisted to the B.A.R. that For the last two and a half years are talking about,” she said. “Our he had not authorized his doctor Skarbinski has been the team leader main concern is that we are protectto enroll him in the survey. And he for the MMP. Each year the survey ing people’s secured data. questioned the methodology used, project samples 9,400 persons living “We do take it extremely seriousraising various privacy concerns with HIV in the participating states ly,” added Scheer. that can result from contacting and cities. In addition, the team Skarbinski noted that the MMP people via cellphone rather than on interviews and conducts medical CDC staff and its local partners a land line. chart abstractions on 4,500 to 5,000 must abide by a 50-page document “A stranger should not be conpeople each year. outlining guidelines for ensuring tacting me because I am HIV-posThose recruited for the survey reparticipants’ privacy. itive,” said Sheehy, who declined to ceive care from both private provid“We have very strict protocols for disclose the name of his personal ers and publicly supported health security and confidentiality of our physician. “From my perspective, clinics. data,” he said. the only legal way to obtain that “It gives us a comprehensive look Emphasizing that he doesn’t beinformation is to go through my at HIV care,” explained Skarbinski. lieve that the local health officials provider and for my provider to ask “We want to be inclusive and imconducting the MMP survey “are me.” prove the quality of care for all HIV sinister,” Sheehy nonetheless quesThe survey project is an example infected persons.” tioned the validity of the project and of the concerns advocates raised The San Francisco Department if the financial resources allocated to about the adoption of names-based of Public Health’s surveillance unit, it is money well spent. HIV reporting systems, Sheehy said. renamed this summer the Applied “To contact me about my health “The community needs to ask if Research, Community Health Epicare is a waste of money,” he said. it is appropriate to infringe on the demiology and Surveillance Branch “They should be talking to people privacy of people with HIV without within the Population Health Diviwho aren’t linked to care.” asking their consent,” he said. “We sion, has received $380,000 annufought names reporting for years Data finds disparities in care ally the last five years to conduct and this is precisely why.” Skarbinski and Scheer both the MMP surveys. More than 1,200 Asked about how people are recountered that it is critical to enroll local HIV patients have taken part cruited locally for the survey, Scheer a broad demographic of HIV-possince 2007, and last month, the unit told the B.A.R. that her unit conitive people into the project so the began contacting a new group of tacted medical providers earlier in data comes from a diverse sample. people to enlist for the survey. the year to request that they parThe data collected so far from the By next April the unit aims to ticipate. Those doctors who agreed MMP has found disparities between contact 400 local people living with then provided the surveillance unit black and white men who have sex HIV. Out of those, roughly 250 are a list of patients they treated bewith men. One study concluded that expected to complete the hourlong tween January and April. lower levels of antiretroviral usage survey, largely conducted through The physicians are then shown and viral suppression among HIVan in-person interview. They are the names of their patients chosen infected black MSM may increase compensated $40 for their time. for the project, said Scheer, and prothe likelihood of HIV transmission “Measuring how well people do vide feedback on those they believe among sexually active black MSM. providing quality care is very difare most likely to take part. Those One study published by Calificult, especially nationally,” said they feel should not be contacted fornia health officials, whose lead Susan Scheer, Ph.D., MPH, the are removed from the sample, addauthor was Scheer, found there are director of surveillance in the city’s ed Scheer. regional differences in the types of health department. “MMP really DPH staffers then call the paHIV care needed. It concluded that enhances how we can use surveiltients, and after verifying they are San Francisco should tailor most lance data.” talking to the right person and are services to the needs of men who But not everyone is supportive interested in taking part in a nahave sex with men, whereas Los of the survey project. After being tional health survey, are informed Angeles care providers may have a contacted last week to take part, it is specifically about HIV care, exgreater need to ensure readily availJeff Sheehy, who was former San plained Scheer. able Spanish-language services. Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Most of the people called end AIDS policy adviser, was furious to See page 13 >>

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First-ever LGBT health survey hits South Bay by Heather Cassell

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anta Clara County this week launched its first-ever LGBT health survey. The survey, which started September 4, will be available online and on paper through the end of October. It will be available in English, Chinese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. The county is also giving a cash incentive to individuals who complete the survey. The $225,000 survey is a part of Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Ken Yeager’s initiative to understand the health care needs of the county’s LGBT community, which he discussed in his State of the County speech at the beginning of the year. “I feel a real obligation as a gay elected official to represent my community,” said Yeager. “One of the values of electing gay people to office is to enact policies.” He understands that local leaders don’t always understand what the needs are for the LGBT community, particularly members of the community who are most vulnerable, such as seniors, youth, and transgender people. “We all know that we don’t have enough information or services for our community,” said Yeager, 60. “I think that people are just glad that we are doing this project because the needs are so great.” County health officials are also eager to find out more information. “There really is very little information,” said Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, health officer of Santa Clara County’s Department of Public Health. “We have lots of data on HIV/AIDS, sexual practices and all of that, but just health concerns [about] health issues of the LGBT community in general, we haven’t really addressed. “We know that there are dispari-

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Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Ken Yeager talked about the development of the firstever countywide LGBT health survey and its importance to community members at an August 28 meeting.

ties,” said Fenstersheib, 63, who has been in public health for nearly 30 years and will retire September 12. “I think that everybody realizes there are disparities, but there is no data.” The study was inspired by the results of the Institute of Medicine’s 2011 survey of LGBT health care that concluded there is insufficient information about the health needs of the LGBT community. “That was kind of our opening for this,” said Fenstersheib.

Outreach efforts

In early August, a steering committee of about 27 South Bay LGBT leaders was formed to head up oversight and outreach to distribute the survey.

Since then the steering committee has swelled to an estimated 100 people, said Fenstersheib. Community leaders are reaching out to promote the survey. More than 60 LGBT people heeded the call August 28 and turned out at the Sobrato Community Conference Center in San Jose to participate in the LGBT Health Assessment Community Conversation, said Analilia Garcia, senior community health planner for the health department. Yeager, Fenstersheib, and openly gay Frederick J. Ferrer, CEO of the Health Trust, kicked off a discussion about the state of LGBT health in Santa Clara County. The meeting was organized to obtain input in preparation to launch

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the survey and multifaceted efforts to obtain as much information as possible about the county’s LGBT residents’ health care needs from individual interviews, focus groups, and more. People broke out into small groups that focused on subjects from alcohol and substance abuse to youth to being out to smoking cessation to how to reach the county’s fractured LGBT community. The biggest challenge is reaching Santa Clara County’s diverse and widely spread out LGBT community. “It’s not such a visible community in Santa Clara,” said Fenstersheib, echoing what other people said about the challenge of reaching the county’s diverse LGBT community. “It’s a sub-

urban group. We don’t have a Castro area. We don’t have a real organized community.” Community leaders were pleased by the early response to the initiative and survey. “It’s nice to see the community come together and rally around this important initiative from Supervisor Yeager,” said Greg Belaus, president of the board of the Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center. Board members, staff, and volunteers of the center were out in force at the community meeting. “It is important. We don’t have this opportunity very often and that’s why I’m encouraging everyone to be involved and make it a success,” said Belaus, who is also on the steering committee. Belaus said he plans to employ as many of the center’s resources as possible to get the word out about the survey and help people take it. “We are going to bring the full force of our resources to get as much exposure to the survey as possible,” he said. Belaus hopes that the survey will unite the community behind a single cause and that people will not only participate in the survey and help spread the word, but will work on the “results of the survey and moving forward in 2014,” he said. Yeager agreed, and he plans to use the results of the survey, which will be published in December, to help Santa Clara’s LGBT community have more access to better services, he said. Yeager also hopes Santa Clara County will be a role model for other counties to model their information and programs serving the LGBT community, he said.t For more information, visit http:// www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1333810/ scclgbt.

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n annual fundraiser for this month’s San Francisco LeatherWalk will be held Sunday, September 8 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Eagle, 398 12 Street. Troy Brunet, who is heading up the eighth annual event, said the benefit would also be a way to congratulate both Sandy “Mama” Reinhardt, who is stepping down from her leadership role in the LeatherWalk, and Lance Holman, who is taking over as producer. The beer bust costs $12. There

will be food from Bisou Bistro Cafe and the Cove on Castro. There will also be a 50-50 raffle and possibly an auction item or two, Brunet said. Funds raised at the event are benefitting the AIDS Emergency Fund and Breast Cancer Emergency Fund, which are also beneficiaries of the LeatherWalk. The LeatherWalk, which kicks off Leather Pride Week, takes place Sunday, September 22. The Folsom Street Fair follows on Sunday, September 29. For more information, visit www. leatherwalk.org. See page 13 >>

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an architect has estimated those costs at $1 million. The timeframe the nonprofit is looking at is “probably three years” from the time its current building is sold to the nonprofit needing to be operating in a new space, said Harbatkin. The agency would have to run two sites “for a little while.” “We can’t shut down without opening someplace else,” she said. In a follow-up email, Harbatkin, who said, “There are a lot of unknowns about the move,” added the time frame depends “on who buys the building and how they want to use it or if they want to tear it down. We have been month-tomonth since our crisis in 2011 when our landlord agreed to lower our monthly rent to what it is now.” Despite the challenges, the move would present “an incredible opportunity to get into a space that is more updated and a little bit bigger so that we can grow,” said Harbatkin. Rebecca Rolfe, the LGBT center’s executive director, confirmed that preliminary discussions have been taking place, but said, “The specifics are not finalized yet, including where in the building” the LyonMartin space would be. “We’re looking at a multi-year process to really identify what their

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be shown on a loop at the gay museum space on 18th Street in the heart of the Castro the day of the fair. Organizers plan to also promote the footage on the event’s website and Facebook page. “We are working with a videographer to make it look nice. We want to give it an intro and an outro,” said Lopez, who expects to release the edited version in early September.

needs are and how we might be able to meet them,” said Rolfe. It’s “a relatively complex process” because “there are different needs for a clinic space” compared to what other organizations require, she said. Rolfe said that “assuming this moves forward,” she hopes the center would be able to fit into Lyon-Martin’s estimated three-year timeframe. Though it’s too early to know what the details would look like, she expressed hope that something between the two nonprofits could be worked out. “We think that they are a core service provider,” said Rolfe. “The services they offer are a very good fit with the center. We’re exploring a number of different ways the two agencies might be able to work to better integrate our programs and services and better serve the community.”

Affordable Care Act challenges

The national Affordable Care Act health care reform law, many parts of which go into effect January 1, presents problems and opportunities for Lyon-Martin. “I think probably our biggest challenge is similar to what everyone in health care is facing right now, which is health care reform,” said Harbatkin. “I think health care reform is going to be a real game

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One segment will feature a short interview with the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, who had a camera store on Castro Street in the early 1970s and launched the fair to promote the neighborhood and its businesses. “I like to see a neighborhood street fair that is just that. It is why I never promoted it outside the area,” Milk says in the interview filmed during the 1976 fair. “Two years ago I was sitting in my store and got bored. I decided to entertain myself by putting on a street fair. It was

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changer for us in a really positive way, but how we get through the implementation process is going to be a challenge for everybody, including Lyon-Martin.” The center, which has a budget of about $2.1 million, has approximately 2,000 patients who’ve come for services in the last year. LyonMartin is actively taking new patients. Harbatkin said her agency is estimating that half of those people will be eligible for Medi-Cal, which is designed for low-income people, plus about 300 patients will be eligible for Covered California, the state health insurance exchange that offers income-based assistance for paying premiums. “That’s 1,300 people that LyonMartin is going to need to enroll in six months,” said Harbatkin. Open enrollment for Covered California begins October 1 and goes through March 31. “That’s a lot of people,” she said, and officials with Covered California and the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment and Retention System “haven’t offered us any specific training dates yet, nor told us how many people we’re allowed to get trained.” Despite the complications, health care reform is expected to bring good financial news for Lyon-Martin. If the clinic is able to enroll 1,300

people, it will go from having 70 percent of its patients being uninsured to about 3 to 5 percent of patients not having insurance. That would be “hugely different for us,” said Harbatkin. Uninsured patients pay on average $20 per visit, while during the next few years Medi-Cal will generally pay more than $200 per trip to the center, she said. Lyon-Martin has long-term debt of about $1.2 million. That includes money the nonprofit owes on a loan. “Everyone is getting very, very excited about the possible money we’re going to be able to realize through Covered California that really should allow us to pay off the debt,” said Harbatkin. The debt should be paid off “within a few years,” she said, but there are “a lot of ‘what if ’s.’” There are also a couple of key things patients should know about health care reform, she said. “If they make under 138 percent of the federal poverty level, they will be eligible for Medi-Cal, and MediCal is a free health plan with great coverage,” said Harbatkin. “They should know that if they make more than that, they will be eligible for Covered California, and the government can help them pay for that. For everybody, we can help them enroll. They should call us in October and

ask for an appointment to help get enrolled.” Shannon Altamirano, who was a patient from September 2011 to April 2013, expressed hope that Lyon-Martin will be successful. Altamirano said the nonprofit “really helped me turn my life around” after she sought therapy and help with liver problems that were caused by drinking. “I definitely want to make sure they can keep providing the incredible care they are providing for their patients,” said Altamirano, who’s 37 and identifies as gay. “I don’t know what I would have done” without the clinic. In an email, Marj Plumb, chair of Lyon-Martin’s board, said, “LyonMartin continues to make strides in stabilizing after the near closure in 2011 and we now have more challenges ahead. We know there is tremendous support in the community for the health center and we need that support now more than ever. It’s ‘all hands on deck’ time again to help us prepare for health care reform, a possible move, and to create a plan to pay back the debt that was inherited and is still hanging over the health center.”t

phenomenally successful.” For several years now the GLBT Historical Society has screened the Milk footage at its museum as part of its Harvey Milk Day celebration. The unpaid state holiday is annually observed on May 22, which is Milk’s birthday. “It does seem to make sense to show the fair footage at the museum,” Paul Boneberg, the historical society’s executive director, told the Bay Area Reporter when asked about the fair organizers’ desire to screen it during this year’s event.

After viewing the footage himself, Lopez was excited to hear Milk explain his philosophy for creating the fair four decades ago. “One of the reasons that I got involved with the Castro Street Fair to begin with was because it was something Harvey Milk was directly involved in,” said Lopez. “During my time as a volunteer and a board member, it’s been sort of rewarding to be a part of that and continue the spirit of Harvey Milk in San Francisco.” The fair footage is just a small slice of the hundreds of hours of archival video donated by Smith, 69, a gay man who has lived in the Castro since 1971. He and Nikos Diaman, another longtime resident of the city, used a portable camera known as the Panasonic portapack to shoot the footage. In a recent interview with the B.A.R. Smith explained that the camera used reel-to-reel, half-inch videotape that ran on a machine one held over their shoulder in a bag with the camera attached to it. “Then we bought editing equipment. It was expensive but well worth it,” said Smith. He does not recall who is behind the camera shooting the street fairs or Milk, though he said he interviewed the gay rights leader “many times” in the 1970s. The old videotapes had been stored away in his house. One day Smith inquired about transferring the footage to a more modern viewing system but found the cost, at $1,500 for each half hour of footage, to be prohibitive. “I thought that was just too expensive and I would never be able to afford it. I decided to donate them to the historical society hoping they could keep them,” recalled Smith. Asked about his footage now digitized so modern audiences can view it, Smith said, “I mean it’s fine. I think it is important to record history.” But he demurred when asked about the significance of the films he donated. “But of course the interpretation of what was recorded is up to people today,” he said. “They can decide what is important and not important.” Because the historical society has not finished digitizing its entire film collection, it is unclear what other footage of past Castro Street Fairs may be waiting to be discovered.

There is a 20-minute video from the 1991 event that has been made available to researchers. The color footage shows KTVU Channel 2 news reporter Rob Roth interviewing people at the fair about a riot that took place at the Statehouse in Sacramento when thenGovernor Pete Wilson vetoed a gay rights bill that he had pledged to support. What is notable about the scenes captured when compared to the footage from the 1970s is the prominence of AIDS organizations and how the fair footprint had expanded onto Market Street. Castro resident Bill Longen, a gay man who worked at KTVU for 20 years as an editor, “liberated” the footage after it aired so that the station didn’t tape over it for another segment. “Because tape was so expensive at that time, we would hold the raw tapes for a couple weeks before we would erase them, rewind them, and have the cameraman reuse them,” explained Longen. “I would go in if it was a gay story I considered important and would keep the raw tapes. I put them in a cabinet at work; after a few weeks I would save them from being erased.” One day the late KTVU cameraman Willie Kee, who died in 2001 at age 64, spotted Longen removing a tape from a storage shelf marked “gay” and asked if he was taking it. “He said, ‘That’s good, keep them because they are important. They are more important than all the murders and fires we shoot everyday. You got history in your hands; don’t let them erase it,’” recalled Longen. In 2001, before moving to Palm Springs for several years, Longen, 66, donated several boxes full of tapes with gay content from the news station to the local LGBT archives. “They didn’t know what to do with it when they got it,” he recalled. Now that it is being made available to academics, filmmakers, and others interested in LGBT history, Longen hopes it can be used to educate LGBT young people about the community’s past. “That is what it is there for. I believe everybody should see it,” he said.t

For more information on LyonMartin, including its Dazzle fundraiser November 14, visit www.lyon-martin.org.

To see a short video of the 1976 Castro Street Fair, visit http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Nttdjtthfhs.

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man once known as “the most beautiful” sex worker on San Francisco’s Polk Street has died. The death of David Royal Lundy Jr., 43, also known as Corey Longseeker, serves as the latest mark in the passing of the Polk neighborhood, which was once crowded with gay bars and hustlers, as a queer mecca. Mr. Lundy, who’s also being remembered for his kind, gentle nature, was found dead August 21 in his Civic Center apartment. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office, which confirmed his death, won’t publicly release the cause or manner for months, but a 2009 San Francisco Bay Guardian story told of Mr. Lundy’s struggles with AIDS, schizophrenia, and methamphetamine use (http://www. sfbg.com/2009/03/18/rise-and-fallpolk-street-hustler). Joey Plaster, who wrote the Guardian piece, was also behind the documentary Polk Gulch: The story of Corey Longseeker. Mindy Talmadge, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department, said in an email that a paramedic unit responded to a report of an approximately 40-yearold dead man at Mr. Lundy’s building at 365 Fulton Street the day he died, but she couldn’t confirm that Mr. Lundy was the deceased person. Pastor Megan Rohrer is executive director of the Welcome Ministry, a group based in a church near Polk Street that provides food, housing referrals, and other services. Rohrer, who knew Mr. Lundy for years, said he’d been known as “the most beautiful” sex worker in the Polk neighborhood after his arrival more than 20 years ago, and that his death symbolizes “an end of the generation of sex workers and gay culture on Polk Street,” where there’s now only one gay bar. But Mr. Lundy, who was gay, had more than looks going for him. “He was a poet, and he was known for being very gentle and being a good listener and being a good friend,” said Rohrer. However, as the neighborhood changed, so did Mr. Lundy. “I think what happened is that when HIV and AIDS decimated the Polk Street culture, that had a big effect on his ability to get tricks,” said Rohrer. “His life started to deteriorate at the same time the sex work culture on Polk Street started to deteriorate.” Mr. Lundy had suffered side effects from HIV medications when they first came out, and in later years, still wouldn’t take the drugs he had been prescribed, said Rohrer. “He lost himself in San Francisco,” said his mother, Wendy Lundy. Although she usually hadn’t known how to reach Mr. Lundy after he left the Midwest when he was about 18, Wendy Lundy, 62, of Menahga, Minnesota, knew that he had lived on the streets for most of his time in the city. The last she’d heard from him was a letter he sent about a year and a half ago. Besides his other health issues, Lundy said her

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son also had cancer. During a phone interview last week, Lundy wept often as she recalled the “very soft-spoken and kind-hearted, very, very well-behaved” artistic child she still calls “Davey.” Mr. Lundy’s father, David Lundy, 66, recalled Mr. Lundy as “so kind.” “When the cat scratched him, and I went after the cat, he defended the cat and said it was his fault because he scared the cat,” said David Lundy. “I miss him,” he said. “He didn’t let us know how sick he was.” Dan Diez, who knew Mr. Lundy for decades but hadn’t yet been told of his death, recalled him as “the most gentle soul one could know” who “had phenomenal male beauty second to none.” But knowing Mr. Lundy in his last years could be tough. “I am not sure if he is still alive as he was in a very weak state when I last saw him months ago,” said Diez in an email last week. “After knowing and helping him for about 20-plus years, I just could not any longer take the unfortunate state he was in health-wise as it brought me to severe sadness for him.” Rohrer said Mr. Lundy had come to California from Minnesota “because his parents and him had disagreements about the fact that he was gay.” Asked if she’d had trouble accepting her son’s homosexuality, Wendy Lundy said, “I guess you could say that.” However, she said that they had never had a conversation about him being gay before he left for California. “He never showed signs,” she said. During a Christmas visit to Minnesota around three years ago, “he said he’d tried it,” she said. “At that time he had decided that that wasn’t for him, but I guess he didn’t really know, so to me he was probably back and forth.” “I guess I could have accepted anything if he would have been clos-

Obituaries >> Memorial set for Franco Beneduce

There will be a celebration of the life of Franco Beneduce Sunday, September 15, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The grove was one of Mr. Beneduce’s favorite places on earth, and is the site of the annual Light in the Grove event he produced every year. All are welcome.

Mr. Beneduce, who was 50, died May 19 following a stroke caused by an aneurysm. The celebration of life will focus on the joy, laughter, and theatricality that Mr. Beneduce brought to the world with dance, song, and surprises. Attendees are invited to BYOP (bring your own picnic). Fabulous costumes are optional, but comfortable shoes are mandatory, as there will be dancing. If you are moved, please bring something for our community altar to honor Mr. Beneduce. Please do your best to arrive at 1 p.m.

er,” said Wendy Lundy, who added, “I always hoped that he would come back to live in Minnesota.” In San Francisco, there will be a memorial at 3 p.m., September 14, at Old First Presbyterian Church, 1751 Sacramento Street. Services in Minnesota are also planned. In addition to Mr. Lundy’s parents in Menahga, other survivors include brothers Jeramiah, of Park Rapids, Minnesota, Joshua, of Blaine, Minnesota; and several nieces, aunts, uncles, and cousins.t For a link to information about Plaster’s documentary, visit http://kalwnews.org/audio/2010/06/29/polk-gulch-storycorey-longseeker_442341.html.

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Nyad’s swim a high in sea of lows by Roger Brigham

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paradox of sports is this: Its greatest moments, the moments of sacrifice and noble efforts, are more often the small and intimate efforts of solitary champions, pushing themselves when there’s no one else to push them, no one else to please. Whether no one else is even watching or the entire world is tuned in, a champion fights onward unrelenting. But something happens in its moments of excess, its dabbing with the superlatives under the biggest of magnifying glasses, that kills the noblest aspects of sports and renders it just another cruddy business. Thus we have the Olympic Games and the National Football League, which have spent the past few weeks underscoring their irrelevance and impotence in the world of sports champions. History was made this week when out lesbian Diana Nyad, who has often said that her early years of swimming were fueled by enormous, repressed anger, at the tender age of 64 and in her fifth attempt, became the first person to complete a documented swim from Cuba to Florida without the assistance of a shark cage. Some 53 hours after she started her swim of roughly 110 miles, Nyad staggered ashore in Key West, lips swollen, dehydrated, her words slurred. She gave a short and breathless speech to the well-wishers onshore. “I have three messages,” she said. “One is, we should never, ever give up. Two is, you’re never too old to chase your dream. Three is, it looks like a solitary sport, but it is a team.” Nyad credits much of her success this go-round to the better technology she used to ward off stinging jellyfish and the like. With gels, a mask, and a full body suit, Nyad came equipped for bear. Speaking of bears, we wonder how this news will play in Russia, where organizers are putting the finishing

touches on preparations to host the Winter Olympics in February. We must assume that Russian information technology is sufficiently advanced that it will be able to filter out all references to Nyad’s sexual orientation, since any positive mention of that is banned under Russian law. Heaven forbid any Russian children should read on the Internet that the shark-infested waves between Havana and Key West have been conquered by a lesbian who has forged a career of success rather than accepting a life of misery. Which brings us back to what weenies the International Olympic Committee and the NFL are revealing themselves to be. Gay Star News this week reported that Christophe De Kepper, general director of the IOC, wrote Australian Senator Christine Milne that despite continuing concerns over Russian laws banning positive expressions of “non-traditional sexual orientations,” it was too late to move the Olympics out of Russia to another locale. “The IOC agrees that the Olympic Games should be free of any kind of discrimination and I can reassure you that we work hard to make this a reality at each edition of the games,” De Kepper wrote. “However, the IOC cannot influence national legislation and has to respect the law of any host country.” Translation? Life’s a shit sandwich; have another bite. Never mind that the Olympic charter guarantees the rights of all athletes and coaches regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The IOC, with an opportunity to actually champion its own athletes and take a definitive stand in their defense, would rather stand by the commercial opportunity for its sponsors. It says they – and we – must show the respect for the Russians and their disreputable homophobic laws that the Russians do not show the Olympic charter – or us. But the harassment and discrimination LGBT athletes and their supporters will face at this point is still

past sharks and jellyfish to conquer the world, herself, and our hearts.

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An exhausted Diana Nyad, right, collapsed into the arms of a friend following her record-setting swim from Cuba to Florida.

speculation. What is not speculative is the brain damage suffered by thousands of NFL players through the decades. With countless skullrattling tackles Sunday after Sunday, mountains of scientific and anecdotal evidence have been piling up of the long-term, debilitating brain injuries that have continued despite tweaks to the rules and restrictions on tackling. In announcing a $765 million settlement with more than 4,500 retired players, who had been seeking a reported $2 billion, the NFL showed how little it cares about the bodies and minds it smashes as part of its day-today business. The NFL, a $10 billion-a-year industry, responded to player claims that the league had lied to players about the risk of brain damage they were incurring for years by pleading ignorance, saying it had relied on the “best available science.” Which, in short, is a crock of the same stuff the Olympics is serving up. Available science? Rather than putting money into research to determine why so many of its former employees were turning up brain damaged, depressed, or suicidal, the NFL kept its collective hands pressed against its ears. This is the same sports industry that rather than doing its own research into why a dozen or so

players a year end up as quadriplegics or paraplegics after bad tackles relied on helmet safety research provided by ... the helmet industry. Which, amazingly, never found any problems with the helmets. Think the NFL puts player safety first and doesn’t really care about the long-term effects of those skull-jarring tackles? Guess we may never know. Just before the NFL agreed to its hushup settlement, it pressured media partner ESPN into dropping out of a production agreement with PBS on a series about head injuries in football. So, you have a mega-billion dollar football industry, which makes its money by showing steroid-bloated bodies smashing each other in protective gear that fails to protect each other, more concerned about its image than its players’ safety. You have a mega-billion dollar Olympics industry that won’t back up its athletes and their rights so that it can put on a show for its sponsors’ cameras. And you’re trying to explain to your kids exactly what is right with sports, what makes it worth taking up and getting involved with and fighting for. That’s easy. Forget about the glitter and glamour and the eye black and the bruises. Remember that angry young girl raging against the waves and the world who grew up to fight her way

The female Manning by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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n August 22, an announcement was put forth via the Today show on NBC. “I want to thank everybody who has supported me over the last three years. Throughout this long ordeal, your letters of support and encouragement have helped keep me strong. I am forever indebted to those who wrote to me, made a donation to my defense fund, or came to watch a portion of the trial. I would especially like to thank Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network for their tireless efforts in raising awareness for my case and providing for my legal representation. “As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters

from supporters and having the opportunity to write back.” Thank you, Chelsea E. Manning

If perhaps you have been living under a rock, Private Manning is a recently incarcerated member of the U.S. military who leaked several thousand classified documents to WikiLeaks. She was sentenced to 35 years and received a reduction in rank from private first class to private, a dishonorable discharge, and a loss of her military pay. This isn’t about what Manning did. This isn’t about calling her a patriot or a traitor. Personally, I feel she may be a bit of both, and while I don’t think her sentence fits the crime, I also feel that a lot of what she exposed should not have been hidden. I think the whole thing is complex and difficult, and not easily pinned down in the typical political dichotomies to which everything is typically reduced. I also think that’s a good thing. We need to think beyond the notion of political ideologies reduced to notions more resembling rival sports teams. At the end of Manning’s courtmartial, her story took a turn that made it my business. Prior to the publication of the above statement, Manning’s lawyers attempted to claim that

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stress surrounding Manning’s gender identity may have been a part – but only a part – of the reason she leaked sensitive material. I have an issue with this. While I am no stranger to the stresses of being a transgender woman in our modern culture, I find myself concerned with any legal strategy that makes it sound as if being transgender itself can lead a person to commit criminal acts. While it was a largely open secret that Manning was transgender-identified, seeing her legal team trot out a 2012 photo of her to discuss how she hoped joining the Army would help her “get rid” of her transgender “problem” does leave an ill taste in my mouth. A recent study from the UCLA Williams Institute discovered that transgender people are twice as likely to serve in the United States armed forces than non-transgender people. Many may also be seeking to reinforce male characteristics in one way or another. Only one of these transgender service members – that we know of – has released materials that they perhaps should not have. So now, with her statement, Manning has clearly come out. Her path is not an easy one, and I do not envy her road ahead. Transgender inmates often face ill treatment behind bars, and often find it next to impossible to get what treatment they may need. In Manning’s case,

you have a whole new level of bias that may render her ability to get care behind bars all but impossible. Meanwhile, people, particularly those in the media, are tripping over themselves in trying to know what to call Manning. While MSNBC, Slate, and the Huffington Post were quick to revise their use of names and pronouns with Manning, others were less willing to take that step. CNN and USA Today, for example, wanted more “evidence” before going forward, as if Manning’s own words were not enough. Others, such as the Associated Press – which should have used its own stylebook – and NPR went back and forth. Transgender and LGBT organizations have also stumbled. Controversy brewed in San Francisco earlier this year over whether Manning could be a Pride grand marshal, while other organizations tried to grasp the change

Former heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison, who rose to fame with a role in Rocky V only to be diagnosed with HIV in 1996, died late Sunday, September 1, in a Nebraska hospital at the age of 44. Morrison lost his Nevada boxing license and a chance at another fight when he tested positive for HIV and tearfully blamed it on bad choices and a wild lifestyle. Later he claimed the tests were false, challenged the existence of HIV, and said he passed blood tests that indicated he had no infection. (See March 8, 2007 JockTalk.) “After he was told he was HIVpositive, when he first was told, I was taking him to seek treatment and to different doctors around the country,” said Tony Holden, Morrison’s former promoter. “And then he started research on the Internet and started saying it was a conspiracy. He went in that direction and never looked back.”

Raiders cut Kluwe

Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, whose fame rocketed with his outspoken support of same-sex marriage while a member of the Minnesota Vikings, was cut from the Oakland Raiders pre-season squad Sunday, September 1. The Raiders had signed Kluwe as a free agent during the offseason after he had been released by the Vikings. Second-year kicker Marquette King beat out Kluwe for the punting job. “Thanks to everyone at the Raiders for the opportunity this preseason,” Kluwe wrote on Twitter after the move. “It was a blast. @MarquetteKing’s got a bright future with you guys!” Kluwe has always been an outspoken athlete but will probably be most famous for his putdown last September of Maryland legislator Emmit C. Burns Jr. as a “narcissistic fromunda stain” after Burns asked Baltimore Ravens owners to sanction linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo for speaking out in favor of marriage equality. (See September 13, 2012 Jock Talk.)t

of Manning identifying as a gay man to a transgender woman. Like I said, Manning made it clear in her letter that she is now Chelsea. She will be doing what she can, now that the courtmartial is done, to move forward. Sometimes it takes something this dramatic to move a person forward, and I’m glad that Christine Smith she is choosing to live an authentic – if imprisoned – life, rather than less lively options. For better or worse, Manning’s fame – or infamy, depending on your opinion of what she did – make her one of the most well-known transgender people of the modern era. Her name may be uttered as we speak of, oh, Chaz Bono or Laverne Cox of Orange is the New Black. Agree with what she did or not, she is Chelsea E. Manning, she is a female, and she is part of the transgender community. We don’t have to consider the nature of what she did, or if it was right or wrong – but we do need to understand that how she is treated as a trans person is how we all are treated. Her struggle is ours.t Gwen Smith never considered military service as a “cure.” You can find her online at /www.gwensmith.com.

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tax purposes,” including for income tax filing, gift and estate taxes, individual retirement accounts, and in other tax regulations where marriage is a factor. “Any same-sex marriage legally entered into in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, a U.S. territory or a foreign country will be covered by the ruling,” stated the agency in its August 29 press release. “Today’s ruling provides certainty and clear, coherent tax filing guidance for all legally married same-sex couples nationwide. It provides access to benefits, responsibilities and protections under federal tax law that all Americans deserve,” Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said in the release. “This ruling also assures legally married same-sex couples that they can move freely throughout the country knowing that their federal filing status will not change.” The Supreme Court’s DOMA ruling striking down a provision that barred the federal government from recognizing any marriage license issued to a same-sex couple did not guarantee how and when the federal government would recognize such

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Activists want SF Opera to back gay Russians

Members of Gays Without Borders and BoycottRussianVodka.com will be holding a fun informational vigil Friday, September 6 at 7 p.m. at the San Francisco Opera’s gala opening night at the War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Avenue (at Grove Street). The activists have contacted the opera company requesting that the performance of “Mephistophelese” that night be dedicated to expressing solidarity with LGBT people in Russia. Among the performers is out lesbian soprano and activist Patricia Racette, who has been asked to dedicate her performance to Russian LGBTs. Racette did not respond to the request by press time, Gays Without Borders said. San Francisco Opera general director David Gockley responded to the activists Tuesday, saying that while many in the company are empathetic to the request, the mission of the company “is the presentation of operatic performances and not about the political or moral conduct of sovereign nations, or taking public stands on issues in general.” “As an organization we have always embraced a workforce of individuals from all races, religions and sexual orientations,” Gockley added in the email, which was forwarded by Gays Without Borders’ Michael Petrelis. “We support your right to have an informational picket line and offer our help in facilitating it any way we can.” As patrons are entering the Opera House, activists will distribute a flier

marriages. For instance, it did not spell out whether a couple married in a marriage equality state but residing in a state that bans marriage equality would be considered married for federal purposes. Conceivably, a presidential administration that opposed allowing marriage equality for same-sex couples could have interpreted the Windsor ruling in a way that only married couples residing in marriage equality states could be considered married. But the IRS, under the Obama administration, interpreted the DOMA ruling in a broader sense. In a 15-page document explaining its analysis of the impact of Windsor on tax matters for married same-sex couples, IRS special counsels Richard S. Goldstein and Matthew S. Cooper note that, in regard to common law marriages, the IRS has, for the past 50 years, determined the marital status of couples based on where the marriage was created, not where the couple was later residing. “A rule under which a couple’s marital status could change simply by moving from one state to another state would be prohibitively difficult and costly for the service to administer, and for many taxpayers to apply,” said the analysis. Given the ruling in Windsor, said the analysis,

“individuals of the same sex will be considered to be lawfully married under the code as long as they were married in a state whose laws authorize the marriage of two individuals of the same sex, even if they are domiciled in a state that does not recognize the validity of same-sex marriages.” Legal advocates praised the decision. “Had the Bush administration been in place, I doubt they would have seen the Windsor decision that way or accepted the good policy reasons for following a ‘rule of celebration’ recognizing all marriages as valid if valid where entered,” said Jon Davidson, legal director for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. “That might well have led to lawsuits, the outcome of which are rarely assured. So, I think the Obama administration deserves our thanks and our respect. ... I think it highly unlikely that an administration like Bush’s that had actively defended DOMA and the justifications behind it would agree that that is what Windsor required.” The IRS press release noted that the agency’s interpretation of Windsor would not allow same-sex couples who have domestic partnerships, civil unions, or other non-marriage

relationships to be considered married for federal tax purposes. The press release also advised married same-sex couples to file their 2013 tax returns next year as either married filing jointly or married filing separately. And it noted that couples who were married prior to 2013 have the option of filing original or amended returns for tax years 2010, 2011, and 2012. “Additionally, employees who purchased same-sex spouse health insurance coverage from their employers on an after-tax basis may treat the amounts paid for that coverage as pre-tax and excludable from income,” noted the release. The IRS analysis indicated the IRS intends to issue additional guidance on implications for employee benefits.

requesting that they show support for Russian LGBT people and a repeal of the country’s anti-gay propaganda law. The law, signed by President Vladimir Putin this summer, includes stiff fines and jail time for Russian citizens and others in the country who “propagate” homosexuality to minors. This could include hand-holding and other public displays of affection, and broadcasting positive news stories about LGBT people. Putin claims that he’s not homophobic, and that the law is meant to “protect children.” Organizers hope that the vigil Friday moves the struggle for LGBT respect and acceptance in Russia into the cultural realm, broadening support already seen in political and sports circles.

Orleans, where experts in the field of aging will present their latest research and work. The fellowship also comes with a $1,500 stipend. Bajko, 38, has reported on various LGBT aging issues for the B.A.R. since being hired in 2001. His coverage of the topic increased following the formation of San Francisco’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force last fall.

istered domestic partnership, or are committed life partners without legal designation. Things that the panel will address include: Is a new spouse responsible for debt that built before the marriage? How can you take advantage of Social Security benefits for a married couple? Changes that should be considered to a couple’s financial planning now that you are legal. Legalizing immigration status after years of living in the country illegally. And, if there are children involved from a previous relationship, what are the responsibilities of the new spouse? Bay Area Reporter news editor Cynthia Laird will moderate.

B.A.R. reporter selected for aging fellowship

Bay Area Reporter assistant editor Matthew S. Bajko has been selected for a prestigious journalism fellowship focused on aging issues. The MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship Program is for reporters who cover issues in aging and/or who work for ethnic media outlets serving U.S. communities. The Gerontological Society of America and New America Media oversee the fellows program, which is now in its fourth year. Bajko’s selection for the program marks the first time the fellowship has chosen a project specifically focused on LGBT aging issues. In May the B.A.R. will run a monthlong series on LGBT aging, covering myriad topics, researched and written by Bajko. As part of the fellowship, Bajko and the 16 other fellows will attend the GSA’s Annual Scientific Meeting, being held this November in New

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A paper to be published this fall found that only 45 percent of patients self-report having conversations with their providers on how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases and reduce the chances of transmitting HIV to their sexual partners. “They should be talking annually about risk reduction for HIV transmission as well as risk of acquiring STDs,” said Skarbinski, who is one of the authors of the study. Having such information from the MMP surveys can assist health officials and local HIV planning councils on where to best direct lim-

Marriage panel discussion

Attorneys and a financial planner will be on hand to present a panel discussion entitled, “Marriage, Money, and Legal Issues on the Agenda” Wednesday, September 11 at 6:30 p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. In the wake of June’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions that overturned a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act and paved the way for marriage equality’s return to California, some same-sex couples are hesitant to discuss financial planning and legal issues. For decades, LGBT couples have created contracts, domestic partnerships, and verbal agreements that may be affected by new state and federal laws recognizing same-sex marriage. Panelists will include David Nix, a certified financial planner who has long worked with same-sex couples. He will offer insights on how some of the 1,132 rights, responsibilities, and benefits of marriage affect a couple’s finances. Angela Warren, an immigration attorney, will discuss the process to get binational couples on a path to legal status. Attorney Michael Blacksburg will discuss what estate planning looks like for LGBT couples, whether they are legally married (in California or another jurisdiction), have a state reg-

ited resources for care and prevention programs, argued both Scheer and Skarbinski. “We are all in this together, so surveillance is part of the puzzle for how we can improve HIV care and treatment,” said Skarbinski. It is essential that San Franciscans and the city’s unique approach to HIV care and prevention is reflected in the survey data, added Scheer. “We have strong advocates for care here and we want their voices to be heard. A lot of providers are doing innovative work around care here, so we want their patients to be heard,” she said. “We also have patients that do have trouble accessing care that is culturally appropriate, so we also want to hear from them.”t

Other developments

In other DOMA-related developments, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidelines August 29, saying the Windsor ruling ensures that all beneficiaries of Medicare can have equal access to coverage in a nursing home where their spouse lives, regardless of their sexual orientation. “Prior to this,” explained Marilyn Tavenner, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

SF home repair nonprofit seeks volunteers, clients

Rebuilding Together San Francisco offers free renovations to qualified low-income homeowners and local nonprofit organizations and is now seeking volunteers and clients. Typical renovations can include interior painting, landscaping, space planning, or minor repairs. More than 2,000 volunteers from businesses, labor unions, community service organizations, and congregations gather to preserve and repair homes and community facilities in San Francisco. Cirrus Wood with Rebuilding Together San Francisco, which is itself a nonprofit, said the group is always looking for good carpenters, electricians, plumbers, architects, welders, and others. In terms of applicants, Wood said the organization has a few qualifications. People must live in San Francisco, make less than $62,000 per year, and own their home if interested in rebuilding services. Renters can apply for small jobs like install-

For more information about the MMP, visit http://www.cdc.gov/ hiv/prevention/ongoing/mmp/ index.html. 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 9.

Services, “a beneficiary in a same-sex marriage enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan did not have equal access to such coverage and, as a result, could have faced time away from his or her spouse or higher costs because of the way that marriage was defined for this purpose.” The HHS announcement indicated guidance on other HHS-regulated matters would come later. And on August 30, a federal judge in Los Angeles cited the Supreme Court’s decision in Windsor to order the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs to provide benefits to a veteran and her same-sex spouse. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed the lawsuit, Cooper-Harris v. U.S., in 2012, after the VA denied to the same-sex spouse of disabled Army veteran Tracey Cooper-Harris benefits available to the spouses of other veterans. The two women were married in California, but both DOMA and the federal law governing veterans’ benefits (Title 38) defined spouse to be only a person of the opposite sex. In her summary judgment ruling, Judge Consuelo Bland Marshall (a Carter appointee) said excluding same-sex spouses from veterans’ benefits was “not rationally related to the goal of gender equality.”t

ing grab bars and smoke detectors. For more information to volunteer or apply for services, contact Rebuilding Together San Francisco at (415) 905-1611 or download an application at www.rebuildingtogethersf.org.

Deadline nears for NLGJA scholarship

The deadline is fast approaching for this year’s Bob Ross Student Scholarship that is offered by the northern California chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. The $2,500 award honors northern California students who demonstrate a commitment to the NLGJA mission of working within the industry to foster fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues. The scholarship is sponsored by the Bob Ross Foundation, which is named for the founding publisher of the Bay Area Reporter. (The foundation and newspaper are separate legal entities and the newspaper is now owned by BAR Media Inc.) This scholarship is for students from northern California or studying here. They must be enrolled full-time in an institution of higher education and pursuing a journalism-related field of study. Applicants are also required to submit an essay explaining why they are pursuing journalism and how they demonstrate their commitment to NLGJA’s mission, provide references, and meet other criteria. For an application and more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/ m9m5kce. For questions, email norcal@nlgja.org. The deadline is September 15.t Matthew S. Bajko contributed to this report.

On the web Online content this week includes the Out in the World column. Check our website Monday and Tuesday for the return of the Political Notes and Wedding Bells Ring columns, respectively. www.ebar.com.

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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13549700 In the matter of the application of: ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA MADEIROS, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA MADEIROS, is requesting that the name ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA MADEIROS, be changed to ALAN RAFAEL DELAMORA ARAIZA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 3rd of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 15, 22, 29 SEPT 5, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13549701 In the matter of the application of: MELISSA BOTH, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MELISSA BOTH, is requesting that the name MELISSA BOTH, be changed to MICAH CAIDEN OAKS BOTH. 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 8th of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035287100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HILL/STEVENS DESIGN, 3421 16TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JEANETTE HILL & STEPHANIE STILLMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/06/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035294800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOGWASH, 582 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability corporation, and is signed BUTTERS ENTERPRISES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035296300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KABUTO JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 5121 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KABUTO INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035294100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOCU INC., 560 SUTTER ST. #300, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LOCU INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/22/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035294200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GS RIVERSIDE GRILL, 3751 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GS RIVERSIDE GRILL (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035289200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANZ REFACING CABINETS, 1351 SHELTER CREEK LN., SAN BRUNO, CA 94066. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICOLAY ZHUCHKOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/07/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/07/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035284200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAMMER AND HEART BUILDING, 1009 CABRILLO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KELLY ROGALA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035259600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FEARLESS ENTERPRISES, 1230 MARKET ST. #520, SAN FRANSICO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL SUDERMAN JR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/24/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035295100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRAPHIC USER, 4789 19TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRADLEY S. THOMAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035285400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DC.JOES, 23 DARTMOUTH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE JORGE MEJIA MEDINA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/05/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035247700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUNSET SPROUTS, 1834 41ST AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CAROLYN FOGARTY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/18/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035288800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HL ORGANIC SKIN CARE, 6 CLEMENT ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HELEN LAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/07/13. AUG 15, 22, 29, SEPT 5, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 08/14/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ON THE FLY INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 550 MONTGOMERY ST., GROUND FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 941112534. Type of license applied for 21 - OFF-SALE GENERAL AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549717 In the matter of the application of: CHIN YI LEE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHIN YI LEE, is requesting that the name CHIN YI LEE, be changed to JANIE CHINYI LEE. 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 15th of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13549714 In the matter of the application of: OFELIA ROSAS & MADISON LEE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner OFELIA ROSAS & MADISON LEE, are requesting that the name MITZY ISABELLA LEE ROSAS, be changed to MITZY ISABELLA ROSAS WU LEE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 22nd of October 2013 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME & GENDER IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549718 In the matter of the application of: TIFFANY JO STRUB, for change of name & gender having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TIFFANY JO STRUB, is requesting that the name TIFFANY JO STRUB be changed to TAYTON JOSEPH STRUB, and requesting a decree that the petitioner’s gender be changed from female to male. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 10th of October 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035311300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JEWEL DRYWALL, 11 DEDMAN CT., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMICA JACKSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035309000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SE SE SHI JIE, 745 CLAY ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CAIQING LIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035308800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FILLMORE COMPANY, 3107 FILLMORE ST. #303, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed REGAN CAPONI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035302500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE CANDY COVEN, 1251 2ND AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed OSCAR GALLEGOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/13/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/13/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035312500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CASTLE BUILDERS CO., 1870 16TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROMAN ORLOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/19/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035310300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PROPER JOB SQUAD, 1201 6TH AVE. #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MILES FORD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/16/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035305400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAMA LOUNGE, 3910 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed STCC INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035309100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOKYO EXPRESS BATTERY, 77 BATTERY ST. #100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JC & DC RESTAURANT, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035266200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE MEDICAL LABS, 130 SUTTER ST., FL. 2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ONE MEDICAL LABS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035292000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEVER TOO LATTE XPRESS LLC, 303 SACRAMENTO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed NEVER TOO LATTE XPRESS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035312300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAL PACIFIC A DIVISION OF BAY EQUITY HOME LOANS; BAY EQUITY HOME LOANS CAL PACIFIC TEAM; BAY EQUITY HOME LOANS THE TOUCHSTONE GROUP; 100 CALIFORNIA ST. #1100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BAY EQUITY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/09. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/13. AUG 22, 29, SEPT 05, 12, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035328700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASTONISHING DEVELOPMENTS LTD., 2640 GREEN ST. #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VANCE G. NESBITT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/05/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035322100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DENISE BRADLEY, CULTURAL LANDSCAPES, 520 FREDERICK ST. #37, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DENISE ANNE BRADLEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/22/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035320300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: O.E. LOCKSMITH, 695 JOHN MUIR DR. #F301., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed OSHRI ELIYAHU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/21/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/21/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035316400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NAPIER LANE ARTISANAL KNITS; NAPIER LANE; 111 CHESTNUT ST. #807, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LORI C. HAWKINS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035324100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VVBENS, 2555 SAN BRUNO AVE. #228, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a general partnership and is signed XIN GUANG HUANG & VICKY AIER REN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/23/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/23/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035317800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAPU GEMS USA; YADAV; 888 BRANNAN ST. #1100, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DIAMOND IMPORTS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/20/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035302800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1188 FOLSOM, 1188 FOLSOM ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed S&S HOSPITALITY INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/14/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035310800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEANSTALK, 724 BUSH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KOBUKSAN INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035322300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE ONLINE 401K, 101 GREEN ST. FLR 2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DECIMAL, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/22/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035328000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOCOYUM, 657 HOWARD ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LUNCH MONEY CO (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035319700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: XS/SMALL FOODS, 22 4TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed TOM COLLOM & BRUCE SLESINGER & SIMPLY SMART FOODS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/21/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035316700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFFE CENTRO, 102 SOUTH PARK ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BUSWELL RESTAURANT GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035306200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIX72 WOODWORKS, 672 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SIX72 DESIGNS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-032828600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: MDESIGN, 1738 18TH AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MARLENE DUONG. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/10. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-034158700 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: OZIMO, 1116 SHOWELL ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by OZIMO, LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/27/12. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013

SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: ABDELHAKIM BENGHARBIA, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS CHANEL NICOLE SEPULVEDA CASE NO. 112FL-161263 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, 170 PARK AVE., SAN JOSE, CA 95113. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: CHANEL NICOLE SEPULVEDA, 3827 NASH CT., SAN JOSE, CA 95111; (408) 712-2280. Date: APR 02, 2012. Clerk of the Superior Court, by TRANG VU, Deputy. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-035202600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: GRANDE MAISON DE BLANC, 340 SUTTER ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by S SCHEUER COMPANY (OR). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/25/13. AUG 29, SEPT 05, 12, 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035342100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE 7 ELEVEN REALTY, 1188 MISSION ST. #422, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YUNG CHI CHIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/03/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/03/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035322000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C. COLORADO JONES PRODUCTIONS, 139 CORBETT AVE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHER C. JONES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/22/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035333600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HOME FURNISHINGS ALUMNI, 2 HENRY ADAMS ST. #41A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH L. GIRIMONTE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/28/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035328500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTISTIC NAILS & SPA, 1826 DIVISADERO ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NATALIE TRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035337900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STAY CURRENT PRODUCTIONS, 4101 NORIEGA ST. #7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LYNN MCGLOTHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035340300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GUDDU DE KARAHI, 1501 NORIEGA, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MOHAMMED ZULFIQAR HAIDER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035333100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOMBROWSKI CLEANING SERVICES, 227 JENAY COURT, MARTINEZ, CA 94553. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHOLAS DOMBROWSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/27/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/28/13. SEPT 05, 12, 19, 26, 2013

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n impressive array of eclectic exhibitions is on offer at local galleries this fall. Here’s a tantalizing hint of what awaits you between now and the end of the year. Robert Tat Gallery Charles Gatewood: Fifty Years A self-described voyeur, a 70-year-old gay, San Francisco-based fetish photographer, photojournalist and general chroniCharles Gatewood, courtesy of Robert Tat Gallery cler of the taboo, the forbidden and the street, Gatewood goes places “Carlos Santana, NYC” (1973/2008), where most fear to tread but are will- chromogenic print by Charles Gatewood. ing to follow vicariously. He collaborated with the notoriously unhinged and their habitat, which one critic called William S. Burroughs, and anointed himself “the dirtiest pictures” Gatewood ever made. “the family photographer of the American (Sept. 5-Nov. 30) www.roberttat.com erotic underground.” His latest exhibition Ratio 3 YEARBOOK: Ryan McGinley In of mainly vintage prints is a compendium 2003, at the tender age of 24, McGinley beof his half-century walk on the wild side. It came the youngest photographer to have a includes a young Bob Dylan in shades and solo show at the Whitney Museum. Since cigarette, captured when Gatewood was 23 then, his rise to prominence has been steady and “Like a Rolling Stone” was at the top of and meteoric, and it’s easy to see why. There’s the charts, as well as a parade of rock stars, an anarchic spirit at play in McGinley’s subradicals, the Beats and other literary lights versive, exciting work that’s barely contained and outsize personalities, plus images from by technical control and intention. And his Wall Street, a comparatively buttoned-up See page 30 >> series portraying the masters of the universe

Jonathan Groff (left) and Corey Stoll (right) in director Kyle Alvarez’s C.O.G.

The fall season started ahead of this report, with Brad Erickson’s still-running American Dream, El Sueño del Otro Lado at New Conservatory Theatre Center (through Sept. 15), which explores new realities involving same-sex marriage, immigration, and spousal casualties of coming-out victories. It’s an entertaining and thoughtful new play about vital issues without being an issue play. Theatre Rhinoceros is also in a family way as it launches its 36th season with a new play by Executive Director John Fisher. To Sleep and Dream (Sept. 19-Oct. 6 at Z Below) is part father-son drama as the two confront each other about the past, look to the future, and cope with a coming-out present, a present with by Richard Dodds romantic complications spurred by the arrival of the son’s school chum and the father’s comely co-worker. The desultory lives of Chekhov’s characters are updated and made fodder for laughs in Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia davidallenstudio.com and Masha and Spike, the directfrom-Broadway season opener at Noah Hayden has the title role in Salome, a new musical spin on the bring-me-the-head-of tale that is Berkeley Rep (Sept. 20-Oct. 20). part of Thrillpeddlers’ Shocktoberfest 14. The Tony Award-winning play by the author of Beyond Therapy and Sister Mary Explains It All for You his is a story about stories, those theatis populated with siblings named rical stories that pour insistently from for Chekhov characters by their communitycreative minds. So many stories have altheater parents, plus boy-toy Spike, arriving ready been told that the well might seem to be with the movie-star sister who plans to sell the running dry, but no fracking is needed as the family homestead. world turns and theaters find fresh tales to tell It’s a religious divide that persistently cleaves – and some old ones as well – and a new season at an otherwise contented gay couple in Geofunfolds across Bay Area stages. What follows is frey Naufft’s recent Broadway play Next Fall an attempt to barrel the flow, to find context See page 30 >> for at least some of those stories.

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ith the traditional Oscar-bait races getting an early head start powered by Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, it’s time to catch up with other early favorites, beginning with promising queer-themed releases. C.O.G. In Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s wickedly funny take on a David Sedaris essay, a book-smart, angelic-faced white boy plans to spend a summer picking apples alongside a young lady he imagines to be his girlfriend. Samuel makes his first mistake when the girl stands him up on the ride out to Oregon. Sedaris fans will relish the opening montage as Samuel is assaulted by a full array of Greyhound bus denizens, from the trash-talking pregnant black woman to the scary tattooed Jesus freak just out of prison. The freshly out actor Jonathan Groff is

adept at channeling a prideful sissy-boy on the verge of hilarious pratfalls with two middle-aged Mr. Wrongs: a dildo-collecting apple plant supervisor and an angry Bible-spouting vet, an Oscar-worthy turn from openly gay Denis O’Hare. (Sept. 20) Kill Your Darlings John Krokidas introduces us to America’s most glamorous and notorious literary crowd through the backwash of a terrible crime. Kill Your Darlings received rich Sundance buzz for moments where young Daniel Radcliffe, as fledgling poet Allen Ginsberg, ingests drugs, masturbates, and has sex with an older man. This may be the movie that finally gets the Beats in focus. (Nov. 1) Concussion As Abby (Robin Weigert), a wealthy lesbian housewife, rides home with her wife and kids in the family bus, she’s just been struck in the head at her son’s Little League game. The blow becomes a

catalyst for a series of huge life changes. Director Stacy Passon presents her emancipated heroine, with all her blazing contradictions, in a memorable debut that’s a lesbian companion piece to last year’s Ira Sachs-directed Keep the Lights On. As Passon explained on a Sundance website, “She tells her wife, ‘I’ve had it, I’m going back to work.’ And her version of that is to actively source sex. We need to show her at her most vulnerable, when she was filled with rage and jealousy, because some people can have it all, and she couldn’t. If you’ve been sexually abandoned in your life and your marriage, how do you find intimacy again?” (Oct. 4) Afternoon Delight Depending on how you see it, Jill Soloway’s debut Sundance-heralded feature is either a sassy, See page 18 >>

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ut There has a theory as to why so many of us come to visit or live in San Francisco. It’s because the City by the Bay has figured so large as the glamorous locale in movies and TV shows over the years. Thanks to its photogenic qualities, our beloved burg is seared deep into our collective subconscious mind. World Film Locations San Francisco, due out in an American edition this month from Intellect Books, tackles this subject head-on. Edited by (UK) Daily Telegraph critic Scott Jordan Harris, it’s a collection of 46 pieces on scenes shot in San Francisco, from cinema’s earliest days through Contagion (2011). There are also seven essays on topics such as the Golden Gate Bridge’s longstanding starring role, famous SF car chases (Bullitt) and “Queer Culture and Midnight Movies” (Peaches Christ plays a prominent role). We devoured the book in one sitting. Many of these scenes were well known to us: Union Square in The Conversation, Ernie’s in Vertigo, the Curran Theatre in All About Eve – we never go to a show there without thinking about that film. But many were a delightful surprise. For example, we didn’t know that Buster Keaton filmed a scene on Broadway, Pacific Heights’ “Gold Coast” (The Navigator, 1924). For a little fun this week, we’ve listed 13 SF locations from the book, as well as the films they appear in. See if you can play “matchymatchy.” Answers at the end of the column, but cover them up with a paw lest you be tempted to peek! 1. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 2. Dark Passage (1947) 3. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) 4. Pal Joey (1957) 5. The Graduate (1967) 6. Bullitt (1968) 7. Dirty Harry (1971) 8. Harold and Maude (1971) 9. What’s Up Doc? (1972) 10. High Anxiety (1977) 11. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 12. Basic Instinct (1992) 13. Zodiac (2007)

A. San Francisco Zoo B. San Francisco Chronicle building C. Steinhart Aquarium D. San Francisco General Hospital E. Penthouse, 1090 Chestnut St. F. Hyatt Regency G. The Spreckels Mansion H. The Rawhide II I. Sutro Baths ruins J. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge K. Dept. of Public Health L. Hilton San Francisco M. Dolores Park

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edgy, post-feminist comedy or a depressingly familiar report back from the digital wars. In either case, we encounter our beleaguered heroine, Rachel (Kathryn Hahn), sitting in the womb of her van as it glides through an automated car wash. It’s a more soothing experience than the conversational combat with her happily married lesbian shrink (finally, a good non-Glee part for the talented Jane Lynch) whose mad method is to take up Rachel’s time with advice from her own marriage. But then, a therapy session where the client makes guilty allusions to Dafur is a bit screwy from the getgo. Rachel is married to a “nice” Jewish guy, Jeff (Josh Radnor), whose job it is to inflict new phone apps on the world. Their union is rounded out by a curly-haired four-yearold son. Rachel is drifting towards trouble with the other married gals from her JCC. That trouble arrives in the person of a skinny blonde waif, McKenna (Juno Temple, turning into this generation’s vessel for the loopy turns once the province of Karen Black or Goldie Hawn). In “adopting” McKenna, whom she

“At the Russian River, I met Steve. Steve Adore. I was on E, and he had done some K. Just enough to be ourselves.” “That terrorist look is hot.” “I’m not a terrorist. I’m Italian, I’m tan – from Puerto Vallarta.” “What’s with the defensiveness? I said it was hot.” Alas, it does not end well for Steve and Mahmoud. “Dear Steve, There’s something I have to tell you. I’m an undercover Al Qaeda agent. I’m not your swarthy little lamb kebab. I never loved you. I’m on a mission. Salam.” Upon getting the note, Steve thinks: “He must be really hurting. Hmm. A terrorist would be kinda hot role play. And he’s got the look. I’m getting a boner.”t Answers: 1: J. 2: E. 3: C. 4: G. 5: A. 6: D. 7: M. 8: I. 9: L. 10: F. 11: K. 12: H. 13: B.

meets at a lap-dancing sex club, Rachel is at least unconsciously deciding to detonate her smothering, sexless marriage. The scene that will determine whether this one’s for you has Rachel in a women’snight-out wine party screeching that her precious personal photos are locked away in “the cloud.” The women boast that their 20s are for sleeping around, with their parents paying for the inevitable abortions. Rachel asks if anyone cares to imagine what her aborted kid might look like if one had lived. Meanwhile, McKenna has invaded Jeff ’s all-boys poker night with comic brio. This is a must-see for fans of Mike White’s satirical ickfest Chuck and Buck. Soloway has the chops to render an old Woody Allen gag about a psychiatrist bursting into tears. (Sept. 6) Valentine Road Marta Cunningham captures the story behind the 2008 classroom shooting death of California queer teen Larry King by classmate Brandon McInerney. “Brandon was 14 years old when he committed the crime, he was looking at 53 years to life without the chance of parole, and I thought, ‘That’s not right.’ It’s not right to kill See page 21 >>

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have a special relationship with the Verdi Requiem. I know, don’t we all? But I nearly went to jail because of it. The process of moving my belongings from Laos to Thailand more than a decade ago was interrupted by the Lao police’s seizure of five of my parcels, mostly containing books and CDs. This is never a good turn of events. The American consul in Laos at the time, who had become a friend, said that the chances I’d go to jail over the contents – which could include things the police had added to them: opium, say; a certain kind of photograph – were 50-50. In Laos at the time, to be jailed was to be disappeared. On our way to retrieve them, the consul’s assistant, Hotsady, told me that topping the list of the itches the Lao authorities were scratching at the time were religious proselytizers. “Tell me there wasn’t a Bible in there.” There was, not because I’m a thumper but because it’s a key resource for a classical-music critic. The breath-holding began. (My concomitant acute tonsillitis was almost a welcome distraction.) Come showtime, the skinny policemen deputized a scrawnier sixyear-old boy to fish an item out of one of the cartons as if at a raffle. His pinchers retrieved a Verdi Requiem, its cover emblazoned with Jesus hanging on the cross. Hotsady and I neither moved a muscle nor worked a lung. Then, in a caprice Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com. To charge by phone (800) 745-3000. Limit 8 tickets per person. of the gods, the boy dropped it back All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable service charges. into the carton disinterestedly and picked out another. Falstaff. Tickets are available at LiveNation.com and select Walmart locations.The authorities gave that a spin To charge by phone (800) 745-3000. Limit 8 tickets per person. and were so horrified by what they All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change heard that they tore it from the without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable service charges. player and packed me on my way. Sir John to the rescue. I tell the story to say that almost no music is “absolute”; and that some songs (as iTunes collectively calls them in ways I don’t altogether mind) gather associations they never shake. That day at the roadside police station in the middle of nowhere Laos was the most afraid I’ve been in this lifetime. I can’t hear Verdi’s famous Dies Irae without its Chris Rayan in CULTURE SAVVY, Reviews recalling my personal day of judghttp://IMPACTmagazine.us ment narrowly missed. It will be something if the Verdi Year produces a more important recording than Decca’s new Requiem, with Daniel Barenboim leading the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala (Decca), where the piece had its deuxieme. It’s a thrilling,

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musically masterful performance of the definitive David Rosen edition of the score for Ricordi. But the best word to describe it is a troubled one: authentic. It’s not just that these musicians are performing the work that most closely accords to Verdi’s intentions; it’s that they do it with full artistic and emotional integrity. Maybe it’s having spent months with recordings of The Rite of Spring dating from the premiere to the centenary. What becomes inescapable is the degree to which The Rite increasingly becomes a sound spectacular for a virtuoso orchestra. Sonically glamorous performances don’t harm the piece in any essential way, but the spectacular can replace, or at least displace, the elemental nature of the work. So with the Verdi Requiem. Heightened attention to its spectacular components – and they are legion – has, however ironically, brought the piece back to Hans von Buelow’s crude but lingering critique of the piece (before he heard it; he quickly recanted): that it is an opera disguised as a mass for the dead. The words – as always an obsession for Verdi – are, with Barenboim, in the safest of hands. The Dies Irae doesn’t just blaze; it burns with the fires of hell, and greater than the gooseflesh produced by the orchestra and chorus in full cry is the lick of that flame. Recorded live a year ago at La Scala (where Barenboim is music director, and had the audacity to open the Verdi Year opera season with birthday concelebrant Wagner’s Lohengrin), it is “live” in every sense.

The vocal soloists are the day’s best, working in unalloyed ensemble. First out of the box with the Kyrie, Jonas Kaufmann inflects the music with the wealth of detail you expect of him yet without a hint of the fussiness a voice of his caliber would allow. The Ingemisco is glorious, but it’s the hushed Hostias, and his quieter contributions to the ensemble (Quid sum miser) that really score. Elina Garanca is his match in the middle voices, singing the part in rich ribbons of supremely disciplined sound that yearns ever upward. Her Lacrimosa can hold its own with anyone’s. Anja Harteros and Rene Pape, already so impressive in their interpretation of the piece with Antonio Pappano, both outpace their earlier performances. Pape becomes ever the more subtle singer and is as impressive at pianissimo as singing full out. Harteros, who has become something of a regular partner of Kaufmann in both Verdi and Wagner, now sings with even greater power, range, security, beauty, and emotional impact. The long arcs of sound she unfurls mark a Verdian at full maturity, and she delivers the Libera Me as if everything prior has led up to it, as indeed it has. But it’s the wisdom of Barenboim’s pacing and his unfailing sense of proportion in all things that ground this work in its fundamental humanity and make it profound. Decca is also releasing the Requiem in DVD and BluRay, and the video snippets available to the press underscore the deep humanity of this urgent, primal Verdi Requiem.t

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the composer’s centenary. It may be a sober way to gear up for the ensuing winter holidays, but it should keep us spiritually nurtured throughout the rest of the year.

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ingle-ticket sales for the San Francisco Opera’s 91st season went on sale Aug. 5, and across the street on Grove the San Francisco Symphony’s box office has been helping music-lovers cherry-pick concerts since late July. Looks like it might be time to put down the umbrella drink, brew a pot of coffee, and make a little list. The fall season is here, and it is filled with promise. As we go to press the SFS has already celebrated the gala start of its 102nd season with a program featuring the adorably ubiquitous Audra McDonald singing tunes from the American Songbook. We will report on the festivities later, but it isn’t too late to nab tickets for repeats of the same program on Fri., Sept. 6, and Sat., Sept. 7, with violinist James Ehnes taking over McDonald’s guest spot. He will be performing the gorgeous Samuel Barber concerto, and Gershwin’s jaunty An American in Paris finishes the night. The following week takes a more serious turn with a West Coast premiere (the first SFS New Voices commission) and a return appearance from pianist Yefim Bronfman playing the Tchaikovsky First Concerto. There is buzz about Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri’s Lineage, and the concert includes Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 3. MTT has a winning way with Prokofiev, and we anticipate another satisfying encounter. A curious grab bag of short compositions ranging from Aaron Copland through Rachmaninoff, and a return visit from another piano virtuoso, Emanuel Ax, ends the month. There is some Delius, Grieg and Mahler on the bill with Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto. We suspect all will be made clear later. October brings guest conductor Pablo Heras-Casado back to DSH for two weeks of concerts that juxtapose two dissimilar voices who still share some interesting thematic interests: Felix Mendelssohn and modern master Thomas Ades. If you missed Heras-Casado in the past, don’t let it happen again. He is the real deal, and his concerts sizzle with energy. The programming this time couldn’t be more enticing, and some great guest artists add to the

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somebody in the middle of English class, but is it right for him to be tried as an adult?” Carrie Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce returns with a different spin on Brian De Palma’s durable high school revenge campfest, based on early Stephen King. Newcomer Chloe Grace Moretz’s bid to rattle prom night is complemented by Julianne Moore’s latest bad-mom turn. (Oct. 4) Romeo and Juliet British pretty boy Douglas Booth (from BBCTV’s Boy George bio-pic Worried about the Boy) is the news from Italian director Carlo Carlei’s update on Shakespeare’s tragic lovers. The trailer indicates a more traditional approach than Baz Lurhmann’s 1996 Leo pop fest. Prisoners Quebec’s Denis Villeneuve (2010’s Incendiaries) hatches a star-strewn child abduction thriller that has a frantic dad (Hugh Jackman) turning vigilante when a local cop (Jake Gyllenhaal) lets a low-IQ suspicious drifter (Paul Dano) off the hook in the disappearance of his young daughter. This one takes us down a rabbit hole of angst, paranoia and torture, with actors who won’t hesitate to sacrifice their bodies for the story. (Sept. 20)

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The San Francisco Opera kicks off its 91st season with the resurrection of Canadian director Robert Carsen’s fabulous production of Boito’s Mefistofele. It originally premiered in the late 1980s, and was seen again in the mid-90s with beloved hunk Samuel Ramey in the title role (he started the shirtless divo trend). We look forward to yet another viewing. It is a little late to be calling Carsen a wunderkind at 59, or even a Canadian after Felix Broede years of international acGuest conductor Pablo Heras-Casado claim, but Mefistofele was returns to Davies Hall. the first production to get the talented showman on our local radar. bills. Violinist Leila Josefowicz esThe breathtaking Prologue alone says the Stravinsky Concerto, and is worth the price of admission, and strong singers, including local faCarsen’s insightful touches and carevorite Rodney Gilfrey, will be joinfully controlled spectacle throughing the young Spanish maestro out make this a classic worthy of a week later for a Shakespearean another revival. Ildar Abdrazakov concert featuring scenes from Ades’ has some big shoes to fill in the title wonderful The Tempest and Menrole, but if photos of him portraydelssohn’s beloved take on A Miding Verdi’s Attila are any indication, summer Night’s Dream. we know he can handle the beefcake October gets spooky as Hallowside. Ramon Vargas is Faust, and Paeen approaches with a tribute to tricia Racette is Marguerite/Elena. Alfred Hitchcock and showings of Nicola Luisotti conducts the starry some of his greatest thrillers. The proceedings. SFS is supplying live musical accomPatricia Racette will also be starpaniment. This could be especially ring in the Opera’s following proluxurious when the full symphonic duction, though she didn’t know treatment is given to Bernard Herrabout it until recently. SFO Genmann’s Wagnerian score for Vertigo eral Director David Gockley’s latand the orchestra’s strings slice their est commission for the company way through the same composer’s Dolores Claiborne is based on the remarkable music for Psycho. November is anchored with conductor Semyon Bychkov’s return to DSH with An Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss. Majestic and remarkably free of kitsch and bombast, the Alpine remains one of the composer’s most impressive orchestral works. The month ends with another must-hear, the Benjamin Britten War Requiem. Not only is it a chance to experience one of Britten’s greatest masterpieces live, it is also an opportunity to celebrate

Enough Said “I used to say I was a 260 lb. Woody Allen. You can make that 295 lb. now.” The shock that James Gandolfini is dead at 51 is temporarily relieved by the arrival of one of his last jobs, a smart new opposites attract/empty nester romcom from Nicole Holofcener. Albert has a decidedly non-cute party meet with masseuse Eva (Seinfeld survivor Julia Louis-Dreyfus). The attraction blossoms until the fickle finger of fate plops a beautiful poet down on Eva’s table, Albert’s still-bitter nag of an ex (Catherine Keener). Gandolfini’s scenes overflow with a radiant humanity that renders his loss all the more painful. At Berkeley America’s grand old doc guy Frederick Wiseman trains his camera on an institution, UC Berkeley, that’s been educating and perplexing since the heady days of the 1960s Free Speech movement. Wiseman’s 40th feature explores the hypothesis I mulled over as a kid when the middle-class school system that saved me failed my younger siblings. Wiseman tells the NY Times that the budget cuts destabilizing the flagship campus were no accident. “There’s a political agenda behind that, to dumb people down. Because if you don’t study the humanities and you don’t have See page 29 >>

Stephen King novel, with music by American composer Tobias Picker and a libretto by J.D. McClatchy. We were interested, surprised and slightly incredulous when we first heard of the commission, originally intended for mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick. Upon consideration, it seemed the project actually held some unusually compelling promise. Stephen King is not only a massively popular novelist with a penchant for the dark and bizarre, but he is also one hell of a storyteller. It is the stuff opera is really made of. Tobias Picker is also a uniquely talented artist, with a haunting lyrical quality to all of his best work. A panic-inducing, last-minute twist of fate for the premiere came with the sudden withdrawal of Dolora Zajick for health reasons (including personal voice issues). Her replacement in the title role is none other than Patricia Racette. I doubt there is any subtext in the move by Zajick. She is a well-respected pro who wants the best for her own career and the upcoming production. Curiously enough, I have a gut feeling it is playing out for the best. I’ll bet Racette will nail it, and it certainly adds additional frisson to an already intriguing project. Next up is Verdi’s autumnal masterwork and a life-long personal favorite: the composer’s wise and warm, sparkling and witty Falstaff. I last saw it years ago at the SFO, in a well-worn production that was starting to look frayed around the edges. The new production to San Francisco comes from Lyric Opera of Chicago, and stars the foremost Falstaff of the day, Bryn Terfel. I have seen Terfel in Gordon Vick’s mean-spirited Royal Opera production, and he still managed to convey the vulnerability of the role despite the general nastiness of the direction. He can also sing the doublet

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off the part, and that is a genuine bonus. Ainhoa Arteta (a big hit in Cyrano here) will make a lovely Mistress Ford, and Heidi Stober (we just saw her in the Santa Fe Opera’s Oscar) is Nannetta. Nicola Luisotti is on the podium. Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman is another new production, starting Oct. 22 and continuing in repertory through Nov. 15. Greer Grimsley stars, with Petra Maria Schnitzer as Senta and Ian Storey as Erik. Patrick Summers leads from the pit. For anyone wanting to test the deep waters of Wagner’s genius, I can’t think of a better introduction. The fall season concludes with another new production (!) and another visit with Rossini’s endlessly popular and endearing The Barber of Seville. Lucas Meachem is followed by Audun Iversen as Figaro, and Isabel Leonard is followed by Daniela Mack as Rosina. The director is Emilio Sagi, and the conductor is Giuseppe Finzi. A good production of The Barber is a reminder of everything we love about the sinfully delightful old Rossini, and this one has all the ingredients for success.t

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Ildar Abdrazakov and Ramon Vargas in director Robert Carsen’s production of Boito’s Mefistofele.

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loved novel. Produced for PBS, this superb miniseries looks back upon everything that was magical and gay about 1970s San Francisco. When Mary Ann (Laura Linney) moves into the funky house at 28 Barbary Lane, she realizes just how far from Cleveland she is! Olympia Dukakis steals the show as the wise and wonderful “house mother,” Mrs. Madrigal. This new edition presents the entire series on two discs. Maupin, Dukakis and Linney take part in a lively commentary track. There’s also some delicious behind-thescenes footage. Petunia (Wolfe Video) A family on the verge of a nervous breakdown is the focus of this charming foray into Woody Allen territory from gay actor/director Ash Christian. The Petunia family is living on the edge of sanity: the Petunia brothers must unlearn everything they were taught by their psychoanalyst parents. But they’re a loving clan nonetheless. Issues include openly gay, undeniably cute Charlie (Tobias Siegel), whose boyfriend George (Michael Urie) is in a polyamorous relationship with a female fitness instructor. Shot in Dumbo, an ultra-hip neighborhood in Brooklyn, Petunia examines our changing sexual landscape with honesty and humor.

Waterberry Tears (Ariztical Entertainment) The difficulties faced by gay youth in an immigrant Mexican community are examined in this intense drama. Goyo cannot hide his sexual orientation from his conservative and abusive father Ramon. Things get even more complicated when Goyo and his twin sister both fall in love with the handsome Lucio. Filmed in the Coachella Valley, Waterberry Tears is a stunning coming-of-age tale about being true to who you truly are, rather than who you’re expected to be. Star Trek: Into Darkness (Paramount) There’s a definite gay twist to this second installment of the rebooted franchise. Handsome Zachary Quinto, the current Mr. Spock, joined original Trekker George Takei in coming out as a proud gay man. The film is a standard Trek adventure: a manhunt to an interplanetary war zone to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. Whether you like this installment or not, there’s no denying Quinto’s sex appeal! Behind the Candelabra (HBO) If you’re not an HBO subscriber, now’s your chance to see this superb bio-pic on the relationship between master showman/flamboyant closet case Liberace (Michael Douglas) and his boy toy Scott Thorson (Matt Damon), who outed the superstar with a headline-grabbing palimony suit. Douglas brilliantly channels the late entertainer’s mannerisms and speech patterns: while watching this film or old Liberace clips, it’s hard to imagine that Liberace’s vast audience had no idea they were looking at an effeminate queen. But people see what they want to see. Director Steven Soderbergh and his stars bring to life this sad tale of two gay men who were forced to hide their love because of the era in which they lived. That era ultimately destroyed them.

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rancing around the hallways of your high school singing a medley of songs from the George M. Cohan songbook doesn’t really attract best friendships,” writes Mark Brennan Rosenberg in his snide, intermittently hilarious coming-of-age memoir Eating My Feelings. Coming out is difficult enough without the burden of being overweight. That just added more stress to a life that included doting on a Jewish father, a Christian mother, and in his youth, a surprising divorce and remarriage that pitted him against “a Jewish whore named Stacey,” a.k.a. his new “evil stepmother.” It’s not surprising Rosenberg ate with wild abandon to forget the life he seemed to be stuck in.

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Beyond the Walls (Strand Releasing) Tragic tearjerker about Paulo, a young French pianist who falls in love with Albanian immigrant Ilir. Their love is intense, passionate and erotic. When Ilir is imprisoned, Paulo can’t let go. Ilir tells him not to return, but in a gutwrenching, heartbreaking scene, Paulo stands outside the prison walls, shouting his boyfriend’s name in tears. The Canyons (IFC Films) This controversial low-budgeter barely played in theaters before showing up on pay-per-view. It comes to DVD in November. Burnt-out Hollywood bad girl Lindsay Lohan shows that, in spite of her troubles, she still has acting chops. Lindsay appears, looking a little worse for wear, alongside an unlikely co-star: straight porn star James Deen in his dramatic debut. Deen got surprisingly decent notices for his role as Christian, a producer looking to bankroll a horror movie. The Canyons attempts to convey just how dark and sleazy the fringes of Hollywood can be. It’s based on a novel by gay bad-boy writer Bret Easton Ellis and was directed by straight bad boy Paul Schrader (American Gigolo). The cast includes openly gay director Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Milk). Bottom (Water Bearer Films) Maverick gay filmmaker Todd Verow (Vacationland, The Boy with the Sun in His Eyes) offers a graphic, no-holds-barred documentary on bottoms who bareback. Inspired by an actual blog entitled Confessions of a Bareback Cunt, Verow focuses his camera on real people who engage in the dangerous and controversial practice. The film makes no judgments, it just presents what is. Definitely for adults only.t

comes easy as he writes of being carefully guided to homosexual self-acceptance with the help of shows like One Life to Live, In Living Color, Beverly Hills, 90210, and Melrose Place (he once asked his father for the hit primetime soap’s signature fragrance), movies like Clueless (he asked for the soundtrack), and tanning booths all throughout high school. These realizations somehow made his days spent at a fat camp more bearable, not to mention being bribed $50 to consume gefilte fish (“it smelled like crotch rot and looked like the soup in cartoons that has boots floating in it”). Not much changes when Rosenberg enters college, but after that, the author decides to up his game and get in shape (“no one likes a fattie”). Even in the midst of this self-improvement kick, his biting observances continue at random. The book could have done without his snippy commentary on a blind man working See page 26 >>

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ayley Williams was only 16 when she and Paramore bandmates released their first album in 2005. Since that time, over the course of eight years and four studio discs, Williams has grown up, something she sings about in “Grow Up,” a song from Paramore’s firstrate new eponymous recording on Fueled by Ramen/Atlantic. A mature and daring effort, Paramore moves beyond emo eccentricities to become the kind of band that could stand the test of time. Williams is still the focus, a powerhouse vocalist who infuses these 17 songs with a raw and raucous energy. Paramore give us much to fall in love with here, including the funky strut of “Ain’t It Fun,” the new wave revival snap of “Still Into You,” the stadiumsized snarl of “Anklebiters,” the subtle Tennessee twang of “Hate To See Your Heart Break” and the retro pop of “(One of Those) Crazy Girls.” As comebacks go, emo royalty Fall Out Boy hasn’t done too badly with Save Rock and Roll (Island). The disc does a good job of restoring the band’s rep following Patrick Stump’s ill-fated solo project. Opener “The Phoenix” makes good use of a clever chorus: “I’m gonna change you like a remix/Then I’ll raise you like a phoenix.” “Where Did the Party Go?” is enough to get party guests dancing. Joined by Foxes on “Just One Yesterday,” Fall Out Boy rolls out its funk-loving side, while “Miss Missing You” sounds a little too much like Maroon 5. That’s Courtney Love ranting on “Rat a Tat,” and her royal highness Sir Elton John on the title cut. Just as Angela Chase (Claire Danes) on My So-Called Life did, many gay teens and teenage girls fell in love with Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto. Moody, broody and so pretty it hurt to look at him, Leto’s portrayal of the troubled teen was unforgettable. He went on to make some memorable movies, including Requiem for a Dream and Panic Room, but he soon became more interested in making music with his band Thirty Seconds to Mars. The ambitious Love Lust Faith + Dreams (Virgin), the fourth studio album by TSTM, bypasses contemporaries such as the recently disbanded My Chemical Romance to invade Muse’s territory. In a vast improvement on previous discs, TSTM has outgrown its screamo roots for a more accessible sound, which comes through loud and clear on songs “Up in the Air,” “The Race” and “Bright Lights.” Brandy’s debut album came out when the actress and singer was only 15. All grown up now, Brandy shows

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tasteful restraint with her smoky rasp. At home expressing her sexuality on “Slower” and “Let Me Go,” she also has a grasp of dealing with adult matters on “No Such Thing as Too Late” and “Paint This House.” She teams up with Chris Brown, a performer of questionable talent, on the lackluster “Put It Down,” but redeems herself on “Scared of Beautiful,” a gorgeous track penned by queer artist Frank Ocean. Talk about musical reinvention. At a mere 12 years old, Charlotte Church saw her classical crossover debut album ascend the charts to #1. A gifted singer with an impressive vocal range, Church can’t be blamed for wanting to change directions and join her fellow 20-somethings in the modern pop world. One & Two (Alligator Wine), an album that combines two EPs, permits Church to stretch in new directions on “Say It’s True,” “Glitterbombed” and “The Mistress.” Twenty years old when his selftitled debut disc was released, classical crossover superstar Josh Groban has managed to stay in the public eye releasing live and studio albums on which he remains faithful to his roots while adding new colors to his palette. With All That Echoes (Reprise), Groban continues to grow as a songwriter (“Below the Line,” “Happy in my Heartache”) and exhibits splendid taste in cover material (Jimmy Webb’s “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,” “Falling Slowly” from Once). Just when it seemed that “boy band” tweeny-pop might have run its course, our friends across the pond unleash TV talent-show contestants One Direction. Conjuring both The Clash and Katy Perry on Take Me Home (SYCO/Columbia) opener “Live While We’re Young,” One Direction sounds conflicted about which direction to take. But that doesn’t last long – they are clearly playing on Perry’s team. A couple of exceptions, including two Ed Sheeran co-comps (“Little Things,” “Over Again”) almost make this expedition bearable, but the pre-fab 21st-century Swedepop will turn your brain into Lutefisk faster than you can say Abba.t Paramore performs on Oct. 18 at SAP Center in San Jose.

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Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

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Big Gigantic @ Fox Theatre, Oakland The popular sax-drum electro-dancehip hop jazz duo perform live; Ill-esha opens. $20.50. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. (510) 302-2250. biggigantic.net www.thefoxoakland.com

Carl Dobsky, Cuong Nguyen @ John Pence Gallery Opening reception for an exhibit of stunning realist paintings and portraits by the two artists. 6pm-8pm. Reg hours Mon-Fri 10am-6pm. Sat til 5pm. 750 Post St. 441-1138. www.johnpence.com

by Jim Provenzano Of the many performers who’ve graced the set of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Pandora Boxx remains a personal favorite. With a wry comic edge that can leap into slapstick or caricature, Boxx’s performances balance classic drag with contemporary pop sensibility. She’ll be performing in San Francisco on September 6, 7 & 8 at Rebel. Boxx’s act includes backstage stories from the show, songs live and lipsynched, and some catty comic moments. Since the Drag Race contest, Boxx has made music video parodies, comic short films and even penned a few saucy songs, like “Nice Car (Shame About Your Penis”). It’s all part of the creative

spirit her character thrives on. “Drag Race changed the game again and really brought it to the mainstream,” said Boxx (whose real name is Michael Steck). “Because it’s ongoing, you do have to put yourself out here. You have to try and put your hand in every jar out there. It’s all about staying relevant. Drag Race was an amazing opportunity. But it’s what you do afterward that counts.” Read more of our interview with Pandora Boxx on www.BARtabSf.com Pandora Boxx: Lick This Boxx! $22.50. 7:30pm & 10pm, nightly Sept 6, 7 and 8. Rebel, 1760 Market St. pandoraboxx.com www.brownpapertickets.com

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Agave Baroque @ Old First Church

Bonnie & Clyde @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

Bay Area quartet performs 18th-century music by J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Jean-Fery Rebel, and Heinrich Biber. $14-$17. 8pm. 1751 Sacramento St. at Van Ness Ave. 474-1608. www.oldfirstconcerts.org

Shotgun Players performs Adam Peck’s dramatic adaptation of the story of the infamous Southern bank-robbing couple. $20-$35. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 29. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Christine Ebersole @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Broadway and TV actress-singer performs her new cabaret act. $40-$85. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat 7pm. Thru Sept. 7. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1111. www.hotelnikkosf.com

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Noche Marga Gomez hosts the weekly LGBT- and queer-friendly comedy night at the Mission club. No cover; one-drink min. 8pm. 3079 16th St. www.comedybodega.com

Dot 429 Party @ Hotel Zetta The LGBT website and networking group (and soon, a magazine, too) hosts a cocktail party at the stylish hotel. Proceeds benefit Freedom to Marry. $35-$45. 6pm9pm. 55 5th st. www.dot429.com

Lauren Shufran, R. Erica Doyle @ Poetry Cetner Two local poets read from their work. Free. 4:30pm. SF State campus, Humanities Bldg. #512. www.sfsu.edu/~poetry

Out of the Past @ Old Mint Fascinating fundraiser for Project Open Hand at the beautiful architectural treasure, with performances, DJed dance music, cocktails, nibbly things, talks with historians and activists (Stuart Milk, Donna Sachet, Jose Cisneros). $20. 6pm-11pm. 88 5th St. www.outofthepast.eventbrite.com

All’s Well That Ends Well @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of The Bard’s romantic comedy of mixed and missed affections. $20-$37.50. 8pm. Fri-Sun 8pm. Thru Sept 28. 890 Belle Ave, Dominican University of California, San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org

Alumni Recitals @ SF Conservatory of Music Frank Wallace (’74) More Gargoyles and Kevin Villalta (’13) Witch Wagon performed by Mobius Trio; Mark Ackerley (’10) A Celebration of Vitality and Mario Godoy (’13) String Quartet performed by Friction Quartet; Joseph Stillwell (’10) Two Poems of William Butler Yeats performed by Valinor Winds; Ian Dicke (’04) Déjá performed by New Keys. $15-$20. 8pm. 50 Oak St. at Franklin. 503-6275. sfcm.edu

American Dream @ New Conservatory Theatre Center World premiere of Brad Erickson’s drama about a recently-out architect who falls in love with a Mexican school teacher; a serious yet sometimes funny drama about marriage and immigration rights. $22-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 15. 25 Van Ness Ave at Market. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Sing-Along Mary Poppins

Tesla Boy @ Rickshaw Stop Russian synth-pop sensation performs; Night Moves, Queen Kwong, plus Popscene DJs. $13-$15. 9:30pm. 155 Fell St. 861-2011. www.rickshawstop.com

Solo dancer performs Traditions, a work that combines traditional Bharatantyam dance and contemporary interpretations. $20. 8pm. 1310 Mission St. 626-2060. www.counterpulse.org

God of Carnage @ Shelton Theater New local production of Yasmina Reza’s darkly funny play (translated by Christopher Hampton) about four parents whose negotiations about a bullying child descend into savagery. $26-$38. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 7. 533 Sutter St. (800) 838-3006. www.SheltonTheater.com

Grounded @ A.C.T. Costume Shop George Brent’s contemporary solo drama about a female F16 fighter whose pregnancy reduces her career to remotely operating drones. $20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 7. 1119 Market St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Josh Klipp and The Klipptones @ Palace Hotel The local jazz crooner and his band perform weekly shows at the hotel’s lounge, which draws a growing swingdance audience. 7pm-11pm. 2 New Montgomery. www.joshklipp.com

Macbeth @ Fort Point We Players, the innovative site-specific theatre company, performs Shakespeare’s haunting “Scottish play” at the former military outpost. Be forewarned: this three-hour production is mostly outdoors, at night, where it’s cold and damp (how appropriate!), with stairs and multiple locations (special needs/wheelchair access; call in advance). Oh, and it’s violent, so don’t bring kids. Opens Sept. 5. $30-$60. Discounted Thursdays $45. Thu-Sun thru Oct. 6. 1 Marine Drive. 547-0189. www.WePlayers.org

Mefistofele @ War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Opera performs Arrigo Boito’s Italian opera about the man who made a deal with the devil. $23-$385. 8pm. Also Sept 11, 14, 17, 20, 24, 29 & Oct. 2. 301 Van Ness Ave. 864-3330. www.sfopera.com

Orlando @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley TheatreFirst performs Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s genderbending novel. $15-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Sept. 15. 2-for-1 ticket special for opening weekend. 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. (510) 981-8150. theatrefirst.com

San Francisco Symphony @ Davies Hall Michael Tilson Thomas conducts an opening season concert, with violin solist James Ehnes; Antheil’s Jazz Symphony, Barber’s Violin Concerto, Opus 14 and Gershwin’s An American in Paris. $15$156. 8pm. Also Sept 7. 201 Van Ness Ave. www.sfsymphony.org

Sing-Along Mary Poppins @ Castro Theatre The classic Disney musical film, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, about a magical nanny in Victorian London; screening includes subtitles (as if you didn’t know the lyrics), a costume contest, and a pre-show organ recital by David Hegarty. $10-$15. 7pm. Also Sept 7 & 8 at 2pm & 7pm. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Fri 6 After the Revolution @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Amy Herzog’s drama about a woman who discovers her family’s history isn’t the proud radical tradition she thought it was. $32-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, & 7pm. Thru Sept. 29. 2801 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Ganesh Vasudeva @ CounterPulse

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Labayen Dance Richard Barantai

Sat 7 Bay Area Rainbow Symphony @ SF Conservatory of Music New Music Director Dawn Harms conducts the symphony in a concert of Jake Heggie’s Primary Colors, Rachmaninoff Symphony #2, and Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier trio finale; with guest stars Frederica Von Stade, Melody Moore and Marisol DeAnda. $35-$55. 8pm. 50 Oak St. at Van Ness. www.bars-sf.org

Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Enjoy the new exhibit of vintage prints, taken by the gay Beat poet, of his friends Jack Kerouac and others. Also, Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art, part of the SF MOMA’s off-site collaborative exhibits; thru Oct 27. 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza New twice-weekly (Sat & Sun) live outdoor music concerts presented by the Castro/ Upper Market Community Business District. This week, John Haesemeyer and his folk band, Free. Castro St. at Market. 500-1181. www.castrocbd.org

SF Hiking Club @ Mt. San Bruno Join GLBT hikers for a 12-mile hike on the Peninsula from South SF over many trails on Mt. San Bruno and then down into Colma. Bring water, lunch, hat, sunscreen, layers, good hiking shoes. Meet 9am at the South San Francisco BART station. 8378990. www.shiking.com

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Be Bad…Do Good @ GLBT History Museum Be Bad…Do Good: Activism With a Beat, a new multimedia exhibit highlighting the history of the Real Bad benefit dance parties, which have raised nearly $1.7 million for local nonprofits. Thru Oct. 27. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm (closed Tue.) Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Camelot @ SF Playhouse Local production of Lerner and Loewe’s hit Broadway musical about King Arthur, Guinevere and his court, stars Tony Award winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia (with composer & playwrights’ estates’ approved edits and additional songs). $25-$75. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru Sept 21. 450 Post St. (2nd floor, Kensington Park Hotel). 677-9596. sfplayhouse.org

Capacitor @ Aquarium of the Bay Okeanos, an aquatic dance show, is performed by the creative Bay Area dancetheatre team. $15-$30. 7pm. Saturdays thru Sept. Pier 39 at Embarcadero. 6235300. www.capacitor.org www.aquariumofthebay.org

Charles Gatewood: Fifty Years @ Robert Tat Gallery Exhibit of photos from five decades of prints by the fine art photographer and photojournalist. Opening reception Sept. 7, 3pm-5pm. Thru Nov. 30. 49 Geary St. #410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Doll House @ Midnight Sun Emperor Drew Cutler and Empress Patty McGroin cohost the monthly charity fundraiser and beer bust, drag acts, Jell-O shots and general frivolity. $10. 4pm-8pm. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Flagging in the Park @ AIDS Memorial Grove Join a festive outdoor event with colorful flags and flow artists and amateurs. Bring beverages, lunch, blankets. Proceeds benefit Aguilas. 1pm-4pm. Bowling Green Drive at Nancy Pelosi Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.flaggercentral.com

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Boxcar Theatre The hit local production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular transgender rock operetta features multiple actor-singers performing the lead. $25-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 5pm. Extended with open-ended run. 505 Natoma St. 967-2227. www.boxcartheatre.org

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Sun 8 Burger Bub Mini-Fest @ Rickshaw Stop Meet and greet, book signing (or pawing?) plus film screening with, for, and all about Lil Bub, the adorable (and slightly deformed) cat and YouTube sensation. $20-$25. 3pm. All ages. At 8:30pm, the very wild Neobunny performs,with Colleen Green opening. $12-$15. 155 Fell St. 8612011. www.rickshawstop.com

Queer Lit Book Group @ Book Passage, Corte Madera LGBT book group discusses works by Michael Cunningham, Virginia Woolf and others. Five Sundays, 3pm-5pm. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. 927-0960. www.bookpassage.com

Rebecca Plack @ SF Conservatory of Music The soprano faculty member performs “I’ll Change Your Tune: One-Upmanship in 19th Century Song,” with pianist Curt Pajer. $15-$20. 2pm. 50 Oak St. 503-6275. www.sfcm.edu

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly 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.harrydenton.com

Tango No. 9 @ Duende, Oakland Local chamber ensemble performs a variety of tango music from traditional to modern with a twist. (Also a free show at 2pm in SF’s Union Square). $10. 9pm. 468 19th St. at Telegraph ave, Oakland. www.tango9.com

Vicki Marlane Memorial Fundraiser @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Enjoy a drag show, food, drinks, a raffle for donated prizes; funds raised benefit the street-naming campaign for departed drag icon Vicki Marlane. 4pm-9pm. 133 Turk St. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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10 Percent @ Comcast Cable David Perry’s LGBT-themed talk show features a variety of local and visiting guests. This week, Perry speaks with Jim Gabbert, legendary broadcast executive and TV personality for five decades. Perry also speaks with Brett Andrews, executive director of the Positive Resource Center. Rebroadcast various times thru the week. www.comcasthometown.com www.davidperry.com

Comedy Returns @ El Rio The monthly multi-ethnic LGBT-friendly comedy show includes Yayne Abeba, Maria Shehata, Nathan Habib, Yuri Kagan and MC Lisa Geduldig. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. (800) 838-3006. elriosf.com

How to Make Your Bitterness Work for You @ Stage Werx Theatre Fred Raker’s darkly comic self-help parody solo show. $15. 8pm. Thru Aug. 27. 446 Valencia St. www.bitternesstobetterness. com

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Tue 10 Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Sistah Sinema @ GLBT History Museum Screening of queer women of color short films: Tracks and Gender Freaks. $5-$10. 7pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Will Durst @ The March

Sept. 9 & 10, I’m So Excited! Pedro Almodovar’s latest cinematic effort, an airline comedy. Sept. 11, The Canyons and Dangerous Game. Sept. 12, Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, and Robert Downey Jr in Chaplin, the biopic. $8-$11. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Boomeraging: From LSD to OMG, the comic wit’s one-man show about aging Baby Boomers. Tuesdays thru Oct. 29. $15-$50. 8pm. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.TheMarsh.org

Pride Candidates Forum @ MCC SF

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San Francisco Pride Members for Democracy, Accountability and Transparency (SFPMDAT) will host a candidates’ forum for those running for positions on the board of directors of San Francisco Pride. Michelle Meow of Swirl Radio will moderate the forum. 7pm9:30pm. Metropolitan Community Church, 150 Eureka St. www.mccsf.org

Tue 10 Erika Sanada @ Modern Eden Gallery Odd Things, the artist’s solo exhibition of unusually lifelike yet strange sculptures of dogs and other creatures. Also, Curiosities, a group exhibition of strange depictions of animals. Thru Sept 6. Tue-Sat 10am-6pm. 403 Francisco St. 956-3303. www.ModernEden.com

Michael Feinstein @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Classy jazz-pop singer-pianist performs his new act, “Swingin’ Back Home,” at the new cabaret venue he brought to San Francisco. $30-$65. Tue-Fri 8pm. Sat & Sun 7pm. Thru Sept. 15. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1111. hotelnikkosf.com

Ramekon O’Arwisters @ African American Art & Culture Complex Sugar in Our Blood: The Spirit of Black and Queer Identity in the Art of Ramekon O’Arwisters, an exhibit of multimedia folk art-inspired wprks by the local gay artist. Tue-Sat 12pm-5pm. 762 Fulton St. Thru Sept. 12. www.ramekon.com

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1776 @ Geary Theatre American Conservatory Theatre’s new production of Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s multiple Tony Award-winning 1969 musical about America’s founding fathers and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Bike valet parking Sept. 11. LGBT night with after-party Sept. 25. $20-$87. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 6. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Daniel Mobbs @ SF Conservatory of Music The faculty baritone performs Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson and Strauss’ Four Lieder, Op. 27, with pianist Darryl Cooper. $15$20. 8pm. 50 Oak St. 503-6275. www.sfcm.edu

Danny Bland @ Booksmith Author of the book In Case We Die, and a veteran of the Seattle music scene, reads from and promotes the audiobook edition of his first novel, which is read by several music industry celebs; a portion of proceeds benefits MusiCares. 7:30pm. 1644 Haight St. 863-8688. booksmith.com

From Brushstrokes to Keystrokes @ SF Public Library Novelists Mary F. Burns, Gayle Feyer, Michael Llewellyn, and Ciji Ware share their secrets of writing about such artists as Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and architect Julia Morgan, as well as entirely fictional artists. A Readers Books sale follows; sponsored by the Historical Novel Society. Free. 6pm. Latino/Hispanic meeting room B, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

September 7, 2013 8pm Gala Season Opening with Frederica von Stade

Earth, Wind & Fire @ Masonic Hall

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The iconic R&B band performs their classic hits (“Shining Star”). $58-$103. 8pm. 1111 California St. www.masonicauditorium.com

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Adam Ant @ Regency Ballroom

The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (BARS) is an orchestra that provides a safe and supportive environment for musicians of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. BARS makes cultural, social, and educational contributions to the San Francisco Bay Area by performing ambitious repertoire to a high standard.

The 80s pop singer’s back, performing old and new songs; Prima Donna opens. $29$32. 8pm. 1290 Sutter St. at Van Ness Ave. (888) 929-7849. theregencyballroom.com

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Accomplished experimental jazz guitarist performs with a different guest each of three nights. $18-$65. 7:30pm. Sept 12 with Geri Allen and Greg Osby. Sept 13 with Thomas Morgan and Petra Haden. Sept 14 (2pm) with cartoonist Jim Woodring. Sept 15, 7pm with several artists. 201 Franklin St. (866) 920-5299. www.sfjazz.org

David J @ Café DuNord Former member of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets performs goth rock faves; also, Sky Parade, The Cellar Doors and DJ Jay Tibbs. $15. 7:30pm. 21+. 2170 Market St. 861-5016. www.davidjonline.com www.cafedunord.com

Labayen Dance Company @ ODC Theater

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18th annual season of new dances features works by Enrico Labayen, Anandha Ray, Laura Bernasconi & Victor Talledos; plus guest dancers Suzanne Saltmarsh formerly of Martha Graham Dance Company, Ismael Acosta from Mexico & Sandrine Cassini formerly of Paris Opera. $20-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Sept. 17. 3152 17th St. 863-9834. labayendancecompany.com

Patricia Kaas @ Masonic Hall Singer performs her Edith Piaf musical tribute, which includes an orchestra, stage sets, video and Piaf archival footage. $58$112. 8pm. 1111 California St. C www.patriciakaas.net www.masonicauditorium.com

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Richard Learoyd @ Fraenkel Gallery Opening reception for The Outside World, the artist’s exhibit of large-scale photographs. 5:30pm. Thru Oct. 26. 49 Geary St. 981-2661. fraenkelgallery.com

Square Dancing @ Harvey Milk Rec. Center LGBT and friends square-dancing party. Free. 7pm. Also Sept 19. 50 Scott St. 5548742. www.sfrecpark.org The Lambda Literary Award-winning author reads from and discusses the updated edition of his spirituality book, Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of SameSex Love. 7pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

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Singing in her real voice by Tavo Amador

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young singer arrived in Manhattan, auditioned for an agent, who signed her and asked her to perform for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s casting director, then seeking replacement chorus girls for the long-running South Pacific. She had never heard of the Broadway duo. The casting agent brought Richard Rodgers to listen to her. He was impressed, as was Oscar Hammerstein. The result: getting the lead in the film version of Oklahoma! (1955) and becoming a movie, television, and nightclub star. It sounds like a 1950s version of a Ruby Keeler musical, but as she recounts in Shirley Jones: A Memoir, written with Wendy Leigh (Gallery Books, $27), it’s exactly what happened. Jones’ (b. 1934) imageshattering autobiography reveals that beneath the wholesome exterior she has always been a strongly sexual woman. She met her first husband, actor/singer Jack Cassidy (1927-76), when they co-starred in a European tour of Oklahoma! He was in a bad marriage and had a son, David. Friends warned that he was a womanizer, but she was smitten. She lost her virginity to him and was thrilled by his sexual prowess, augmented by his exceptional endowment. They wed in 1956. Cassidy told her that he would do anything to get ahead, and that included once letting Cole Porter fellate him. Truman Capote, however, related a different version, saying that the pair had an affair. He added that Cassidy would make the severely disabled Porter crawl along

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the floor while he backed away, before letting the famous composer/ lyricist service him. Jones admits that Cassidy was interested in group sex. In another controversial passage, she says that singer Anthony Newley, then married to Joan Collins, suggested a foursome. Jones declined. Collins, however, has vehemently denied this. Jones speculates that Cassidy may have been bisexual. He forced her to have an abortion. They would eventually have three sons before divorcing in 1975. He was a narcissist, a verbally abusive father, a spendthrift, yet for years she ignored his behavior. Oklahoma! was followed by Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (1956), in which Frank Sinatra was to have co-starred. He withdrew on the day filming was to commence, and was replaced by Gordon McRae. It was decades before Jones learned what happened. She co-starred with Pat Boone in the syrupy April Love (1957), worked on television and in clubs, before getting a call from Burt Lancaster, asking if she wanted to play the young prostitute opposite him in the film version of Sinclair Lewis’ Elmer Gantry (1960). She thought the call a joke. Lancaster told her to read the novel before testing for director Richard Brooks, a bully who didn’t want her for the part. She got the role and won Brooks’ respect. Being cast against type brought her renewed attention and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. The win, however, harmed her marriage. Cassidy was jealous that her career had soared ahead of his, a concern she shared. At a party at gay producer Ross Hunter’s house attended by gay superstar Rock Hudson and others, Cassidy got drunk and referred to himself as “Norman

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out at the gym: “Being gay and going to the gym was obnoxious enough, but not being able to see must have made it an absolute nightmare. He wasn’t able to actually see the hot guys at the gym judging him, which must have made his hour at the gym devastating.” Rosenberg chooses a trainer named Ricky, who ends up being more opinionated than he ever imagined. Capping off his adventures in fitness is a chapter dedicated to the author’s 12-week obsession with Tony Horton, the “ringleader” of the P90X workout DVD. As Rosenberg’s whirlwind of sex and exercise nears its end, more easily entertained readers may be

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Maine,” the acclaimed actor who is eclipsed by unknown wife Vicki Lester in A Star Is Born. She was wholesome again in her next hit, The Music Man (1962), although her singing was no match for Barbara Cook’s, who created the part on Broadway. She made a few comedies, the most interesting of which was Bedtime Story (1964), billed after Marlon Brando and David Niven, who played competing con men. Working with Brando was a challenge because he demanded so many re-takes. In 1970, her career was revived when she and stepson David Cassidy costarred in television’s The Partridge Family, which ran until 1974. The show was about a family of pop musicians. Like his father, she says, David has an enormous penis. His younger brothers christened him “Donk,” short for donkey. She and her stepson developed a good relationship. The show’s success increased her husband’s resentment. Cassidy, in a rare career mistake, turned down the role of Ted Baxter, written for him, in The Mary Tyler Moor Show. Whenever possible, they worked together, in clubs, on Broadway, or touring. Always eager to please, she finally agreed to a three-way with another woman, which she recounts in graphic detail. Afterwards, she told him that she would never do it again. Cassidy had a complete mental breakdown, requiring intensive care. He then moved back to Manhattan and resumed his wild spending. Finally, accepting the truth about her marriage, and over his objections, she divorced him. She had already met the next man in her life, comedian Marty Ingels. Cassidy died tragically in a fire – his remains were charred beyond recognition. In 1977, she wed Ingels. They are still together – he makes her laugh, and they perform in clubs. She works steadily in television. Jones also recounts encounters with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Judy Garland, Mae West, co-stars James Stewart, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, and Richard Widmark, among others. The book would benefit from an index. But her candor, especially about sexual matters, her perspective on Hollywood, and the many photographs compensate for that. Readers familiar with her portrayals of wholesome ingenues will gain new respect for her acting – those characters were very different from the real woman.t

lulled into thinking that casual hookups on Manhunt and Grindr are supposed to commingle with thought-provoking quotes from Miss Ellie on Dallas. Granted, some sections are extremely funny, but the language the author uses is often expletive-laden and mean-spirited. Overall, this is a breezy read that’s heavy on biting satire and sarcastic one-liners, and a slight step up from his overly snarky 2011 debut Blackouts and Breakdowns. Judging from his press photo, Rosenberg has snapped back into good shape, and today appears fit, healthy, and happy. It’s been a long haul for the Manhattan-based author, and his humorous though overwritten collection of personal essays can attest to that in a big, mean, fat way.t

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Deeply engaged with the unique setting of the Bay Area, artist Richard Diebenkorn profoundly influenced postwar American art during his years spent working in Berkeley (1953–1966). Explore the first exhibition to focus on this pivotal period in Diebenkorn’s career with more than 130 works, beginning with the artist’s earlier abstract paintings and moving through his subsequent figurative phase.

J U N E 2 2 — S E PT E M B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 3 Exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Palm Springs Art Museum. President’s Circle: Ednah Root Foundation. Curator’s Circle: Koret Foundation. Conservator’s Circle: Christie’s. Benefactor’s Circle: National Endowment for the Arts. Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Richard Diebenkorn, Figure on a Porch, 1959. Oil on canvas. Oakland Museum of California, gift of the Anonymous Donor Program of the American Federation of the Arts. © 2013 The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

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e’s not trouble, his name is “Trouble.” Three very worthy contestants vied for the first-ever Mr. San Francisco Sober Leather Fri., Aug. 23 at the Women’s Building in the Mission: Trouble, Jay Hall, and Johnny Truant. They competed in the categories of Speech, Formal Leather, and Sexy Wear. Due to work issues I missed the first half of the contest. When I got there, everything was in full swing and seemed to be running smoothly. That’s no small feat. I must give a well-deserved shoutout to producer Katerina du Lac. She had a monumental task, and against all odds was able to put on a successful brand-new contest. Creating anything new is an uphill battle. That’s not to say that the contest didn’t have its problems. But what problems there were, they didn’t show to the audience, at least not that I saw. From where I sat, it was smooth sailing. A real enjoyable experience. Emcee Nancy French (aka Clammy Fay) was spot-on, keeping things going at a nice pace. In fact, the whole contest was brisk and quick. A nice change from some of the rather bloated contests we’ve been subjected to in the past. In the end, Johnny Truant was named second runner-up, Jay Hall was named first runner-up, with Trouble winning. Daddy Ray Tilton was on hand, representing both the Mr. SF Leather contest and the Leather Alliance. He announced that Mr. & Ms. Sober Leather (Ms. Sober Leather will be appointed at a later date) meets the criteria to be an official feeder contest to Mr. SF Leather. Congratulations to everyone for a successful launch, and a shout-out to NorCal Leather Sir 2013 Brent Gannetta for designing and sewing the new patch that went on the vest donated by Mr. S Leather. A special thanks goes to Michael Brandon for his unwavering support and for all the great lube from 9x6. It sure came in handy later that night! Speaking of contests, it’s funny to be covering so much about them right now. At my deadline

just before Labor Day, two more the case. We all know the war stories contests were going on. The Interof ugly breakups due to one pernational Leather Sir/boy & Comson’s travel schedule, attention, and munity Bootblack contests were celebrity. I always thought Carlton held in Dallas, and the SF Leather to be a closet “bottom for the comDaddy & boy contest was held here munity.” Now my suspicions are at The Eagle. This is the first time validated. the Leather Sir/boy contest has Don’t forget to check out Cross’ been held outside of San Francisco new website, www.andycrossiml. for a few years. It’s also the com. It’s a very well done site with first time the SF Leather several great features, including an Daddy and boy contests up-to-date schedule of his appearare being held jointly. ances. Between the site and FaceI’ll have updates in my book, it should be easy to keep up next column. with his shenanigans. And if you Daddy’s Barberstill can’t get enough of him, sign up shop just announced for the Mr. S Leather email newslettheir first contest for ter (at www.mr-s-leather.com), as Mr. Daddy’s Barberhe’s usually featured showing off shop Leather (Tony some skimpy piece of leather or Delfino is the current gear. Andy, thank you again for all Mr. Daddy’s Barbershop, your work and for representing our having been appointed this year), community so well. tentatively planned for early JanuFolsom is almost here. Can you ary 2014. believe it’s September already? A Where’s Andy Cross? Our Intell-tale sign is all the leather flag ternational Mr. Leather Andy Cross banners up and down Market Street is hopscotching all over the map. I celebrating Leather Month. If there’s like the mental image of him hopany doubt that our city supports us, scotching anywhere, preferably in a they should be squashed just by this jock by Nasty Pig. He’s doing douseemingly simple gesture. I love San ble duty over Labor Day weekend Francisco!t in New Orleans for the Decadence festivities, as well as appearing at the International Leather Sir/ boy contest in Dallas. In a few weeks Cross will be up in Alaska, which is where his “Sash Wife,” International Ms. Leather 2013 Sarha, hails from. I tried to get him to take me, but he had the nerve to turn me down. How rude! His boyfriend Carlton Paul has been able to accompany him on quite a few trips when he’s not tending bar at The Powerhouse – or is that holding up the bar at The Powerhouse? I’m not quite sure. Seriously, it’s nice to see that Cross has a partner Mr. S Leather who’s completely Int’l Mr. Leather Andy Cross models a leather supportive and helpsport short from Mr. S Leather. ful. That’s not always

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oth of the movies under consideration this week were so disappointing that viewing them left me almost too enervated to write about them. So don’t expect any jokes. I thought I’d stumbled on some goodies when I found them. Each disc collects shorts from a streaming video website I was unfamiliar with, and both seemed recent, with copyright dates of this year. Well, these calling cards served to warn me not to visit the sites, and the copyright dates on the boxes marked the release of the collections. The actual scenes were older. In one instance, much older. The scenes in Hardly Working date from 2011, and represent PhoePhoeniXXX.com niXXX.com, which presents younger men in the A screen grab from Hardly Working depicts Joe Perelli topped by Austin Lucas. sort of office fantasy that generally begins with a guy in a three-piece suit butt-fuck. Top man Frost is as attracprofoundly tedious set-ups. and ends with the boss tive and energetic as ever. The boys depicted on the box coercing the employee to either get In the first scene, I woncover had me eagerly expecting his job or keep his job by dered for nearly 10 minsome alterna-dudes. These rehaving sex with said boss. utes if Joe Perelli’s dick ally young guys had mohawks, Given current awareness was gonna get hard. faux hawks, piercings where you of what constitutes sexual In what becomes a wouldn’t expect them, and nonharassment, I’d have standard, he and clone tattoos. And though some of thought this fantasy his partner offer them became better-known – the had become outmodlittle foreplay, some cast includes Cory Koons, Wolf ed. Kind of shows you nibbling kisses and Hudson and Hunter James – they how the prevailing lack mildly engaging aren’t well-represented in sequences of creativity in so much fucks before jacking off to climax, written and directed by Andy Fair. porn leads to its reliance on hoary with one partner taking an OCS. Here’s the set-up: the employideas. There is one swell-looking pair, a ees of a bar (like the movie’s other The lads in Hardly Working bottle blond and his lightly whissets, a dismal locale) gather after aren’t hoary. They barely have whiskered top, who offer a nicely shot closing to exchange stories of their kers, with a look that’s somewhere RC, though little else of note. sexual exploits. These uniformly between twink and frat boy. They’re Since I go for a guy in a threelack foreplay, have only moderately appealing youths, but in the lackluspiece suit, I’m glad to say the office interesting sex, and generally climax ter scenes written, cast, directed and fantasy is much better fulfilled by with jack-off orgasms. The barfilmed by Andy Kay, they appear in other companies. Watching its halftender makes out listlessly with the ill-fitting suits on barren office sets, assed representation here made me movie’s sole black performer in the having passionless sex. The scenes long to see some good porn. first scene, and returns to make out are short, at approximately 15 minA disc titled Dirty Tricks Volume with a cutie in a tanning salon. They utes, though two of the five run a 1 did not fulfill my desire, being would have been worth watching if more generous 20 minutes. even more depressing in its badly they’d been filmed by another direcOne of these presents the disc’s executed dialogue lead-ins to barely tor working for a different company. only star, Shane Frost, whose scene arousing sex. The scenes, filmed The bar’s go-go boy insists he’s str8 partner is a gangly, largely unattractin 2008, were a co-production of before making it with guys in two ive Gay4Pay performer who proDirtyBoyVideo.com and Nakedscenes. The waiter earns his rent by nounces his name Danny, though in Sword, a name that led me to expect bottoming for a real estate agent. the current fashion for creative spellgreater quality than was delivered. I This pair is attractive, and attracing, he notates it Dany, which effecwas impressed that the disc included tively hung. Their scene passes actively makes it Dane-ey. In an intersix scenes, until I found they averceptably for porn, yet still seemed view, he raves about the peggings his aged a stingy 11 minutes – with two cursory, and didn’t engage me. wife delivers. That experience isn’t minutes of potential sex in each one Photos from these two movies are at reflected in his scene, which doesn’t sacrificed to supposedly comic yet www.Pornteam.com.t involve a dildo, or much of a rousing

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technical education, you’re not going to know about all the questions connected with the Enlightenment or free speech or representative government.” 12 Years a Slave British auteur Steve McQueen directs John Ridley’s script based on a first-person account of 19th-century freeman Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), cruelly enslaved by the worst kind of Biblethumping master (curiously, there’s some IMDB chat that Michael Fassbender is way too sexy to play such a brute). McQueen, who directed a riveting account of the prison hunger strike death of the IRA’s Bobby Sands (Fassbender), delivers a devastating take on the sorriest chapter in American history. A sublime supporting cast includes Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti and Paul Dano. (Nov. 1) The Trials of Muhammad Ali Bill Siegel manages to find new angles on the bigger-than-life pop star who is perhaps the 60s’ most obvious hero. Beginning with an international satel-

lite TV broadcast that finds a bullying TV producer denouncing an oddly silent Ali, Siegel depicts the enormous stakes when the US government attempts to imprison a black athletic hero who refused military induction. Siegel deftly intros the players: from the white business group sponsoring the teenage Cassius Clay to the Black Muslim leaders who educate and support Muhammad Ali through the rigors of the pro boxing spotlight, to an obscure Supreme Court clerk who altered history. (Oct. 25) Salinger A pop star from the literary division, J.D. Salinger is showcased in a much-anticipated oral history from Shane Salerno. Noting the WWII traumas experienced by Salinger as recorded in a companion book by Salerno and David Shields, NY Times critic Michiko Kakutani describes a celebrity writer “whose ‘life was a slow-motion suicide mission,’ a man who never recovered from the horrors of wartime combat and the soul-shaking sight of a Nazi death camp filled with burned and smoldering corpses. Salinger, they argue, tried to grapple with his post-

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Scene from director Stacy Passon’s Concussion.

traumatic stress disorder first with art and later with religion. ‘The war broke him as a man and made him a great artist; religion offered him postwar spiritual solace and killed his art.’” Ironically, this ambitious film concerns a reclusive star whose iconic hero, Holden Caulfield, declares, “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies.” (Sept. 13)t

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(Oct. 17-Nov. 10), an enticing entry in San Jose Rep’s season. The critically acclaimed play is largely told in flashbacks as the rigidly born-again Luke lays comatose and the rigidly atheist Adam holds vigil at his bedside. Despite these grim circumstances, the play contains considerable humor, as evidenced by the casting of Danny Sheie as the older, nebbishy Adam, for whom the production was delayed to ensure his availability.

Facing the music

This is the Broadway musical part of our program, and ACT provides the overture with 1776 (Sept. 11Oct. 6). The drama leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, an unlikely hit in 1969, is directed by the estimable Tony-winner Frank Galati (Grapes of Wrath, Ragtime). Carole King’s 1971 LP Tapestry was a greatest-hits collection of songs first recorded by others and finally delivered in King’s own voice. That songbook, plus many others, provides the backbone of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical that will have a preBroadway run at the Curran (Sept. 24-Oct. 20). Unlike numerous other jukebox musicals, this one will have an actual story, the story of King’s own life and career. It’s always a musical world at 42nd Street Moon, the purveyor of production-lite stagings of seldomseen musicals. It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman, the 1966 musical with a score by Strouse and Adams of Bye Bye Birdie fame, opens the new season (Oct. 2-20). The second fall production at the Eureka Theatre is Rodgers and Hart’s 1938 I Married an Angel (Oct. 30-Nov. 17).

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“0-3640,” from the series House of the Strange Women: Prostitutes of San Francisco (2012), pulverized charcoal, mica flake, coffee, ink, gouache and acrylic on paper by Monica Lundy, courtesy of Toomey Tourell Fine Art.

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subjects, mostly in their 20s, naked and playfully assessing the camera or straddled by wild animals, are not your average Joes. His latest venture, sans four-legged creatures or props, is a site-specific, floor-to-ceiling installation featuring hundreds of fullcolor studio portraits with monochrome backdrops. Collectively, they may summon the sensation of an indie rebellion in the public square or a rave. (Sept. 6-Oct. 19); Takeshi Murata brings an animation skill set and unique sensibility to his videos, which often incorporate found footage and digitally rendered prints that meld an electric color palette with real and otherworldly elements. His new work will be on view. (Nov. 1-Dec.14) www.ratio3.org

Oscar-nominated David Strathairn plays a librarian who becomes obsessed with an overdue library book in the solo drama Underneath the Lintel at ACT.

The musical based on Carrie is so notorious that it gave title to the book Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops. A revised version was presented offBroadway in 2012, and that is the version that the audacious Ray of Light Theatre will present at the Victoria Theatre (Oct. 4-Nov. 2). And then there is Dirty Little Showtunes, which seems to arise more frequently than revivals of The Sound of Music. Indeed that perennial provides fodder for a salacious twist on “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” as well as songs from numerous other musicals sent askew. Written by Tom Orr and conceived and directed by F. Allen Sawyer, it was first staged in 1997, and was last revived at New Conservatory Theatre Center in 2010, where it returns (Oct. 11-Nov. 10).

SF Camerawork Angela Buenning Filo: The Palo Alto Forest Project Buenning Filo received nearly 400 responses from Palo Alto residents asked to supply a photograph of a “meaningful” tree along with a six-word story. These materials form the basis of an installation about the importance of trees in shaping identity; Oakland photographer Johnna Arnold’s vivid large-scale color series In/Finite Hut is part of a project in which the artist inserts herself into a variety of semi-industrial landscapes. Shot at the nexus of freeways and the natural environment, Arnold’s presence adds a human perspective, underscoring the desolation of urban existence. (Both shows run Sept. 11Oct. 26) www.sfcamerawork.org Toomey Tourell Fine Art Recognition: Gregg Renfrow Pouring brilliant color over cast sheets of translucent acrylic, Renfrow produces dense, strongly-hued paintings so luminous they appear to float. (Sept. 3-30); Monica Lundy: House of the Strange Women Born in Portland and partially raised in Saudi Arabia, Lundy is particularly attuned to the socio-cultural divisions that separate women from men and each other. Her investigation into perceptions of marginalized women led to this group of gritty mixed-media paintings of female prostitutes and prisoners, some of whom look hardened if not defeated by harsh lives and bad breaks. The works, which will be displayed both in the gallery and on city streets, are based on early 20th-century mug-shots taken by the SFPD. (Oct. 1-Nov. 2) www.toomey-tourell.com Gallery Wendi Norris Earthshine: Tomoko Konoike The Japanese artist makes her solo debut here with transfixing multi-disciplinary works that are a potent mix of

Oooh, scary kids, as Count Floyd used to say on SCTV. As the fall arrives each year, so does Thrillpeddlers’ Shocktoberfest (Sept. 26-Nov. 23) at the Hypnodrome. The centerpiece attraction is the 1934 Grand Guignol thriller Jack the Ripper. The bill also includes Rob Keefe’s new play The Wrong Ripper, the opening scene from the Victorian “spanking” drama A Visit to Mrs. Birch and the Young Ladies of the Academy, and Scrumbly Koldewyn’s new musical spin on Oscar Wilde’s Salome. Laughs, mysteries, and ghosts are promised for Hope’s Last Chance, Rod McFadden’s new play having its premiere at the Exit Theatre (Oct. 3-26) under the aegis of Wily West Productions. A secluded bedand-breakfast is the setting, the site of multiple homicides years earlier, and a vacationing couple sees dead people and tries to learn why they still need to go a-haunting. From the pages of a 113-year overdue library book comes a ghost story that is not in the book’s words but in the tale of the person who checked it out all those years ago. Acclaimed screen actor David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) returns to ACT in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel (Oct. 23Nov. 17), this time in a solo turn as the librarian whose consuming mission becomes identifying the book’s borrower.

Outside the box

Not every upcoming theatrical enterprise takes to categorization, which is certainly the case with the SF Fringe Festival (Sept. 6-21) at the Exit theaters. How could it, when it encompasses 37 productions dealing with 37 disparate subjects? Just a few titles will give you an idea: Eating Pasta Off the Floor, Serving Bait to Rich People, and The Storyzilla Full Frontal Movie. In What Every Girl Should Know, four teenage girls in a reformatory

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England’s Kneehigh Theatre returns to Berkeley Rep with its admired, highly contemporary retelling of the 12th-century Tristan and Yseult myth.

move from masturbatory rituals to creating a cult built on extravagant empowering fantasies with birthcontrol pioneer Margaret Sanger as patron saint. Impact Theatre is presenting Monica Byrne’s recent play at La Val’s Subterranean in Berkeley (through Oct. 13). Kneehigh Theatre has become a regular, welcome visitor to these parts. The insanely imaginative Cornwall company has been seen here with Brief Encounter and The

Wild Bride, and now returns to Berkeley Rep with a 10th-anniversary production of Tristan and Yseult (Nov. 22-Jan. 6). It may be based in 12th-century legend, but there is nothing hoary about what director Emma Rice and company present. Think jive dancing, Roy Orbison, aerial ballets, Wagner, and audience-participation balloon-blowing to tell the story of star-crossed lovers said to have inspired the Lancelot and Guinevere romantic mess.t

fantasy, metaphysics and environmental concerns. Utilizing drawing, sculpture, photography, animation and painted screens, she transports viewers to ephemeral lands and invites them into magical narratives where nearly extinct wolves flourish as spiritual figures like the life-sized, highsheen sculpture bathed in a dream-inducing light show. (Sept. 5-Oct. 26) www.gallerywendinorris. com Fraenkel Gallery Richard Learoyd: The Outside World Working with a portable camera obscura he built himself and using techniques developed some 170 years ago by felCourtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris low Englishman W.H. Fox “Donning Animal Skins and Braided Grass” (2013), mixed media (mirror, wood, Talbot, this British portrait Styrofoam, aluminum, etc.) by Tomoko Konoike. photographer traveled from his London studio to an enchanted English Tale of Two Countries, Two Cities, morphs and changes, simultaneouscountryside of the mind Two Women: A Unique Dialogue ly merging with and emerging from to create 15 one-of-a kind, largeThrough Art is a cross-border projthe background. (Nov. 7-30) www. format, black & white landscapes. At ect, a cultural exchange involving dolbychadwickgallery.com up to 80 inches wide, they’re among the McLoughlin in San Francisco Haines Gallery David Maisel: the biggest contact prints ever made. and the Mondapart Galerie, BouMining Wading into politically(Sept. 12- Oct. 26) www.fraenkelgallogne-Paris. They’ve joined forces charged territory, Maisel, who has lery.com to organize exhibitions in both citphotographed open-pit mines from Robert Koch Gallery Hungarian ies of works by seven mid-career the air since the mid-1980s, trains his photographer Tamas Dezso’s EpiFrench and American artists. (Sept eye on an American landscape ravlogue is comprised of pastoral land27-Oct. 26 in SF) www.mgart.com aged by the unbridled pursuit of natscapes that hark back to a forgotten Dolby Chadwick Gallery Joshua ural resources. Moving from his usuway of life in Romania. The country, Meyer: Rustle, Sparkle, Flutter, Float al black & white to saturated color, a scene of economic privation and Impressionistic and emotionally he forges colossal, abstract geologithe remnants of vanishing, centuexpressive, Meyer’s paintings are cal maps of northeastern Nevada, a ries-old cultural traditions, is littered rooted in reality, but their true subfabulously rich gold-mining region, with crumbling factories, decaying ject is the ambiguity and fragility of while distilling a disturbing aesthetic infrastructure, the lingering damage existence. In Meyer’s world, objecbeauty from topography scarred by of the failed communist regime, and tivity is an illusion, mutability is a discolored seas of toxic run-off and little hope for a brighter future. (Sept. constant. He filters his thoughts and industrial detritus. (Sept. 5-Oct. 26) 12- Nov. 2) www.kochgallery.com feelings through a central figure that www.hainesgallery.comt The McLoughlin Gallery A

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