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Mon May 12
A Wolf At The Table
at Books Inc. (7:30pm) Literary Arts
New York BestSelling author Augusten Burroughs, will be reading selections from his long awaited new novel, "A Wolf At The Table: A Memoir of My Father". It is the heart-rending memoir of one man’s struggle to rationalize his turbulent childhood...
Mon May 12 & Mon May 19
A New One Man Play by Michael Phillis
at The Marsh (7:30pm) Theatre
Written and performed by Michael Phillis (who also does the online graphic novel inFlux), Dolls explores the world of his childhood and his experiences as a gay man. Dolls is being developed as part of The New Conservatory Theatre Center's Emerging Artists Program...
Tue May 13
Intergenerational Queer Storytellers
at GLBT Historical Society (6:30-8:30pm) Literary Arts
This will be the third installment of our ground-breaking literary series that pairs some of the pioneers of GLBT literature with today's emerging GLBT storytellers. This month we're welcoming acclaimed experimental writers Robert Gluck and Kevin Killian...
Tue May 13
at San Francisco LGBT Community Center (5:30-7pm) Community
Knowing your rights is your best defense from discrimination. Kristina Wertz from the Transgender Law Center will discuss workplace rights including issues of discrimination and harassment in hiring and on the job. We'll talk about best strategies for bringing a complaint to your employer...
Wed May 14
RADAR Reading Salon presents
at San Francisco Main Public Library (6:30-8:30pm) Literary Arts
Featured speakers this month are Nan Alamilla Boyd & Terence Kissack, GLBTHS Board Members & co-chairs of the Archives Committee; Susan Stryker; and Joshua Gamson. The authors will be reading from their favorite works followed by a Q&A and book signing...
Thu May 15
HIV and Black Gay Men at African-American Cultural Center
at African American Art and Culture Complex (AAACC) (5:30-7:30pm) Community, Health & Wellness
At this HIVision Forum, we will explore factors that contribute to this disparity, such as economic inequality, limited access to health care, and the role of incarceration, and will review what is being done in the Bay Area and nationally to put an end to an unacceptable situation...
Thu May 15
at Hemlock Tavern (9:30pm-12midnight) Music
Will is moving to NYC, so come check out this last hometown show for a while. Hey Willpower will be performing at the Hemlock Tavern with Invisible Cities and School For The Dead...
Fri May 16
at Deco Lounge (10pm-12midnight) Comedy
It's Friday, it's Funny, it's off the cuff comedy unleashed and ready to roll. Stand Up, Mayhem & More - An evening of stand up comedy and mayhem featuring some of the Bay Area's best and most unpredictable comedians... this month spotlights comedians Ronn Vigh, Candy Churilla, David Hawkins & more...
Sat May 17
at GLBT Historical Society (4-7pm) Community
Join GLBTHS Board Member Nan Alamilla Boyd, and author historians Estelle Freedman, and Gayle Rubin in a celebration of the life and work of queer historian & author Allan Berube. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society collects, preserves, and interprets the history of GLBT people and the communities that support them...
Through Sat Jun 28
With Cookie Dough
at The Metro (Saturdays @ 10pm) Performance Arts, Comedy
The evenings performers include Cookie Dough - (Sweet Salad), Ambrosia Salad - (Mother Salad), Holy McGrail - (Tuna Salad), Marina Bitch - (Tossia Salad), Plastica Sanchez - (Chef Salad), Primadonna Reed - (Aunti Pasti), Khadijah - (Salad Gold Dancer), and Baby & the Bearded Lady - (Baby Salad & Limestone Salad)... | This Week's Features |
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Room for Squares A curve ball is something you don’t see coming. You could be happily walking along when out of nowhere a fast one comes and hits you upside the head. It makes you see things from another perspective. The paragraphs that follow are just my way of trying to make sense of something that, up until recently, had always been out of the question. |
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Pinkyswear One of my favorite things about living in a city is that feeling that you never can tell what's going to happen next. In New York, you may run into supermodels and famous actors. This never tends to be the case in San Francisco. After all, San Francisco billionaires are more likely to be low key. More often than not though, the folks you run into out and about our crazy little wonderland are twice as fascinating as those Yorkers, and I think that L.A. goes without comparison; L.A. isn’t a city, it’s an experiment. |
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Pan-Asian Cuisine in the FiDi Dinner in the Financial District is usually a big-ticket, hopefully expensable, occasion -- the likes of Boulevard, Aqua, and One Market -- while affordable, low-key "neighborhood dining" alternatives seem as elusive as a certain one-horned mythical creature. That is until Unicorn Restaurant opened last fall. While dinner is an option and happy hour specials run throughout the week, lunch is when Unicorn, the sibling to Berkeley’s acclaimed pan-Asian outpost, is at its busiest. |
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Treat Your Mama Right! Okay, we know that when it comes to the scoop on where to get the best pedicure, massage or facial, you’re pretty much keeping mum unless one of your really close friends begs you hard enough for the name of the person responsible for your glowing visage. Normally, I’m all for keeping your beauty secrets on the D.L., but considering that Mother’s Day is coming up, it’s time to share the wealth with the person responsible for ensuring you have any sort of aesthetic inclinations at all. |
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The Legacy of Feminism The question of what it means to be a woman might summon a few immediately stereotypical ideas (bras, lipstick, painful visits to the waxing salon), but at least in this generation, it’s becoming increasingly rare to find femaleness aligned with stalwart pronouncements of power or that dreaded “f” word: feminism. |
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Minnesota Malaise Meets New York Neurosis The ellipsis, in grammatical terms, is what English teachers would call an “unsaid thought.” For therapists, the ellipsis is their bread and butter. Once the patient fills in the ellipsis, the job is theoretically done. The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt creates a panorama of characters that suffer from ellipsis override. |
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The Wachowskis Are Back After a five-year hiatus, brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy) are back behind the camera with Speed Racer, the family-friendly, live-action adaptation of the 60s Japanese animation series (released in Japan as Mach GoGoGo). Their hiatus hasn’t lessened the Wachowski Brothers’ desire to create new worlds that exist only as binary code inside a server somewhere. Unfortunately, someone neglected to point out that moviegoers over the age of six will struggle to keep their attention from wandering during Speed Racer’s two hour-plus running time. |
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An Exceptional Coming-of-Age Tale Written and directed by Garth Jennings (one-half of Hammer & Tongs, a music video and commercials directing/producing duo), Son of Rambow is an imaginative, occasionally daft, ultimately engrossing coming-of-age tale set in England during the 80s. With Gondry-inspired visuals, the best synth-pop tracks of the decade, note-perfect turns by its young cast, and an unfailingly honest, sometimes raw, depiction of teenagers and social cliques, Son of Rambow is easily one of most refreshingly original films to come along this year (or any year for that matter). |
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Mamet Gets in the Ring, With Uneven Results David Mamet’s sharp, bruising dialogue has informed tales of desperate salesmen, murderous con artists and blue-collar labor leaders, men for whom hostility, if not the explicit threat of violence, is an ever-present workplace reality. Rarely has Mamet explored the fight game, as he does with mixed results in Redbelt, but careful observers will recognize in his latest thriller some of the characters and themes that have become staples of his hyper-masculine storytelling. |
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When Masochism and Narcissism Collide Watching first-time director Gil Kofman’s The Memory Thief is a singularly disquieting experience, but isn’t that the point? The film, which incorporates the videotaped testimonials of actual Holocaust survivors into its fictitious tale of a tollbooth collector fixated on concentration-camp atrocities, is not so much about Hitler’s systematic slaughter of the Jews as it is about wounded people struggling to cope with profound loss. |
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The Tip of the Iceberg It’s been nearly five years since we first witnessed the shocking photos of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated, tortured, and dehumanized in Abu Ghraib. It’s easy to look at these pictures and demonize the MPs in the photos (and the MPs responsible for the photos) and focus on this group of "bad apples". But, were these MPs just following the Standard Operating Procedure? How much do these photos really reveal? |
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The Best Shows for May The Bay Area’s own man-on-the-mic, the Original MC Radioactive, will be flipping the freestyle flows at the Juxtapose Art SF Now party. Club Six has always been one of my favorite venues; this night features hip hop, live performances in the dark room, and Jah-Yzer spinning the reggae vibes in the bassment. MC Radioactive is one of the Bay Area’s true gems -- he has rocked the mic with Spearhead’s Michael Franti (featured on the album Everyone Deserves Music) and I have seen him on-stage performing alongside everybody from the Greatful Dead’s Bob Weir and Galatic to Ben Harper and countless others. |
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SF Station Blows It Up I guess white guys have the sarcastic rap game in hand and coming from the shadows of artists like Atmosphere and Sage Francis is Mac Lethal, and last Thursday night he brought it down at the Bottom of the Hill. With quirky flows and dope beats, Mac made me a fan; his nerdy stage persona was interesting but once his mouth was open you knew it was only a visual trick. |
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Released on Matador Records, 4/6/08 Remember the first time you put on goggles and sank to the bottom of the pool and watched what the water does to noise? The music of Matmos doesn’t sound too different from that. On its seventh album the electronic duo is at their weird, experimental best. They’re off the deep end, as it were. |
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Released on Astralwerks, 4/15/08 I first came across The Kooks whilst traveling through Byron Bay on Australia’s East Coast in the back of a Combi Van. Whilst shopping for surf wax, I noticed a compilation album called Coastal Chill 2007. As "chill" was perhaps the best way to describe our location, and the eclectic crowd that had gathered for the annual blues and roots festival Blues Fest, I bought a copy -- and literally "fell in love at the seaside"…with The Kooks. |
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Released on Lies Records, 3/18/08 “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Does electronica get any better than this? Crystal Castles are a boy and a girl group hailing from Toronto, Canada that can’t be contained as they leap over all sorts of borders with their premiere full-length, self-titled album, Crystal Castles. |
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