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Tue Oct 7
Intergenerational Queer Storytellers
at GLBT Historical Socieyt (6:30pm) Literary Arts
This month's Passing on the Pen series features novelist, journalist and critic Paul Reidinger along with Lucy Jane Bledsoe whose work includes fiction, nonfiction and books for children.
Tue Oct 7 & Wed Oct 8
at Modern Times Bookstore (Tue @ 7:30pm)& The Booksmith (Wed @ 7:30pm)Literary Arts
Acclaimed novelist Armistead Maupin discusses The Berlin Stories, the 20th-century fiction classic written by Christopher Isherwood—the first major openly gay writer, that inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.
Wed Oct 8
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's New Book
at City Lights Books (7:30pm)Books
Sycamore's new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco, unveiling a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly...
Wed Oct 8
New Book: At Swim, Two Boys
at Three Dollar Bill Cafe (7pm)Books
Books Inc. in the Castro in association with the SF LGBT Center and Three Dollar Bill Café is pleased to announce our next Book Group selection: At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill.
Wed Oct 8 - Sun Oct 12
at Theatre Rhinoceros (8pm & Sun @ 3pm)Theatre
The runaway cult hit makes its San Francisco debut, starring the incomparable Matthew Martin and his camp cohort Mike Finn. See what happens when a drag headmistress and her cross-dressed minions put on a musical of Moby Dick to save their beleaguered girls’ school.
Wed Oct 8 - Sun Oct 12
Directed by Ed Decker
at The New Conservatory Theatre (Wed - Sat @8pm, Sun @2pm) Theatre
A delightfully witty comedy of eight boisterous school boys hoping to gain admittance to England’s most prestigious universities. This Tony Award-Winner is a wickedly funny look at history, the pursuit of knowledge, and the utter randomness of life.
Thu Oct 9 - Sat Oct 11
A Charles Busch Double Bill
at Stagewerx Theatre (8pm) Theatre
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom tells the saga of two fatally seductive vampiresses whose paths first collide in ancient Sodom. Sleeping Beauty or Coma is based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty and is set in the swinging mod London of the 1960's ...
Fri Oct 10 & Sat Oct 11
at Shotwell Studios (8pm)Theatre
Pull up a barstool and enjoy this world premiere musical comedy celebrating all things furry. Full of jokes, music, and beer, this is not your typical night out at the theater. See you at Big Dipper!
Sat Oct 11
A Conference About LGBT Parenting
at SF LGBT Community Center (9am-5:30pm) Community
Please join us for a day of exploring a range of issues to LGBT parents and their families. Workshops will address topics such as insemination, adoption, legal issues, attachment dynamics, gender issues, queer families of color, transgender parents, queer dads, and school advocacy.
Sat Oct 11
San Francisco's Most Homolicious Queer Dance Party
at Rickshaw Stop (10pm-2am) Clubs
A Homolicious Queer Dance Party for dykes, trannies, lezzies and friends with DJs Nuxx & Zax. COCKBLOCK is San Francisco's HOTTTEST Queer dance party for Homos & friends. | This Week's Features |
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Room for Squares Gaydar is one of those things that I wish really existed. While I have to agree that it exists to some degree in every homosexual, there will always be that one person on whom it fails to work. And let’s be fair, whether we’re gay or straight, none of us has an easy time thinking up different ways to get that person to reveal his or her sexuality. So boys and girls, what do we do when we can’t tell if the person we’ve got the hots for is gay or straight, or somewhere in between? |
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Pinkyswear Oh, the season has finally closed. As the Castro closed down its operations on Sunday, ending the Castro Street fair with its massive turnout audience, so closed the long, drunken street fair festival season that has been keeping marketers, merchants, and myself quite busy since Gay Pride in late June. I can honestly say that I am happy to see it close, and am only dreading that it means the Holidays are right around the corner. Ugh! That said, there was plenty of excitement to close the season off with a bang! Let’s discuss. |
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Modern Takes on Seafood Can’t Beat The Classics Seafood has been a quiet but growing trend of late. To name just a few variations on this theme, there is the upscale new Waterbar on the Embarcadero, the shack-style Woodhouse Fish Company (soon to open its second location on Fillmore) and Fish (in Sausalito), the sustainably-focused Fish and Farm (in the Theater District), raw takes at Bar Crudo (soon to move to the Divisadero corridor), and the newly opened Nettie's Crab Shack (in the old Palmetto spot on Union). |
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Restorative Yoga Therapy and Massage Combining your trips to your yoga studio and massage therapist seems like the ideal kind of fusion. After all, physicians have been touting the stress-combating and corrective benefits of yoga for years, and recent studies that reveal massage’s curative effects on both stress and chronic pain have made the requisite spa trip way more than frivolous pampering. Now, harried San Franciscans can get their yoga on and take in a bit of bodywork, or simply do one of either, at Prasadana. |
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The Art of Deception Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Oscar season is officially upon us with the release of Ridley Scott’s latest effort, Body of Lies. This intense spy thriller is headed by two box office heavyweights, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. DiCaprio plays top CIA operative Roger Ferris who works in the most dangerous terrorist hotbeds in the world. Pulling his strings back home is Ed Hoffman (Crowe) whose motives and methodology put his top operative in hot water time and again. Trust is a double edged sword in this world where being on the wrong edge can easily put you in a body bag. |
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From a Familiar Playbook Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Forgive me if I approached The Express with something less than breathless enthusiasm. The age of inspirational (and, some might argue, interchangeable) sports dramas has produced the stories of the first all-black starting five to win the NCAA basketball championship (Glory Road) and a coach who famously benched his entire squad for getting bad grades (Coach Carter), to name two. Next up: Former Syracuse running back and two-time All-American Ernie Davis, whose groundbreaking collegiate career began the season after his predecessor, Jim Brown, signed with the Cleveland Browns. |
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SF’s Children of Darkness After performing behind its debut EP Into A New Mausoleum for more than a year and a half, Veil Veil Vanish is preparing for a self-imposed sabbatical from the stage to hone several new songs that will be recorded for an LP. But first, the San Francisco-based quartet performs a handful of Bay Area shows, including a headlining spot at a special Halloween-themed Popscene gig on October 30th. The show also serves as a record release party for The Cure -- one of the band’s most apparent influences. Singer/guitarist Kevin Tecon spoke with SF Station during a phone interview. |
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Released on Matador Records, 10/28/08 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
When Lou Reed first released his Berlin album in 1973, Rolling Stone referred to it as a “distorted and degenerate demimonde of paranoia, schizophrenia, degradation, pill-induced violence and suicide”. Some 30 years later, the magazine named it one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. |
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Released on Deaf Dumb and Blind, 9/9/08 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Contrary to what the name invokes, this group is not from Japan and they’re not a duo. The group is comprised of Brighton, UK’s David Best (vocals, guitar), Steve Lewis (synths), Matt Hainsby (bass) and Lee Adams (drums). The group are self-proclaimed fans of 70s Krautrock groups and 80s synth-based bands. |
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Released on 4AD, 10/7/08 A lot of things can happen in an NYU dorm room. Grab yourself a couple of fresh-faced teenagers, a vast and ever-expanding metropolis, and a lack of overall guidance coupled with the egotistical invincibility of a young, eager mind. Though, if you happen to be Fred Nicolaus and Daniel Rossen, in lieu of the typical academic and social roommate rivalry and middle of the night oh so alone panic attacks, you begin a musical romance that not only outlasts your college days but also, for your second performance, lands you on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Not too shabby. |
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