Arts & Entertainment

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Nov. 30 through Dec. 9th, 2018. Occidental Community Choir Celebrates 40 Years of ‘Music From Home’

Born around a bonfire in the town of Occidental in 1978, the Occidental Community Choir has become a treasured West County cultural institution. Creative, quirky and consistently melodious, OCC celebrates its 40th Birthday this year! So, instead of having a midlife crisis and getting a tattoo, we’re observing this momentous occasion with a winter concert series celebrating four decades of making original music with our friends and neighbors in beautiful Sonoma County.   Directress Sarah Saulsbury will lovingly lead our 51-member ensemble as we revisit some of the best-loved songs of the winter holiday season written by choir members past and present. Skillfully weaving together song and story, […]

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Book Review: ‘Juno’s Swans’ by Tamsen Wolff

Recently, at a talk on queer literature, a panelist said it was time to move past first love and coming out narratives. I almost exploded on the spot. How do you get tired of first love stories? How do you get tired of coming out? I’m writing from a room full of bookshelves bowing under the weight of coming out stories, some recent, some old, all necessary. I’m thinking of Benjamin Alire Saenz’ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, of Chinelo Okperanta’s Under the Udala Trees, of Audre Lorde’s Zami. Even David Levithan’s Two Boys Kissing, which […]

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Reflections on Black Gay Literature

In Conversation: Gar McVey-Russell & Philip Robinson Philip Robinson is an award-winning poet, writer and activist. His writing of poetry spans forty-nine years. Robinson is anthologized in several gay/queer literature’s front-runners: In The Life, A Black Gay Anthology, The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets, The Last Closet: real lives of lesbian and gay teachers, and When The Drama Club is Not Enough. Philip Robinson also has two of his own books of poetry, We Still Leave a Legacy and in The Trenches The Voice of A Guidance Counselor. Philip is a long-term volunteer @ AIDS Action Committee  (AAC) of Massachusetts […]

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Book Review: ‘Vanishing Twins’ by Leah Dieterich

“‘I want to sleep with a woman,’ I said. ‘But I don’t want to leave you.’” That’s the salvo that ignites the central drama of Leah Dieterich’s new memoir, Vanishing Twins: A Marriage. At the time, she thinks of herself as “straight but interested in women,” having spent her college years making out with girls at frat parties on the pretext of male titillation. As a young wife, she’s still inclined to link her queer desire to a man: “I could still be just like him—a straight person who wanted to sleep with women,” she thinks. “It let me become […]

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3rd i’s 16th Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival Nov 1-4 in San Francisco; Nov 17 in Palo Alto

3rd i’s 16th Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival: Bollywood and Beyond (SFISAFF) launches at the New People and Castro Theaters in San Francisco from November 1st-4th, moving to Palo Alto two weeks later on November 17th. The five-day Festival will screen over a dozen programs of narrative and documentary features and shorts by independent filmmakers from South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora, including stories from India, Sri Lanka, Canada, and the USA. Staking claim to two-thirds of our program, women filmmakers dominate this year’s line-up, training their lens on issues ranging from homelessness and domestic violence, […]

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Barbra Streisand Releases Pro-LGBT Anthem to Protest Trump

Barbra Streisand has dropped an LGBT anthem, in a not-so-guarded F.U. to President Trump. The legendary gay icon released her thirty-sixth studio album, Walls, on November 2. The title of the record is a direct reference to the Trump administration’s border wall policy, and many of the tracks bear an overtly-political nature. Get your home ready for the holidays with Boll & Branch. See More Barbra Streisand speaks onstage at the women’s march in Los Angeles on January 21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty) Speaking to Canadian outlet Maclean’s, Streisand confirmed the meaning behind the track. She said: “He’s trying to […]

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Book Review: ‘The Lurid Sea’ by Tom Cardamone

Nerites is not your typical Roman youth. First of all, he is a demigod (begotten by Neptune upon a mortal Roman matron); secondly, he really enjoys oral sex (despite being a freeborn Roman citizen). Eager to satisfy his appetite for fellatio, he frequents the Baths of Caracalla, and there it is that he meets his own father, who, upon discovering his son acting in such an unmanly fashion (upon Neptune himself, no less—awkward!), curses Nerites to spend eternity upon his knees, forever servicing men in order to survive. Thus begins Nerites’ haphazard journey back and forth through time, appearing and […]

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San Francisco Transgender Film Festival Celebrates 20th Anniversary

San Francisco Transgender Film Festival was the first festival of its kind in North America. This landmark festival—which promotes transgender and gender-variant visibility, culture and community through its quality films—has been educating and engaging audiences for two decades. Recently, the San Francisco Bay Times sat down with San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) Artistic Director Shawna Virago, to discuss the upcoming 20thAnniversary 2017 SFTFF, November 10–12 at the Roxie Theater. San Francisco Bay Times: Congratulations! This is the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival 20th Anniversary, which is quite an accomplishment. What can we expect this year? Shawna Virago: This November 10–12, SFTFF celebrates its […]

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Second Annual CINEMATOGRAFO FILM FESTIVAL 2018 returns November 8 – 11 to the AMC Kabuki 8 in San Francisco

ABS-CBN is proud to announce the complete lineup of the 2018 second edition of the Cinematografo International Film Festival. Events will return to San Francisco NOVEMBER 8 – 11 at the AMC Kabuki 8 in San Francisco’s Japantown. Opening Night:  SIGNAL ROCK San Francisco Bay Area Premiere The second edition of the festival will kick off Renowned Filipino auteur Chito Roño’s SIGNAL ROCK, the official submission from The Philippines for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming Academy Awards®. The film tells the story of Intoy (Christian Bables) who is left to care for his parents when his sister moved […]

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Book Review: ‘Compass Rose’ by Anna Burke

The year is 2513. Humanity lives with the consequences of everything we in the twenty-first century have done to the Earth. The oceans have risen and parts of them are dead. The air often isn’t safe. Our species has only survived because it’s managed to take to life on ships. There’s a split between the people who live in naval colonies on the North Atlantic Archipelago and everyone else, namely pirates, mercenaries, or the drifters who trawl for plastics and other things they can trade for supplies. Resources are scarce, so whoever controls the underwater mines controls everything. At the […]

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