Arts & Entertainment

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Book Review: ‘Oranges’ By Gary Eldon Peter

A debut collection of linked short stories about love, loss, and intimacy, Oranges is a gentle look at what it means to come of age and grow older as a gay man in the Midwest. The slim collection of nine tales sketches the life of Michael Dolin, a civil lawyer who grew up closeted in Mason City, Iowa, before finding self-respect in Minneapolis as an adult. In spare prose, author Gary Eldon Peter portrays Michael’s lifelong journey toward inner peace with care and compassion. The first story, “Blankets,” opens the collection with the protagonist at his most vulnerable. A recent college graduate, Michael struggles […]

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Occidental Center for the Arts proudly presents: Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands

Friday March 8 @ 7 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts proudly presents: Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands! Grammy-winning, iconic Americana and bluegrass singer/songwriter /fiddler/educator Laurie Lewis joins Tom Rozum and the masterful musicians of  The Right Hands for a not-to be-missed concert at OCA’s acoustic sweet spot! $28 Advance/$32 at the door. Reservations advised. Fine Refreshments. Art Gallery open. Wheelchair Accessible. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465 L-R: Haselden Ciaccio, Patrick Sauber, Laurie Lewis, Brandon Godman, Tom Rozum     Photo credit: Jessica Eve Rattner Any interest?Want to go?Done!

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Book Review: ‘The Lesbian South’ by Jamie Harker

During her first semester as a professor at the University of Mississippi, Jaime Harker read John Howard’s Men Like That and learned to recognize the open secret of rural queer networks. “I have lived in John Howard’s Mississippi ever since,” writes Harker, “and it has been as charming and welcoming as the man himself.” Part memoir, part cultural and literary history, The Lesbian South examines the lesbian feminist print culture that thrived in southern networks from the seventies to the nineties. Yet unlike Howard’s hidden, tolerated queerness, these southern lesbian writers and editors made plenty of noise. Naiad Press, purveyor of popular lesbian novels, […]

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Berlin & Beyond Film Festival Announces Line Up

The Berlin & Beyond Film Festival (March 8-14, 2019), the largest festival of contemporary German cinema in The Americas, presented annually by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, proudly announces the full lineup of its 23rd edition. The festival will return for the 23rd year to San Francisco’s iconic Castro Theatre from March 8th-10th with red carpet premieres and actors and filmmakers in attendance, along with encores at Landmark Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley on March 11th, and screenings at the auditorium of the Goethe-Institut in Downtown San Francisco from March 12th-14th. OPENING NIGHT FILM 25 KM/HDir. Markus Goller (115 min. Germany)International PremiereBrothers […]

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Book Review: ‘If I Loved You Less’ by Tamson Parker

Theodosia Sullivan has the perfect life. She has a great relationship with her dad, she runs their surf shop in Hanalei Bay, has plenty of close friends in town, and gets all the no-strings sex she wants from tourists who are thrilled to be in Hawaii and away from their homes on the mainland. Best of all is Kini, her closest friend and confidante who also happens to be the best damn baker going, and owner of Queen’s Sweet Shop. Theo isn’t interested in “the one” or anything resembling a long-term relationship, but she loves it when other people fall […]

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Book Review: ‘Leading Men’ by Christopher Castellini

With one foot in historical fact and one foot beautifully in fiction, Christopher Castellini vividly reimagines one of the most fascinating partnerships of the gay literary world. The author has created a compelling narrative about the bonds of love and affection between two men: the playwright Tennessee Williams and his partner, the often overshadowed, Frank Merlo. Merlo, beloved by those closest to the celebrated Williams, still lived mostly in the playwright’s shadow. His own ambitions as an actor and dancer thwarted, Merlo functioned as William’s assistant, always getting the couple where they needed to be when they needed to be there. Leading Men is an accounting of Merlo’s time with Williams, a working-class man from New Jersey thrust onto the international stage […]

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People’s Music Benefit for Occidental Center for the Arts

Friday March 1 @ 7:30 pm.People’s Music Benefit for Occidental Center for the Arts!Join People’s Music for ‘a night of great music with friends’ to benefit live music venue Occidental Center for the Arts! Don’t miss this showcase of Sonoma County talent, featuring: Hoytus & New Paradise, Andy Graham, The Stoney Point Ramblers, Whispering Light, Washington Hill. MC’d by Jim Corbett aka ‘Mr. Music’. All proceeds go to Occidental Center for the Arts. Admission is $15. at the door. Refreshments available ; wine and beer for sale. Wheelchair Accessible. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental CA. 95465.Hoytus and New Paradise Want […]

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Julietta Singh on the Passion of Queer Theory

In the cultural theory circles Julietta Singh traversed in grad school, “the archive” stood for the body of work one sought to claim as one’s unique site of study, from which one would ideally launch a dazzling academic career. Now a professor of English and women’s, gender and sexuality studies, Singh has remained in academia, but her new book No Archive Will Restore You takes stock of a different kind of archive: her own body and all that has traversed its shifting boundaries. The tags on her publisher’s web-page for the book—birth, bulimia, cancer, desire, diaspora, pain, queer theory, race, robbery, sexuality, […]

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Film Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’

Velvet Buzzsaw that went straight from the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL onto the Netflix is probably the campiest movie we have seen for some time. Written and directed by DAN GILROY and packed with a A list cast that included JAKE GYLLENHAAL, RENE RUSSO, TONI COLLETTE, TOM STURRIDGE and JOHN MALKOVICH  it’s a  psychological sci-fi thriller about how greed in the art world can have fatal consequences. Everyone is decked out in their best fashionista outfits and living in spectacular contemporary L.A. mansions with the exception of Josephina (ZAWE ASHTON) a junior Art Gallery agent who lives in an old apartment downtown. When one of her reclusive neighbors dies she discovers […]

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Revry, LGBT Streaming Network, Coming Soon to Comcast’s Xfinity

X First global LGBTQ+ streaming network, Revry, announced a deal with Comcast that will soon bring its service to Comcast’s Xfinity X1. (See televised announcement HERE on Cheddar.com) With Revry’s authentically diverse mix of films, series, music, podcasts and originals, the forthcoming launch on Xfinity X1 is part of Revry’s plans to continue to expand its reach.  One of several partnerships the streaming network expects to announce this year, Revry’s availability on X1 bolsters Revry’s cumulative reach to over 50 million viewers across platforms. At launch, Xfinity X1 customers will be able to subscribe to the service and access it over the Internet by […]

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