Arts & Entertainment

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Outwatch Film Festival Hosts LGBTQI Films at Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival

This year, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2019 is pleased to, once again, partner with OUTwatch, Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival, offering a slate of films curated by their producers as part of our program. OUTwatch began as a day of LGBTQI films at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in 2012 and has grown into a robust and well-attended festival of its own. Its producers curate the best of LGBTQI film in both narrative and documentary formats and bring it to the North Bay to entertain and educate the community at large.  As such, we are proud to co-present three […]

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Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen Live at Occidental Center for the Arts Feb. 23

Saturday February 23 @7 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts welcomes back famed folk singer/songwriter duo Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen. Gillette (Darcy Farrow; Bed of Roses; Back on the Street Again) and his wife, singer-instrumentalist Mangsen will delight you with traditional and contemporary folk songs, rich harmonies, accomplished guitar, banjo, and concertina accompaniment, and a good dose of humor! compassrosemusic.com   $18 Advance /$22 at the door. Fine refreshments. Black History Month exhibit in our Gallery. Wheelchair Accessible. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org.

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LGBT Ally Kacey Musgraves Wins Big at Queer-dominated Grammys

Country singer Kacey Musgraves won the coveted Album of the Year award for her album “Golden Hour” marking the end of a Grammys award show filled with plenty of queer women representation. Musgraves, who also won Country Album of the Year, has emerged as an LGBTQ ally in the country music world. She has spoken up for more LGBTQ inclusion in country music and her song “Follow Your Arrow” was hailed as a pro-LGBTQ anthem. Musgraves also served as judge on “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Musgraves also took home Best Country Solo Performance (“Butterflies”), and Best Country Song (“Space Cowboy”) Awards for a […]

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Brandi Carlile Opens Up About The Power Of LGBTQ Representation In Music

Brandi Carlile says she “can’t wrap her head around” being the most-nominated female artist at this year’s Grammy Awards, but she’s keenly aware of the overall significance of those accolades.  The folk-rock singer-songwriter’s latest album, “By the Way, I Forgive You,” saw her talking a stance on a number of contemporary issues, like addiction, immigration and bullying. Released in February 2018, the album received massive critical praise and helped Carlile score six Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year (for lead single “The Joke”) and Album of the Year.   “I feel like I’ve always been on the fringes of mainstream acceptance like […]

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Pet Shop Boys Blast Trump ‘Bigotry’ on New Single

The Pet Shop Boys have released a new single that takes aim at President Donald Trump and Brexit, calling out “bigotry.” The pop duo, comprised of out singer Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, are hardly newcomers to pointedly political lyrics—many of their 1980s songs were inspired bythe AIDS crisis, while the band have also released a musical tribute to Alan Turingand set a speech about gay equality to music. However, their latest track “Give Stupidity a Chance” is more avowedly political than ever, putting leaders on blast on both sides of the Atlantic. Pet Shop Boys: Let’s shock and awe the world with idiotic bigotry […]

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This Art Exhibit Explores the LGBTI Roots of the Punk Movement

Punk Lust: Raw Provocation 1971-1985 is an exhibit at NYC’s Museum of Sex. It explores the intersection between sexuality and the punk movement. When people think of punk, images of skinny white boys (Joey Ramone, Sid Vicious) might come to mind. However, this exhibit will feature lesser-known punk icons, including LGBTI punks. The Exhibit Curated by cultural critic Carlo McCormick, writer/musician Vivien Goldman, and artist/Museum of Sex curator Lissa Rivera, the large exhibit includes over 300 objects. These items include rare photographs and personal objects, such as Johnny Thunders’ leather jacket, owned by Manic Panic founders Tish and Snooky. It […]

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Joyful Noise Gospel Brunch at Occidental Center for the Arts Feb. 11

Saturday February 23 @ 11 am. Gospel Brunch at Occidental Center for the Arts. Please join us for a festive and inspirational event celebrating Black History Month at OCA! featuring the Joyful Noise Gospel Choir and traditional Southern cooking by West County’s own ‘Saucy Mama’! This event is generously sponsored by The Sonoma County Gazette and The Mirabel Lodge. OCA Art Gallery offers the stunning private collection of Raynetta James and a juried exhibit by local artists celebrating Black History; Feb. 1-24th. Tickets to the brunch (advance registration required): $35 Adults; ages 14 and up. $15 Youth 9-13 years; Free to […]

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Jewish Film Institute Announces 6th Annual WinterFest

The Jewish Film Institute (JFI), presenters of the world renowned San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, have announced the dates for the sixth annual WinterFest, which will take place February 16-17, 2019 in San Francisco. The program will take place at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater on Saturday, February 16th and at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on Sunday, February 17th and will feature the best new Jewish film and media for a diverse Bay Area audience. The full WinterFest 2019 program will be announced on Tuesday, January 22. Individual tickets will go on sale to JFI members at […]

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Southern Queer Authors Tell All

Gale Massey, Kelly J. Ford, and I have quite a few things in common. We’re debut crime novelists. We’re queer. We’re Southern. Growing up gay in the Bible Belt undeniably shaped us, but how deep do Southern roots penetrate our fiction as adults? How do we reconcile identities that are often in conflict with one another? And, importantly, which of us are cousins and how far removed? Y’all best believe we have Things to Say™, and we’re grateful to Lambda Literary for the opportunity to say ‘em. Pour a little Coke in that bourbon, and buckle your biscuits ‘cause this […]

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Book Review: ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ by John Boyne

In October 2015, at age 57, having lived in New York City for 35 years, I followed my husband to his new job at a Midwestern university. We joked about young men everywhere, and how the sight might make us long for our lost youth. Indeed, when we first visited, the summer before moving, the youth factor was a bit overwhelming. Would the young men view us old guys with distain, as irrelevant or out-of-touch? In Manhattan, achievement, including youthful achievement, is everywhere, but diluted. New York City is actually occupied by many ordinary Joes and Janes, and that’s mostly […]

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