Arts & Entertainment

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Book Review: ‘House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row’ by Lance Richardson

The rock ‘n’ roll spirit–imported by Britain in the 50s and 60s and made that country’s own—infuses every page of House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row. The Beatles, the Stones, and Elton John, all dance through this delightful and compelling book, and though they’re the music makers here, all were styled by Tommy Nutter. Nutter, the book shows, cut the vibrant cloth of the zeitgeist. From the Beatles’ suits for the iconic Abbey Road album cover (except George, in jeans of course), to the bespoke beauties worn by the flamboyant-yet-then-publicly-closeted Elton John, Tommy Nutter came of age […]

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Bluegrass Artist Justin Hiltner Wants New, Queer-Inclusive Music To Smash Barriers

Bethany Carson/Carson Photoworks Justin Hiltner (left) is hopeful his new album with Jon Weisberger will be “the beginning of true representation for queer people in bluegrass.”  Banjo player, singer and songwriter Justin Hiltner touches on many time-honored themes on his new bluegrass album, “Watch It Burn.” Loneliness, heartbreak and nostalgia are cornerstones of “Watch It Burn,” due out Friday. But the album, which Hiltner wrote and recorded with fellow musician and pal Jon Weisberger, is poised to shift listeners’ long-held perceptions of bluegrass, too. Nowhere is that more apparent than on its second single, “I’m Not in Love With You.” HuffPost got an exclusive first listen […]

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Book Review: ‘Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love’ by Anna Moschovakis

Name: Eleanor. Age: “still not halfway to death.” Marital status: single, though recently granted a drawer of her own in her not-boyfriend’s apartment. Race: white, with the requisite sense of culpability in an age of “school shootings, murderous cops and their defenders, and remote-controlled bombings of unarmed civilians.” When we meet the title character in Anna Moschovakis’s Eleanor, or, the Rejection of the Progress of Love, she has blood on her hands—both literally, her thumb bleeding from an unspecified injury, and figuratively, dwelling on an unspecified “thing that had happened—that she had made happen, or at least not prevented from […]

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Live Music at Occidental Center for the Arts

Sunday Sept. 9 @ 3 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents: Duo West, featuring classical musicians and teachers, pianist Abbie Gabrielson with cellist Sonja Myklebust. Since their students days together at Lewis & Clark College in 2006, this talented and dedicated young duo create interactive concert experiences that inspire and educate, imbuing their performances with passion and context. They will be presenting a concert of 20th century masterworks for cello and piano. $14 Advance/$19 at door. Saturday September 22 @ 8 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents The Musers & Jon Gonzales Stringband. Ukelele master and KRCB radio host Jon Gonzales joins bassist/producer Michael […]

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Theatre Review: Transcendence Theatre Co.s “Shall We Dance”

  The Cast of Shall We Dance Photo by Ray Mabry The Broadway show Something Rotten!, which takes place in the time of Shakespeare, features a number entitled “A Musical,” in which Thomas Nostradamus predicts the rise of a whole new form of entertainment where actors will suddenly break into song, and chorus lines will engage in energetic, synchronized tapping. “Does it advance the plot?” another character wonders. When told “no,” they ask “Then why do you do it?” and the answer comes back swiftly: “Because it’s entertaining!” This number came to mind during the performance of Shall We Dance, […]

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Out CNN Anchor Don Lemon Hits Back: Trump Is A Racist Bully

“Let me not mince words here. This president traffics in racism and is fueled by bullying. President Trump is trying a divide-and-conquer strategy here and here’s how it goes. He divides by race and tries to conquer decency by smearing and besmirching the truth and the people who fight to uphold it. Referring to African-Americans as dumb is one of the oldest canards of America’s racist past and present — that black people are of inferior intelligence. “Unlike this president who lashes out wildly at anyone who criticizes him, LeBron James — in addition to being a brilliant black man, […]

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Cotati Accordian Festival Slated for Aug. 18 & 19

The 28th Annual Nonprofit, Multi-cultural Cotati Accordion Festival, the “Woodstock of the Accordion World”, will be taking place this coming August 18th & 19th in La Plaza Park in downtown Cotati, Ca. Internationally acclaimed virtuosos from Italy, Finland and Germany, joined by an ongoing two day dance party featuring five zydeco bands, will all be at the famed multi-generational event. Don’t miss the Jam Tent, the Polka Tent, the Student Stage, the alternative Accordion Apocalypse Stage, the Zydeco Dance Party, the two main stages, the Redwood Cafe Friday show, and over 70 vendors, food, wine and beer. Tickets are available […]

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Legendary Adult Theatre in San Francisco Will Close Down

Credit: Nob Hill Theatre San Francisco is about to lose one of its precious gems that dates back all the way to the golden era of porn. Nob Hill Theatre, the legendary male strip club in SF, will be permanently closing its doors on August 19th. The owners, Larry Hoover and Gary Luce, have decided to retire and head south to Palm Springs. The married couple bought the club six years ago, which found an increase in profits as time went on. It will officially close after an appreciation barbecue for customers and appearances by house performers.”We’ve enjoyed owning the […]

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“Nanette” Special Faces Up to Reality

Comedy, at its best, is supposed to stare down the truth. Once a fairly simple task, any kind of reckoning with “truth” becomes slightly more complicated in today’s world, where there are as many truths to one story as there are people who lived it, witnessed it, and hear about it. It’s a comedian’s job, in the world of #MeToo, to figure out how to poke fun at trauma while actually taking it very, very seriously. No one has yet managed to walk this line better than the gay Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show “Nanette” recently started streaming […]

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Book Review: ‘Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms’ by Michelle Tea

“It’s one thing to discuss your family’s trauma with other family,” writes Michelle Tea. “It’s another thing entirely to release their stories to a world that doesn’t love them.” She’s writing about the HAGS, a San Francisco group of lesbian punks active in the 1990s, but the sentiment could easily apply to many of the essays in Against Memoir, a new collection of Tea’s writings from Feminist Press. The pieces brought together in Against Memoir navigate the difficult balance of the personal and the communal, and the dynamics of discussing fraught issues within a community (especially queer communities), versus discussing […]

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