Arts & Entertainment

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Book Review: ‘The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America’ by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

Isaac Butler and Dan Kois have crafted an extensive oral history of the making of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America that is ingenious by design. Much like a play script itself, the book is structured in a series of “Acts” with chapters more like titled scenes and a cast of characters listed at the end, and documents through diverse interviews–edited in such a way as to create an on-going dialogue–the genesis, history, themes and reception of this queer masterwork. The “cast” for this metanarrative includes Kushner, the actors, directors, producers, and production team, as well as the scholars, historians, critics, and fellow […]

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Sarah Baker Slated for Occidental Center for the Arts Prformance

Saturday April 14 @ 8 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents Sarah Baker with Nina Gerber & Mona Gnader. Composer, pianist, teacher and blues/rock/soul singer-songwriter extraordinaire Sarah Baker is back on our stage! with the legendary Nina Gerber on guitar, joined by electric bassist Mona Gnader of The Waboritas. Don’t miss this exciting collaboration of powerful women musicians at OCA’s acoustic sweet spot! $22 Advance/$26 at the door. Reservations advised. Fine Refreshments. Wheelchair Accessible. Art Gallery open during events. 707-874-9392. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental 95465.

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John Oliver’s Gay Bunny Book Hits #1 On Amazon

Guess who just managed to pull a best-selling book out of their hat? That’s right: it’s John Oliver and the staff of Last Week Tonight—specifically, writer Jill Twiss—whose picture book, the somewhat cumbersomely titled Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, is, as of this writing, the No. 1 best-selling book on Amazon. It’s a sweet victory, made even sweeter by the book that’s currently down at fourth place: Marlon Bundo’s A Day in the Life of the Vice President, a picture book written by Mike Pence’s 24-year-old daughter, Charlotte, and illustrated […]

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Bay Area Women Filmmakers at 8th Annual Albany Film Festival on Sunday, March 25.

Albany FilmFest is excited and honored to be able to showcase the work of Bay Area women filmmakers for the second consecutive year, particularly in this moment when women filmmakers in Hollywood are speaking loud and clear. Once again, we are so impressed by the  range of issues (gentrification and displacement, women construction workers in Burma, LGBT relationships, Down syndrome, and even the afterlife), genres, and breadth of these films and filmmakers. We look forward to discussion and audience interaction after the screening. Saturday, March 25 at 10am Albany Twin Theater 1115 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706 More information: http://albanyfilmfest.org/show-1-on-the-road/ […]

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Book Review: ‘The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976-1988’ by Martin Duberman

In his new memoir, The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976-1988, Martin Duberman meditates on an era that, perhaps more than any other, proved pivotal for queer life, political, cultural, and otherwise. “Although most gay people did share the prescribed values and aspirations of mainstream culture,” Duberman writes, “a radical minority… firmly rejected the liberal view that our national institutions were basically sound and that a little tinkering here and there around the edges would make them better still.” As homosexuals serve openly in the military and get married from coast to coast, as the divide […]

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Writer Clayton Delery on Reconstructing a Hate Crime

Clayton Delery’s previous book, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson, was named Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities in 2015. His new book is Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice. It tells the story of an anti-gay hate crime that took place in New Orleans in 1958 and chronicles a time and place in American history where such a crime was inevitable. In addition, Delery is a contributor to collections such as My Gay New Orleans and Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi, and Trans Men who Came Out Later […]

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Y Sisters to Perform at Occidental Center for the Arts

Sunday April 29 @ 4 pm. T Sisters! at Occidental Center for the Arts. Oakland-based siblings Erika, Rachel and Chloe are fast-rising singer/songwriter stars on the folk/Americana festival circuits who collaborate with and support acts such as Amos Lee, Laurie Lewis,Todd Rundren, the Woods Brothers, and more. Captivating audiences with soaring harmonies, inventive arrangements, and plenty of sisterly sass, they evoke the classic girl groups from the Andrews and Pointer Sisters to modern family bands like First Aid Kit. Enjoy their lively originals and covers of folk, Americana, gospel, R & B, soul and bluegrass at OCA’s acoustic sweet spot. Reservations advised!  $19 […]

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Sarah Baker with Nina Gerber & Mona Gnader Set to Perform at Occidental Center for the Arts

Calendar/ Blues/Rock/Soul Music: Saturday April 14 @ 8 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents Sarah Baker with Nina Gerber & Mona Gnader. Composer, pianist, teacher and blues/rock/soul singer-songwriter extraordinaire Sarah Baker is back on our stage! with the legendary Nina Gerber on guitar, joined by electric bassist Mona Gnader of The Waboritas. Don’t miss this exciting collaboration of powerful women musicians at OCA’s acoustic sweet spot! $22 Advance/$26 at the door. Reservations advised. Fine Refreshments. Wheelchair Accessible. Art Gallery open during events. 707-874-9392. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental 95465.

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Book Review: ‘Queerly Loving (Volume 1)’ Edited by G Benson and Astrid Ohletz

There are dozens of new books to choose from each month if you’re a fan of f/f or m/m romance, never mind the m/f romance that’s been booming for decades. But what if you want to read a “happily ever after” or “happy for now” story that includes a trans person? Or someone who is asexual and/or aromantic? Those are much harder to find, especially if you want stories that don’t fling themselves (sometimes willfully, it seems) into the pitfalls of stereotypes and damaging, or even triggering, representation. Queerly Loving (Volume 1) is a short story collection that gives happy […]

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Book Review: ‘Taken In’ by Erica Abbott

Colfax police Captain Alex Ryan arrives home to find a thug barring her door and an unwelcome visitor inside their apartment with her wife, CJ St. Clair. The uninvited guest turns out to be CJ’s snobby, fractious mother, Lydia. She estranged CJ years before when CJ came out to her. Now, she’s shown up demanding her daughter come to the aid of the family using her skills as a police investigator to find the killer of her brother’s ex-wife. Otherwise, her brother, Clayton, may end up going to jail for the murder. After some mental gymnastics, CJ finally decides to […]

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