Arts & Entertainment

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Santa Rosa Symphony Hosts a Free Fire Relief Benefit Concert Monday, November 20

Responding to the enormous need in the community it has been a part of for 90 years, the Santa Rosa Symphony, with support from Sonoma State University’s Green Music Center, will present a Free Fire Relief Benefit Concert on Monday, November 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm. Conductor Emeritus Corrick Brown joins Music Director Bruno Ferrandis for this special event, which will also feature Conductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The program also includes Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Eglar’s “Nimrod” from Enigma Variations and Beethoven’s highly-praised Symphony No. 3, Eroica. Donations collected at ticket […]

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Berlin & Beyond Film Fest Happens in SF Nov. 9-11

On November 9th, 2017 at the Roxie Theater in the Mission and on November 10th and 11th at the Goethe-Institut in Downtown San Francisco, America’s premiere festival of contemporary German cinema kicks off its 22nd season! The Autumn Showcase is presented in anticipation of the main 22nd edition of the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival (February 2018), and as the cinematic part of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Goethe-Institut San Francisco with its series of cultural and community events this autumn. The Autumn Showcase will feature the interactive film event The Verdict, the exhilarating Berlin film Tiger Girl, a […]

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Outwatch Film Festival Review: “Saturday Church”

When 14 year old Ulysses’s (Luka Kain) father suddenly dies, his mother (Margot Bingham) has to take on a second job to make ends meet. She somewhat reluctantly accepts an offer from Ulysses’ ultra-conservative Aunt Rose (Regina Taylor) to come to take care of him and his younger sibling after work until she gets home. The teenager is in the throws of discovering his sexuality and identity, and when Rose finds out he has been secretly trying on his mother’s shoes she doesn’t let up on him for one single moment. On a whim he takes himself off on the subway […]

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Frameline Film Review: “Signature Move”

Two women meet and fall in love, despite parental disapproval and their own personal roadblocks. Needless to say, the story of Signature Move, a SXSW world premiere, is far from novel. But vivid details can animate almost any old chestnut, and many of the variations on this timeworn tale help to give the film its appeal. It seems certain to reappear at gay and lesbian film festivals and might turn out to be a modest niche item in a few theaters as well. The story takes place in Chicago, which contains a more multi-faceted ethnic community than some may realize. […]

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Outwatch Film Festival Review: “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin”

The writer Armistead Maupin is the subject of a documentary directed by Jennifer M. Kroot. Credit The Film Collaborative “I’m a writer who is gay,” the novelist Armistead Maupin says in “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.” “I’m not a gay writer. I write about heterosexuals as well.” This fond documentary portrait, directed by Jennifer M. Kroot, makes it clear that Mr. Maupin’s mastery of assorted perspectives is his gift, evident in his masterpiece, “Tales of the City,” a love letter to San Francisco comprising multiple characters. And yet the film offers an enlightening glimpse into how the gay experience […]

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GLAAD Rebukes Kevin Spacey for coming Out to ‘deflect’ from Sexual Harassment allegations

GLAAD called out Kevin Spacey for using his coming out as a way to distract from damning sexual assault allegations. Spacey, 58, announced on Twitter Sunday that he was choosing “to live as a gay man” in the same statement he used to apologize to actor Anthony Rapp for an alleged encounter when Rapp was just 14. Sarah Kate Ellis – the LGBTQ advocacy organization’s president and CEO – did not mince words when it came to how she felt about Spacey’s decision to combine his apology with the shocking revelation of his sexuality. “Coming out stories should not be […]

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Outwatch Film Festival Review: “I Dream In Another Language”

Mexican filmmaker Ernesto Contreras’s fourth feature film with a script by his brother (Carlos Contreras) is a magical mythical tale about the search for a language that is on the brink of extinction, because the last two remaining elderly speakers are bitter enemies who haven’t exchanged a word for the past 50 years. Martin (Fernando Álvarez Rebeil ) is a young linguist expert who has traveled to a remote part of Mexico in the hope of recording some conversations with these last two people known to be fluent in Zikril. There was a 3rd person but she dies practically as soon as […]

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OUTwatch: Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival Announces Schedule

Opening Night: Nov. 2nd, Sebastiani Theater, Sonoma The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin • 7:30pm  Tales of the City Author   This Documentary also screens in SR on Sunday 11/5 at 12:30pm All the Following Films Screen at:  3rd Street Cinema, Santa Rosa Friday November 3rd Signature Move • 7:30pm 2017 / USA / 80 min
 Lesbian Comedy Saturday November 4th Saturday Church • 12:30pm 2017 / USA / 81min
 Trans Musical Drama Fast Girls: Lesbian Shorts • 2:30pm Fun! Sexy! Thoughtful! Lavender Scare • 4:30pm 2016 / USA / 88 min  Documentary about LGBTQ people in the 1950s and 1960s After Louie • 7:30pm 2017 / USA / 100 min.  Gay film starring The Good Wife’s Alan Cumming Sunday November 5th The Untold Tales of […]

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Sonoma County Art Trails 2017 – Rescheduled

  Due to fires that devastated our community, Art Trails is rescheduled to October 21, 22 and October 28, 29. Studios NOT OPEN either weekend:            11 Christine MacDonald, 14 Susan Miron, 17 Tom Berto, 25 Barbara Kelly, 26 Lisa Skelly, 28 Bill Gittins, 30 Anne Regan, 31 Char Wood, 32 Dannell Powell, 63 Valerie Adams, 67 Donna DeLaBriandais Studios open Oct 21-22 ONLY:                   34 Rick Blundell, 36 Jennylynn Hall, 39 Sargam Griffin, 58 Beverly Todd Rose, 81 Caro Pemberton, 100 Jay Blums, 147 Sherri Ortegren Studios open Oct 28-29 […]

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Outwatch Film Festival Review: “Saturday Church”

When 14 year old Ulysses’s (Luka Kain) father suddenly dies, his mother (Margot Bingham) has to take on a second job to make ends meet. She somewhat reluctantly accepts an offer from Ulysses’ ultra-conservative Aunt Rose (Regina Taylor) to come to take care of him and his younger sibling after work until she gets home. The teenager is in the throws of discovering his sexuality and identity, and when Rose finds out he has been secretly trying on his mother’s shoes she doesn’t let up on him for one single moment. On a whim he takes himself off on the subway […]

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