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Online Extra: Political Notes: Lesbian Republican seeks San Diego supervisor seat
Lesbian Republican former judge and district attorney Bonnie Dumanis is the latest out candidate to run for a county supervisor position in California. (read more)
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Folsom fair nixes beer partner
If you were hoping to purchase a cold one at this Sunday's Folsom Street Fair served up by hot men (or women) wearing wrestling singlets, you're out of luck. (read more)
Merchants hear plans for Castro hotel
The forgettable facade of 4230 18th Street might become the site of the Castro district's first official hotel. (read more)
Legislators send CA governor 7 LGBT bills
State lawmakers sent Governor Jerry Brown seven LGBT-related bills this session that, if signed into law, will change how California oversees identification documents for transgender or gender non-conforming people, penalizes people who are HIV-positive, and tracks registered sex offenders. (read more)
Health panel hears of drop in HIV infections
The health department presented its latest HIV epidemiology report at a San Francisco Health Commission meeting Tuesday, September 19, showing that new HIV diagnoses continue to decline, with decreases seen across racial and ethnic groups. (read more)
Officials set to help homeless at BART stations
Officials in San Francisco are working to help homeless people and drug offenders while cleaning up several BART transit stations. (read more)
More Arts
Music - Classic dysfunction on the opera stage
"Elektra" by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal opened recently as the second presentation in San Francisco Opera's fall season. (read more)
Film - Gender showdown on the tennis court
The new docudrama "The Battle of the Sexes" flashes back 44 years to 1973. (read more)
Out There - Season opens with real panache
Oh arts-loving pumpkins, the fall arts season has definitely begun! Your gay old uncle Out There has been running around to season openers like there's no tomorrow – which is silly, since there's a whole action-packed season ahead. (read more)
Out & About - Arts events: Sept. 21-28
The curtain rises, the paint dries, the voice warms up, "me may mi mo moo. (read more)
Theatre - Once upon a time in Oakland
Whose story is it anyway? Kheven LaGrone's "The Legend of Pink" spends much of its first act in an I-gotta-be-me story of one character, climaxing in a kind of performance-art epiphany, and then abruptly dispenses with him in the second act to tell another character's tale in very different tones. (read more)
Theatre - Harmonizing along with blue notes
It isn't a pretty story, the kind that can legitimately end on a high note like the musicals about the music and careers of the Four Seasons ("Jersey Boys") or Carole King ("Beautiful"). (read more)
Theatre - Funny cigarettes
Lost in the haze of history is the name of the church group that commissioned the notorious anti-weed movie "Reefer Madness. (read more)
