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Pride returns to Oakland
For the first time since 2003, a full-fledged LGBT Pride festival is set for Oakland. The LGBTQ Oakland Pride Festival will be held Sunday, September 5, from noon to 6 p.m. The main entrances is at 20th and Broadway in the Uptown District. The theme is "We Got the Funk: Diversity in Action." (read more)
'Sweet Lips,' an original
B.A.R.
columnist, dies at 87
Richard Walters, who wrote under the pen name Sweet Lips and was a longtime Bay Area Reporter columnist who started writing for the paper when it was founded in 1971, died Saturday, August 28. (read more)
Prelude to Oakland Pride
The ninth annual Sistahs Steppin' in Pride East Bay Dyke March drew a crowd on Saturday, August 28 as marchers went from Lake Merritt to nearby Snow Park for an afternoon of music and entertainment. (read more)
National LGBT
journalists' group turns 20
The organization that has helped alter the media landscape for LGBTs inside and out of the country's newsrooms is turning 20 this year. The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's national convention and seventh annual LGBT Media Summit will convene in San Francisco September 2 through 5. (read more)
Castro rallies
against surge in violence
A crowd of 150 gathered in the Castro Friday night, responding to a string of recent violent assaults. Organized by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Castro Community on Patrol, the rally was prompted by an alleged gay-bashing on the J-Church three weeks ago. (read more)
Community rallies to save Hayward LGBT center
In October the Lighthouse Community Center will celebrate its 10th anniversary of providing a gathering place for southern Alameda County's LGBT population. (read more)
Berkeley council race
draws three out candidates
Openly gay Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington, a longtime champion of progressive causes, is in a heated re-election campaign this fall against two out candidates who have attracted backing from the East Bay city's more moderate politicians. (read more)
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Fine Arts - What's up
at the galleries this fall?
Galleries remain the best bet for discovering adventurous art and taking the pulse of the modern art world. Unlike museums, galleries aren't required to appeal to mass tastes; they can afford to exhibit riskier projects, and we are the happy beneficiaries. (read more)
Theatre - What's
coming to Bay Area stages?
The fall theater previews that appear annually on these pages have at times been massaged and manipulated to assure that at least one upcoming production from the major theaters makes it into one of the categories devised for that year: promising solo shows, new musicals, star turns, etc. (read more)
Out There - Fall guys
For your September delectation, Brazilian model Marcello poses for photographer Steven Underhill. He's a harbinger of the upcoming fall season in the arts! So we were visiting SF's Museum of Performance & Design in the Veterans Building to see Toy Theatres: Worlds in Miniature, a modest exhibit of 21 rare toy theatres dating from the 18th century to the present, drawn from seven different countries. (read more)
Film - Sleeping around
The People I've Slept With is a brave idea executed by a talented, sexy ensemble proves a winner for Quentin Lee, who returns to making bold films that break the mold for queer characters. (read more)
Theatre - Soul sisters
The acronym LED, for light-emitting diode, did not trip off our tongues when Dreamgirls first opened on Broadway in 1981, but when the LED panels that comprise the scenery of the touring Dreamgirls at the Curran first began to glow, the opening-night audience responded with applause. (read more)
Theatre - Grand revue
When musical director Joe Wicht tells Darlene Popovic how honored he is to be playing piano for her first gig since she came out of retirement, she shoots him a look that could kill. "I'm not retired," she says icily. "I'm Equity." Popovic puts her pipes and personality on display in How Lucky Can You Get? at New Conservatory Theatre Center. (read more)
Music - Dance diva showdown
Katy Perry has traded in the faux-Pink pre-fab rock snarl of her inexplicably popular debut album and has aimed her shameless sights on Lady Gaga's dance diva crown on her sophomore spin Teenage Dream (Capitol). (read more)
