Arts & Culture

Regifting - New reissues from Alison Moyet, Thompson Twins, Elvis Costello & more

Regifting - New reissues from Alison Moyet, Thompson Twins, Elvis Costello & more

  • MUSIC
  • by Gregg Shapiro
  • Dec 3, 2024

People who dig 1980s music are often divided into two groups: those that lived through the period and are feeling nostalgic, and those who missed it the first time around and want to experience it for themselves. New reissues should please both.

Fall/Winter books; Cher, Edmund White, DeSimone & more

Fall/Winter books; Cher, Edmund White, DeSimone & more

  • BOOKS
  • by Jim Piechota
  • Dec 3, 2024

With wetter weather and cooler temperatures comes more opportunities to amuse ourselves indoors. This selection of queer books in a few different genres will tempt your soul in books by Alan Hollinghurst, Cher, Edmund White, Lewis DeSimone and more.

Sandra Bernhard's Easy Listening Tour: comic legend promises a musical journey

Sandra Bernhard's Easy Listening Tour: comic legend promises a musical journey

  • MUSIC
  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Dec 2, 2024

On December 10, renaissance woman Sandra Bernhard will perform at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley. With her "Easy Listening Tour," Bernhard invites her audience to join her on a musical journey back in time with her younger self.

One Found Sound's 'Holiday Pop Rox!' - Drag sing-alongs & more at Saint Joseph's Arts Society

One Found Sound's 'Holiday Pop Rox!' - Drag sing-alongs & more at Saint Joseph's Arts Society

  • MUSIC
  • by Philip Campbell
  • Dec 2, 2024

Conductor-less San Francisco-based orchestra One Found Sound celebrates the start of its twelfth season of democratic music making with "Holiday Pop Rox!," a one-night-only cabaret at Saint Joseph's Arts Society December 11.

Going Out, Nov. 28-Dec. 6, 2024 arts & nightlife events

Going Out, Nov. 28-Dec. 6, 2024 arts & nightlife events

  • ART
  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Nov 27, 2024

Baby, it's cold outside, but despite the weather, with some of our favorite bars and nightclubs suffering robberies, it's important to support them as much as you can, like the SF Eagle. Attend your favorite nightlife and arts events listed in Going Out.

Cyndi Lauper's Farewell Tour bops at The Chase Center

Cyndi Lauper's Farewell Tour bops at The Chase Center

  • MUSIC
  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Nov 27, 2024

It was a concert for the ages as veteran singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper performed her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour on November 26 at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

Festive and fabulous: Bay Area holiday performances

Festive and fabulous: Bay Area holiday performances

  • DANCE
  • by Philip Mayard
  • Nov 26, 2024

When the holiday performing arts season arrives, the Bay Area shines as a beacon for LGBTQ arts and culture, from fierce drag performances to queer choral ensembles, classical concerts to new adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" and "The Nutcracker."

Pride, no prejudice: Kausar Mohammed co-stars in TheatreWorks' 'Miss Bennet'

Pride, no prejudice: Kausar Mohammed co-stars in TheatreWorks' 'Miss Bennet'

  • THEATER
  • by Jim Gladstone
  • Nov 26, 2024

Kausar Mohammed is dreaming of a theatrical Christmas. The queer Pakistani actress, who grew up in San Jose, is thrilled to be playing one of the heroines of the Jane Austen canon, Elizabeth Darcy, in "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley."

SF Gay Men's Chorus concerts bring in holiday cheer

SF Gay Men's Chorus concerts bring in holiday cheer

  • MUSIC
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Nov 25, 2024

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus will welcome all comers to its annual Holiday Spectacular and Home for the Holidays shows this December. The latter show will be held this year for the first time at Davies Symphony Hall.

Giving thanks: The Lavender Tube on Colman Domingo's star turn, Ronan Farrow's investigative journalism and more

Giving thanks: The Lavender Tube on Colman Domingo's star turn, Ronan Farrow's investigative journalism and more

As the holidays approach, one uplifting thing we are giving thanks for is gay actors giving great TV. Colman Domingo checks all the boxes. He's set to star in two upcoming series; plus Ronan Farrow's chilling "Surveilled" and more must-see shows.

'Broadway Barbara's Holiday Spectacular' at Feinstein's

'Broadway Barbara's Holiday Spectacular' at Feinstein's

  • MUSIC
  • by Jim Gladstone
  • Nov 24, 2024

Barbara Dixon, aka Broadway Barbara (aka actress Leah Sprecher) is a has-been/never-been of the Great White Way. She's bringing her "Holiday Spectacular" cabaret show, chock full of Broadway dirty laundry, to Feinstein's at the Nikko on Dec. 5.

Alan Hollinghurst's 'Our Evenings' - A gay odyssey toward happiness complicated by racism

Alan Hollinghurst's 'Our Evenings' - A gay odyssey toward happiness complicated by racism

  • BOOKS
  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Nov 24, 2024

Probably England's finest prose stylist, in his latest book Alan Hollinghurst has created an elegy, a reminiscence on gay life from the 1960s to the present, but through the lens of class and race as it impacts on art and sexuality.

'The Golden Girls' - popular drag parody moves to the Curran Theatre

'The Golden Girls' - popular drag parody moves to the Curran Theatre

  • THEATER
  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Nov 23, 2024

2024 is a big year for "The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes." The annual drag parody, which began almost two decades ago, will for the first time perform at the Curran Theatre.

'Leonardo da Vinci' - Documenting the supreme Renaissance Man

'Leonardo da Vinci' - Documenting the supreme Renaissance Man

  • ART
  • by Tim Pfaff
  • Nov 23, 2024

Ken Burns documentaries are their own category. There are documentaries, and then there are Ken Burns documentaries. Burns' latest, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon, "Leonardo da Vinci" (PBS), crowns his achievements to date.