The 13th San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, North America's first and the world's longest-running transgender film fest, is coming up Nov. 7-9 at the Roxie Theater.
The ease of taking two-day getaways is one of the Bay Area's great perks, with so much natural beauty and wonder only a short drive from the pulse and frenetic energy of the city.
Recently found in the arts pages of The New York Times: "The honor of the week's best film [at the New York Film Festival] belongs to Mike Leigh's 'Mr. Turner.' Its artistic title character is magnificently embodied by Timothy Spall."
As we've no doubt told you before, Out There is a most promiscuous reader. We're slutty for words on paper, preferably between hard covers. Here's a little of what we've had in our hot little hands lately.
Erotic desires, aspiring dancers, ambitious theatre plans, and lip-syncing drag queens - it's quite a full house in the old Out There column this week!
Although we weren't born here, Out There has lived in San Francisco for 31 years, so we think we qualify as a bona fide Bay Arean. But we've always had a secret longing, a lust in our heart if you will, for our next-door neighbor, Nevada.
Last week, interviews with people with disabilities brought up aspects of how able-bodied staff and management of bars and restaurants treated them. This week, we focus on a few more people's experiences.
On Sunday, September 21, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., the folks at Folsom Street Events, along with countless volunteers, will mount the granddaddy of all leather events, Folsom Street Fair, now in its 31st year.
At the Out There desk, we have put away our white shoes. It's after Labor Day, after all. But it's beginning to look a lot like you-know-what, so it's time to do a Dawn Davenport and unearth those cha-cha heels.
Welcome to the first of two issues of fall arts previews in the Arts & Culture pages. This week, find coming attractions in Bay Area art museums, film releases and TV offerings, as well as a preview of composer Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah."
In less than a week, over 70,000 people will converge on a dry lake bed in Northwestern Nevada to create Black Rock City, which hosts the festival known as Burning Man.
