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Arts-Lover’s Holiday

Arts-Lover’s Holiday

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Feb 27, 2013

Last week found Out There spinning all over town.

The ’Real’ Real L Word: Womenfest 2012 in Key West

The ’Real’ Real L Word: Womenfest 2012 in Key West

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Aug 28, 2012

From Sept. 4 to 9, 2012, thousands of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women are set to visit Key West for their share of paradise at the 26th annual Womenfest.

San Francisco Ballet School Presents a Showcase

San Francisco Ballet School Presents a Showcase

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Jun 9, 2012

The choreography for even the smallest of the SFB children was a compliment to their intelligence. Their tasks required that they take responsibility for their own movements while also developing a group-mind, create a little world, and move in harmony.

’The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area’ at SFMOMA

’The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area’ at SFMOMA

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Apr 23, 2012

Few people in the 20th century, let alone history, could compete with the number of inventive ideas the prolific Fuller came up with to solve the problems of a planet with limited natural resources and a burgeoning population.

Swinburne Goes to the Café Flore

Swinburne Goes to the Café Flore

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Apr 22, 2012

The sun has poured through a mail-slot in the morning fog and is brightening the pavement where darlings sit at the Café Flore.

Titanic: That Sinking Feeling

Titanic: That Sinking Feeling

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Apr 19, 2012

This weekend, the 100th anniversary of the fate of that little toy boat called the Titanic is set to sweep American media culture.

The Best of the Gays: City Living

The Best of the Gays: City Living

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Apr 18, 2012

The Best of the Gays by Bay Area Reporter awards the top-voted in city living.

The Best of the Gays: Sex and Romance

The Best of the Gays: Sex and Romance

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Apr 17, 2012

The winners for sex and romance are crowned in Bay Area Reporter’s second annual Best of the Gays readers poll.

The Best of the Gays: Entertainment and Nightlife

The Best of the Gays: Entertainment and Nightlife

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Apr 14, 2012

The winners in entertainment and nightlife are crowned in Bay Area Reporter ’s second annual Best of the Gays readers’ poll.

Jean Paul Gaultier: Rock-Star Haute Couture

Jean Paul Gaultier: Rock-Star Haute Couture

  • by Chris Sosa
  • Apr 9, 2012

"Equality, diversity and perversity," the cri de coeur of enfant terrible fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, is (to paraphrase Woody Allen), "a campaign slogan a French politician could run on."

2012 ’Hearts’ benefit  features out artists

2012 ’Hearts’ benefit features out artists

  • by Kevin Mark Kline
  • Feb 7, 2012

Two San Francisco-based out artists are set to contribute to the seventh annual Hearts in San Francisco benefit for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation.

SECA Awards honor contemporary artists (and look back)

SECA Awards honor contemporary artists (and look back)

  • by Kevin Mark Kline
  • Dec 28, 2011

’2010 SECA Art Award’ exhibition honors four artists, while the awards themselves are celebrated with a new book, ’Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: TheSECA Awards.’

What’s up in the galleries at year’s end?

What’s up in the galleries at year’s end?

  • by Kevin Mark Kline
  • Dec 19, 2011

A trio of San Francisco-based gay artists - John Bankston, John Waguespack and S. Brett Kaufman - each pursuing and realizing vastly different visions in solo shows at local galleries, are among those featured in a month crowded with exhibitions.

The unsinkable Joan Brown comes to San Jose

The unsinkable Joan Brown comes to San Jose

  • by Kevin Mark Kline
  • Dec 8, 2011

’This Kind of Bird Flies Backward’ at the San Jose Museum ofArt