From packed patio parties (and packed jock straps!) to contemplative art museum collections, a wide array of nightlife and arts listings await your selection, this week and every week in Going Out.
The 43rd SF Jewish Film Festival will run July 20-August 6 at the Castro Theatre, Vogue Theatre, and the Piedmont Theatre in Oakland. Here are the notable LGBTQ-themed narrative, short and documentary selections.
This year Shelly Lares was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Tejano Music Awards Show. At 51, she's been singing professionally 41 years, admired for her unique blend of Tejano country music, and only recently came out.
This month's presentation of company's annual Sketch series will be a poignant celebration of Amy Seiwert's Imagery's rich contributions to the Bay Area dance community.
Based on the autobiographical novel by Makoto Takayama, director and co-screenwriter Daishi Matsunaga's "Egoist" is one of the most original and moving gay movies of the year.
"Afire" takes a long time to ignite, but once it does, brace yourself. Like its lead character, novelist Leon (Thomas Schubert), writer/director Christian Petzold's new film is a lot to handle.
Don Shewey's book "Daddy Lover God" bills itself as a memoir and instruction manual, but it primarily chronicles Shewey's psycho-sexual-spiritual adventures.
Damian Searls's just-published translations of Thomas Mann's "New Selected Stories," fleet but sure-footed, come as a relief, a long-overdue exhalation.
From cute cubs to crowned queens, nightlife's rousing. Flamenco, Modern and more rev up in dance, plus museums and galleries, and more music than an earful, all in this week's Going Out.
Cast members from the new touring company of the classic musical "Les Miserables" will join other Broadway and cabaret stars at the Marines' Memorial Theater on July 16 for "Help is On the Way 27: Broadway & Beyond," the latest REAF fundraiser.
Theater's gift is that it welcomes all, one of the virtues being celebrated in the new film "Theater Camp," which might make Drama Club cool in the same way "Glee" reimagined and revitalized chorus/choir.
One might not think of "Bewitched" when talking about queer characters on sitcoms, yet that's exactly what Matt Baume does in his new book "Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Sitcoms, Specials and the Queering of American Culture."