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Dame Olivia's smockery fetches big $

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 22, 2019

The highlight of a recent auction was a collection of 37 Parisian haute couture and Hollywood designs worn by Dame Olivia de Havilland from 1954-89. Dame Olivia is still alive and kicking at 103.

Musical thirst quenchers

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 15, 2019

Out There has famously thirsty ears, but here are three CDs that have lately quenched them.

Lounging at the Palace Hotel

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 8, 2019

Surely the jewel in the crown of OT's hotel columns must be the night we spent last week at The Palace Hotel, one of San Francisco's truly grand old hotels, a downtown landmark.

Visiting the City Different

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 1, 2019

Santa Fe, New Mexico was calling to us, in the form of a wee press trip last week for a tour of the cultural riches on offer.

Out There's Western roots

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Sep 24, 2019

Out There is visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico, this week, on a sweet little press tour, and we'll fill you in on our travels next week. Surprisingly, the pre-statehood New Mexico Territories figure in our own family back-story.

Gibson, an elegant eatery in the theatre district

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Sep 17, 2019

Now that the fall theatre season has begun in earnest, the search is on to discover new places to go to dinner close to San Francisco's downtown theatres.

Out There does openings

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Sep 10, 2019

Security was unusually tight for the San Francisco Symphony season opening gala this year. We couldn't understand why we needed a "Press" wristband until we witnessed the concert's closing ovations.

More Fall Arts choices

  • THEATER
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Sep 3, 2019

In this, our second week of the Fall Arts Preview, we offer surveys of what's coming up in Bay Area Theatre, Art Galleries, the San Francisco Opera, Film, and lesbian-created Pop Music this fall.

Bring on the Fall Arts!

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Aug 27, 2019

This week begins our modest effort to offer a Fall Preview in the Arts & Culture pages. In this issue find previews of the fall season in Bay Area art museums, at the San Francisco Symphony, in Film, TV, Poetry and Prose.

Dramatically incompetent

  • THEATER
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Aug 20, 2019

The arrival of farce and slapstick on Bay Area boards seems particularly well-timed for our historical moment.

Two LGBTQ authors in the mix: Jim Provenzano & Meg Elison

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Aug 13, 2019

Right now Out There is working alongside two colleagues who also moonlight as well-read gay authors.

Husky, hairy men inspire Chris Komater's art

  • ART
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Aug 6, 2019

Chris Komater's sixth solo exhibition "Jack & Mack" is currently showing at Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th St., in Oakland, through Sept. 7.

Our week beats your year

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jul 30, 2019

The headline is not meant to be insulting. It's an homage to a new book titled, "My Week Beats Your Year – Encounters with Lou Reed, 1972-2013" (Hat & Beard Press) compiled by Michael Heath and edited by Pat Thomas.

Fiddling through a difficult history

  • THEATER
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jul 23, 2019

The opening-night film for the 39th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival lit up the Castro Theatre screen last Thursday night.

Lunar illuminations

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jul 16, 2019

The Moon is such a constant presence in human arts & culture, it's easy to forget it's just an accident of astrophysics that we Earthlings happen to have one, and only one.

Come to this 'Cabaret'

  • THEATER
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jul 9, 2019

"Cabaret" is one of those shows that just won't go away. Nor should it.

Remembering Kevin Killian

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jul 2, 2019

Poet, novelist, playwright Kevin Killian died at his home in San Francisco on June 15, and the B.A.R. published his obituary in our June 20 edition.

Pride 2019: LGBTQ Pride whirlwind

  • PRIDE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jun 25, 2019

There's an old comic movie about a European charter tour called "If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium." Likewise, you could call the movie of our whirlwind last week "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Frameline."

Portrait of an artful appraiser

  • MOVIES
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jun 18, 2019

On a recent return to Washington, DC, Out There made time for a few cultural forays.

Peace & Concord, CA

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jun 11, 2019

Concord, CA, is a city of 130,000 that's 20 miles east of San Francisco. Their tourism bureau invited Out There to come visit as part of our ongoing series on Bay Area Staycations.