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Savoring soundtracks
Some people collect stamps, some coins. Out There has always enjoyed collecting movie soundtracks, on LPs (yes, rekkids) and CDs.
Whatcha reading?
Out There has access to review copies and early galleys of published works, so we're often found with our nose in a book. Which ones? The following.
Angels, birds, Barber
We've been listening obsessively to the new Patricia Barber release "Higher" (ArtistShare). The out lesbian jazz pianist Barber is one of our favorite recording artists.
Hello, Healdsburg!
We heard Healdsburg calling us. That's the charming Sonoma County small town stocked full with wineries, luxurious accommodations and destination bars and restaurants. The town bureau invited us up there for an overnight stay.
Cultural connections around the Bay
Possibilities for engagement with the arts and culture of the Bay Area do sometimes seem infinite. Take Out There's last week, for example – please!
Frameline forecast: Fab!
Frameline 43, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, announced a dozen of its highest-profile programs coming this summer, June 20-30, to San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland.
Mermaid, fashionista, whistleblower
It was another exciting week of culture-hopping over in Out There-land! Let us walk you through it.
SFFILM FUN!
ALL CAPS are somehow fitting for our column about the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival's opening night and first week.
When the editor is a boldface name
"The Editor," a new novel by Steven Rowley (Putnam), takes off from the most promising of premises. What if a first-time novelist discovers that the book editor at Doubleday who signs on to shepherd his book through publication turns out to be Jackie?
Besties announced in Arts & Culture
We are pleased as punch to bring you the 2019 Besties Award winners in nine Arts & Culture categories. Along with sampling some press appreciations of the winners, we also list the second-place and third-place winners and runners-up. Congratulations, all!
Film festival season is upon us
Springtime is in the air, and for Out There that means big-time film festivals are on the horizon.
Books unshelved
Books tend to pile up on the Arts desk. Here are some interesting volumes worth calling attention to, with attendant squibs.
Fleeting joys of art
Last Friday night Out There attended the opening-night party for the final exhibition at Jules Maeght Gallery, a blue-chip art gallery that has made its home at 149 Gough St. in San Francisco for five years.
Flower of old New York
42nd Street Moon has struck veritable gold in their current offering, the 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical "Fiorello!" Out There was happily in the house opening night at the Gateway Theater in San Francisco, where it plays through March 17.
Capriot dreams
The new book "Pagan Light – Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri" by Jamie James (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a social history of the isle and its place in the Western imagination.
Cultural connections
Out There goes out & about to arts & cultural events five nights out of seven most weeks. It's a good way to stay involved, be a part of the city, see different neighborhoods and get out of our own personal bubble.
Out of the city & into the sheets
Even though Out There is a very urban person, we know that it's very important to get out of the big city every now and then. So we try to get away, and high on our list of destinations are the resorts, eateries and wineries of Sonoma County.
By the beautiful sea
"The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism" is a small but vital exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on view through April 28.
1,001 slights
With a title like "1,000 Books To Read Before You Die – A Life-Changing List" by James Mustich (Workman), you know someone like Out There is going to be coming along to deflate the balloon.
Designated (music) driver
There was a certain electricity in Davies Symphony Hall last Friday night as Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the San Francisco Symphony for the first time since his appointment as Music Director Designate was announced at the end of last year.