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Besties announced in Arts & Culture

  • BESTIES
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Apr 11, 2018

It's that time again when your old trusties at the Bay Area Reporter bestow the Besties, the reader's-choice LGBTQ Best of the Bay awards, for 2018.

Life is a warm staycation

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Apr 4, 2018

As part of our ongoing quest to sample every cute little new boutique hotel that opens in San Francisco, Out There recently decamped to a two-night stay at the Hotel Zoe Fisherman's Wharf, ground zero in SF's primo tourist zone.

Living for the city

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Mar 28, 2018

A new paperback edition of "Insomniac City - New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me" by Bill Hayes (Bloomsbury) comes emblazoned with a blurb from a B.A.R. review of the hardback.

Magazine wrack

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Mar 21, 2018

Out There is always reading print media. Newsprint on our fingers is just mother's milk to us. Here are a few keepers from recent media we'd like to share with you.

Mid-March OT playlist

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Mar 14, 2018

We all thrilled to singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens crooning "Mystery of Love" from "Call Me By Your Name," nominated for Best Original Song, at the Academy Awards earlier this month.

Wintertime book season puzzle

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Mar 7, 2018

Below are six newly released books that have piqued our interest, followed by passages from each of them. Match the title to the prose!

Her Cup & Basement Runneth Over

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 28, 2018

American performance artist Laurie Anderson is one of those rare geniuses whose talents span diverse fields - music, painting, sculpture, film, storytelling, even the invention of musical instruments.

Shorts but sweets

  • MOVIES
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 21, 2018

Again this year Landmark Theatres is offering audiences a chance to see the new Academy Award nominees in the categories of Best Animated & Best Live Action Short Films.

Back with blonde

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 14, 2018

It's been many a moon since the once-familiar name Marc Huestis has graced these gossipy pages.

'Peanut' farming

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 7, 2018

Out There grew up reading cartoonist Charles M. Schulz's classic "Peanuts" comic strip.

Political chicanery

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 31, 2018

San Francisco Playhouse's latest offering, "Born Yesterday," wasn't - penned recently, that is. Playwright Garson Kanin's comedy premiered on Broadway back in 1946.

Recomposing Sondheim

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 24, 2018

The songs of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim have long been fertile ground for reinterpretation by cabaret artists, Broadway babies, and vocalists of all stripes.

Questioning marriage equality

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 17, 2018

In his cover story in the January issue of Harper's magazine entitled "The Future of Queer - a manifesto," queer essayist/novelist Fenton Johnson argues that legalized gay marriage in the US has damaged our gay culture.

Out There :: Dozen Upcoming Delights

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 10, 2018

Here in the arts pages, our last few issues have explored the past year's offerings and the year to come in Bay Area culture. We pile it on with 12 more arts events coming soon to a Bay Area venue near you.

Books incoming

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 3, 2018

Here are some books that we're looking forward to reading, assigning to review, or both this coming year.

From the jaws of the Moz

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 27, 2017

Liner notes to the new Morrissey album "Low in High School" (Etienne) tell us it's "dedicated to Dick Gregory (1932-2017)."

Nutcracker check list

  • DANCE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 20, 2017

In a New York Times piece given the headline "10 Ways to Tell If Your 'Nutcracker' Is True to Tradition," dance critic Alistair Macaulay laid down the law about what does and does not constitute an authentic "Nutcracker."

Press release potpourri

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 13, 2017

Oh those press releases, they do pile up in Out There's old in-box!

Seal does Standards

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 6, 2017

The English singer-songwriter Seal is known for his international pop music and his smooth, mellifluous voice.

Out There :: Robert the Rule-Breaker

  • ART
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 2, 2017

SFMOMA director Neal Benezra extolled Robert Rauschenberg's "extraordinary creativity and boundless spirit."