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Out There :: Short, But Not Slight

  • MOVIES
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 25, 2017

The 2017 slate of Oscar-nominated live action short films offers many delights.

Opera on the Radio

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 18, 2017

The San Francisco Opera and Bay Area classical radio station KDFC continue their monthly broadcasts of performances captured during SF Opera's Fall 2016 Season, including the premiere of "Dream of the Red Chamber."

Out There :: Treasurable Artifacts

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 11, 2017

One of the world's largest exhibitions of antiquarian books, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Oakland Marriott City Center, Feb. 10-12, for its 50th anniversary.

Out There :: Palo Alto Pampering

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Feb 4, 2017

The Clement Hotel Palo Alto generously invited Out There and our bosom buddy Pepi for an overnight stay in the luxurious six-star hotel down the peninsula. It was OT's first time overnighting in an "all-inclusive luxury" property.

Out There:: When Lenny Met Barrie

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 26, 2017

OK, "West Side Story" this is not. It's not "On the Town" or "Wonderful Town," either. But in the realm of Bernstein curiosities, the music and lyrics to "Peter Pan" are a timeless treat.

Out There :: Who's Afraid of Samuel Beckett?

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 21, 2017

Bill Irwin knows that we are blessed to live in a world that was graced by the great Irish poet, dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett. His show "On Beckett," at ACT's Strand Theater through Jan. 22, is Irwin making his case.

Out There :: Lavender & Under Suspicion

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 14, 2017

Based on gay historical novelist Thomas Mallon's brilliant "Fellow Travelers" (2007), the opera of the same name centers on a gay romance during the "Lavender Scare" of the McCarthyite 1950s in Washington, DC.

Out There :: New Year, Big Cheers!

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jan 7, 2017

Let's catch up with our cultural perambulations, shall we? The holiday season goes by in a blur, but Out There took the time to attend local theatre and performance.

Out There :: Resist! Resist!

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 24, 2016

Artists, art-lovers, artisans! Philanthropists, philanderers, philistines! Alphas & betas, tops & bottoms, butches & femmes, dominants & submissives! Join Out There in queer solidarity and popular resistance to the coming proto-fascist regime.

Out There :: Red, Hot & Blue

  • THEATER
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 17, 2016

Was Tony Award-nominated show-stopping dame Sharon McNight born to play legendary burlesque vaudevillian Sophie Tucker? Why yes, we believe she was.

Out There :: Triple-Feature Threat

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 10, 2016

The Mostly British Film Festival will offer a free holiday triple feature on Wed., Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco.

Out There : Collaborators in Uncommon Art

  • ART
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Dec 3, 2016

People on deadline, crazy writer types and polyamorists all benefit from having structure in their lives, even on vacation.

Out There :: Talking Gay Turkey

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Nov 26, 2016

This week Out There finds ourselves back in Washington, DC, and environs, where we grew up, came out, and spent our wild youth. We're glad we're here before the Reactionary Right-Wing Apocalypse transforms this town.

Out There :: Art Against the Abyss

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Nov 19, 2016

Still shell-shocked and depressed by last week's Right-Wing Apocalypse, Out There and our partner-in-crime Pepi headed to the Embarcadero Cinemas to catch a screening of director Barry Jenkins' beautiful, soulful film "Moonlight."

Out There :: Cultural Potpourri

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Nov 12, 2016

"Love is a Drag," a 1962 LP of love songs by men, for men, was a mystery wrapped in an enigma for over 50 years. Now we know the back story.

Out There :: All the Graphic Details

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Nov 5, 2016

Graphic novels have come into their own only in recent times, shedding their association with comic books and superheroes and gaining literary respectability.

Out There :: Czech, Please!

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 29, 2016

This past week was stuffed to the gills with arts & cultural opportunities for OT, and we've been toiling away to bring these few Arts & Culture pages to you in some sort of edited shape.

Out There :: 2016: A Space Odyssey

  • CULTURE
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 22, 2016

Some symphonygoers get up on their high horse about film screenings at the concert hall accompanied by full orchestra, calling them "orchestra karaoke." But Out There always enjoys these events

Out There :: October Playlist

  • MUSIC
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 15, 2016

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon says his latest album "Stranger to Stranger" (Concord) will be his last, and if so, it's the glittering capstone on a brilliant career.

Out There :: The First Lady's First Lady

  • BOOKS
  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Oct 1, 2016

"Eleanor and Hick - The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady" by Susan Quinn has just been published by Penguin Press.