January 31, 2013 Edition of the Bay Area Reporter

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Castro Boy Scouts consider lifting gay ban crime concerns I by Chuck Colbert

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olice officials and politicians were met with concern about a spike in crime in the Castro at a community meeting this week where a victim of a recent robbery and aggravated assault made a dire warning. Concerns of sophisticated tool-assisted breakins, rampant cellphone thefts, and unresolved late night noise complaints were relayed Monday, January 28 in the Eureka Valley Recreation Center, where police officials often mentioned what they describe as “career burglars.” Resonating through the evening were prominent cases like the recent stabbing at 14th and Noe streets and the November kidnapping and repeated pistol-whipping of a San Francisco resident named Rene Sedivy, who was in attendance. “Someone is going to get killed here if we don’t do anything about it,” Sedivy, 41, said. He and a friend were carjacked, robbed of their cellphones, and kidnapped around 11:30 p.m. on November 30, leaving Sedivy with a fractured See page 2 >>

n a surprising turnabout, the Boy Scouts of America is “actively considering” an end to its longstanding exclusion of openly gay boys as members and gay parents as scout leaders, according to NBC News, which broke the story Monday, January 28. The policy change, a move that reportedly may come as early as next week, would allow local groups – religious, civic, or educational organizations – to decide for themselves whether to accept gay youth or leaders. Confirming NBC’s reporting, the Boy Scouts posted a statement on its website later Monday. “The BSA is discussing potentially removing the national membership restriction regarding sexual orientation,” said Deron Smith, director of public relations for the Boy Scouts’ national organization. Absent a national policy on sexual orientation, he went on to say in the statement, “The chartered organizations that oversee and deliver scouting would accept membership and select leaders consistent with their organization’s mission, principles, or religious beliefs. BSA members and parents would be able to choose a local unit which best meets the needs of their families.” If the new policy is approved by the orgaSee page 12 >>

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Eric Andresen, left, joined his son Ryan last fall outside the Mt. Diablo Silverado Boy Scout Council in Pleasant Hill where Ryan delivered 400,000 petitions after the Boy Scouts rejected his Eagle Award because he is gay.

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he Bay Area Reporter’s Best of the Gays contest is back and better than ever. Voting starts today (Thursday, January 31) and continues through March 4. The results of the popular poll for the best of LGBT offerings will be published in the paper’s anniversary issue April 4. This year’s third annual Best of the Gays readers poll is revamped and the online ballot is more user-friendly, utilizing Survey Monkey. The categories have been reorganized, including new entries like Best LGBT Nonprofit, best LGBT Activist Under 25, and Best Bang For Your Buck Bar. There are also returning favorites like Best Dance Company, Best DJ, and Best Local Politician You Love to Hate. In addition, the contest is stretching to the East Bay this year, with some fun categories, including Best Reason to Cross the Bay Bridge. There’s a ballot on the back page of this week’s arts section. Readers can also access the survey through the paper’s website (ebar.com), Facebook page (http://www. facebook.com/LGBTSF?ref=ts&fref=ts), or online at https://www.surveymonkey. com/s/BAR2013. Those who complete the survey are entered for a chance to win fabulous prizes, including lodging on Maui and San Francisco Giants tickets.t

Gay papers make Bowl wager

Jacquie Hansen and Brian Davis of Freedom from Tobacco, present an appropriate T-shirt to J.D. Petras, owner of Cafe Flore, for prohibiting smoking in the cafe’s outdoor patio.

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Gay tobacco opponents aim at secondhand smoke Rick Gerharter

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eeking to curb exposure to secondhand smoke in San Francisco’s gay bars that have outside patios where smoking is allowed, the Freedom from Tobacco group unveiled a new study last week that showed four bars they surveyed had “unhealthy” air

quality measurements. The study, conducted with UCSF in December 2011, found that the two bars had air quality measurements ranging from “unhealthy” to “very unhealthy” on the Environmental Protection Agency scale; one bar ranged from “unhealthy for sensitive groups” to “unhealthy;” See page 2 >>

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riendly rivals for decades over whose paper is the oldest, now their good-natured grudge match will play out during Super Bowl XLVII when the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens face off. The Bay Area Reporter and the Washington Blade are wagering on whose hometown football team will be victorious this Sunday, February 3. While based in Washington, D.C. the Blade covers Maryland news weekly and is distributed in Baltimore. Should the San Francisco 49ers win, as the Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s orangutan Siabu has predicted, then the Blade will make a $1,000 donation to a local San Francisco LGBT charity of the B.A.R.’s choosing. The See page 11 >>

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on Zuckman, a.k.a. Jon Sugar, a widely known DJ and social personality in San Francisco, reached a court settlement with his landlord whereby he can stay in his apartment at 901 Stanyan Street as long as his voluminous collection of musical records remain in storage for 18 months. Now Zuckman’s task is raising enough money to pay for the monthly storage fees. Zuckman, 63, was facing eviction for a bed bug situation that the landlord claimed was emanating from his apartment. Zuckman had viewed it as a matter of landlord negligence. “Ninety-nine percent of my belongings do not have bed bugs,” Zuckman told the Bay Area Reporter, adding that his unit was treated

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and one bar ranged from “moderate” to “unhealthy.” Data was collected using a TSI SidePak AM 510 device. Not surprisingly, there was a correlation between hazardous air and the amount of cover or makeshift ceiling that a patio had. According to the report, “the three spaces with the more dangerous levels each had overhead coverings of some kind over at least 50 percent of the backyard.” The report was released at a Freedom from Tobacco event January 23 at Cafe Flore, where owner J.D. Petras made the outdoor patio smoke-free in October 2010, spokesman Gary Virginia told the Bay Area Reporter. While it may be easy for a nonsmoking patron to go back inside or move to another part of the patio when confronted with a plume of secondhand smoke, many workers like waiters, bartenders, and busboys do not have such a luxury. “When you’re working eight hours at one of these bars that’s eight hours of bad air quality, having to breathe other people’s smoke,” said Hene Kelly of the San Francisco Labor Council. The California Department of Public Health states, “14 percent of workers in California are still exposed to secondhand smoke at work, including disproportionate numbers of low income, young adult and Latino workers.” Employees are unwitting victims to secondhand smoke but so are any of the patrons who happen to have respiratory problems or even nonsmoking LGBT young adults who just want to have a good time.

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once, so far, to get rid of the pests. Joey Cain, a longtime city resident and friend of Zuckman’s, said he is helping him raise money to cover the storage costs. Under the agreement with the health department, Zuckman’s records cannot be given away or even placed up for auction on eBay, Cain said, because of the potential of bed bugs. “We need to raise about $1,400,” Cain said. Zuckman is also looking for anyone who has ample space to hold onto his LGBT memorabilia from the 1970s and 1980s. As the host of Fruit Punch on KPFA from 1984 through 1986, Zuckman had been privileged to interview “the people that made this town go, the busloads of actors, singers, playwrights.” A few of his cassette tapes contain some real gems like interviews with the late legendary drag-queen

Doris Fish and Theatre Rhinoceros founder, the late Allen Estes. Zuckman is also looking for anyone who can burn or upload any of the content from his collection of 5,500 vinyl records, compact discs and cassette tapes. On disability and facing a storage fee of $180 per month, Zuckman is eager for any sort of assistance. “I’m looking for donations as I’ve done hundreds of benefits for battered women’s shelters and organizations like Shanti. It would be nice if some of those people were still alive and could give a little something back,” he said. Zuckman’s landlord, Al De Lorenzi, did not return a call seeking comment. To help, email Zuckman atgawksf@yahoo.com. Cain can be reached at (415) 861-7609 or cainjoey@hotmail.com.t

“In California, 49 percent of queer 18 to 29 year olds are smokers,” said Sean Fleming, a young clean air advocate. “Young gay people meet and build communities at bars where we want to go and have fun and not endanger our health.” Article 19F of the San Francisco Health Code dictates that smoking is only permitted on an “outside patio,” which means the side or rear outside area of a bar or tavern that has no walls or ceiling and is open air. The openair definition is a gray legal term that is open to interpretation as many bars have forms of rain shelter and table umbrellas on their patios. Brian Davis, project director of Freedom from Tobacco, said that he could not publicly name the four bars studied as part of the group’s agreement with UCSF. However, at last week’s event Davis did discuss good news stemming from the report as some bars with patios have made changes. The Cinch, the Powerhouse, and Pilsner Inn were mentioned last week. The Cinch recently put up a sign stating that smoking is allowed only on the back wall of the patio. In a breath of fresh air, the Powerhouse removed most of its overhead cover, Davis said. “Pilsner Inn,” said Davis, “has responded by removing some of their overhead cover and has agreed to increase the smoke-free area on the patio by an additional five feet beyond the at least 10 foot distance they have already marked on the floor. We are grateful to Pilsner Inn for taking these steps toward reducing the problem.” Representatives of the three bars did not return messages seeking comment.

A typical bar owner may fear a loss of revenue if his premises went completely smoke-free but economic surveys tell a different story, according to Freedom from Tobacco. A 2009 report out of Indiana University found that “businesses save money by going smoke-free due to reduced maintenance expenses, lower insurance rates, and lower labor costs (fewer sick days).” Additionally, of 1,300 people surveyed by Freedom from Tobacco at San Francisco’s LGBT Pride festival in 2011, 80 percent said they were bothered by secondhand smoke. In response to a second question, 54 percent strongly agreed and 26 percent agreed with the statement that secondhand smoke in outdoor patios of bars and clubs is harmful. The positive attention surrounding smoke-free status can be a boon for the bottom line. For example, the lively event honoring Cafe Flore’s commitment to clean air brought out such personalities as drag queen Bebe Sweetbriar, who gave a rendition of Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro” with the lyrics “No Tobacco.” City Supervisors Eric Mar and Scott Wiener also spoke briefly along with Davis and Freedom from Tobacco advocate Jacquie Hansen. Also on hand was John Rizzo, president of the Board of Trustees at City College. Representatives for state Senator Mark Leno (DSan Francisco) and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) also bestowed Petras with proclamations acknowledging the business providing a more healthy environment. For more information, visit http:// www.fftsf.org.t

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and broken nose. Police also unveiled sketches of two men who allegedly stabbed and robbed a 34-year-old Castro resident a block away from his home near 14th and Noe streets January 10. His backpack, computer tablet, and tools were stolen while he sustained non-life threatening injuries. In an interview with the Bay Area Reporter, the victim, Erik Getman, said he’s concerned about others doing “not-too-safe-things,” like using their phones while walking. He also commended those he’s seen walking near streetlights. San Francisco Police Department Captain Robert Moser, whose Mission Station serves the Castro and Mission districts, warned the community about “career burglars” who seek to turnaround cellphones for hundreds of dollars on the street at the expense of inattentive victims buried in their phones. Park Station Captain Greg Corrales

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Park Station Police Captain Greg Corrales, left, and Mission Station Captain Bob Moser spoke about safety concerns in the Eureka Valley and Duboce Triangle neighborhoods during a community meeting in the Castro.

referenced a theft last week on Eureka Street where men used ski masks and a realistic air gun. “I’m sure those guys were responsible for many acts of break-ins,” Corrales said. Though the trend and suspects of many of the crimes mentioned re-

mained uncertain, it was apparent that people didn’t know who to call in the event of a non-emergency or what local crime prevention resources are available. “We have to come to these community meetings and hear a litany See page 3 >>

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of complaints that weren’t called in,” Lieutenant Peter Thoshinsky said of the Northern Station’s similar surge in cellphone thefts. Ken Craig, director of volunteer training at Castro Community on Patrol, suggested that those who are concerned about crime in the Castro join his organization. Greg Carey, director of operations and outreach of CCOP, introduced a pyramid-shaped community safety model representing the layers of response to crime, with the general public at the bottom and accountable crime officials at the top. CCOP, which organizes volunteers to distribute safe clubbing tips and monitor criminal activity in the Castro, is in the “trained public” portion of the community safety model – in the middle of the triangle. Sister Pat N Leather of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence suggested that victims seek refuge in businesses that post a “Stop the Violence, Stop Hate” sign in their window. “The crazier you act, the more they’ll stay away from you. You can come in there and scream for help,” Leather said. Residents who attended the meeting remain concerned. Ana Carolina Almeida, 41, said her front door was broken through in the early morning last year. “No matter how much I screamed,” Almeida said, no neighbors came to her aid. After confronting the trespasser, he stole both her cellphones; she credits her landline for the burglar’s immediate arrest. She is now considering joining a neighborhood watch. Other residents continued to discuss their fears throughout the meeting. “I’m concerned they haven’t been connecting the dots,” said one homeowner at the meeting. One of her neighbors’ glass doors had been cut through for a burglary. Merchants and residents alike de-

cried the Castro’s ubiquitous late night revelers. Jeff Johnson, 42, owns a tax group on the block of SF Fitness and the Cafe. He complained about late-night noise by revelers and defecation at his doorstep. “It’s not right,” Johnson said. He is a trained volunteer of CCOP but dislikes that he must patrol in a group of three or more rather than alone. Hours of darkness during thefts and sophisticated methods of breaking in remained commonalities throughout the evening, but police insisted that some cases were still undergoing investigation or that plainclothes surveillance is already in place. Mariva Aviram, 43, who lives on Grand View between 24th and 25th streets, found that the front door of her building had been broken into using a vice and a crowbar in the early morning last year. Since then she said she’s lived in a state of paranoia. At the meeting police responded to her comment with assurance that her neighborhood has plainclothes officers on duty in the late night. “I like what I heard,” Minerva said. “But I’ll believe it when I see it.”

Important contacts

Call 911 in the event of a crime if there’s a good chance of catching the perpetrator. Report noise or crimes after the incident without a chance of catching the perpetrator at (415) 553-0123. Call 311 to complain about broken streetlights or uneven pavement. Call the Mission Station’s anonymous tip line, (415) 552-4558, with leads to the November 30 carjacking, kidnapping, and theft. Call the main SFPD anonymous tip line, (415) 575-4444, for the January 10 stabbing (case #: 130 027 552). Join the Castro Community on Patrol at castropatrol.org or e-mail Ken Craig, director of volunteer training, at ken@castropatrol.org.

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he announcements this week by a bipartisan group of senators and President Barack Obama to overhaul the country’s broken immigration system are good first steps, but fall short by not ensuring that same-sex couples are part of any legislative package. The senators released their proposal Monday, one day ahead of the president’s speech in Las Vegas, where he challenged Congress to act quickly on immigration reform. But Obama did not mention LGBT people in his remarks. Instead, that was left to a White House fact sheet, which included two critical components of any reform plan: the DREAM Act, which provides a streamlined path to citizenship for young people who came to this country as children and are going to school or serving in the U.S. military; and the long-stalled Uniting American Families Act, which gives U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents the right to sponsor their same-sex permanent partners to immigrate to the United States. It is clear that Republicans will put up a fight against both of these needed policies. Already, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), a participant in the bipartisan effort, told CBS News that including same-sex binational couples in the legislation is a “red flag” that is “not of paramount importance.” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told the New York Times that House Republicans “hope the president is careful not to drag the debate to the left ... .” It’s been reported that the senators did not include LGBTs in their proposal due to Republican opposition, but that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) will offer an amendment to protect gay couples in his committee. Such an amendment must be offered, and

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quickly. The Williams Institute, an LGBT think tank at the UCLA School of Law, says that there are at least 28,500 same-sex couples in the U.S. comprising a U.S. citizen and a foreigner, and 11,500 same-sex couples in which neither partner is a U.S. citizen. LGBT organizations support making the UAFA part of the immigration reform package. Log Cabin Republicans interim executive Director Gregory T. Angelo issued a statement Tuesday in which he pointed out that “committed binational couples are forced to choose: Leave the country and family they love, or stay here illegally.”

He noted that Republican Senator Susan Collins (Maine) is now a co-sponsor of the UAFA, indicating some bipartisan support. But more is needed. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, was in Las Vegas for the president’s speech, and said Obama made clear that he supports an accessible and straightforward path to citizenship, recognition of all families, and a process for keeping those families together, including LGBT parents and citizenship for Dreamers. More work will be required. Same-sex binational couples must share their stories, and, as Kendell told us, this is a moment for the LGBT community to really stand up and work not only with gay organizations, but also mainstream immigrant advocates.t

Real workplace protections needed huge increase in businesses implementing nondiscrimination policies and diversity training. For example, Google was the winner of the 2013 Out and Equal “Outie” Workplace Excellence Award, which honors one company each year for its ongoing commitment to workplace equality, demonstrated by unquestioned leadership, dedication and innovation on behalf of LGBT employees everywhere. Every year, we see a growing number of businesses taking meaningful steps to create inclusive workplaces. Fortune 500 companies are increasingly advancing diversity in the workplace as a business imperative, and recognize inclusion as a driving factor in their success.

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hose words, spoken by President Barack Obama during his 2013 Inaugural Address last week, give me great hope that we will soon see an executive order prohibiting all federal contractors, regardless of size, from discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace. The order would extend basic workplace protections to between 11 and 16 million people in the United States, according to a report by the Williams Institute. Now that marriage equality has made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is time to address the real need for workplace protections. In 29 states, anyone can be fired simply for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. This means that a person married to a same-sex partner in Maryland, a state that has workplace protections, and working in Virginia could be fired just for being gay, with no recourse, unless they are a state employee (thanks to the non-discrimination bill that passed the Virginia state Senate last week). This situation restricts where people can work, and is not conducive for a functioning economy. It is also blatantly unfair for LGBT people. The president clearly stated his support for the LGBT community during his Inaugural Address. An executive order would take his words one step further and build the momentum for 2013 to be the year for significant workplace advances for LGBT people. One big question is how inclusive such an order would be. At the very least, it should require all federal contractors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their non-discrimination policies. A more comprehensive executive order might also require contractors to offer domestic partner benefits, implement diversity and inclusion training, and demonstrate non-discrimination in their hiring practices. This would be a huge improvement. Out and Equal Workplace Advocates provides diversity training and works closely with LGBT employee resource groups at a number of government contractors, including Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Rockwell Collins, and General Dynamics. These companies are ahead of the curve, and stand out from other contractors that have yet to create concrete policies. An executive order would be a huge step forward for LGBT rights. The order would bring monumental changes

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Selisse Berry, right, talks with Senator Tammy Baldwin during inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C.

to the workplace for LGBT people by extending protections into those parts of the private sector where they currently do not exist. An executive order from Obama would provide true incentive for some of the nation’s largest corporations to create inclusive workplaces: if they want to do business with the government, they would need to comply with the executive order. Federal contractors are currently regulated by a 1965 executive order, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It also requires contractors to take affirmative action to ensure that equal opportunity is provided in all aspects of employment. Signing an inclusive executive order should follow the precedent established in 1965, rightly recognizing that workplace equality requires a lot more than non-discrimination policies: true equality is only in place when employees have inclusive and safe work environments. I cannot overemphasize the importance of the president authorizing this executive order. Not only would it expand workplace equality immediately, it would also add momentum for a federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would protect all LGBT people in employment, whether their employer is a government contractor or not. An executive order will mirror what has been happening at many progressive Fortune 500 companies for a while now. At Out and Equal Workplace Advocates, we have already seen a

What if the executive order is not signed?

An alternative to a new executive order would be to expand the 1965 order to include sexual orientation and gender identity under the protected characteristic of “sex.” This would follow a landmark move by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April 2012, when it issued an opinion in support of transgender rights. According to the EEOC, an employer who discriminates against an employee or applicant on the basis of the person’s gender identity is violating the prohibition on sex discrimination contained in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In two other cases, gay and lesbian employees who were harassed at their postal jobs won their cases because the EEOC ruled that the harassment was based on gender stereotyping. Obama could reinforce the basic rights of all employees by simply reinforcing the decisions and interpretations coming out of the EEOC. The president has already exhibited great courage and commitment in showing that he values our rights. Whether he decides to sign a new executive order or modify former President Johnson’s 1965 order, it is essential that Obama continue his message in support of equality through meaningful action. By signing an executive order, or modifying the existing order, the President will be clearly stating that discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people will not be funded by the federal government. Equality is a basic right, and it cannot wait.t Selisse Berry is executive director of Out and Equal Workplace Advocates and editor of the just-released Out and Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office.

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Adding Milk’s name is more than an honor

When Harvey Milk first ran for office, there were many who tried to dissuade him. They said that the campaign of an openly gay man would be too divisive, too provocative, and put too many friends of the gay community on the spot. Milk, of course, ignored the naysayers and trail-blazed a new path toward equality for all of us. He ended up paying for his courage with his life, and that’s just one of the reasons we strongly support the proposal to honor his sacrifice by adding his name to San Francisco’s airport. We urge your readers to stop and think for a moment about what it would mean to fly in and out of Harvey Milk San Francisco International Airport (Harvey Milk SFO). Not just for us, but for the 40 million national and international travelers who use the airport every year. Eighty airports in our country are named after individuals, but this would be the first ever to be named after an LGBT leader. What a message of hope that would send – across this country and around the world. Your recent editorial opposing this idea is incorrect [“Flight of Fancy,” January 24]. This is not a “flight of fancy” on the part of Supervisor David Campos. In fact, this effort is widely supported by some of our community’s most established leaders and organizations, including Equality California, the Human Rights Campaign, the Harvey Milk Foundation, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Supervisor Scott Wiener, and leaders of the Harvey Milk and Alice B Toklas LGBT Democratic clubs. There’s a good reason: adding Milk’s name to the airport is more than an “honor” – it is an act that will forward the civil rights agenda for which he sacrificed his life. And it couldn’t come at a more important time, as the future of marriage equality is in the hands of a conservative Supreme Court and the gay rights battle is approaching a national moment of truth. As has been noted elsewhere, adding a name to an airport will always provoke a spirited debate. That is right and appropriate, and we welcome everyone’s opinion. What we reject is the notion that disagreement will cause division among the LGBT community and between our community and others. San Francisco has shown time and again that we stand together in the cause of civil rights for all people, and this issue – however it fares – will not shake that solidarity. It’s time to renew Milk’s memory, and send his message of hope to millions who deserve to hear it. Please join us in supporting adding his name to San Francisco’s gateway. Tom Ammiano, Member, California Assembly Bevan Dufty, Former San Francisco Supervisor Jose Cisneros, Treasurer, City and County of San Francisco Carole Migden, Former State Senator Anne Kronenberg, Manager, Harvey Milk for Supervisor Campaign

Remember Milk, don’t deify him

As much as we as a community (or communities) are indebted to Harvey Milk, I am not on board with the latest movement to rename SFO in Milk’s memory. Over the past few decades, modern historians, particularly progressive historians, have viewed history as much more than “great men” or “great women,” and in this development we should all concur. Focusing on one individual as the primary social and political change agent is, frankly, quite conservative, and lends itself to a cult of personality. It was – and remains – our collective movement(s) for political and social change that are the most important. Remember Milk, of course, but don’t deify him. John Mehring San Francisco

Milk SFO would be a beacon of hope

While I respect the Bay Area Reporter’s history of providing a voice for the LGBTQ community, I wholly disagree with your recent editorial, “Flight of Fancy,” condemning efforts to change our airport’s name to Harvey

Milk San Francisco International Airport. To say that the efforts of those fighting to make this change are not in the best interest of the LGBTQ community and San Francisco as a whole flies in the face of everything queers have fought for – visibility, equality, and respect. With a laundry list of both local and national supporters, including the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, Equality California, and the Human Rights Campaign, it is quite clear that this is not the fractious idea within the LGBTQ community that your editorial depicts it to be. Nearly 40 years ago, detractors within our community used the fear of alienating our “allies” and the threat of damaging our ability to engage with San Franciscans on other issues to try to discourage Harvey Milk from running for office. We should stop living in the past and look forward to this opportunity to engage with our neighbors in building the kind of coalitions amongst communities of color and labor that Milk himself forged. This is 2013. President Barack Obama is talking about Stonewall in his Inaugural Address and gay women and men are openly serving in the military. Why should we be diminishing our heritage to avoid ruffling feathers? Milk implored us to come out and make San Francisco a beacon of hope to the entire world. This is a great opportunity to do just that. Tom Temprano, President Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club San Francisco

Sidewalk project off to a bad start

In 1976, Harvey Milk created the Castro Village Association consisting of 90 merchants united together serving an estimated 25,000 gays that lived in the Castro. The sidewalk planning project is a once in a lifetime event for many of us. However, having the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District and the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro in existence going forward is no longer working. MUMC and the CBD are two organizations that have different purposes, but in reality they are the same. The reality is that they are both serving the customer. The customer keeps them in business. Meeting attendance by the customer is scarce or forbidden and decisions are being made that directly impact lives. When organizational decisions are poor or when there is lack of progress in our community, the customer naturally gives up or goes elsewhere to spend their money and time. The most recent example of this problem was the rejection of a new Starbucks on Sanchez by CBD but the approval by MUMC. When this happens another restaurant opens on Valencia or an LGBT shopper buys another pair of $100 shoes on Hayes. Most concerning of all this is that gentrification is firmly planting itself in and around our community and streets. For those of you that have lived in New York City as I have, the once predominately LGBT neighborhoods such as Chelsea and the West Village are already gentrified. Why? Because of money. San Francisco is no different, but we have the power to change this now. In Milk’s vision we need one powerful and united community nonprofit organization called the Castro Village Association with business and community participants. Our village must dissolve MUMC and the CBD. Our village needs to emerge, preserve, promote, and capitalize on our rich history so that is it not lost in some box. We deserve better than to be a clone of another neighborhood or a model of gentrification. Already in the upcoming sidewalk project there are no dollars allocated to re-design the embarrassing condition that is Harvey Milk Plaza but dollars to consider making the sidewalks sparkle more. Does this make sense? Our chance is now to go about this project very differently, not piecemeal but visionary and unified. If we don’t, our neighborhood will look just like every other. In Milk’s vision, the Castro Village Association is the first step in the right direction before this project even starts. Michael Komar San Francisco

Beyond Bashing confab in Berkeley compiled by Cynthia Laird

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eople from the faith community and local law enforcement agencies will come together to address anti-LGBTQ violence at Beyond Bashing: A Faith Response to End AntiLGBT Violence Saturday, February 9 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue in Berkeley. The afternoon conference is sponsored in part by the community relations service

of the U.S. Department of Justice, along with New Spirit Community Church, Bay Area Welcoming Congregations, and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry. Attendees will explore how people of faith can work with allies to end the reality of anti-LGBTQ violence. Religious leaders, theologians, seminarians, and people of faith will join with a variety of experts from the Department of Justice and local law enforcement agencies.

Pre-registration is $10 and can be made by visiting http://beyondbashing.eventbrite.com. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Later that evening, CLGS will mark Black History Month with its first Bayard Rustin Freedom Concert, featuring Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. The performance takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the chapel on the PSR campus and is a benefit for New Spirit Community Church. Rustin was an openly gay African American who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington; he died in 1987. See page 13 >>

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an Francisco supervisors are set to discuss covering the tax costs LGBT city employees incur for their same-sex spouses’ or partners’ health care coverage provided by the city’s Health Service System. Only two other municipalities in the country have adopted similar policies, as have a number of private companies. The board’s Budget and Finance Committee will take up the measure, proposed by District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell, at its February 6 meeting. The full board is expected to hear the proposal later in February and it needs a simple majority, or six votes, to be adopted. Because federal law does not recognize the marriages of same-sex couples, city employees face a penalty for federal income tax purposes when they add their partner or spouse to their city-provided health care coverage. Under current federal law, the Internal Revenue Service treats any employer contributions for a same-sex partner’s or spouses’ health insurance premiums as taxable income. “It is one more blow and hurdle people have to face and deal with because of their sexual orientation,” said Paul Henderson, Mayor Ed Lee’s adviser on public safety. When he first met his partner of 16 years, Kevin Crawford, while working as a lawyer in the District Attorney’s office, Henderson signed up Crawford for the city’s health care plan. He recalled it costing the couple more than $75 a month; the payments ended after Crawford graduated college and began receiving health care from his employer. “It was unfair,” said Henderson, noting that his straight co-workers were not similarly penalized. “There is no justification for disparate treatment.” The city’s Department of Human Resources counted 353 same-sex spouses and/or same-sex domestic partners enrolled in the city’s health-care system as of July 28, 2011. Initially, it had been estimated that covering their tax bill stemming from their partners’ health coverage would be roughly $1 million. But the city controller’s office now estimates it would cost slightly more than $500,000 to implement the policy, according to Farrell’s office. Under the ordinance the city would pay 20 percent of the portion of the employee’s health insurance premiums attributable to the samesex spouse or partner as determined by the city’s Health Service System. The payments would not be part of the employee’s base pay nor would they be included when determining overtime or premium pay. The policy, which would go into effect July 1, would cover any city employee, from supervisors and department heads to Muni bus drivers and public park gardeners. Farrell, who chairs the board’s budget committee, said most feedback he has received about the proposal has been people asking, “Why haven’t we done this before?” Gay Supervisors David Campos (D9) and Scott Wiener (D8) are co-sponsors, as is District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu, a commissioner on the city’s Health Service System Board. Farrell expects the legislation will be adopted. “I don’t anticipate a true debate about it at the board, but this is San Francisco so you never do know,” he said. Catherine Dodd, an out lesbian who is director of the SF Health

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Service System, noted that city employees with a same-sex spouse or domestic partner face several unfair federal rules governing their health care. They cannot set up a tax-free account to pay for their same-sex spouse or domestic partner’s or child’s health care services. Another rule specifies that when an employee’s same-sex spouse or domestic partner turns 65 and is enrolled in the city’s group coverage they must sign up for Medicare and pay the Part B premium at age 65. Opposite-sex spouses can stay on the group coverage without signing up for Medicare Part B until the employee retires, noted Dodd in an emailed response to questions. “We have a lot of work to do to ensure that laws are applied fairly. This is a first step that is occurring at the local level in anticipation of someday fixing this and other inequities at the federal level,” wrote Dodd, vice chair of the National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare, which recently published a white paper on Social Security and Medicare inequities for same-sex couples.

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Supervisor Mark Farrell

Dodd stressed that she and the health service board have not taken a position on the proposed ordinance. But she said its adoption could have significant impact. “It acknowledges that same-sex couples/families are unfairly taxed on benefits straight couples are not taxed on,” wrote Dodd. “It’s a first step in raising awareness.” As the Bay Area Reporter noted in November, Farrell’s measure is modeled after similar policies adopted by the city of Cambridge,

Massachusetts and technology company Google. Cambridge’s policy was instituted in 2011 and estimated to cost the city $33,000. Last November Hallandale Beach, Florida commissioners voted to offset the taxes its employees in domestic partnerships pay for their partner’s health care. The city estimated the reimbursements would cost it $2,500. While not as comprehensive as Cambridge’s policy, it is “certainly a wonderful and important gesture,” said Cathryn Oakley, the Human Rights Campaign’s legislative counsel for state and municipal advocacy. HRC offers bonus points to cities with such a “grossing up” policy in its Municipality Equality Index, “because it is cutting edge,” said Oakley. Several East Coast cities have expressed interest in the issue but have not filed bills as San Francisco has done. “San Francisco has always been on the cutting edge of LGBT inclusion and equality. It is great to see them taking this step,” said Oakley. In recent years businesses have resorted to grossing up the pay of their LGBT workers in order to cover their federal health care tax bill. One of the latest to adopt such a policy is TD Bank, which on Janu-

ary 1 began offsetting the additional federal and state taxes that its LGBT employees pay for domestic partner benefits. Robert Pompey, head of commercial management administration at TD Bank and co-chair of the bank’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Allies Committee, announced the new policy in December. At the end of 2013 the bank will make a one-time payment equal to the extra taxes the samesex domestic partners must pay for their benefits over the course of the year. “Offsetting these extra taxes for our LGBT employees makes us more competitive in the hunt for great talent and it’s the right thing to do,” stated Pompey in a news release. The issue may become moot for some LGBT households this June should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In March the court will hear oral arguments in a case seeking to end DOMA’s prohibition from having the federal government recognize same-sex marriages. “It will be irrelevant for same-sex spouses once DOMA falls because spouses are recognized for federal See page 11 >>

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WinterFest guests enjoy the view from the top of Heavenly.

Winter-tastic fun in Lake Tahoe, Reno by Heather Cassell

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t’s no secret that skiers and snowboarders in California, Nevada, and Oregon were starved last winter by spring-like weather in the Sierra. But not this year. The snowpack is, well, packed, making a winter wonderland trip to Lake Tahoe and Reno a great adventure for LGBT travelers. “The snow is fantastic. It’s really, really good – come up and have a good time,” said Paco Poli, publisher and editor of Reno’s Gay Page.

Gay ski weekends

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Lake Tahoe’s premiere gay ski weekend is WinterFest, which is held at Heavenly and Northstar ski resorts. This is the 18th year of the weeklong LGBT snow party, according to Kevin Ray, coordinator and co-host of WinterFest, which takes place March 3-10. Founded in 1996, the ski weekend originally was founded by the Nevada Commission on Tourism, but when it couldn’t sustain the event any longer, representatives asked Ray, an openly gay man, to produce the weekend. The tourism commission and the Nevada Gay and Lesbian Visitor and Convention Bureau now sponsor the ski weekend. WinterFest inspired the development of the gay visitor bureau that was founded by Ray and a group of friends to promote Lake Tahoe to LGBT travelers and help guests to the area feel welcome, he said. Ray didn’t provide the cost to produce the annual event. Ray, a project coordinator who lives in northern Nevada, also produces Reno Gay Pride, usually held in August. WinterFest isn’t all snow and nothing else. There are a variety of events to bring guests together from meet ups and receptions to the two main events: Comedy Night with out lesbian comedian Dana Goldberg on March 8 and the Dinner and DJ Dance Cruize on the Tahoe Queen March 9. This will be the third time Goldberg will be performing at WinterFest, but it’s been nearly six years since her last appearance, she said. “I’m beyond excited,” said Goldberg, who added that she doesn’t ski but loves making gay men and lesbians laugh. This year WinterFest is attracting guests who are flying in from as far away as Australia and France, the East Coast and the South, and of course many Californians from the Bay Area and Los Angeles, Ray said. Guests also represent a variety

of ages, with most being in their 30s and 40s. “WinterFest attracts the friendliest people from around the globe: skiers, boarders, and non-skiers alike,” said Ray. “Everyone is there to have fun and so many new friendships are made.” The ski weekend is affordable, too. “Everything is coordinated to make your vacation fun and easy,” Ray added, pointing out that the event can be easily accessed by people with varying budgets and physical ability on the slopes. There is no need to rent a car as there’s shuttle service from RenoTahoe International Airport. Once at the Aston Lakeland Village Beach and Mountain Resort, the host hotel, guests can take the free shuttle service to the slopes at Heavenly or Northstar and nightly events. Lakeland offers a variety of lodging options ranging from studios to five bedroom condos and the ski resorts offer discounted lift tickets, Ray said. Saga North, the gay and lesbian ski, snowboard, and recreation club of the San Francisco Bay Area, also offers a variety of weekend ski trips to Lake Tahoe and other gay ski weekends. In February, Saga North will hit the slopes at Northstar (1-3) and Squaw Valley (8-10). To learn about other snow trips and club membership, visit http://www.saganorth. com. Lake Tahoe doesn’t have a local gay watering hole, but Tahoe Pride has been bringing the Sierra LGBTs and allies together, hosting social mixers at venues mostly in South Lake Tahoe. The group is celebrating its three-year anniversary this month, said Dawn Harkins, 57, a straight woman who is a volunteer member of Tahoe Pride. Harkins encouraged LGBT travelers interested in connecting with locals to go through Tahoe Pride’s Facebook page that is 700 strong, or the organization’s website.

Dining around

Lake Tahoe offers a downsized dining, spa, and shopping experience for powder pushers and nonskiers, but on a recent trip to South Lake Tahoe with my girlfriend, I have to say we were quite blown away by a dining discovery. Tucked away at the back of the Montbleu Resort Casino is Ciera Steak and Chophouse, an AAA four-diamond rated restaurant for five years in a row. The restaurant is quite possibly the place we would choose to have our last meal if we

were going to die. It’s that good. The service was impeccable and the food was so flavorful it was like a dream. The Montbleu, where we stayed, was completely the opposite: Disappointing. It is still Ceasar’s Tahoe. Very little has been done to update or maintain the decor since its rebranding. Other South Lake Tahoe fine dining options that are worth checking out are Friday’s Station Steak and Seafood Grill and the Edgewood Golf Course Restaurant. Edgewood is typically closed mid-October through mid-December, but opens on a limited basis depending on the flow of visitors into Lake Tahoe during those months. Call ahead and be prepared for only a prix fixe menu. The rest of the time the restaurant is open normal hours seven days a week with its regular menu, said restaurant manager Jimmy Kelso. My girlfriend and I happened to catch the Edgewood while it was open over this past Thanksgiving weekend and had a delightful meal. Travelers not wanting to break the bank can find a bevy of moderate to cheap eats around the lake. In South Lake Tahoe we like going to the Brewery, conveniently located across the street from Lakeland Village. Hungry travelers looking to eat in North Lake Tahoe can check out lesbian-owned and local favorite Jack Rabbit Moon and the five-star Lone Eagle Grille poised lakeside at the Hyatt North Lake Tahoe.

Reno in winter

Winter vacationers of all stripes can expand their options and literally have it all by staying in Reno. The snow is within a 30-minute car or shuttle ride to Mt. Rose, the nearest ski resort. There are up to 18 resorts within 90-minutes of Reno. Many of Reno’s resorts offer complimentary shuttle service to the slopes and back so guests can ski all day and wine, dine, and party all night if they want to. The Peppermill, Eldorado, Silver Legacy, and other resorts all offer ski packages. Couples and friends can enjoy luxury and skiing with the Peppermill’s ski package. This double occupancy package runs from $89 to $129 per person depending on which tower you stay in Sunday through Thursday. Customized packages and weekend stays are also available. Powder pushers and snow bunnies can take advantage of Eldorado’s “Ski Tahoe, Play Reno” packages that include accommodations See page 13 >>

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Memorials set for trans filmmaker Christopher Lee

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emorial services will be held in San Francisco and Berkeley this weekend to remember transgender filmmaker and Tranny Fest co-founder Christopher Lee. Mr. Lee, who in 2002 served as the first female-to-male grand marshal in the San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade, died by suicide December 22, 2012 at the age of 48, said his friends Shivaun Nestor and Marie Morohoshi. Friends and members of Mr. Lee’s chosen family said that he suffered from depression and mental illness, but that he was a creative, generous person who would turn up with a surprise gift or help finish a project. It was his work helping start Tranny Fest – now called the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival – for which many will remember him. In mid-1997 Alex Austin produced the first LGBT film festival in Oakland called Alternate Vision and in her search for films representing the full spectrum of the queer community, came across one called Christopher’s Chronicles that was about Mr. Lee’s transition. “I just fell in love with it,” said Austin, who identifies as someone along the butch to trans continuum. On opening night, which is when she had programmed Mr. Lee’s short film, the two met and “just connected.” “It was like a house on fire, we fell in brother love,” Austin said. After conversing and determining that there was enough content, the two decided to put on a transgender film festival and the first Tranny Fest took place that November. Elise Hurwitz served as the first technical

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director and Nestor was the original webmaster. “It was very serendipitous that we found each other,” Austin said. “As I understand it, it was the first transgender film and cultural event in the world.” The two continued producing the festival until 2002. They brought in Shawna Virago, a trans woman, as a co-director in 2003, and she and her partner, Sean Dorsey, a trans man, took over the festival and remain the co-directors. Austin, 52, is an arts, entertainment, and media attorney and runs her Austin Law Group business in the Castro. She said one of the highlights of her collaboration with Mr. Lee was that they were successful in including Tranny Fest in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library. Dorsey, 40, is the artistic director of Fresh Meat Productions and the director of Sean Dorsey Dance. He met Mr. Lee when he moved to San Francisco and volunteered for the 2001 Tranny Fest. “I remember just making an amazing connection,” he recalled, adding that Mr. Lee, Austin, and Virago kept the festival going with no funding in those early years. By 2003, Fresh Meat was a co-sponsor and co-presenter. Jennifer Morris, who was the programming director at Frameline for many years, said that Mr. Lee was very enthusiastic and had great plans for Tranny Fest. He was able to generate interest in the community so that people would come out and support the festival, and he was able to get volunteers to help out, she said.

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People who were interviewed for this article said that one of the proudest moments for Mr. Lee was when he and Virago were chosen as community grand marshals in the 2002 LGBT Pride Parade. The two

ran as a team that year, said Virago. “Christopher and I met and were kind of a certain generation,” she said. “I think the 1990s, the key things were the city ordinance around transgender rights, Tranny Fest, and Trans Action, which was exposing police abuse. Those things completely leap out for me. Police violence was long-standing and we were getting it out there. The first time I remember clicking as friends with Christopher was at a Trans Action party in the late 1990s.” A few years later, in 2002, Mr. Lee and Virago found themselves nominated for Pride Parade grand marshal. “It was fun and exciting. I felt in many ways that we were nominated as wild cards, the two most anarchistic people nominated. We both came from punk rock backgrounds and were about the same age,” said Virago, who asked that her age not be printed. During the public voting that year, the two noticed that the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee had various polling places in the Castro and other gay men-centric places such as the bars. “We couldn’t get anyone to vote for us,” she said. “Then we realized as organizers, activists, and artists, we were going to take matters into our own hands. We went to where our communities were – art events and political activism events. It demonstrated, in a way, how out of touch Pride was.” Neither of them had a computer, Virago recalled, but they made up posters, and had parties at the Lexington Club and Cafe Du Nord. When the public voting was done, Mr. Lee and Virago received the most votes in the recent history of balloting at the time. “Christopher was really happy then,” said Virago. “He got a spark out of that.” Added MeiBeck (Chino) ScottChung, a close friend and chosen family member, “He loved it – he’d done so much work on Tranny Fest. I was in the San Francisco Fire Department then and had [then-Mayor] Willie Brown write a commendation for him.”

Friends sought help

Friends had tried to help Mr. Lee over the years. Scott-Chung said it would have been better if Mr. Lee received consistent care. “He suffered from depression and mental illness and I think the system really failed him. There wasn’t one person overseeing his medical care,” Scott-Chung said. “Christopher had this huge life force and also had struggles,” said Virago. Scott-Chung and several others See page 11 >>

Obituaries >> Prashant Laxman Hangal August 30, 1968 – January 21, 2013

Prashant Hangal, beloved friend, brother, and uncle, died unexpectedly in Las Vegas early January 21, falling ill after an awesome day of playing softball in a tournament the previous day. The cause of death is still undetermined. Prashant’s vibrant personality and easy smile will be sorely missed. Few could resist his outgoing nature, infectious laughter, and love of life. But it was his genuine kindness, deep affection, fierce loyalty, and consistent integrity on which his many friendships were built. He was intelligent, handsome, well-read, witty, and a

great cook. He loved opera, Tolkien, travel, San Francisco, all things Italian, yoga, naps, dancing, cocktails, costume dramas, Jeopardy, and intense political discussions – always arguing from a well-reasoned, adamantly liberal perspective. In recent years he had developed a surprising passion for softball and was a member of the Storm Gay Softball League team. Most of all, Prashant loved his family. Parents Laxman and Sushila Hangal predeceased him. Survivors include sisters Aarati Koli, Bharathi Korabu, Kirti Korabu; brother Nishant Hangal; and nine nieces and nephews in India. All who knew him are devastated by his tragic and untimely passing. Services are being planned for Saturday, February 16. For details, please email honoringprashant@yahoo.com.

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pointed out that it is especially difficult to find resources and medical support for transgender patients. “He was a wonderful person,” Scott-Chung said, recalling that Mr. Lee once stayed up all night to finish work on repairing a porch at Scott-Chung’s Oakland home for his birthday. “He was that kind of person.” When he was having a hard time, Scott-Chung said that he “tried to connect the dots for him.” “Finding services for transgender people is so challenging, even in San Francisco, the most progressive, open place where they have the most services,” Scott-Chung added. Mr. Lee was living in San Leandro at the time of his death. He had previously lived in San Francisco and other places around the Bay Area.

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Bowl wager

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Blade will also treat the staff of the B.A.R. to a crab cake lunch made from Maryland Blue crabs. If the Baltimore Ravens win, then Blade staffers will enjoy their own crab cake lunch made from Dungeness crabs and the B.A.R. will make a $1,000 donation to the local DC/ Baltimore LGBT charity of the Blade’s choosing. B.A.R. Publisher Thomas E. Horn is looking forward to enjoying a bit of the famous East Coast crustacean. “I expect to win,” said Horn, noting that the 49ers “are strong offensively and defensively.” Blade editor Kevin Naff was just as resolute in seeing the Ravens fly away with the Vince Lombardi Trophy, seven pounds of sterling silver sculpted by Tiffany, when all is said and done Sunday inside the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The game also features the first time brothers have coached the game: Jim Harbaugh, head coach of the 49ers, will face off against his older brother John, the Ravens coach. “When Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, the Patriots won the Super Bowl. When New York legalized marriage in 2011, the Giants won the Super Bowl. In 2012, Maryland passed marriage equality, so it’s our turn,” said Naff, who lives in Baltimore with his partner. “Go Ravens!”

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Political Notebook

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tax purposes and health coverage for spouses is tax free,” said Santa Clara Law Professor Patricia Cain, an expert on LGBT tax issues. Questions could linger on if the ruling would apply to those same-sex couples in registered domestic partners, said Cain, as well as if it would only help those LGBT couples living in states that recognize same-sex marriages. “There is a good argument to be made that registered domestic partners should be treated the same as same-sex spouses,” said Cain.

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Castro crime

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what you need for the day. Never leave valuables unattended. Protect laptop computers by carrying them in non-descript bags. Be alert and aware at all times on the street. Keep eye contact with those around you. Most victims are targeted because they don’t seem alert. A handbag or book bag shouldn’t be worn around the body, but rather under the arm to be released if grabbed to avoid being pulled to the ground during a theft.

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Mr. Lee was also in recovery for many years, and in that circle he was known as Christoph. Spencer F., Mr. Lee’s boyfriend for the past couple months, first met him in 2006. Spencer asked that his last name not be used because he is in a 12-step program. “He had been homeless and a mutual friend took him up to my neck of the woods and he – or his spirit – brushed up against me,” Spencer said. “He just lit up a room,” Spencer recalled. “He was always a sharp dresser – a sharp dressed man.” In addition to Spencer, Mr. Lee is survived by his biological family, father Curtis Lee, mother Helen Lee Rios, uncle Charles Thorne, sisters Sabrina Lim, Roberta Lee, Melinda Tolmie, and Lori VanSteenberge. He is also survived by two loving families of choice: the ScottChung family of Oakland: MeiBeck

(Chino) and Maya Scott-Chung, their daughter Luna and MeiBeck’s mother Teresa Chung; and the Hadley Carranza family: Jae Carranza/J Zapata, Cosmo Joseph Hadley Carranza and Lisa Marie Hadley. In San Francisco, a celebratory gathering will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, February 2, which was designated Christopher Lee Day by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Scott Wiener, at El Rio, 3158 Mission Street. In the East Bay, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and at-large City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan have designated Sunday, February 3 as Christopher Lee Day. Also on Sunday, a healing and release ceremony (non-alcoholic event) will be held at 3 p.m. at the Center for Transformative Change, 2584 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Berkeley. For updates, visit www.facebook.com/ christopherleememorial.t

The bet is similar to ones Horn made in 2010 when the San Francisco Giants won their first baseball World Series. Both Philadelphia Gay News Publisher Mark Segal and Dallas Voice Publisher Robert Moore agreed to send $1,000 donations to San Francisco charities after the Phillies lost to the Giants in the National League Championship Series and when the Texas Rangers lost in the World Series. The GLBT Historical Society and the Gay Straight Alliance Network, both based in San Francisco, received donations that year, while photos of Moore and Segal wearing Giants shirts ran in the B.A.R. Last year when the Giants won the World Series against the Detroit Tigers, the B.A.R. did not make any wager with Michigan LGBT paper Between the Lines. This year’s Super Bowl bet does not include having the losing publisher pose in the winning team’s jersey. The Blade and B.A.R. rivalry dates back to the early 1970s. For decades the Blade was able to lay claim as the nation’s oldest LGBT newspaper, having published its first edition in 1969. The B.A.R. launched in 1971. When the Blade briefly went out of business in late 2009, the B.A.R. took on the title of the country’s oldest continuously publishing LGBT newspaper. Because both of the papers started out as monthlies, PGN’s Segal claims to be the oldest LGBT weekly publication, as it began in 1976. The distinction was often a topic

of debate between the three paper’s founding publishers. Asked about the papers’ feud over which is the oldest, Horn said of the Blade, “We are glad they are back and wish them the best.” Though he added, “It doesn’t take away the fact they were down awhile so that let’s us claim bragging rights about being oldest.” Fighting words, for sure, that won’t be settled no matter which team wins Sunday. “I suspect that will go on and on and on in a good-natured way,” Blade publisher and Ravens fan Lynne Brown said. “I am just looking forward to helping raise money for a Baltimore charity.” She and her girlfriend have been watching the Ravens all season and believe the team “looks tough, looks ready, and they really want it.” However the game turns out, added Brown, “Somebody is going to be eating some really good crab.”t

Written into the SF ordinance is a section specifying that the policy will expire when same-sex couples are no longer subjected to the discriminatory federal income taxation policy. The board committee hearing on the issue begins at 11 a.m. next Wednesday inside the board’s legislative chamber, Room 250 at City Hall.t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column reported on SF planners seeking public input for a remodel of Castro Street.

Let another person know your itinerary for the day and your expected time of return. Build allies in the community where you live and work – you never know when you may need to call them. Be wise about where you choose to listen to digital music players in public. It is distracting and causes potential danger. Sketches of the January 10 suspects are online at www.ebar.com. Sketches of the January 10 suspects are online at www. ebar.comt Seth Hemmelgarn contributed to this report.

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he last time things were this good in Bay Area pro football, George W. Bush was president and Gavin Newsom hadn’t yet declared same-sex marriage a reality, like it or not. The Oakland nee Los Angeles nee Oakland Raiders (remember “Commitment to Excellence?”) were in the Super Bowl, hoping to wreak vengeance on their former coach Jon Gruden, and the San Francisco 49ers had just been eliminated in the NFC championship game and were mere weeks away from selecting Stanford tackle Kwame Harris in the first round of the 2003 player draft. Details of the subsequent decade are best forgotten. Suffice it to say Niners fans are now girding themselves for a Super Bowl battle between coaching brothers Jim and John Harbaugh; Raiders fans are reeling from yet another dismal season; and Harris, years after retiring from a pretty disappointing career with both of the teams, found himself back in the headlines this week when an alleged spat with his ex-boyfriend over soy sauce and undies last August landed in legal action. (For the record, I’m a low sodium and Jockeys kind of guy.) San Mateo County prosecutors have charged Harris, 30, with felony domestic abuse with great bodily injury and assault with great bodily injury for the alleged assault on Dimitri Geier, 36, at Su Hong Restaurant in Menlo Park. Harris has pleaded not guilty. Geier is also suing Harris in San Mateo County civil court for unspecified

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Former 49er and Raider Kwame Harris

Dimitri Geier in an image from his Facebook page.

damages. Harris is scheduled for an April trial in the criminal case and has denied all the suit’s claims in the civil case. According to court reports, Geier and Harris, whom San Mateo prosecutor Al Serrato said had previously been romantically involved and had lived together, were eating at the restaurant at the end of a visit by Geier, whom Harris subsequently was going to drive to the airport. Reportedly Harris was upset when Geier tried to pour soy sauce on Harris’s rice, then later the two fought in the parking lot when Harris accused Geier of stealing his underwear. Serrato told the San Francisco Chronicle Harris pushed Geier against a plate-glass window and repeatedly punched him. Serrato said Geier subsequently required surgery at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose. As news of the case spread through the Internet, many of the initial comments posted made light of the incident, perhaps because of the apparent silliness of an argument over soy sauce and undies. And certainly a story like this is not the way any closeted player or explayer wants his orientation to become public knowledge. But domestic violence in the LGBT community is an underreported and serious issue. Community United Against Violence, a San Francisco-based agency, has estimated one in every three or four LGBT relationships experience domestic violence, and in 2011 the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported domestic violence in LGBT couples was on

the rise. So, regardless of how the Super Bowl plays out this Sunday, February 3, remember to chill and enjoy it peacefully with your loved ones and friends, and drink and drive responsibly. San Francisco sports bar Hi Tops, 2247 Market Street, will open its doors for beers and viewing at 11 a.m. on game day. In Oakland, the Bench and Bar, 510 17th Street, will begin its Super Bowl party at noon. And tickets to see it at Oakland’s Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, for $10 are available at http://www. thenewparkway.com. Whom am I pulling for? In a dream world, Alex Smith comes off the bench to rally the Niners to victory and Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo, an outspoken supporter of marriage equality, is named MVP. Oh, yeah, and Pete Rose gets named to the Hall of Fame. Gotta dream, baby. Now pass me that soy sauce.

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Scouts

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nization’s board of directors at a meeting next week, however, “under no circumstances” would the Scouts “dictate a position to units, members or parents” nor would the “BSA require any chartered organization to act in ways inconsistent with that organization’s mission principles, or religious beliefs,” said Smith. More than 100,000 scouting units are chartered by civic, faith-based, and educational organizations; and the various units deliver programming to BSA members, according to the organization’s website. Specifically, faith-based units account for more than two-thirds of all scout troops, with nearly a quarter of the units chartered to civic organizations. The remaining units, not quite 10 percent, are chartered by educational organizations. Among the chartered religious organizations, the top three include: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, United Meth-

Last Closet gets Cohen grant

The Last Closet has been awarded a $2,500 quarterly grant from the Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation. The Last Closet is a web and video project aimed at getting commissioners of the major men’s pro sports leagues to publicly invite closeted players to come out. Currently the project is targeting five team owners to speak out in support of the project: Francisco Aquilini, Vancouver Canucks, NHL; Larry Baer, San Francisco Giants, MLB; Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks, NBA; Robert Kraft, New England Patriots, NFL; and Merritt Paulson, Portland Timbers, MLS. For more information on the campaign, visit http://www.thelastcloset.org.t

odist Church, and Roman Catholic Church – all of which have stood historically against LGBT equality and therefore may well be inclined not to admit openly gay scouts and scout leaders. The potential for local units, both religious and civic, to continue excluding gay youth and adult leaders in scouting is a concern for some LGBT leaders and advocates. As Iowa Eagle Scout Zach Wahls, founder of Scouts for Equality, told NBC News, “So essentially, instead of forcing people to discriminate they’re going to allow people to discriminate,” he said. “Even though one is less bad than the other, we still need to make sure that local units are understanding how a ban on gay members negatively affects their unit.” Nonetheless, Wahls also told NBC News that the Boy Scouts were moving in the right direction but still had a way to go. In the spotlight last summer, Wahls, who is straight, spoke on naSee page 13 >>

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The concert is being presented in memory of Jacqueline Downs Mitulski, the mother of New Spirit pastor the Reverend Jim Mitulski, who died last year. Tickets are $10 and available online at http://bayardrustinfreedomconcert.brownpapertickets. com/.

Open house on Dolores Park rehab plans

There will be a community open house about Mission Dolores Park Wednesday, February 6 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Dolores Park Church, 455 Dolores Street in San Francisco. The open house is sponsored by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and will include a review of the updated plans and construction schedule for the park. Funded by the 2008 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond, the rehab work at Dolores Park has moved through environmental review and the project team is now ready to share the updated plans. The team has also developed a phased construction schedule to minimize park disruption while completing

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travelers can customize with transportation to ski resorts, lift tickets, meal vouchers, and more starting at $65. Silver Legacy’s similar package starts at $69. An added bonus is that LGBT travelers not interested in the snow won’t be stuck sitting at the lodge if they stay in Reno. The Biggest Little City in the World offers a multitude of entertainment, dining, shopping, and relaxation without setting foot in the snow. Reno’s newest AAA four-diamond resort two years running, the Peppermill is a favorite among LGBT locals and not just because of its signature rainbow lights demarking the entrance of the casino resort. The Peppermill signifies class from its LGBT-friendly service to its fine dining, nightlife entertainment, and spa. The Tuscany Towers, which include the Edge nightclub and Spa Toscana, were loosely modeled after the Wynn Encore in Las Vegas, said spokeswoman Julia Jeffers-Peaua.

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tional television during the Democratic National Convention about being raised by two moms, his lesbian parents. Evan Wolfson, president and founder of Freedom to Marry, voiced concerns similar to those of Wahls. “The reported decision of the Boy Scouts to change their discriminatory policy on gay members is a reflection of how out of step the Scouts hierarchy had become with today’s youth and the majority of Americans,” he said in an e-mail. “Changing the policy would be a step in the right direction, but while an ‘allow discrimination’ local option is better than mandatory national discrimination, it still sends a harmful message to both gay and non-gay youth. The right answer is to be open to all boys, without discrimination, period,” said Wolfson. “Progress, but not good enough.” For his part, Herndon Graddick, president of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, emphasized the positive. “Scouting is a valuable institution, and this change will only strengthen its core principles of fairness and respect,” he said in a statement.

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LMFT, a survivor of so-called reparative or ex-gay therapy and an activist in the quest for passage of SB 1172, received the Volunteer of the Year Award at the Greater San Francisco Bay LGBTQQ Therapy Association’s Gaylesta annual luncheon held January 27 at the Lake Chalet Restaurant in Oakland. SB 1172, authored by state Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), was passed by the California Legislature and signed by Governor Jerry Brown last fall. The measure bans state-licensed mental health professionals from attempting to engage in efforts to alter the sexual orientation of LGBT youth 18 years and younger. The law has been challenged in the courts by two sets of groups led by Liberty Counsel and Pacific Justice Institute, respectively. Due to injunctions issued by two separate courts, the law is on hold until at least mid-April when an appeals court is expected to issue a decision. Guay, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley, was sent to a reparative therapist as a teen by his minister father. He has been highly visible on the consequences of these experiences in testimony before committees in both the Assembly and state Senate, YouTube videos

discussing the need for a law protecting minors from sexual orientation change efforts, and another video posted with a change.org petition by advocacy members Guy Albert, Ph.D.; Jim Walker, LMFT; and activist Joe Rodriguez Jr. When the Los Angeles Times editorialized against the need for SB 1172, Guay wrote an op-ed that was published and gave numerous interviews. Formerly a San Francisco-based therapist, Guay recently moved his practice to the Los Angeles area. Just last week, he assisted in submitting an amicus brief along with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Equality California, two lead groups fighting for SB 1172 to be instituted. Unanimously awarded by Gaylesta’s board of directors, the award was presented to Guay by Marea Murray, LCSW, Gaylesta’s advocacy chair. In remarks to the assembled therapists, Guay noted how few in the LGBTQ community knew what reparative or conversion therapies were, let alone that they were still being used on youth and adults. Other Gaylesta honorees included licensed marriage and family therapists Cal Domingue and Valerie Igl.t

I can’t help but note that every time we stay at the Peppermill the number of other lesbian and gay couples checking in, dining at Bimini or one of the resort’s restaurants, dancing the night away at Edge or enjoying the spa at Spa Tosca. Edge is Reno’s number one dance club. Its Vegas-style regularly attracts some drag queens out on the town for the night, said Jeffers-Peaua. The music has great beats, the go-go dancers are hot, and champagne ordered from your personal booth comes with its own fireworks. Often there is a fashion lineup of men and women spanning from the doorman to the registration desk. What’s not to like? Spending a day at Spa Toscana will make you feel like a star and repair that winter damaged skin in a jiffy. The three-level spa offers the latest treatments celebrities are using, such as intraceuticals petite infusion, an oxygen facial that plumps up and refreshes the skin without Botox, along with other popular treatments, said Morgan Brantner, director of spa, salon and pool op-

erations at Spa Toscana. The spa features a fantastic steam room and an adult-only indoor pool with a terrace on the top floor. Some of Reno’s best restaurants are also not too far away from the Peppermill. My girlfriend and I love Bricks and recently enjoyed Lulou’s. The restaurants are mainstays of Reno’s food scene that is emerging so fast that we can’t keep up. Every time we go to Reno there are new eateries we are adding to our list, such as Campo Restaurant. Gay nightlife isn’t too far away either. Carl’s Pub, which came under new ownership, is only a few blocks down the street between the resort and Atlantis, Reno’s other AAA four-diamond casino and resort. The Eldorado and Silver Legacy are in the heart of Reno and the popular Riverwalk district is packed with new restaurants, bars, and more. These sister resorts are linked together with Circus Circus by an underground network so travelers can enjoy a wide variety of dining and indoor entertainment. The Eldorado Showroom often

attracts Broadway hits, celebrities, and unique shows. Magique is the latest award-winning show that opened January 22 and runs through April 14. In February the Silver Legacy will be welcoming shows by Styx (1) and the Who (2) performing at Reno’s Event Center. Gay nightlife is within walking distance of the Eldorado and Silver Legacy, too. Reno’s oldest LGBT casino bar, the 5 Star Saloon, is only a few blocks away next to the West Street Market, one of Reno’s latest hot spots. Reno’s LGBT nightlife is experiencing some changes. Tronix moved its location into the old Neutron space, offering a larger dance floor, a ventilation system that sucks out the cigarette smoke, a brand new sound system, and an outdoor patio with a grill, said Yvonne “Vonnie” Allen, Tronix bar manager. “It’s been awesome,” said Allen, talking excitedly about the changes. Tronix also recently became the only 18 and over club in Reno, she said.

The club is also welcoming women. Every Friday night is ladies line dancing with lessons from 6 to 7 p.m. and dancing until 9:30. In February Tronix is welcoming Sental, a new ladies night on the first and third Saturday of the month, Allen said. Every Saturday night the guys take over with Men at Play that kicks off with $3 well drinks from 2 to 8 p.m. served up by Sister Roxy Rawhide.

Equally upbeat was Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “The pulse of equality is strong in America, and today it beats a bit faster with news that the Boy Scouts may finally put an end to its long history of discrimination,” he said in a statement. “Our nation and its leaders respect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender citizens, and it’s time the Boy Scouts echo those values.” And Mark Anthony Dingbaum, senior campaign manager at Change.org, praised pressure to end the Scouts’ national antigay policy, calling the push “a huge victory for people-powered change.” But not everyone is pleased with the BSA’s change of mind. Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay Family Research Council, said in a statement posted on the organization’s website: “If the board capitulates to the bullying of homosexual activists, the Boy Scouts’ legacy of producing great leaders will become yet another casualty of moral compromise.” Meanwhile, the BSA’s turnabout comes after a nearly yearlong effort by GLAAD and Scouts for Equality, along with petition drives at Change.org. In all, more than 1.2 million people have signed petition campaigns calling for an end

to the discriminatory policy. One change.org petition – initiated by Jennifer Tyrrell, a lesbian mother from Bridgeport, Ohio who was ousted as her 7-year-old son’s Cub Scout Pack’s den mother in April 2012 – calls for a reconsideration of “exclusivity against gay youth and leaders” and “an end of discrimination in an organization that is shaping the future.” Tyrrell’s petition has attracted more than 300,000 signatures. Last July she delivered her online petition to BSA national leadership in Irving, Texas. At that time, however, the Boy Scouts re-affirmed a policy of banning gay members. The Scouts cited a two-year study by an 11-member special committee formed discretely in 2010 that concluded that the “current policy remains the best interest of scouting,” according to a BSA press release and Associated Press reporting.

change persisted and gained momentum. “The Boy Scouts of America have heard from scouts, corporations, and millions of Americans that discrimination is wrong,” said GLAAD’s Graddick. For example, two members of the Boy Scouts’ board, James Turley, chairman and CEO of Ernst and Young, and Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T, had said last summer they would advocate a change in the Scouts’ policy. GLAAD and Scouts for Equality also succeeded in pressuring BSA corporate donors, including Intel Corporation, United Parcel Service, and Merck Foundation, to withhold funding until the Boy Scouts end its policy banning gay youth and parents. Last fall, a Bay Area mother, Karen Andresen of Moraga, petitioned her local Boy Scout council to honor her son Ryan with an Eagle Award that was denied to him when Ryan came out as gay. An official Eagle Board of Review unanimously approved Ryan’s application for Eagle, but a Boy Scout executive ultimately rejected his application. Andresen’s online Change.org petition has garnered more than 400,000 signatures. The petition asks leadership from Troop

212 and the Mt. Diablo Silverado Council “to reject the Boy Scouts of America’s discriminatory antigay policy and to give Ryan Andresen the Eagle award he’s earned.” Reached by phone, Ryan’s father, Eric Andresen, said he was “cautiously optimistic” about the possibility of change in BSA policy. “Let’s hope it happens,” he said. “I can’t imagine being so public and then backing out. It’s a good first step, not the whole thing yet, but a step in the right direction.” Andresen said his 18-year-old son Ryan, “would still like to be recognized for the work he has done.” “Ryan hopes that nobody would have to go through what he had to go through,” said his father. “This [new policy] will help other scouts in the circumstances he’s in,” enabling them “to stay involved” in scouting.t

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Deadline soon for eQuality scholarship applications

The deadline for submitting applications for the 2013 eQuality Scholarships is Friday, February 1 at 11:59 p.m. This year, $6,000 scholarships will be awarded to first-time college students who have demonstrated service to the LGBTQ community. Applicants of all sexual orientations and gender identities are eligible to apply. Last year, the eQuality Scholarship Collaborative – a joint effort of LGBTQ employee groups at PG&E, Kaiser Permanente, Genentech, KPMG and nonprofits Out and Equal Workplace Advocates and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network – awarded approximately $75,000 to 15 students. This is the 24th year of the scholarships, which were started by lesbian and gay employees at PG&E in 1989. “We are proud to invest in the promising young leaders serving the LGBTQ community,” Rich Meiss, chair of the scholarship steering committee, said in a statement.

For more information or to apply, visit www.equalityscholarship.org.

Save City College meeting

Students, faculty, and staff at City College of San Francisco will meet to form a coalition to defend the school against threats of closure on Wednesday, February 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the CCSF Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street (between 22nd and 23rd streets), room 109. Organizers said that the college faces severe cuts and sanctions stemming from a critical report issued last year. The community college, with approximately 85,000 students, faces the loss of its accreditation if certain recommendations are not met. “Become part of a united effort to keep CCSF as a key provider of quality learning for all communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and as the primary gateway for poor and working class students and students of color,” said Bob Price, one of the organizers. For more information or childcare, contact (415) 412-4183 or saveccsfpetition@gmail.com.

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For decades, the Scouts have maintained an anti-gay policy. Moreover, in 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upheld the Scouts’ right to dismiss a gay assistant scoutmaster, saying that as a private organization, it had the right to decide whichever values it wishes to communicate. But over the years, pressure for

Getting to Reno and Tahoe

Lake Tahoe is also accessible by plane, via Reno-Tahoe International Airport, or train, courtesy of Amtrak, from Emeryville to Truckee to a bus into South Lake Tahoe. Travelers coming from the San Francisco Bay Area should take Interstate 80 to Highway 50 to reach South Lake Tahoe and I-80 to Truckee for North Lake Tahoe. To get to Reno, continue on I-80 past Truckee and North Lake Tahoe. Take Exit 13 to downtown Reno.t A list of winter events and a quick guide to Reno-Tahoe is online at ebar.com.

On the web Online content this week includes the Bay Area Reporter’s online columns, Political Notes and Wedding Bell Blues; Out in the World column; and articles on a supervisors’ committee hearing on TIC legislation, and a man working to save his missing friend’s possessions. www.ebar.com.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LATITUDE 38 FLIES, 3150 18TH ST. #223, SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Karl Kirbus & Alexander Stotler McHuron. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/14/13.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034792300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EXPLORE SAN FRANCISCO, 39 ROSEMONT PLACE, SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Michael Moran. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/27/12.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034824100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUMMINGBEAR DESIGN, 457 ALVARADO ST., SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Tanya Kimball Napier. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/14/13.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034814200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CELLO STREET QUARTET, 480 FELL ST. #1, SF, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Andres Vera. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/09/13.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034814100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HILLSIDE SUPPER CLUB, 300 PRECITA AVE., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Antonio Ferrari, Jonathan Sutton, Marcelo Gomez & Maria Gomez. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/09/13.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034827300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STELLADORO PIZZERIA, 808 DIVISADERO ST., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed California Pizza Corporation (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/15/13.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034801600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION ORTHODONTIC, 2460 MISSION ST. #215, SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Yang DDS Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/13.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034798900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAISON RESTAURANT, 178 TOWNSEND ST., SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Saison Dining Group LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/02/13.

Jan 17, 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 Statement of abandonment of uSe of fictitiouS buSineSS name fiLe a-034246500 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CAFFE COZZOLINO, 300 PRECITA AVE., SF, CA 94110. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Marcelo Gomez. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/03/12.

41 - on-SaLe beer & Wine - eating pLace Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 2013 order to ShoW cauSe for change of name in Superior court of caLifornia, county of San franciSco fiLe cnc13-549225 In the matter of the application of: JENNIFER THUY HO-TRAN for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JENNIFER THUY HO-TRAN is requesting that the names TAYLOR TIGER HO-TRAN be changed to TAYLOR TIGER TRAN, TYLER KIM LONG HO-TRAN be changed to TYLER LONG TRAN, and SOPHIA EMILY HOTRAN be changed to SOPHIA EMILY TRAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 14th of March 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 order to ShoW cauSe for change of name in Superior court of caLifornia, county of San franciSco fiLe cnc13-549230 In the matter of the application of: KAREN LYNN BERRYMAN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KAREN LYNN BERRYMAN, is requesting that the name KAREN LYNN BERRYMAN, be changed to LIAM COLLINS BERRYMAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 26th of March 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034799200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FRONT WINDOW PRODUCTIONS, 1519 OAK ST. #5, SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Cameron Lee Stiehl. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/02/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/02/13.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034829800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIMJAM TRADING, 935 GEARY ST. #303, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed David M. James. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/16/13.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034833000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOG CITY TAX PREP, 717 PAGE ST., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Ronald L. Seely. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/16/13.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034838300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO CONVENTION & MEETING PLANNERS, 3527 OLIVER CT., LAFAYETTE, CA 94549. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Shmuel S.Finkelstein. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/18/13.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034825500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KIRBUS SCREEN PRINTING, 3150 18TH ST. #223, SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Karl Kirbus. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/14/13.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034837400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VALENCIA DENTAL CENTER, 3532 20TH ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Juan F. Luque Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/18/13.

Jan 24, 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 notice of appLication for change in oWnerShip of aLcohoLic beverage LicenSe Dated 01/28/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MSAB GROUP INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2157 POLK ST., SF, CA 94109-2506. Type of license applied for

41 - on-SaLe beer & Wine eating pLace Jan 31, 2013 notice of appLication for change in oWnerShip of aLcohoLic beverage LicenSe Dated 01/14/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: HYE SOON HO, JIYOUN PARK. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 908 CLEMENT ST., SF, CA 94118-2111. Type of license applied for

41 - on-SaLe beer & Wine eating pLace Jan 31, 2013 notice of appLication for change in oWnerShip of aLcohoLic beverage LicenSe Dated 01/08/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ARACELY HOSPITALITY INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1201 8TH ST., SF, CA 94107-2236. Type of license applied for

41 - on-SaLe beer & Wine eating pLace Jan 31, 2013 notice of appLication to SeLL aLcohoLic beverageS Dated 01/22/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: GEARY STREET RESTAURANT GROUP INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 468-74 GEARY ST., SF, CA 94102-1223. Type of license applied for

75 - on-SaLe generaL breW-pub Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 notice of appLication to SeLL aLcohoLic beverageS Dated 01/25/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: RYAN SCOTT 2 GO LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 300 DE HARO ST. #342-344, SF, CA 94103-5165. Type of license applied for

41 - on-SaLe beer & Wine eating pLace Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 notice of appLication to SeLL aLcohoLic beverageS Dated 01/17/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: PLAYLAND ABC, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2545 24TH ST., SF, CA 94110-3508. Type of license applied for

notice of hearing by pubLication (minor name change), State of minneSota diStrict court, St. LouiS county, SiXth JudiciaL diStrict, court fiLe number 69du-cv-12-3680, caSe type: name change In the matter of the application of RACHEL CAROLINE PETERSON, on behalf of ELI THOR HARKNESS, for a change of name to ELI THOR PETERSON; to SCOTT FISHER, parent, homeless. An Application for Name Change has been filed by RACHEL CAROLINE PETERSON for a change of name for the minor child ELI THOR HARKNESS to ELI THOR PETERSON. A hearing on this Application will be held at St. Louis County Court House, 100 N. 5th Ave. W., Duluth, MN 55802 on March 11, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. You may obtain a copy of the Application for Name Change from St. Louis County Court Administrator, 100 N. 5th Ave. W., Duluth, MN 55802. If you do not appear at the scheduled hearing, the Petitioner’s Application for a Name Change for the minor child may be granted. January 11, 2013, Marieta Johnson, Court Administrator, by K. Carlson, Deputy.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034862400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANDY BLUM MASSAGE & WELLNESS, 129 FILLMORE ST., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Andrea Blum. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/29/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034852800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REBALANCED SF, 1543 MCALLISTER ST. #2, SF, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Justin Grinius. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/25/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/25/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034862300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIKMOI, 1666 GOUGH ST. #306, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Michael K. Coyle. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/29/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034851000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOU CHOU BAKERY BISTRO, 400 DEWEY BLVD., SF, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Sarah National Enterprises (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/24/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034817200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOT GRAFFITI?, 696 AMADOR ST., SF, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed San Francisco Bay Distributors Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/10/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034843900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PSOAS MASSAGE + BODYWORK, 333 3RD ST. #205, SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Psoas Massage + Bodywork LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/03. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/22/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitiouS buSineSS name Statement fiLe a-034823900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEDINA TRUCKING, 1238 12TH AVE. #1, SF, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed Suad Felic & Mirzeta Kuduzovic. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/14/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/14/13.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: STELLADORO PIZZERIA & RESTAURANT, 808 DIVISADERO ST., SF, CA 94117. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Ann Ngo. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/09.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LATITUDE 38 FLIES, 3150 18TH ST. #223, SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Karl Kirbus. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/14/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOLLOW MY LEAD, 3935 18TH ST., SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Sonia Martinez. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/15/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AHF PHARMACY, 4071 18TH ST., SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AIDS Healthcare Foundation (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/23/13.

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Scary times continue

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his edition of Sundance, America’s premier independent film showcase, is one of the queerest ever, with a mix of veteran and novice directors delivering a lineup that sizzles dramatically and erotically. If you want to gauge the talent before these films descend from (Left to right:) Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Jack Huston in Kill Your Darlings.

Robert Redford’s ski lodge, check for scripts vetted through the Sundance writers’ lab, widely acknowledged as the place where novice filmmakers can banish pretentious beats – in other words, “kill their darlings.” Kill Your Darlings is getting Sundance buzz for moments where young Daniel Radcliffe, as fledgling poet Allen Ginsberg, ingests drugs, masturbates, and has sex with an older man. This is possibly the movie that finally gets the Beats in focus. Big Sur Sundance has the Beats on the brain: director Michael Polish spotlights an older Jack Kerouac, overwhelmed by the hoopla surrounding the publication of On the Road and battling alcoholism, hiding in a small cabin owned by his friend Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The retreat results in a 1962 novel, Big Sur. With Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, and Henry Thomas. Valentine Road Marta Cunningham follows the story behind the classroom shooting death of California queer teen Larry King by classmate Brandon McInerney. “Brandon was 14 when he committed the crime, he was looking at 53 years to life without the chance of parole, and I thought, ‘That’s not right, either.’ It’s not right to kill somebody in the middle of English class, but is it right for him to be tried as an adult?” Don Jon’s Addiction Joseph Gordon-Leavitt takes a logical step in his progression from TV child star to indie actor to edgy action/drama guy, creating his own erotically tinged vehicle. Demonstrating what he’s learned from the indie world’s best directors, Gordon-Leavitt essays a

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Lothario whose fixation on computer porn interferes with a highly charged relationship with Scarlett Johansson. Jobs This modest bio-pic promises a peek at the “Steves” Jobs and Wozniak as they crank out their first toy. Here’s a chance to see if Ashton Kutcher is ready to fill anything but Charlie Sheen’s shoes. With Josh Gad as Wozniak. C.O.G. Kyle Patrick Alvarez directs the first film based on a David Sedaris story, the rocky misadventures of a cocky young man (Jonathan Groff) who works a summer on an Oregon apple farm. Alvarez said, “What I liked about the story was that it took that confusion [about homosexuality] and mixed it with a religious confusion. It was funny, kind of dirty, and really cinematic.” Concussion As Abby, a wealthy lesbian house-

ddie Muller’s 11th Noir City film festival concludes at the Castro Theatre with many rarely seen and restored gems. Cheap blonde Cleo Moore is The Other Woman (1954). She’s a no-talent actress who avenges herself on movie director Hugo Haas for firing her from his latest opus. He’s an expert at dealing with angry dames. Haas directed. In The ComeOn (1956), Oscar winner Anne Baxter and Sterling Hayden lust for each other. What about her husband? Baxter’s heavy breathing whenever Hayden approaches is hilarious. Directed by Russell Birdwell. This is the last surviving 35mm print. Neither film is on DVD. (Thurs., Jan. 31) Oscar winner Edmund O’Brien is the Man in the Dark (1953), a hood who undergoes brain surgery to cure him of his crooked ways! It also erases his memory. Where did he hide the loot? His former mobster pals, including mean Ted De Corsia, want to find

out. Strange dreams help him reclaim his past. Hard-boiled Audrey Totter is his girlfriend. Directed by Lew Landers. Shown in a fully restored 3-D print. Robert Ryan, not a man to be messed with, finds himself in an Inferno (1953) after his unfaithful wife (gorgeous redhead Rhonda Fleming) and her lover (William Lundigan) leave him for dead in the desert. Ryan survives. His revenge is frightening. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Shown in a fully restored 3-D print. (Fri., Feb. 1) Cornell Woolrich’s novels and short stories have been the basis for many great suspense movies, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954). The first to be filmed was Street of Chance (42), shown in a fully restored 35mm print. Burgess Meredith loses his memory after being struck by a beam. He realizes he’s lived the past year as someone See page 18 >>

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Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Leavitt in Don Jon’s Addiction.

wife, rides home with her wife and kids in the family bus, she’s just been struck in the head at her son’s Little League game. Stacie Passon explained what she was trying to accomplish with her first feature. “The script wasn’t about this lesbian housewife who became a hooker, but about the human predicament.” Lovelace Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman ratchet us back to 1970s porn’s “Garden of Eden,” when the hip and the horny found common congress in shabby theatres boasting a gimmick: a genuinely sexy XXX film that didn’t shun humor. Using fact-to-fiction techniques that served them well in Howl, the filmmakers show a young woman from a religious background going from porn superstar to exploited sex worker. Amanda Seyfried is Linda Boreman (Lovelace), Peter Sarsgaard is her hustler-guru-despoiler Chuck Traynor; with Adam Brody, James Franco and Sharon Stone. Interior. Leather Bar. For decades, even the severest critics of director William Friedkin’s 1980 leather-bar thriller Cruising have cited how his film documented gay nightlife in the See page 26 >>

San Francisco Ballet dancer Pierre-François Vilanoba in Petit’s L’Arlésienne.

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ig-time dance is back. The San Francisco Ballet launched its 80th season last Thursday night with a gala that lasted, in all its outlying festivities, well into the next morning. It’s a unique civic event, attended by everybody who’s anybody in SF politics, society, civic or cultural life, with dinner parties before the show and dancing after in the great courts of City Hall. The spectacle of ball gowns in the aisles and in the lobby rivals the parade of costumes onstage (trains are short this year). I saw Nancy Pelosi in the lobby; perhaps she did not boogie afterwards, but the late-night dance floors were packed. SFB galas were instituted by Helgi To-

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masson at the beginning of his tenure here as artistic director – in part to ensure that our ballet would never be faced with bankruptcy again, and to make the case that SFB is an ambassador for our way of life. This kind of event goes back 300 years to Louis XIV, who used ballet among other fine arts to display the glory of France, frankly as an instrument to put his rebellious barons in their place – they had to “dance attendance” on him at Versailles – and to impress foreign diplomats. It’s been an instrument of diplomacy ever since. During the Cold War, the State Dept. countered Russians by sending American See page 24 >>

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he late American artist Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) began her painting career firmly ensconced among the Surrealists. In the 1940s, through New York art dealer Julien Levy, she met the earliest Surrealists, refugees from Nazi Germany, and she would eventually marry seminal modern artist Max Ernst. But over the course of a long life and art practice, Tanning moved through many art styles and interests. Over 30 of her paintings, sculptures and drawings are now on view in Unknown but Knowable States, running through March 2 at Gallery Wendi Norris (161 Jessie St., SF). The show, the first to occupy the gallery’s entire 5,000-sq.-ft. space, begins with Tanning’s abstract works from the 1960s, and follows her return to more figurative work in the 1970s. Her large, virtuosic painting Chiens de Cythere (Dogs of Cythera) (1963) serves as a sort of centerpiece, testament to the artist’s ongoing interest in depicting interior states of being. In later

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Philosophie en plein air (Fresh-air Philosophy) (1969), oil on canvas by Dorothea Tanning, part of Unknown but Knowable States.

works, Rubenesque female nudes bend and curl into abstract space in an unusual and lyric blending of figure and ground. The exhibition includes two soft sculptures, a Traffic Sign (1970)

made of fabric, synthetic fur, wool, metal, and cardboard; and Étreinte (1969), a construction of wool flannel and fake fur stuffed with wool. Both pieces look back to Tanning’s roots in Surrealism, especially recalling Meret Oppenheim’s Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) (1936), a teacup, saucer and spoon that the artist famously covered with fur harvested from a Chinese gazelle. Tanning also published two poetry collections, two memoirs and a short novel before her death last year at age 101. This posthumous gallery show is a fitting capstone to an extraordinary life and career.

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else. What’s really going on? With Oscar winner Claire Trevor and Sheldon Leonard, who became a successful TV producer in the 50s. Jack Hively directed. New 35mm print. In The Chase (1946), Robert Cummings (before major TV stardom in the 50s) is hired by hunky tough guy Steve Cocharan as a

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Ignoti Nulla Cupido (1960), oil on canvas by Dorothea Tanning.

ners of scholarships funded by the Bob Ross Foundation, and we’re proud to introduce the three talented youth here. The Bob Ross Scholarship recipient is Jeanette Kakareka, from Harleysville, PA, who appeared with the company in last season’s Romeo & Juliet, Don Quixote and Glass Pieces; the Keith White Memorial Scholarship recipient is Miranda Silveira Templer, originally from Barcelona, Spain; and the Eric Hellman Memorial Scholarship recipient is Veronika Selivanova, from Vancouver, WA. (Ross was this newspaper’s founder, White was a B.A.R. dance writer, and Hellman was a B.A.R. arts editor.) Congratulations to the young performing stars, and happy decades of dancing!

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chauffeur. Alas, his boss’ sexy French wife (Michele Morgan) wants him to perform some services for her. Will he put the brakes on in time, or is he headed for a fatal crash? Philip Yordan adapted Woolrich’s novel. Arthur Ripley directed. Screened in a fully restored 35mm print. In The Window (49), nine-year old Bobby Driscoll, sweltering in a Manhattan tenement, sleeps on the fire escape to cool off. He witnesses a murder. His parents don’t believe him, but the killer does. With Barbara Hale

(later Della Street on TV’s Perry Mason), the terrific Arthur Kennedy, and Ruth Roman. Ted Tetzlaff directed. Mel Dinelli adapted Woolrich’s story. (Sat., Feb. 2, matinee & evening) Virginia Grey seldom played leads, but as actress Paula Marlowe, she’s Smooth as Silk (1946). Her fiancé (Kent Taylor) gets a playboy acquitted of manslaughter. Paula cozies up to the playboy’s wealthy uncle in hopes he’ll invest in her new producSee page 24 >>

In an interview about midlife with The New York Times last month, pop star Tori Amos discussed her relationship with her tweenage daughter. “Tash has quite a sense of humor, and she’ll say to me, ‘What do you think you’re walking out of this hotel in?’ And I’ll say, ‘It’s comfortable.’ And she’ll say, ‘No soccer mom is walking out of this hotel room. You’ll be called Tori Anus.’ It’s kind of funny that I have a daughter who understands.”t

On the web This week, find Philip Campbell’s review of the Lamplighters’ Princess Ida, and Victoria A. Brownworth’s Lavender Tube column, “Catfish TV,” online at www.ebar.com.

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Mo’ better Milk by Richard Dodds

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he ascent of Harvey Bernard Milk’s reputation since his murder in 1978 has been a steady one, at least until a local politician’s suggestion that SFO be rebranded HBM – or more accurately, Harvey Milk International Airport. Letters to editors have been flying with yeas, nays, and alternative suggestions. It is unfortunate indeed that the gay civil rights pioneer’s reputation should be put to such an arguably irrelevant popularity contest. But a welcome, timely respite from this distraction is now on view at New Conservatory Theatre Center, where Dear Harvey has recently opened. It may seem that the 2008 movie Milk was the dramatic capstone to a story that shook a city, a city with a history of being seismically shook, in such an epic way. But the upheaval was also profoundly personal for many far beyond the district that Milk represented on the Board of Supervisors. Patricia Loughrey’s Dear Harvey is all about the personal, not only in reactions to the events of Nov. 27, 1978, but also in the inspiration he provided others during his lifetime, and in how it shaped individual responses to such later crises as the onslaught of AIDS. Commissioned by San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre in

anticipation of the 30th anniversary of Milk’s and Mayor George Moscone’s assassinations, Loughrey interviewed a broad cross-section of men and women who knew Milk and/or were inspired by him to make changes in their own lives. These remembrances have been deftly woven together, and Loughrey has also included words from Milk’s own speeches and writings that ring with a timelessness that goes beyond local politics and issues of sexual orientation. Director F. Allen Sawyer has guided his ensemble cast of six performers to strong emotional connections with the wide variety of personalities they must convey. While the play itself is basically a collage of conversations, Loughrey’s smart construction and Sawyer’s smooth direction create a kind of dramatic arc that builds through the play’s 90 minutes. During the early part of the play, I tried to take notes on which actor was performing what excerpt from whose interview. But the dark scribblings became a deterrent to experiencing the content and flavors of what was being said, so there will be no individual citations of memorable moments. It will have to suffice to say that all performers use their multiple opportunities to meaningfully connect with the words that

Family ties by Richard Dodds

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he main attraction is a comfortably conventional drama, but what transpires on stage before it is an ill omen for live theater if it is in fact a harbinger of the future. As we gaze at Erik Flatmo’s realistically detailed living room set for 4000 Miles while waiting for the house lights to dim, a proscenium-sized screen descends on which promotions for upcoming ACT attractions and programs are projected before we are requested to “Like us on Facebook.” At least the world we are then invited to join in Amy Herzog’s play is not one of hoop skirts and powdered wigs, but rather a contemporary story that exists on the same technologically invasive homepage as the comingattractions trailer through which we cannot fast-forward. But there are remnants of an earlier time in the world of Vera Joseph, the elderly widow who inhabits this Manhattan apartment. Her telephone has a dial, and she elicits a guffaw from her grandson when she produces a tome of Yellow Pages to

locate a local business. Yes, this is a generational- and cultural-gap story, and of the healing bridges that can ultimately be built, and it would be surprising if that didn’t sound familiar. But playwright Herzog handles the situations with emotional and comical exchanges of often-subtle nuance if not revelatory theatrics. The basic plot can be summed up without difficulty. Grandson Leo has undertaken a bike trek from Seattle to New York, and arrives unexpectedly at his grandmother’s apartment with an obviously heavy heart. Grandma Vera is a feisty old dame with a lefty past, doesn’t get some of her grandson’s newfangled manners, but gives him space enough until he can finally reveal the sources of his sorrows. Comic relief comes in such matters as grandson and grandmother smoking pot together, prompting Vera to provide TMI on her past sex life. Issues of mortality, from radically different perspectives, inform their relationship, which becomes the play’s most serious dramatic terri-

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Reggie Gowland and Susan Blommaert play an alternately sparring and loving grandson and grandmother in Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles now playing at ACT.

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David Bicha, Aaron Wimmer, Tierra Allen, Anna Smith, Brian Patterson, and Courtney Walsh play multiple characters in Dear Harvey, a recounting of Harvey Milk’s life, times, and legacy now at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

they have been assigned. This admirable cast is composed of Tierra Allen, David Bicha, Brian Patterson, Anna Smith, Courtney Walsh, and Aaron Wimmer. Projections of photos largely by Milk colleague Dan Nicoletta on Devin Kasper’s utilitarian set help give real-life context to events being described. And while my arrival in San Francisco postdated by nearly two decades the pivotal years of the

play, I cannot deny a personal swell of prideful connection to see pages of the Bay Area Reporter from the Milk era included in the projections. Harvey Milk is generally described as the first openly gay person elected to public office in the United States, and Dear Harvey concludes with an updated coda that features images of other LGBT figures who have since gone on to major elected office, including those

tory but that still doesn’t feel deeply dug. Leo’s sort-of ex-girlfriend arrives to call him out on some of his B.S., and a casual pickup serves as a manic pixie dream girl, to borrow from the title of a play at another ACT facility. And then there are the herrings that if not red are certainly blushing, such as a briefly invoked case of peyote-induced pseudo incest. Such left-field topics do not un-

dercut the security provided by a play that basically colors within the lines, and Mark Rucker’s direction adheres to that design. As Leo, Reggie Gowland achieves the tricky task of being a likeable jerk, and Susan Blommaert has a keen bead on the lovably crotchety but wise Vera. Julia Lawler and Camille Mana play the women in Leo’s life with precision. The intermissionless play, well received in an off-Broadway run in

who were sent to Washington in the November elections. “Openly Gay, and Openly Welcomed in Congress” read a front-page headline in a recent edition of The New York Times. Thank you, Harvey.t Dear Harvey will run at New Conservatory Theatre Center through Feb. 25. Tickets are $25$45. Call 861-8972 or go to www. nctcsf.org.

2011, never overstays its welcome. It’s an amiably dramatic, amiably humorous, and amiably interesting piece of sturdy playmaking. And no, there aren’t any post-show commercials to yank us out of our amiable mood.t 4000 Miles will run through Feb. 10 at ACT. Tickets are $25-$140. Call 749-2228 or go to www.act-sf. org.

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Short, sweet & Oscar-nominated by David Lamble

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or the eighth year, Landmark Theatres is presenting the Oscar-nominated short films in three categories: live action, animation and documentary (opening Friday, Opera Plaza Cinemas). As usual, the live action shorts program offers the best mix of fresh new talent and cutting-edge technique in the service of well-told stories. Death of a Shadow Tom Van Aver-

maet finds an astringently romantic way to re-imagine the carnage of the First World War. In his vision, influenced more than a little by the great Mexican horror master Guillermo del Toro (especially his 2001 boy-ghost story The Devil’s Backbone), Nathan, a young soldier shot to death in 1917, finds himself stuck in a kind of aesthetic purgatory, a slave to its lucidly mad curator, the Collector of Shadows (Peter Van Den Rede). To win his way back into the land of the living, Nathan’s task is to photograph lost souls at the moment of death, their shadows becoming part of his ghoulish master’s museum. Owing the collector two shadows, Nathan faces a Faustian bargain involving a young woman he met just before his death and the fate of another soldier she truly loves. Helmed by a sensitive turn from boyish Belgium actor Matthias Schoenaerts as Nathan, Death of a Shadow, with just a whiff of Edgar Allen Poe, is an artistically respectable alternative to the audience-punishing agendas of Austria’s Michael Haneke. My vote for best in this category is split between Shadow and an especially moving entry from Afghanistan. Buzkashi Boys Just when you were certain nothing good could

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Scene from director Tom Van Avermaet’s Death of a Shadow: stuck in an aesthetic purgatory.

Scene from director Sam French’s Buzkashi Boys: slice-of-life behind the headlines.

Scene from director Shawn Christensen’s Curfew: a Marat-in-the-bathtub moment.

come from our agonizing stint in Afghanistan, director Sam French (with co-writer Martin Roe) offers up this vision. Reportedly one of the first narrative shorts shot in present-day Kabul, French/Roe’s tale is cradled in the friendship between two boys, Rafi (Fawad Mohammed), a depressed but defiant blacksmith’s son, and his scamp of a buddy Ahmad (Jawan Mard Paiz), a homeless street beggar with a grandiose dream.

Ahmad convinces Rafi to play hooky from his dad’s grueling apprenticeship. Instead of sneaking off to the movies, the boys hang out in a dusty arena where some crazy bastards are playing buzkashi, essentially polo with a dead goat substituting for the ball. The boys find a peculiar epiphany in the notion that one of them may live long enough to ride a wild horse pushing the dead goat across the goal. This authentic slice-of-life behind the

headlines (definitely not endorsed by the American Humane Society) ends on one of this young decade’s most tragically conflicted countenances, as the young Rafi ponders the price of dreams. Asad (South Africa) Bryan Buckley is nearly as successful at capturing the tragically heroic rhythms of two Somali village boys torn between pursuing the lives of poor fishermen or the very short and squalid existence of Somali pirates. Curfew (US) Shawn Christensen begins his dark comedy with a Marat-in-the-bathtub moment. His Richie has just opened a vein when the phone rings. It’s Richie’s hyper-anxious sister (Kim Allen) begging him to babysit her precocious daughter (Fatima Ptache). Christensen displays some worthy sitcom chops in showing how this young backslider morphs into an unexpectedly reliable uncle. Henry (Canada) Director Yan England tells a deeply personal story about the plight of an aging pianist who experiences an end-of-life existential crisis. A good argument for why Haneke was right in his approach to the couple in Amour, this one is a little long for the emotional payoff, but an excellent cast and a harrowingly universal dilemma will ring true for many. Documentary: Inocente (US) The only documentary I screened was this wrenching tale from San See page 25 >>

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facial expressions adopted by the participants also recall 19th-century daguerreotypes – but her work doesn’t challenge our assumptions and prejudices in the scabrous, often humorous manner of a provocateur like Cindy Sherman. (Several images, included in an accompanying book but not in the show, skate closer to the edge.) To her credit, Edwards doesn’t claim to be an objective observer, but one can’t help but wonder: what is her point of

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“Art and Carol” (1997), large-scale color photograph by Beth Yarnelle Edwards.

Suburban dystopia by Sura Wood

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uburbia, touted as a refuge whose safe streets and relatively open spaces, free of urban blight, promised an ideal place to raise a family, once epitomized the American Dream. In recent years, though, some of these islands of illusory calm and prosperity have been prey to crime, drugs, foreclosures, and in several horrific cases, the scenes of mass shootings. Suburban life has also proved to be a ripe target for satire in books and films, from Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse to Alan Ball’s snarky American Beauty. But such dark undercurrents, let alone irony, are barely visible in the oasis of ennui represented in Suburban Dreams, an exhibition of 22 competently crafted, largescale color photographs by Beth Yarnelle Edwards now at the Oakland Museum. Taken between 1997 and 2006, they depict a small group of various Silicon Valley residents before the bottom fell out of the economy and the trap door opened and swallowed a substantial portion of the middle class. Judging from these images, nary an ill wind was blowing in their part of town. Instead, contentment reigned – well, almost. Unfortunately, the minimal disturbance vaguely hinted at in this predominantly homogenous universe doesn’t make for particularly stimulating art. Edwards presents staged as opposed to candid shots of their daily lives, a kind of enhanced reality. She arrives at the concept for a shoot by interviewing people she has selected to photograph and asking them to improvise within a loose premise, waiting during long exposures “for an authentic expression or gesture to appear.” She purports to examine the com-

plex relationships they have with their homes and possessions, but there isn’t much insight either on view or lurking subversively beneath the polished surfaces. Is it inadvertent or a deliberate choice that there’s less here than meets the eye? Edwards describes the settings as middle-class, but given the diminishment of financial resources around the country since the photographs were taken, these folks would appear to occupy a higher tax bracket, A woman soaks in bubble-bath splendor in her deluxe sunken tub overlooking the rolling hills outside her bay window; the artist’s father and stepmother regard one another warily and wearily over breakfast, seated in plush bathrobes in their wellappointed, modern kitchen, an assortment of meds on their respective table mats; and then there’s my favorite: a trophy room filled wall-to-wall with the stuffed bodies and decapitated heads of approximately 35 former members of the wild kingdom shot dead on safari by the man of the house; the great white hunter, however, is notably absent from the photograph. From the looks of it, if this carnage keeps up, he’ll need a larger mausoleum to accommodate his menagerie very soon. Dorothy, you’re not in Berkeley anymore. Meanwhile the children and teenagers look sullen or bored. One boy lies on his bed reading, hooked up to his iPod in a sleek all-white room, while his sister, a limber young gymnast, strikes an extreme pose. In another image, Shayla, standing in a pretty blue dress in her backyard, glares at the camera (an attitude the young girl chose, according to the artist), looking like a demon child with evil on the mind but no such

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“Samantha” (2010), large-scale color photograph by Beth Yarnelle Edwards.

luck. The eerie and unexplained don’t live in this neighborhood. A technically proficient, awardwinning photographer whose work has been published in The New Yorker and Harper’s, and inspired to some extent by the documentary tradition of August Sander, Edwards used to be a suburban housewife, a cultural insider who spent 30 years nestled in this very corner of Northern California. Many of the subjects of her pictures are acquaintances and friends, but if she has inside information about them she doesn’t share it in these photographs. She eventually grew restless, and in 2004, moved to San Francisco, where she now lives; that shift and its implications might have been the more interesting story she had to tell. Edwards says she’s exploring the realm of genre painting – the dour

view? You want her to sharpen the wit, to risk going farther or deeper with her scenarios, to be more daring, imaginative and adventurous, to not be as confined by the limits of the plausible realities she set out for herself and her subjects, who, theoretically, are acting out versions of their lives in front of her camera. Only one of those photographed registered a complaint about the results; therein lays a clue to the problem. (Through June 30.)t

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(chamber masterworks), Feb 6 guitar repertory)violin, piano works by Elgar, Enescu). 50 Oak St. at Van Ness Ave. 503-6275. www.sfcm.edu

Kodo at Zellerbach Hall. See Sun 3.

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Leela James. See Fri 1.

Dear Harvey @ New Conservatory Theatre Patricia Loughrey’s play recounts the life of the groundbreaking gay activist and politician, based on dozens of interviews of friends and those inspired by Harvey Milk; with music by Thomas Hodges. $18-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 24. 25 Van Ness Ave at Market, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Feed the People @ Marlena’s Imperial Court candidate Danielle hosts a fundraiser for St. Aiden’s Food Pantry. 7pm. 488 Hayes St. marlenasbarsf.com

Film Noir Festival @ Castro Theatre

Heartbeat by Jim Provenzano

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eople who are passionate about their art – and this week, their football – come together in a few unique events, plus others that celebrate the rhythm of life. Celebrate devotion, heartache, passion and music, even with a giant cockroach.

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Canvases and Musicals @ Oddball Films

4000 Miles @ American Conservatory Theatre

Art in Motion, short films about Picasso, 60s art, Calder and more. Feb 1, musical short films from vintage to 70s camp. Each $10, 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

A.C.T. presents Amy Herzog’s Obie Awardwinning comic drama about growing up and growing old; when a 19-year-old visits his grandmother after a cross-country cycling trip, political and personal sparks fly. $30-$125. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 10. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Nocha The weekly LGBT and indie comic stand-up night. This week, SF Sketchfest at Comedy Bodega featuring Casey Ley, Amy Miller, Jason Downs, Lydia Popvich, Justin Lucas and Shanti Charan. 8pm-9:30pm. 3079 16th St. at Mission. comedybodega.com

Faith Encounters Gayness @ Jewish Community Library Perspective on the U.S. and Israel, a talk with Rabbi Steve Greenberg, author of Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition, and co-director of Eshel, an LGBT orthodox Jewish organization; also, a screening of the short film V’Ahavta (And Thou Shalt Love). Free. 7pm. 1835 Ellis St. www.awiderbridge.org

Gerard Nicosia @ SF Public Library Beat historian Gerald Nicosia discusses his book One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road, which tells the story of a young girl who knew Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and how she inspired their travels.
6:30pm. Main Library, Lower Level, Latino-Hispanic Community Meeting Room, 100 Larkin St. at Grove. sfpl.org

Queer Dharma @ San Francisco Zen Center Monthly Zen Buddhist meditation and discussion group offered by and for members of the LGBTIQ community; Feb speaker is David Zimmerman. Everyone is welcome. 1pm-3pm. 300 Page St. www.sfzc.org

Scott Capurro @ Café DuNord The gay comic with a twisted wit performs his new show, Sad Fucking Queer. $16. 21+. 8pm. 2160 Market St. 861-5016. www.cafedunord.com

Sketchfest Nightlife @ Cal. Academy of Sciences SF Sketchfest invades the weekly science and nature museum’s party, with comics Chris Hardwick, Tig Notaro, Greg Proops, Brent Weinbach, Will Franken and others; plus food, cocktails and DJed dancing. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP @ GLBT History Museum Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman’s documentary about the New York City birth of the AIDS activist movement, with fascinating footage of its pivotal protests, commentary by surviving veterans. $5 (free for members). 7pm-9pm. 4127 18th St. at Castro. 621-1107. glbthistory.org Also, Jan 31, Visual Aid presents an informal talk with Hubbard, 1pm at FilmHouse, 1426 Fillmore St. Feb 1, a reception (6:15) and screening (7pm) at SF Art Insititute, 800 Chestnut St. is also free. www.visualaid.org

Waiting for Godot @ Marin Theatre Company The classic Samuel Beckett absurdist comic drama about two men who wait for Godot, with a few strange passersby. $15-$57. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed 7:30. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 17. 397 Miller Ave. Mill Valley. 388-5208. www.marintheatre.org

Fri 1 Hot Draw. See Thu 31.

Hot Draw @ Mark I. Chester Studio Sketch group for gay male artists, with a male model(s) who share some sexy poses. Donations.6:30-9:30pm. RSVP day-of: 621-6294. 1229 Folsom St. www.markichester.com/hotdraw

11th annual Noir City Festival, with dozens of classic, obscure and noir-y films screened, includng Gun Crazy and Sunset Boulevard. Various prices from single tickets ($12) to a full pass ($120). Thru Feb 3. 429 Castro St. www.noircity.com

First Fridays @ Oakland Galleries Monthly street festival and art gallery party, with thousands of people, food trucks, outdoor DJ booths and more. 5pm10pm. Downtown area. www.oaklandfirstfridays.org

Jesse Hewitt, Laura Arrington @ CounterPulse Collaborative evening of dance-theatre. $10-$20. Fri-Sun 8pm. 1310 Mission St. www.coutnerpulse.org

Keiko Matsui @ Live at The Rrazz The smooth New Age/jazz keyboardist performs with her band. $40-$45. 7pm & 9:30pm. Also Feb 2. 1000 Van Ness Ave. (800) 380-3095. www.liveattherrazz.com

Leela James @ Yoshi’s "In the Spirit of Etta," a concert of blues classics made popular by the late Etta James, and sung by the amazing vocalist. $25-$30. 8pm & 10pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Local Vocals @ Progressive Grounds Café Brian Vouglas hosts the bimonthly open mic series (1st & 3rd Fridays. Sign-ups 6:30pm. Show 7pm-9pm. 2301 Bryant St. at 21st. www.progressivegrounds.com

Migrating Archives @ GLBT History Museum Opening reception for a new exhibit, Migrating Archives: LGBT Delegates From Other Collections, featuring historical items from nearly a dozen countries and archives, each showcasing an archive of prominent LGBT person. $3-$5. Reception 6pm-8pm. Reg hours Mon & Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistorymuseum.org

Se Llama Cristina @ Magic Theatre Octavio Solis’ drama, a multi-layered fever dream where a young man and woman wake up in a strange room, and must piece together their past identities and relationship while constructing a new future and grappling with the possibility of being parents. $20-$55. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2:30pm. Tue 7pm. Thru Feb 17. Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D, 3rd floor. 441-8822. www.magictheatre.org

Our Practical Heaven @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Anthony Clarvie’s drama about a family facing the decline of their beach home, and the changing nature of generations, family and gender roles. $35-$60. Tue 7pm. WedSat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. 20181 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Princess Ida @ YBCA Lamplighters’ production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s delightful tale of cross-dressing princes and the feminists who love them. $15-$59. 8pm. Also Feb 2, 2pm & 8pm. Feb 3, 2pm. Lam Research Theater, 700 Howard St at 3rd. 978-2787. www.lamplighters.org

Shared Space Six @ Dance Mission Theatre Sixth annual shared concert of new and repertory dance works by Todd Eckert and Nol Simonse, including a new collaborative work, and Simonse's "very gay" Kafka Sex Party, with human-sized cockroaches and nearly nake male dancers. $20. Fri & Sat 8pm Sun 7pm. Thru Feb 3. 3316 24th St. 273-4633. www.sharedspacesf.org

Sat 2 Acid Test @ The Berkeley Marsh Warren David Keith performs Lynne Kaufman’s solo show Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass, a biographical look at a spiritual contemporary of Timothy Leary. $15-$50. Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Feb 17. 2120 Allston Way at Shattuck. 2823055. www.themarsh.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Black Swan @ MOAD The Jetta Martin Dance Company performs a balletic study in classical dance and the dearth of black ballerinas. Free with admission (free-$10). 2pm-4pm. 385 Mission St. 318-7200. www.moadsf.org

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Buriel Clay Theatre African-American Shakespeare Company performs Tennessee Williams’ classic play of an injured drunk Southern heir and his feisty wife, trapped in a mansion for the birthday celebration of the family patriarch. $10-$35. Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Feb 17. 762 Fulton St at Webster. (800) 8383006. www.african-americanshakes.org

Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws: Gay San Francisco @ SF Public Library Thomas Alleman’s exhibit of fascinating new large-print photos from San Francisco’s mid-1980s gay community, from the onslaught of AIDS to nightlife and arts celebrations. Exhibit thru Feb 10. Jewitt Gallery, lower level, 100 Larkin St. at Grove. www.allemanphoto.com sfpl.org

Grand Opening @ Tomboy Tailors Enjoy champagne and hors d’oeuvres at the opening of the new made-to-measure fine clothing store for transmen and butch women. 2pm-6pm. Crocker Galleria, first level, 50 Post St. www.tomboytailors.com

Waiting for Godot. See Thu 31.

Anything Goes @ Golden Gate Theatre The three Tony Award-winning revival of the classic nautical musical comedy, with songs by Cole Porter, stars Rachel York and a lively cast. $60-$200. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 3. 1 Taylor St. at Market. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com

The Hard Frenchies head south for wintry oceanside fun in the ballroom of the boardwalk nightclub. 400 Beach St. (831) 423-2053. www.hardfrench.com www.cocoanutgrovesantacruz.com

The Motherf**ker With the Hat @ SF Playhouse Gabe Marin and Carl Lumbly costar in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ verbal cage match about love, fidelity and misplaced haberdashery. $30-$100. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. Thru Mar 16. 450 Post St., 2nd floor. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Navigating Queer Pacific Waves @ Galeria de la Raza Group exhibit of new works in various media by Jean Melesaine, Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Jorge Manuel Gonzales, Joy Enomoto, and collaborating artists who focus on their Pacific Islander roots and explore colonialism and LGBT oppression. Exhibit thru March 2. Tue-Sat 12pm-6pm. 2857 24th St. at Bryant. 826-8009. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Radical Acoustic @ Progressive Grounds Tommi Avicolli Mecca hosts an acoustic music night, with Diana Hartman, Alison Wright and Leisa Thorton, Martin Cami, Jami Sanbonmatsu, Marcus Duskin, John Radagno, and more; first Saturdays, 4pm-6pm. 2301 Bryant St. www.14blackpoppies.com

SF Hiking Club @ Mt. Tam Join GLBT hikers for a 9-mile hike on Mt. Tam. This hike starts out strenuous and steep for the first mile up beautiful Colier Springs Trail, but then goes into moderate downhill trails along streams and forests to Bon Tempe Lake, one of the prettiest lakes in the Bay Area. Carpool meets 9am at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. (510) 985-0804. www.sfhiking.com

SoMa Country @ Beatbox Sundance Saloon’s South of Market event (temporarily moved from 3rd Saturdays), with two-stepping, line-dancing lessons for beginners, and friendly regulars. Cowboy gear not required, but boots or smooth-heeled shoes recommended. Free admission. 6pm-10pm. 314 11th St. www.sundancesaloon.org

Troublemaker @ Berkeley Rep Berkeley Repertory’s production of Dan LeFranc’s commissioned Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright, about a teenager who sees himself as a protective superhero. $29-$77. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 3. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2917. www.berkeleyrep.org

Two-Spirit Powwow @ First Congregational Church Hall, Oakland Second annual Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS), a gathering of queer and questioning American Indians from the Bay Area and around the United States and Canada; vendor booths, traditional Native foods, dance competitions, and lots of community spirit. The event is free and open to the public. 12pm5pm. 2501Harrison St., Oakland. www.baaits.org

Viva Las Vegas @ City Hall Rotunda, Hayward Splashy Vegas-themed benefit gala for the The Lighthouse, the East Bay LGBT community center; live entertainment, gourmet food, no-host bar, games and gmabling, cash raffles, 21+. $25. 6pm-10:30pm. 777 B St. Hayward. lgbtlighthousehayward.org

The Wild Bride @ Berkeley Rep

Classical Recitals @ SF Conservatory of Music Instrumental and vocal concerts by students and faculty. Free-$20. Feb 1, Solo Suites of J.S. Bach. 8pm. Other programs Feb 4 (Mendessohn & Brahms), Feb 5

Hard French Winter Ball @ Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz

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Return engagement of the hit play, a ‘fairy tale for adults’ about a young woman’s adventures, with visually striking storytelling, humor and music. $35-$89. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm; Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 17. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison st., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

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Shared Space Six. See Fri 1.

The News @ SOMArts Cultural Center One-year anniversary of the queer monthly arts event, with installations by fine artists and performances curated by creator and host With Love and a special guest-host, Peter Max Lawrence. The evening includes a mix of dance, music, spoken word and theater performances by Peter Griggs, Aurora Switchblade, Lambert, Erin Malley, Michelle L. Morby, Xavier MTW, Monica Peck, Grace Pool, and Mica Sigourney. $5. 7:30-9pm. 934 Brannan St. www.somarts.org

Wed 6 Margo Moritz

Sun 3 Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni's Season Four of the popular singing contest opens with the Best Comedic competition; guest judge Lisa Geduldig, and guest sing Darlene Popovic. Contestants bring sheet music for two songs. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. www.martunis.ypguides.net

Create, Restore, Build @ Redwood Regional Park Samavesha’s Art in Nature, Nature in Art festival includes a workshop in the woods. Join in to make ephemeral art with nature, plant natives under the redwoods, and secure the path borders. Free 1pm-4pm. RSVP: required. Shuttle bus and parking at 12500 Campus drive, Merritt College, Oakland. www.eventbrite.com

David Mills @ Stage Werx Comic with a dry wit performs his stand-up act. $12 cash. 8pm. 446 Valencia St at 16th. (also Feb 5 at the PunchLine, with Scott Capurro). www.itsdavidmills.com

Girl With a Pearl Earring @ de Young Museum Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis, a new touring exhibit of Dutch Masters paintings, drawing and etchings; thru June 2. Also, Rudolf Nureyev: A Life in Dance, an exhibit of costumes, photos, videos and ephemera documenting the amazing dancing and choreography of the world-famous gay dancer; thru Feb 17. Also, Eye Level in Iraq: Photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson ; thru June 16. $10-$20. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Kodo @ Zellerbach Hall World-acclaimed Japanese drumming and music/dance ensemble returns along their One Earth tour to perform their new work, Legend. $22-$58. 7pm. Bancroft Way at Telegraph, UC Berkeley campus. (510) 642-9988. www.calperformances.org

Outlook Video @ Channel 29 LGBT cable news show; this month, Melanie Nathan on the “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda, pastor Tony Roberts, Chick-fil-A protests, and the Rainbow World Fund Tree of Hope. 5pm. Also streaming online and repeated at different times/stations. www.outlookvideo.org

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Super Bowl XLVII: Men in Tights @ Roxie Cinema SF Indie Fest’s third annual hilarious viewing of the football finale, with completely ridiculous commentary by local comics. Part of the SF Indie Fest movie festival. Yes, beer for sale. Donations. 3pm. 3117 16th St. www.sfindie.com

Super Bowl Benefit @ Dance Palace, Point Reyes Enjoy a big-screen showing of the finale football games between the Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers at the scenic arts center. Proceeds fund an orange oil treatment to prevent the termite attack on the Main Hall. $5-$15. 3pm. 503 B St., Point Reyes Station. 663-1075. www.dancepalace.org

Tommy Reardon @ Live at the Rrazz What’s Love Got to do With It?, a Valentine evening with the musical theatre star. $25. 8pm. 1000 Van Ness Ave. (800) 380-3095. www.liveattherrazz.com

A Doll's House @ Hastings Studio Theater American Conservatory Theatre MFA student production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama (Feb 6-15), in repertory with Molier’s farce, Tartuffe (Feb 12-16). $20 two-show deal. Variuous nights, 7:30pm. 77 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Love on Wheels @ Public Works SF Bicycle Coalition's annual Valentine's party and fundraiser, with auctions, beer, and fun events like The Dating Game – esque pair-up show for gay, straight and lesbian singles. $5-$10. 21+. 6pm-9pm. 161 Erie St. www.sfbike.org/love

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The Hendrix of the Sahara, the Mali musician, performs his unique tribal-blues music. $25. 7pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

New seasonal exhibit of colorful floral displays. Thru March. Also, beautiful floral drawing exhibit of watercolor works by Ernest Clayton. Thru April. $2-$15. 9am7pm. 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park. 661-1316. www.sfbotanicalgarden.org

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Monday Musicals @ The Edge The renovated bar now shows fun musicals each week, with Broadway touring performers stopping by to sing, too! This month, cast members from Wicked. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Anthony Rizzi @ Kunst Stoff An attempt to fail at groundbreaking theater with Pina Arcade Smith, the former Pina Bausch dancer’s eccentric re-interpretation of the famed German choerographer’s work, in self-referencing, skewed performance art drag style. $15. 8:30pm. Also Feb 8 & 9. 1 Grove St. 7770172. www.kunst-stoff.org

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm-1:30am. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s talk show about LGBT people and issues. This week, Perry chats with Noah Miller, founder of OutLoud Radio, which focuses on LGBT youth. Perry speaks with Allen Sawyer, director of Dear Harvey, a new play about the slain gay rights leader. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm. Sat & Sun 10:30pm. comcasthometown.com

Tue 5 3 Men & a Baby…Grand @ Live at the Rrazz Brian Lane Green, Lee Lessack and John Boswell perform three-part harmonies of broadway and jazz classics. $35. 8pm. Also Feb 6. 1000 Van Ness Ave. (800) 3803095. www.liveattherrazz.com

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th.431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Separating with Hearts and Smarts @ Bananas, Oakland What particular issues do LGBTQ families face during the major life shifts of separation or divorce? This workshop is appropriate for people with or without kids who are in any stage of separation, as well as the friends, family and professionals supporting families; with lawyer-mediators Heba Nimr, Charles Spiegel and Dylan Miles. $5. 6pm-8pm. 5232 Claremont Ave., Oakland. www.ourfamily.org

Two-Spirit Powwow. See Sat 2.

Anthony Rizzi. See Thu 7.

Cuba Gooding and The Main Ingredient @ Live at the Rrazz R&B trio performs their classic hits and other soul tunes. $35-$40. 8pm. Thru Feb 9 (7pm & 9:30pm). 1000 Van Ness Ave. (800) 380-3095. www.liveattherrazz.com

It’s De-Lovely @ Palace Hotel Gala fundraiser for 42nd Street Moon’s 20-year anniversary season of restaging vintage musicals; cocktails, dinner, silent and live auctions, and performances by Tony-winning Broadway performers Sutton Foster, Klea Blackhurst and Michael Maguire. Valentine’s “Anything Goes” retro attire with a touch of red encouraged. $375-$750. 6pm. 2 Montgomery St. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org

Quinn DeVeaux @ Yoshi’s Oakland Jazz guitarist performs gospel-rock-fused original music and innovative covers. $23. 8pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Year of the Snake Nightlife @ Cal. Academy of Sciences Snake-themed exhibits, entertainment, demos and dancing; guest lectures, special themed events, science art exhibits, plus food, cocktails and DJed dancing. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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ballet companies abroad. SFB has grown into an internationally important troupe celebrated in London, Paris, Moscow. The new ballets SFB has shown there have sold out the houses and have shown what I’d have to call our values – a high-spirited, good-hearted, multiculturalist, gay-friendly, highly-skilled, casually sophisticated culture, and a beacon to young people who’d like to make a good life for themselves. SFB’s intriguing galas are like no others: what’s usually a parade of brilliant bravura items, the “hit tunes” of the rep, here is a sampler of every mood, style, and epoch that suggests the full range the art can express. Nowhere else would you see the broken-hearted solo from L’Arlesienne that ends in the hero’s leap to his death – danced with great feeling and restraint by Pierre-Francois Villanoba – which came up second on the program. The gala had begun happily, with Balanchine’s sunny Tarantella (1964, to Gottschalk). The dancers, Sasha de Sola and Pascal Molat, had characterized their roles in great detail; he had the charming manners of a plausible Italian working guy whose way of flirting with his girl mixes a little swagger with a wry sense of humor. In case you missed the point, another duet followed in a completely different style, The Flower-Festival at Genzano (Auguste Bournonville, 1858), showing Danish young love with lightness, clarity, delicacy, and charm, danced by Gennadi Nedvigin and the exquisite Clara Blanco. He threw off an unbelievably quiet pirouette, the most beautiful I’ve seen in a long time, turning five or six times, and then subsiding into place with casual ease.

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tion. What will her boyfriend do? With Milburn Stone, later Doc on TV’s Gunsmoke. Charles Barton directed. Not on DVD. Marsha Hunt is stylish Mary Ryan, Detective (49). She infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves in this fast-paced B. Originally intended to be a series, but the idea was aborted when Hunt was accused of being a communist during the dark days of Hollywood’s Red Scare. Abby Berlin directed. Not on DVD. Before becoming a respected director of A pictures, Anthony Mann ap-

From one of the oldest ballets still in the rep, we went into a brand new one, for two contemporary couples, made for them by the very gifted SFB corps dancer Myles Thatcher and set to music by Wojceich Kilar. Dana Genshaft was especially telling in the abstract, slightly spiky piece. Somehow we knew exactly how she felt about Joan Boada, which was emotionally complex but not at all overwrought. For the first night back, not all the stars were shining their brightest, though most were. Frances Chung was magnificent in the Wedding Pas de Deux from Don Quixote. It was danced with unusual finesse and clarity in the moments of stillness. Chung has become a subtle, musical wonder who knows when to stop and when to go, and when she’s still, she’s achieved a sculptural majesty that will sustain all the attention you can give. She was coached for this by Felipe Diaz, a former SFB dancer who’s returned as ballet master, and much of the credit must go to him – for these are poses with the eyes downcast, where the ballerina could not use the mirror to correct herself. Other highlights were the duet from After the Rain, and the two dark Romantic dances from Tomasson’s Trio (Sarah van Patten, Tiit Helimets, Vito Mazzeo) and Onegin (Maria Kochetkova and Vitor Luiz). In the first, a deathlike figure comes between the lovers and deftly extricates her from him in a series of increasingly authoritative separations; the joinery of the partnering is very fine, and van Patten makes the human loss a tremendous thing. Onegin’s pas de deux is a translation into dance terms of one of the greatest scenes in Romantic literature – the night Tatiana poured out her hopes and fears in a letter to Onegin in Pushkin’s great Byronic poem. Cho-

reographer John Cranko turned this into a scene in which Onegin steps through the mirror into Tatiana’s bedroom, almost like a vampire feeding on her longings, and as he lifts her into ever-more astonishing trajectories up onto his shoulders and sweeps her back down to kneel on the ground, created a new 1960s swooning, sexualized romantic style that has not got old. SFB will perform the complete ballet in March. Also in the house was Ashley Wheater, a former star here, who’s now Artistic Director of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, who just happened to be performing the same weekend across the Bay in Berkeley at Zellerbach Hall, where they filled the house to capacity with a mixed bill that included the complete version of Christopher Wheeldon’s After the Rain, set to austere mystical music by Arvo Pärt. SFB’s Damian Smith gave his ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan more subtle and reliable support than the Joffrey couple mustered, so the SFB pair achieved a greater trust and intimacy. The great thing about the Joffrey’s program was their powerful dancing of the great 1932 anti-war ballet The Green Table. Kurt Jooss, its choreographer, was a German Expressionist who had to flee the Nazis because his dances told it like it was. The ironic “Dance of the Diplomats” with which this ballet begins and ends has not lost one iota of its power. The ballet is an allegory of great political and economic forces – Imperialism, Inflation, Death. Thirty years ago, the Joffrey Ballet used to perform here every year for two weeks; it’s been 10 years since they were here last. It’s great to see them dancing so well, and bringing such a great ballet, to remind us how universal a language this is, and how deeply it can move us.t

prenticed with programmers, none as bizarre as Strange Impersonation (46). It’s about plastic surgery, newly developed anesthesia, an ambulancechasing woman, and identity changes. With beautiful Brenda Marshall (then married to William Holden), silent screen star H.B. Warner, and B picture veteran Lyle Talbot. Robert Siodmark (The Killers, 46), shows a lighter touch in Fly By Night (42), a comedy/chase yarn with Richard Carlson, a murder suspect, fleeing with his alibi, artist Nancy Kelly (Rhoda’s mother in The Bad Seed). Not on DVD. (Sun., Feb. 3, matinee) In Night Editor (1946), a mar-

ried cop and his girlfriend are having a good time in a car on Lover’s Lane. Their fun is interrupted when they witness a vicious murder. He’s torn between duty and shame; she’s turned on. How will he solve the crime without revealing the truth? With William Gargan and Janis Carter. Directed by Henry Levin. Brave editor Lee Tracy hires a private eye (Don Castle) to protect him from gangsters he’s been investigating. Then the two are in a car accident, seemingly trapped by the High Tide (46). Directed by John Reinhardt. Neither film is on DVD. (Sun., Feb. 3, evening)t

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48, Babylon by the Bay, Sat., Feb. 23, at Galleria Design Center, when Reigning Emperor Bradley Roberts and Reigning Empress Sissy St. Clair step down amid fanfare and pageantry, and the newly elected Emperor and Empress are announced and crowned. This ceremony has continued for 48 years, and the Imperial Court continues to serve the community, raise money for countless charitable organizations, develop leadership, and provide fun activities and events for all. Make plans now to vote on Sat., Feb. 16, and to attend Coronation the following Saturday! Finally, we join San Francisco,

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ichmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation scored another great success with One Night Only at the Pier 39 Theatre with members of the cast of Anything Goes, currently playing at the Golden Gate Theatre. Stars, supporting actors, and even technical support professionals from the show were showcased in musical numbers, dance extravaganzas, magic acts, and a remarkable demonstration of martial arts. Erich Bergen, seen here recently on stage in Jersey Boys, proved an amiable and amusing emcee. Special guests LaToya London, Lindsay Pearce, Tim Hockenberry, and Jason Brock gave this entertaining evening extra punch. Afterwards, VIP patrons, including Larry Horowitz, Milton Mosk & Tom Foutch, Raghu Shivaram & Beth Schnitzer, Ron Buckhammer & Carol Batte, Joel Goodrich, Vincent Calvarese, and Tommy Taylor, headed downstairs to a reception with the cast at Hard Rock Café. Watch for other REAF

benefits coming up with the cast of Jersey Boys on March 25, and with various Bay Area dance companies on April 28. Ruby Skye, the incomparable setting for many high-energy dance events, created a very different environment last Wednesday for Beauty for Books, a benefit for childhood literacy supported by Dr. Corey Maas of Maas Clinic and others in the beauty industry. After dropping off a dozen new and gently used books at the reception desk, we joined our host John Rosin wandering through informational booths, sipping champagne, and sampling hors d’oeuvres. Immediately afterwards, we headed to the LGBT Community Center for Leather Discussion Group’s monthly meeting, featuring speakers Larry Shockey and Race Bannon. After receiving an eye-opening introduction to leather play parties, we enjoyed the celebratory send-off for Race to Atlanta’s Creating Change conference, where the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force presents its Leather Leadership Award to

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Diego. Sean Fine and Andrea Nix allow a 15-year-old American-born visual artist to explain why she’s left her undocumented Mexican birth-family. After her brutal, alcoholic dad is deported following the umpteenth incident of domestic violence, Inocente, her brothers and her janitor mom become functional nomads. Her painting skills – the color schemes of the great Mexican muralists combined with the graphic wit of a graffiti artist – earn her a place in a school for artistically gifted kids. Torn by a fear of ostra-

cism from her wealthy classmates and unable to bridge the emotional gap with her depressed mom, Inocente is a poster child for Obama’s evolving immigration policies. Animation: Paperman My choice in this category is this simple love story from Disney artist John Kahrs that derives its oomph from shunning anything hip or ironic. In seven minutes we zoom back to a B&W, Gotham, mid-1950s world. On an elevated subway platform, a skinny-boy office worker loses his heart to Betty Boop. She gives him the slip, but cartoon fate offers a second shot when she appears, a paper-airplane flight away, in the

him. His supporters and admirers are many! Among those speaking that night were Patrick Mulcahey, Audrey Joseph, Lenny Broberg, Joe Gallagher, Julian Marshburn, Anna Damiani, and Demetri Moshoyannis. What a fitting tribute to an incredible man! Thursday night, Academy of Friends held a pre-party at Bubble Lounge, where they released details about their annual Oscar Awards gala, this year on Sun., Feb. 24, at Terra Gallery. If the bustling attendance at this party is any indication, this year’s gala, themed Boas, Bowties & Bubbly, will be over-the-top! We loved their new idea of nominating individuals to win two free tickets to the gala. Their names are then drawn at different events, enabling some who might otherwise be intimidated by the price of attending. On Fri., the City of San Francisco paid tribute to Marian Brown on her birthday at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Hosts Jennifer Bergeron and Harry Denton pulled this event together within 48 hours, and by virtue of Facebook and other means, over 300 friends and three television stations gathered to shower Marian with love. We were proud to serve as emcee and led the crowd in a hearty rendition of “Happy Birthday.” Connie Champagne was also on hand for a musical tribute. We know that this special celebration meant a great deal to Marian, having recently lost her twin sister Vivian Brown. Thank you to all who heeded the last-minute invitation. And on Sunday, the official candidates for Emperor & Empress of San Francisco were presented at Encore bar on California St. A festive crowd gathered to see and hear from Drew Cutler, candidate for Emperor, and Patty McGroin and Danielle Logan, candidates for Empress. This is just the beginning, as they now spread out all over the city to gather supporters and garner support. It all culminates in Imperial Coronation

next tower. Head Over Heels Walter’s living on the floor while Madge’s domain is the ceiling. An attempt to meet each other halfway results in a crash landing for their country cottage. Timothy Reckart’s elves depict the surroundings of their claymation couple in such loving detail that we hope Walter and Madge will both get their feet back on the ground. Adam & Dog Minkyu Lee’s beautiful, mural-like canvas posits a myth about the origins of humankind’s obsessive ties to its canine companions. Fresh Guacamole PES keeps our attention-deficit DNA at bay while his cartoon knife slices and dices.t

Hayes Valley, and so much of the LGBT community in saluting the long history of Marlena’s bar, recently sold to new owners and scheduled to close for remodeling and repurposing at the end of February. Few businesses have been as generous, welcoming, and lively. We also regret the end of the long-running Hayes Valley Follies drag show, led by Galilea, which has brought smiles of appreciation to so many for so long. We hope to see these talented performers continue to find audiences and supporters elsewhere in the city, and we anxiously await the new bar to occupy this iconic location.t

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want to go to heaven on this music,” Arthur Rubinstein memorably commented in a documentary on his life, over the transcendent strains of the Adagio of Schubert’s String Quintet. The look on the great pianist’s face said he was halfway there. He was hardly alone in considering the movement, and the Quintet in toto, a product of the most likely gay Schubert’s astonishing last year, one of the supreme achievements in music. Two new recordings, by the Takacs Quartet (Hyperion, with cellist Ralph Kirshbaum) and the Arcanto Quartett (Harmonia Mundi, with Olivier Marron), bear the latest witness. There’s a dizzying number of exemplary string quartets playing these days – in these belt-tightening times, how do they all feed themselves? – including an even more surprising number of new ones. That said, the Takacs Quartet, whose only musical sin is having stolen violist Geraldine Walther from the SF Symphony, holds its place at the top of my list. Its new (and second) recording of the Quintet is disappointing only because it is perfection – with all the consequences that attend. Theirs is hardly a cautious performance. One of the great things about the Takacs is how far forward in their chairs they sit, metaphorically speaking, and their new Quin-

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decade before AIDS. The premise behind James Franco and Travis Mathews’ experimental narrative is to dramatize sex scenes they believe were deleted from Cruising. Halley Mexican visual artist Sebastian Hofmann provides a stark new definition for the term “gym rat” with this surreal fable about a self-conscious security guard, suffering from a rare wasting disease, who envies the beautiful bodies surrounding him at work. Beto attempts to stave off his own physical decay by injecting himself with embalming fluid. Crystal Fairy Sebastian Silva (The Maid) reboots the career of comic actor Michael Cera as Jamie, a self-absorbed North American kid whose Chilean road trip is complicated by drugs and a female free spirit. Magic Magic Silva goes for a second bite of the apple with Cera, this time as a traveler whose girlfriend (Juno Temple) is suffering a severe bout of insomnia. Prince Avalanche Two of our favorite bromance guys, Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch, are featured in this David Gordon Green-directed drama about two fellows who spend a summer doing hard physical labor and growing suspiciously closer to each other. Milkshake Tyler Ross fronts a provocative drama about the slippery slope of adolescent identity in David Andalman and Mariko Munro’s film, playing the great-great grandson of Al Jolson. Making his school’s basketball

tet is as alert, tight in ensemble, and refined as you could ask. The musicmaking is as lofty as the mountain peak in the Marcus Pernhart painting on the CD’s cover, and nearly as remote. In place of the work’s “emotional ambiguity,” in the words of the accompanying notes, there’s a hint of coolness and reserve, unusual for these players, that blunts the overall effect. The comparative fire of their performance of the Quartettsatz, D 703, which fills out the disc, could be taken as an indication that the interpretive restraint has to do with accommodating a second cellist. Kirschbaum, however, is audibly not a problem, but, atypically for Hyperion, the engineering is. There’s just no getting into the room with this Quintet. There’s no staying out of it with the Arcanto Quartett’s. You can practically hear the sound of resin from the bows falling from string onto varnished wood in a performance that sits you down and dares you to leave or stay. The work, one of the unquestioned high-water marks of chamber music, has sometimes been recorded by five musicians better known as instrumental soloists. That’s what’s going on with the Arcanto, in case its name didn’t ring bells. Here second cellist Marron joins violinists Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec, violist Tabea Zimmerman, and cellist Jean-Guihen Quey-

ras not so much as equals but as fellow inspirators. The players’ emotional engagement with the piece is clear from the start, leaving them free to ride more than drive it. Balances of all kinds feel intuitively right, unforced, and natural. The music-making is deeply historically informed – the portamenti are breath-catching – but at the farthest remove from didactic. Compared with the Takacs’ thoroughly modern Schubert, it’s fluid in musical time, looking back over its shoulder while gazing into a speculative, inscrutable future. Any performance of the Quintet rises or falls on the quality of its second-movement Adagio, the music playing behind Rubinstein’s eye-watering remark. The Arcanto perfectly captures its yearning without lapsing into a sentimental wallow. The interruption of the central section’s stabbing, bass-driven agitation comes as an even stronger contrast than usual. The sonorities are pungent, and the rhythms more those of the body than of the mind. The miracle of the Quintet is that this light-suffused piece radiated from a place of one of Schubert’s deepest personal depressions. Few musicians have captured its chiaroscuro as magically as the Arcanto. Where their playing is at its most match-

team puts Jolie, in his mind at least, one step closer to the “down-low” edginess of serious gangsta status; with Shareeka Epps and Leo Fitzpatrick. The Spectacular Now Athens, GA’s James Ponsoldt trains his Southern storytelling on a denizen of boozy illusions. Sutter Kelly (Miles Teller) is drowning in a very small pond when he meets a young woman with ferocious dreams (Shailene Woodley). Adapting Tim Tarp’s novel, Ponsoldt aims to recreate the authenticity of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show. Before Midnight Buzz has it that the third date in this trilogy of films from Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater may be the best. Kink Director Christina Voros gets behind the scenes at SF’s Armory building to explore the business model of Kink.com, a producer of BDSM porn. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Directors Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin examine the background of the Moscow trial for the members of the female punk band Pussy Riot, for supposedly giving a blasphemous performance, “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” in a cathedral. Sound City Punk rock guru Dave Grohl creates a layered tribute to an old-fashioned San Fernando Valley recording studio. Grohl revives the history of rock gems recorded on Sound City’s unique console, and summons music royalty for one more jam: Stevie Nicks, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Rick Springfield and Sir Paul McCartney. No Gael Garcia Bernal heads a top Latin American cast in a tension-

packed drama detailing how an ad guy helped topple a dictatorship. Used to concocting slick TV ads for soft drinks, Rene Saavedra (Bernal) determines that the best way to unseat the thugs behind the Pinochet military junta is a campaign stressing that

less is in its warmth and, arrestingly at times, sweetness. The long accompanying notes by Xavier Hascher are also among the most t re n c h a n t and absorbing. Predictably, the Quintet has been much recorded and spawned any number of desert-island discs. It’s worth haunting the used-CD stores for the Sony Classics version with the nameless ensemble assembled around cellist Anner Byslma playing historical instruments from the collection of the Smithsonian, which, against reason, seems to be out of print. It’s been my personal favorite until

the Arcanto’s took its place. Schubert wrote so much music in his short life I don’t expect to hear all of it in my long one. Adventurous musicians are steadily pushing back the boundaries of what we know as “early” Schubert (as if, alas, there were “late”), though rarely as revealingly as the Cuarteto Casals in its imaginative pairing of the E-flat Major Quartet, D. 87, by the teenage Schubert, and the towering GMajor Quartet, D. 887, of his “maturity” (Harmonia Mundi). Again, there’s no music lesson here, just blistering, grab-you-by-the-ears music-making. In the Casals’ hands, that “early” quartet gets richer with every hearing.t

a “No” vote equals “happiness.” The Gatekeepers As Israelis vote for a new centrist coalition, a frank new doc exposes some harrowing moments in the West Bank occupation. Dror Moreh sat down with six men who have run Israel’s security

apparatus, the Shin Bet. Running from Crazy Barbara Kopple explores the mental instability plaguing generations of the fabled Hemingway clan, focusing on my favorite Hemingway: Mariel, from Woody Allen’s Manhattan.t

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You could win one of the following prizes just for voting for your favorite places, people and things to do in San Francisco and the Bay Area. • Early-Bird Drawing: ACADEMY OF FRIENDS GALA TICKETS:

Win a pair of tickets to the 2013 Academy of Friends Gala. (Winner to be chosen from qualified entries received on or before February 14th)

• Grand Prize: MAUI SUNSEEKER VACATION: Win a 5-night stay at Hawaii’s largest gay-owned and operated resort • Second Prize: SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: Two Tickets to the San Francisco Ballet’s Nite Out Performance of Cinderella • Third Prize: SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS HOME GAME & VIP PARKING: Two club level tickets behind home plate and VIP lot parking to a San Francisco Giant’s home game (date to be determined)

COMMUNITY Best LGBT Event _______________ Best LGBT Fundraiser _______________ Best LGBT Blog/Website _______________ Best LGBT Nonprofit _______________ Best LGBT Sports League _______________ RESTAURANTS Best Breakfast _______________ Best Brunch _______________ Best Lunch _______________ Best Dinner _______________ Best Dessert _______________ Best Outdoor Patio _______________ Best Restaurant with a View _____________ Best Late-Night Restaurant _____________ NIGHTLIFE Best Bar Food (place) _______________ Best Mixed Drink _______________ Best Place to Meet Men _______________ Best Place to Meet Women _____________ Best Place to Meet Transgender People _______________ Best Dance Floor _______________ Best Gay/Gay-Friendly Bar ______________ Best Bang for Your Buck Bar ____________ Best Neighborhood Bar _______________ Best Bar with a Patio _______________ Best Bar with a Pool Table ______________ Best Sports Bar _______________ Best Theme Night _______________

PEOPLE/CITY LIVING Best LGBT Activist _______________ Best LGBT Youth Activist (25 and under) _______________ Best Bartender (Individual) _____________ Best DJ _______________ Best Personal Trainer _______________ Best Resource for LGBT Seniors _______________ Best Photographer _______________ Best Local Politician _______________ Best Local Politician You Love to Hate _______________ Best Place to Pamper Your Pets _______________ Best Dentist _______________ Best Healthcare Provider _______________ Best Attorney _______________ Best Tax Preparer _______________ Best Day Spa _______________ Best Place to Get Your Hair Done _______________ Best Nail Salon _______________ Best Place for a First Date _______________ Best Place to Breakup _______________ SHOPPING/SEX/ROMANCE Best Jewelry _______________ Best Place to Buy Eyewear _______________ Best Bank _______________

You must answer at least 30 questions and submit to Bay Area Reporter, 395 9th St., San Francisco, CA 94103 by Wednesday, March 4, 2013 to qualify. Or go to https://www. surveymonkey.com/s/BAR2013 to submit online. Ballots will be accepted from January 31, 2013 to March 4, 2013. One ballot per person. Bay Area Reporter staff are not eligible for prize drawing. Prize winners and results of Best of the Gays will be published in our Anniversary Issue on April 4, 2013.

Best Bookstore _______________ Best Adult Store _______________ Best Bicycle Shop _______________ Best Clothing Store (Men) _____________ Best Clothing Store (Women) ____________ Best Vintage Clothing Store _____________ Best Shoe Store _______________ Best Place to Get Fit _______________ Best Place to Buy a Car _______________ Best Auto Mechanic _______________ Best Place to Buy Sex Toys _____________ Best Sex Club _______________ Best Cruising Spot _______________ Best Medical Marijuana Dispensary _______________ ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Best Drag Show _______________ Best Fair or Festival _______________ Best Live Music Venue _______________ Best Theater Group _______________ Best Movie Theater _______________ Best Museum _______________ Best Dance Company _______________ EAST BAY Best Politician _______________ Best Bar _______________ Best Restaurant _______________ Best Fair or Festival _______________ Best Reason to Cross the Bay Bridge _______________

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