Wild Side West's Wild Life

The Wild Side West story reads more like fiction than fact, a tale that includes flying toilets, rock star goddesses, beat poets, folk musicians, strippers and a band of merry pranksters that held the whole thing together.

by Kilian Melloy | Jan 31, 2014

Lady Rizo @ Feinstein's

The New York Times calls her "sensational." The Wall Street Journal calls her "high class." I call her breathtaking. She is Lady Rizo, and, according to Time Out London, "If you only see one cabaret show this year, see Lady Rizo."

by Kilian Melloy | Feb 2, 2014

The Paris Letter

A few thousand years ago, Socrates famously said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In "The Paris Letter," playwright Jon Robin Baitz creates a variation on this ancient wisdom.

by Kilian Melloy | Jan 30, 2014

Leslie Jordan Returns

The first woman in Leslie Jordan's life, his 78-year-old Southern Baptist mother from Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the inspiration for his latest one-man show "Fruit Fly," which he'll bring to Feinstein's on Fri., Jan. 31.

by Kilian Melloy | Jan 30, 2014

Out There :: Literary Adventures in the White City

Author Edmund White is the preeminent gay man of letters of our time. He also has an insatiable social appetite, as evidenced in his latest memoir, "Inside a Pearl - My Years In Paris."

by Kilian Melloy | Feb 1, 2014

Wonderful World of Elizabeth Murray

Everyday domestic objects, familial relationships and women's work that's never done receive anything but mundane treatment in "Her Story: Prints by Elizabeth Murray, 1986-2006," a new show now at the Cantor Arts Center.

by Kilian Melloy | Feb 2, 2014

Command Performance Kicks Off Ballet Season

Big-time dance kicked into high gear last Wednesday with the San Francisco Ballet's gala opening night, which sold out the house to the rafters, sold out every last ticket to the dinners beforehand and the dancing after-party too.

by Kilian Melloy | Feb 3, 2014

Ten Years Later, Newsom Reflects on '04 Marriages

Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recalls the excitement of Febraury, 2004, when city officials, defying state law, stood up for same-sex families.

by Kilian Melloy | Feb 1, 2014

Lesbian Leaders: Sexism A Bigger Problem

Three of Santa Clara County's leading lesbians said at a recent forum that sexism threatened to hold them back more than homophobia as they moved up the ladder in their respective careers.

by Kilian Melloy | Feb 1, 2014

Two Spirit Powwow Set for Saturday

Over 1,000 participants are expected at the Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits' third annual powwow this weekend, with drummers, dancers, and prominent movement leaders from across the country.

by Kilian Melloy | Jan 31, 2014


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