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by Seth Hemmelgarn

Several San Francisco-based nonprofits areseeking new leaders as the economic climateis leading to cuts in funding from govern-

ment and private sources.That would seem to make fundraising skills a

bigger draw for candidates than usual, but at-tracting donations is still just one of the assetsgroups want in new executive directors.

The leaders of Equality California, Academyof Friends, Lyon-Martin Health Services, and theSan Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Commit-tee have all announced their departures within thepast three months.

During this time, Neil Giuliano was hired as thenew CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.Giuliano, who started the job in December, hasnever led an HIV/AIDS-agency before. However,as the former president of the Gay and Lesbian Al-liance Against Defamation and as the formermayor of Tempe, Arizona, he brings a high profile,and his status should be a draw for donors.

SFAF, which has a budget of about $21.5 mil-lion, hasn’t been immune to the economic down-turn. Funds from individual contributions, cor-porations and foundations, and donated goodsand services totaled about $3.8 million for 2008,but approximately $3.2 million for 2010.

In addition, special events such as theAIDS/LifeCycle brought in just over $12 millionin 2008, but that decreased to about $9 million in2010. SFAF operates the LifeCycle with the Los An-geles Gay and Lesbian Center.

Asked whether such drops concerned him,Giuliano said, “I wouldn’t say so. I would say thewhole entire not-for-profit world has been chal-lenged in the time of the recession.” SFAF has“done much better than many organizations of itskind around the country,” he said.

Giuliano also said he didn’t think there was“any one particular piece” of his background andexperience that attracted the foundation, but said,“Honestly, that’s a question that only the peoplewho hired me could most appropriately answer.”

Dr. Lorna Thornton, SFAF’s board chair, saidGiuliano’s fundraising abilities are “an importantskill set, but certainly he was not hired solely oreven primarily for his fundraising skills.”

Thornton said that one of the major leader-

ship areas that was attractive about Giuliano wasthat he understood in the “hard economic times”people are facing, “there’s an increasing demandfor our services, and really, an increasing impera-tive” to work with public health officials, otherlocal AIDS service organizations, and additionalpolicy groups and advocates to determine how tomaintain services.

That includes trying to increase contributions.Thornton didn’t want to discuss specifics, butnoted 2011 marks the 10th year of theAIDS/LifeCycle, the 535-mile bicycle trek ThisJune also marks the 30th anniversary of the firstreported AIDS cases.

“There will be opportunities that Neil and thefoundation will look at to celebrate some of thegreat progress that’s been made in HIV care andprevention, but also to really, I think, bring to at-tention how much work still needs to be done,”said Thornton.

Other organizationsEquality California, the statewide LGBT lob-

bying group, is another high-profile organiza-

tion that’s going through transition at the top.In December, Geoff Kors, EQCA’s executive

director, announced that he’s stepping down ef-fective March 31.

Like other groups, EQCA’s had to face sometough financial developments. Contributions toEQCA recently declined – in part because ananonymous donor who contributed $500,000 in2009 was absent in 2010 – and EQCA closed sev-eral field offices after Election Day in November.

Kors, who’s been with EQCA for almost nineyears, has said he’s “ready to do some differentthings.”

Cary Davidson, an EQCA board memberwho’s term as the board’s president ended De-cember 31, said last month he wouldn’t want toquantify how much of the next executive direc-tor’s job fundraising would be, but he said, “Any-one who is likely to be selected as an executivedirector will have to have fundraising ability. It isone of the roles of an executive director, andwhile we have a development director and we

PalmSpringspolice chiefretiresby Ed Walsh

The firestorm that erupted in PalmSprings over the 2009 gay sexsting in the city’s gay Warm Sands

neighborhoodboiled overWednesday withthe news that Po-lice Chief DavidDominguez willretire.

In a statement,the chief wrote inpart: “After carefulconsideration ofthe recent debatessurrounding theWarm Sands lawenforcement oper-ation, I believe this decision is in the best in-terest of my family, my health, the depart-ment and the city.”

The city said it would begin looking fora new police chief immediately.

Openly gay Mayor Steve Pougnet, whountil now has remained largely silent on theissue, issued a statement Wednesday.

“I support the decision by the policechief to retire and agree that it is in the bestinterest of the city and the department – tobegin the healing process for the commu-nity. Yet, there remains much work to bedone.”

The latest flare-up over the sex stingcame last week after an inflammatory

Govsannouncegay, lesbianappointeesby Matthew S. Bajko

This weekGovernorJerry Brown

confirmed reportshe would nameJohn Laird, one ofthe first openlygay men to servein the state Legis-lature, as his sec-retary of the Nat-ural ResourcesAgency.

It was the firstin what is expected to be several high pro-file LGBT appointments by Brown, whotook his third oath of office as the state’stop official Monday, January 3.

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2011 ushersin LGBTleadershipchangesby Matthew S. Bajko

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Bay Area’s LGBT leader-ship ranks.

A unique set of cir-cumstances has com-bined to bring about anunusually large numberof new faces to high-ranking government po-sitions and heads ofcommunity organiza-tions. The departures ofa number of top execu-tives at LGBT nonprofits as well as the electionresults from last November are bringing to the

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California’s newest attorney general, Kamala Harris, right, takes the oath of office Mon-day, January 3 from state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye as her sis-

ter Maya Harris holds the Bible during a packed ceremony at the California Museum forHistory, Women and the Arts in Sacramento. Harris, San Francisco’s former district attor-ney, is the first woman, first African American, and first South Asian American to hold theoffice of state attorney general. During her remarks, Harris, a Democrat, vowed to ensurethat state law is on the side of the people. Harris, an outspoken supporter of marriageequality, alluded to that in her speech as well when she said, “And in the spirit of EarlWarren, we are going to fight for the civil rights of every Californian – to worship as youwill ... to live and work where you choose ... and to marry the person you love.” Otherelected officials also took office this week. See more photos on page 2.

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In Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan, accompanied by her husband Floyd Huen, left, led a parade of friends and supportersthrough Oakland’s Chinatown Monday en route to the Fox Theatre, where she was sworn in as the city’s first womanand first Asian American mayor. Quan called on all Oaklanders – whether they supported her or not – to work for thebetterment of the city, saying, “We are all family because we all love this city.”

On Tuesday, January 4, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski, left, took the oath of office at aninduction ceremony at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Above, she is joined by Jon R. Rolefson, presiding judge, andstate Senator Ellen Corbett (D-San Leandro). Kolakowski, who was sworn in by state appeals court Presiding Justice J.Anthony Kline, is the first openly transgender trial court judge in the country. During her remarks she promised to“always do my best to serve the people of this great county with honor and persistent dedication to the law and tojustice.” She is the wife of Bay Area Reporter news editor Cynthia Laird.

Also on Tuesday, Betty Yee, second from left, was sworn in to her second term on the California Board of Equalization.Yee, a strong ally of the LGBT community, was administered the oath of office by U.S. District Court Judge Lucy H.Koh, left. They are joined on stage at the Hiram W. Johnson State Building in San Francisco by Franchise Tax BoardExecutive Officer Selvi Stanislaus, and Zahra Billoo, executive director of Bay Area chapter of the Council onAmerican-Islamic Relations. Yee told a crowd of supporters that she is honored to once again represent the FirstDistrict on the BOE, the state’s publicly elected tax board.

by Seth Hemmelgarn

The San Francisco Board of Su-pervisors recently passed anordinance calling for DNA

from sexual assault cases to be testedwithin two weeks of collection.

San Francisco Police Commis-sioner Jim Hammer said he raisedthe issue with Supervisor MichelaAlioto-Pier, inspired by the case ofRudy “Ruby” Ordenana, a transgen-der woman who was found dead in2007. He helped Alioto-Pier writethe legislation, of which SupervisorCarmen Chu eventually became aco-sponsor.

DNA that had been recovered inthe Ordenana case hadn’t beenprocessed until nearly two years later.The evidence was matched withDonzell Francis, 42, whom law en-forcement officials suspect went onto assault three transgender womenafter allegedly killing Ordenana.

The openly gay Hammer, a for-mer prosecutor in the district attor-ney’s office, said “there’s no doubt inmy mind” Francis, who pleaded notguilty in April 2010 to the forciblesodomy and murder of Ordenana,wouldn’t have been able to attackanyone else if the DNA had beentested sooner.

He said Ordenana’s case is justone example, and in recent yearsthere “have been a number of caseswhere DNA evidence in sexual as-sault cases has not been tested in atimely matter.”

Bill Barnes, an aide to Alioto-Pier,said her intent was to “prevent futureassaults, and get justice for victims.”

The ordinance requires that by

March 1, Police Chief GeorgeGascón establish a goal of collectinga DNA rape kit from a health careprovider within three days of notifi-cation and testing DNA evidenceobtained from a health care providerwithin two weeks of receiving it,among other provisions.

The ordinance, which the 11-member board passed unanimously,was first read December 7 and final-ly passed December 14.

Hammer said people who havebeen sexually assaulted can helpspeed up the process, too.

“If someone has been a victim ofsexual assault in the LGBT commu-nity, they really should come for-ward as quickly as possible.” He saidthat with the state’s database and

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by Matt Baume

In the span of just a few days, agroup of entertainers, event pro-moters, and city officials have

sprung into action to address safetyproblems at electronic music danceparties, prompted in large part by a sur-prise attempt by AssemblywomanFiona Ma (D-San Francisco) to ban abroad range of music events altogether.

Ma’s proposed legislation, knownas Assembly Bill 74 or the Anti-RavesAct of 2011, would have criminalizedevents on public property at whichprerecorded music is played for longerthan three and a half hours. The billwas necessary, Ma said, to address aspate of drug-related deaths and in-juries at massive dance parties held atpublic venues such as the Cow Palace.

Critics overwhelmed Ma’s onlinesocial network sites with protest, andher office was deluged with calls.Within days, Ma announced that shewould withdraw the bill and insteadpursue a collaboration with stake-holders.

“The bill definitely needs morework,” admitted Nick Hardeman, Ma’sCapitol director. “The broad languagein it right now impacts a broader spec-trum of the nightlife community thanwe had intended.”

The overwhelming response wascoordinated in part by Save the Rave, abrand new organization that quicklyamassed thousands of Facebook fansand directed them to protest.

According to organizer Liam Shy,Save the Rave has been in the planningstages for some time as an advocacyorganization for fans and producers ofelectronic music events. Ma’s unex-pected announcement hastened thegroup’s formation, he said.

Shy is a local DJ whose perfor-

mances have included Pride, Pink Sat-urday, Castro Halloween, and LovEvo-lution. He met with Ma this week todiscuss next steps, which he said couldinclude a task force and public hear-ings.

“It’s very necessary for all the dif-ferent sides to have input on thisprocess,” Shy said.

John Wood, an event manager whohas helped produce Castro Halloweenand Pride, agreed. “No one heardabout this whatsoever prior to the in-troduction of this legislation,” he said.“We could have dialogued with her.”

Wood pointed out that the gaycommunity effectively addressed amid-1990s spike in GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid) use throughoutreach and education, rather thanby banning events.

At a January 3 meeting of the SanFrancisco Youth Commission, Shycalled for increased education. He ac-knowledged that drug abuse at raves isa problem, but argued that banningevents would shift the abuse to settings

that could potentially be more dan-gerous.

“We’d much rather have youngpeople in permitted events. ... If wedon’t have them, they go under-ground, where there’s no protection,”Shy said. Promoters are already willingto assist with outreach, he said,whether in the form of fliers handedout with tickets, booths at events, viralvideos, or partnerships with the De-partment of Public Health.

Several youth commissioners ex-pressed interest in holding joint hear-ings with the Entertainment Commis-sion on the topic.

“One of the things we’re battlingagainst is this mentality that ‘rave’ is afour-letter word,” said Shy, himself aformer youth commissioner. “Theseare the primary events for youngadults, particularly the ones who can’tgo into nightclubs, for having fun andcelebrating and feeling connected withtheir peers. ... We’re trying to embracethe word ‘rave’ and turn it into some-thing positive.”▼

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by Boyce Hinman

For a long time now, I’ve had the impressionthat lobbyists for the LGBTI community(which includes me, of course) have not

been giving a fair share of our time to lobbyingfor legislation that benefits the transgendercommunity.

Recently I put that assumption to thetest. I created a report listing all the LGBTIfriendly bills enacted in California since1998. The results confirmed my suspi-cion. Of the 62 LGBTI friendly bills en-acted since 1998, more than 95percent of them benefit lesbians,gays, and bisexuals, but barelymore than 53 percent of thembenefit transgender people.

You can see the report by directing yourbrowser to: www.calcomui.org/comm-121510.html and then scrolling down and click-ing on the link at the bottom.

If you inspect the report you will see that thebills benefitting lesbians, gays, and bisexuals gointo exquisite detail addressing almost all aspectsof life faced by people in those three groups.However, the state laws enacted to benefittransgender people cover only the most basicissues.

Here are some examples of the laws ad-dressing the needs of lesbians, gays, and bisex-uals. These laws prohibit sexual orientation-based employment, housing, and insurancediscrimination. They require employers to givethe same benefits to the registered domesticpartners of employees as they give to thespouses of their employees. They require in-surance companies to give domestic partners

the same family premium discounts that theygive to married couples. There are laws to pro-tect the inheritance rights of domestic partnersand to protect them against property tax in-creases when one of them dies.

Other laws prohibit businesses from dis-crimination based on sexual orientation. Stillothers allow a domestic partner to qualify forunemployment insurance when he or shequits a job to be with his or her partner. A new

law even allows people who are soonto register as domestic partners toqualify for unemployment insur-ance when they quit a job and

moves to be with a soon to bedomestic partner.

By contrast the state laws en-acted to benefit transgender peo-

ple cover only the most basic issues. And it isworth noting that only three of those laws havethe sole purpose of helping transgender people.

It is long past time that we address that in-equity. Much more legislation is needed to meetthe many and complex needs of transgenderpeople in California.

We need to build a very assertive plan of ac-tion to address those needs. I urge members ofthe transgender community to be outspoken inexpressing their needs and in helping to shapelegislation that addresses those needs. I submitthat this should probably be a multi-year plan.

What transgender beneficial laws might wework on? Ultimately the transgender communi-ty must tell us. But here are some possibilities.

• Require health insurance companies, andhealth care services plans, to pay for sex reas-signment surgery.

• Make the cost of sex reassignment surgery

a tax deductible expense on state income taxreturns.

• Require that doctors receive education intransgender health issues as a condition ofbeing licensed in California.

• Require doctors to post notices in their of-fices telling transgender patients where theycan submit complaints of abuse or discrimi-nation by medical providers.

• Make it easier for transgender people bornhere, but living elsewhere, to get a new birthcertificate designating their new gender.

• Create a state-issued “Birth Record,” show-ing a person’s date of birth and new sex, forissue to transgender people born elsewhere,upon receipt of a valid birth certificate fromthe person’s place of birth. Require this docu-ment be honored, in place of a birth certificate,in all public, and private transactions in Cali-fornia that require a birth certificate.

However, at present, most of the legislativeclout of the LGBTI community resides in or-ganizations (again, including California Com-munities United Institute) that are focusedmore on the needs of lesbians and gays. I callon all such organizations to lend their consid-erable lobbying expertise to building a body oflaw that fulfills all the needs of transgenderpeople in California.▼

Readers can comment on my blog:www.calcomui.org/blog2.

Boyce Hinman is the founder and leader ofCalifornia Communities United Institute, anorganization that helps people write their statelegislators on HIV/AIDS, LGBTI, economicjustice, people of color, and women’s issues.

Now that the community has had a fewmonths to absorb the news of the SanFrancisco LGBT Pride Celebration Com-

mittee’s mismanagement of its finances, it’s timeto work toward this year’s event – just six monthsaway – and to restore confidence in the organi-zation. This requires effective communicationfrom the board and a willingness to help on thepart of the Bay Area’s LGBT community. ThePride Parade and festival is one of the largestevents of its kind, and we want to keep it the fun,inclusive, and dynamic event that it has become.

Below is some unsolicited advice that we hopePride board members, contractors, and staff con-sider as the new year begins, as the committeecontends with picking up the pieces. (For ourprevious statement on Pride’s problems, seewww.ebar.com/openforum/opforum.php?sec=editorial&id=286).

Leader neededSF Pride’s staff has been furloughed for the

past month, mostly due to the $225,000 debt theorganization incurred, according to a reportfrom the city controller’s office issued in mid-De-cember. SF Pride has been without an executivedirector since Amy Andre’s resignation in mid-November. A staffer who could have stepped into provide transitional leadership is no longerwith Pride. The crisis could worsen if the leader-ship vacuum is not filled. While it’s doubtful thatPride has the funds right now to attract top tal-ent for the ED post, the board must find the re-sources to hire someone who can help stabilizethe organization, either as an executive directoror general manager.

Ideally, that candidate should be familiar withSF Pride and nonprofit management. Runningthe parade itself is largely in the hands of capablecontractors and volunteers, so that experienceisn’t as necessary. What is needed in this top po-sition is someone who is organized and an effec-tive fundraiser. SF Pride needs a person who canmeet with top sponsors, both to alleviate anyconcerns they may have and to see if they canpossibly increase their level of giving in the shortterm. After 40 years, SF Pride is truly an institu-tion, and hundreds of thousands of people aregoing to line the streets of San Francisco themorning of June 26 regardless of the state of thePride Committee. Those factors should be at-tractive to sponsors, many of whom court theLGBT community and have traditionally re-ceived a return on their Pride investment.

Pride’s new leader also needs to meet with the2010 beverage partners and develop a paymentplan so that these groups will receive the moneyowed them. As of last week, no additional pay-ments have been made on the $46,000 due to thepartners. Nonprofits who staff the beveragebooths at the Pride festival are an integral part ofthe event, and they receive a portion of the pro-

ceeds based on volunteer hours worked. Thecommunity partner program is an example ofthe benefits Pride provides to the greater com-munity, but organizations are going to be hard-pressed to participate if an agreement isn’tworked out in advance. These nonprofits, whichcan receive several thousand dollars from thebeverage program, are at risk of sitting this yearout if the situation is not rectified. Conversely,the Pride board will have an overwhelmingtask figuring out an alternative plan tostaff beverage booths if not enoughnonprofits take part. It’s in everyone’sinterest to come up with a repaymentplan and re-establish the old formulafor this year’s beverage partners.

Board developmentCurrently SF Pride has six people on

its board, far fewer than the 15 allowedin its bylaws. The current board shouldcontinue an aggressive outreach plan torecruit new board members. One per-son has already joined the board since the con-troller’s report was written. For residents interest-ed in community service, this could be a great op-portunity to be a part of the rebuilding process ofan organization with a rich history. Perhapssomeone who is retired or working part timeshould consider joining the Pride board.

Specifically, the controller’s report stated that“by functioning with far fewer than the maxi-mum allowable number of board members, SFPride is not maximizing opportunities for itsboard to provide governance responsibilities orthe wide range of skills (legal, public relations, fi-nance, programmatic) needed by the organiza-tion.”

We agree with this assessment. A full boardmeans that there are more talented people avail-

able to do the work, and that, too, would helpcurrent board members.

Board fundraisingThe previous board president liked to say that

the Pride board was not a “fundraising” board, itwas an “activist” board. That philosophy workedfine while the money was coming in, but it hasbecome clear in the last six months or so that thePride board needs to convert to a fundraising

board. Virtually all nonprofit boards seekto raise funds; in fact, that is usually aprime factor in assessing board mem-bers. Yes, it is important that Pride main-tain its roots and political activism, andwe’re not suggesting that it become aboard like that of a Fortune 500 compa-

ny. The Pride board has already hadsome success securing a $45,000donation from the Dorian Fund,along with a loan of $55,000.

The board should considerholding a community fundraiser as

soon as possible. This will involve the communi-ty in Pride’s financial situation as well as generatebroad support from area residents and merchants.One caution, however: Pride should not put upthe costs upfront for any fundraiser – the venue,food, and beverages should be donated so that allmoney raised at the event can go directly to Pride.

The Pride board needs to buckle up and focusbecause it must move forward quickly. The com-munity advisory committee it established in No-vember should begin publicizing its meetings somore people can attend.

In short, it’s going to take the communityworking together to help SF Pride. The boardshould welcome such participation; the morepeople that get involved, the easier the job will befor everyone.▼

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A path forward for Pride

Transgender people have been left behind

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by Matthew S. Bajko

To ring in the start of a brandnew year, the Political Note-book is offering up something

old. Once again we have asked a bevyof LGBT Bay Area residents, and a fewsouthern Californians, for their con-jecture about what may go down po-litically in 2011.

Last year the heated midterm elec-tions garnered the most attentionfrom those weighing in on likely po-litical outcomes, whether it was instatewide races or more local electoralbattles. The possibility of seeing LGBTlegislation pass out of Congress alsoweighed heavy on the minds of thosewho took part in the annual column.

Some, it turned out, were usingcloudy crystal balls. Among the deadwrong prognostications were SenatorDianne Feinstein (D) running to begovernor of California and that There-sa Sparks would prove to be a strongcontender for District 6 supervisor inSan Francisco’s Tenderloin and southof Market neighborhoods.

Predictions that hit their mark in-cluded surprise victories in the SanFrancisco supervisor races and Presi-dent Barack Obama signing legislationending the military’s ban on openlygay and lesbian service members. Oth-ers correctly guessed that JerryBrown would win a historicthird term as Californiagovernor.

The 11 people includ-ed in last year’s columnproved to be pretty prescient,as only one was completelywrong in their pre-dictions. Anotherwas one hundredpercent accurate,while the remaining nine had mixedresults with their guesses.

Top concerns for the upcoming 12months include who will be San Fran-cisco’s next mayor and district attor-ney, what will happen due to redis-tricting of legislative boundaries, andpolicy outcomes at the state and fed-eral levels.

For fun, a few people are predict-ing 2011 could bring some headline-making gay scandals.

Without further adieu, here aresome potential likelihoods to ponderas we usher in a new year.

Healthy San Francisco, our city’shealth access program, will start cov-ering sex-reassignment surgery fortransgender participants.

Jamie Rafaela Wolfe Transgender activist

The mayor’s race, I don’t thinksomeone running for mayor shouldget a leg up and serve as interimmayor. I believe the caretaker optionwould be best. That being said,David Chiu may just end up beingthe acting mayor because the Board

of Supervisors may not be able toagree on who that interim care-

taker mayor would be. I believe the mayor’s race

will only get more interest-ing as we continue into

2011. I believeSupervisor[Bevan] Duftywill be joined by

at least two other viable candidatesfrom the LGBT community.

The district attorney’s raceshould be interesting, too. Paul Hen-derson [Kamala Harris’s openly gaychief of administration] has beenworking very hard on his prospec-tive race for DA and is certainly afrontrunner. He is definitely one tokeep your eye on.

Even though health care reformhas received challenges in court, it ismy belief that the challenges will bedismissed and 43-plus million

Americans without health care canbreathe a (healthy) sigh of relief.

Keith BarakaSan Francisco firefighter and

Alice B. Toklas LGBT DemocraticClub board member

I predict that Jean Quan will be apleasant surprise as mayor of Oak-land. She has reached out to all of theright people and has shown that sheunderstands the historic significanceof her election.

I think that she will join with Re-becca Kaplan in creating a practicalprogressive alliance. The Port of Oak-land during Quan’s tenure will play amajor role in expanding trade withChina and LGBT people will play amajor role.

I also predict that there will be a va-cancy on the Oakland City Councilthis year, triggering yet another specialelection. I also predict that redistrict-ing will set off battles for an East Baystate Senate seat and a San Leandro-area congressional seat.

In San Francisco, I predict that aname from the past will re-emerge ina major role. A San Franciscan willalso be tapped for a role in the Obamaadministration. Willie Brown will goto Chris Daly’s bar for a drink and theformer supervisor will become a regu-lar in the former mayor’s column.

Lastly, I think that the dire natureof the state budget will force a mayors’

DREAM Act ‘shame’The real “shame” behind the failure of the DREAM Act

was the willingness of the LGBT community to ignore state-ments made by DREAM Act supporters such as the Rev-erend Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic ChristianLeadership Conference accusing President Obama and Sen-ator Charles Schumer of “pandering to specialinterest groups” because of Obama andSchumer’s supposed support for immigrationrights for the domestic partners and same-sexspouses of U.S. citizens [“Death of aDREAM,” Editorial, December 23]. In the samepress release, Rodriguez, who claims to headan organization of 16 million evangelicals,had described the inclusion of same-sex cou-ples in any immigration reform measure as“political posturing” because it “will benefitonly 36,000 people.”

When asked whether he supported the Uniting Ameri-can Families Act on KQED’s Forum earlier in December, Rodriguez described UAFA as a “polarizing” issue and thathe opposed recognition of immigration rights to same-sexcouples as a doctrinal matter.

Why should we as a community support the DREAMAct, when opportunists such as the Reverend Rodriguez havehijacked the movement to pass the DREAM Act to serve asa platform for their own anti-gay prejudices? Why aren’t themainstream LGBT organizations calling upon the other or-ganizations inside the coalition supporting the DREAM Actto denounce and reject the reverend’s statements? By failingto call out bigoted individuals such as Rodriguez while call-ing for support of the DREAM Act, isn’t the Bay Area Re-porter only enabling those individuals to fight to continuethe discrimination against LGBT Americans and their part-ners that the UAFA would end?

Colin V. GallagherSan Francisco

Supreme Court decisionThe December 30 issue of the B.A.R. says on page 12,

[“2010 events predict less in 2011,”] that the U.S. SupremeCourt ruling in Doe v. Reed in June is a decision that bodeswell for the LGBT community. Doe v. Reed said that, gener-ally, when someone signs a petition to put something on the

ballot, it is okay for the state to release that person’s nameand address, where it may end up on a web page.

Doe v. Reed is a defeat for privacy in Wash-ington state, the state where the case began. In

California, all petition signatures are private, bylaw, and that is good policy. A policy that says,“If you sign a petition, your name and addressmay end up on a web page” will only discouragepeople from signing petitions.

Furthermore, the B.A.R. story didn’t de-scribe the outcome of that case accurately. The

decision says if the proponents of the ballot measure canshow some likelihood that the people who sign will be ha-rassed, they can protect their privacy.

Richard WingerSan Francisco

[Lisa Keen replies: I stand by my story as written. WhileMr. Winger’s opinion about whether to make signatures pub-lic or not is good or bad for the community, all our gay legalgroups, plus the Human Rights Campaign and the NationalGay and Lesbian Task Force, submitted a brief arguing thatthe public disclosure law “provides a much-needed proceduralcheck on anti-minority initiatives.”]

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summit involving the three large BayArea cities, as well as smaller cities,for the first serious discussion aboutregional government. LGBT leaderswill play a major role on transporta-tion issues.

2011 will also see the trend contin-ue of qualified LGBT candidates lin-ing up for major races in 2012.

Michael ColbrunoOakland political consultant and

planning commissioner

San Francisco can expect a morecollegiate, efficient, and productiveBoard of Supervisors in 2011.

Additionally, as we just saw in Oak-land, rank choice voting is going tochange the playing field in the 2011San Francisco mayor’s race. The can-didates have their work cut out forthem as a result.

The Republican Party will be splitin two, especially with the ever-grow-ing popularity of Sarah Palin and herreality TV personality. She will likelyannounce her presidential run at theend of 2011 and cause havoc.

Prince William and Kate Middle-ton will marry, which may boost theglobal economy for a minute, espe-cially where the media stock is con-cerned.

Either the issue in Iran or NorthKorea will finally come to a head,which will test Obama’s foreign policycapabilities. The Republicans will makesure to keep any and all of his mistakes(even minor ones) on the forefront ofthe media. This will make things diffi-cult for his re-election campaign.

Congress will spend 2011 drawingbattle lines for the 2012 presidentialrace and not get much work done in2011. As a result, we can expect lessprogressive change in 2011.

The economy will improve slightlyin 2011 in that unemployment will dipbelow 10 percent, which will giveObama an edge showing that his poli-cies may finally be working.

Bentrish SatarzadehAlice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic

Club co-chair

There is no question that San Fran-cisco will begin 2011 with a bang.More like two “Big Bangs:” picking re-placements for Mayor Gavin Newsomand District Attorney Kamala Harris.

By January 8 Newsom will appointPaul Henderson as district attorney.While Newsom is close to David Onekand has a relationship with Jim Ham-mer [former and current police com-missioners, respectively], Newsom willdecide that Paul is the most electableof the three, and the best person tocontinue Kamala Harris’s legacy.

With Newsom off to Sacramento,David Chiu has the inside track to in-terim mayor. If Chiu cannot musterthe magic number of votes by the sev-enth or eighth round, PUC chief EdHarrington or Sheriff Michael Hen-nessey will start being mentioned bymembers of Chiu’s progressive bloc asalternative, potential caretaker mayors– and the debate will swiftly shift. (Andkeep in mind while Chiu cannot votefor himself for mayor, nor can anyother member of the board, other con-tenders who are not board membersonly need six votes to take the reins.)

Then the roller coaster mayor’srace really begins. Overshadowing therace is the whopping budget deficitSan Francisco faces again this year. Themayor and board face tough decisionsabout layoffs, pension reform, and cityservices. That will consume San Fran-cisco until June.

All the while, Bevan Dufty, DennisHerrera, Joanna Rees, Phil Ting, andLeland Yee will run competitive orwell-funded races – or both. Why ex-actly is former Supervisor Tony Hallrunning? No matter what the word ison the street, Public Defender JeffAdachi, soon-to-be former SupervisorMichela Alioto-Pier, and out state Sen-ator Mark Leno are contemplating arun. My tip to the candidates – be care-ful with the ranked choice strategy.

Statewide, Governor Jerry Brownhas the unenviable task of taking back

the governor’s office. With the budgetdeficit, Brown faces major battlesagainst budget cuts.

Attorney General Harris will re-form our prison system, keeping thosebeds for our most serious and violentoffenders. As for marriage, if we losethe court battle over Proposition 8,Leno will get the marriage bill signedinto law.

Nationally, President Obama willcontinue to come out swinging, espe-cially after everyone thought his termwas over. More LGBT appointmentswill be made and major strides towardending DOMA and passing an all-in-clusive ENDA will be made. Five words:Two down (Hate Crimes, DADT), twoto go (DOMA and ENDA).

Rebecca ProzanDeputy District Attorney

2011 will set the stage for how manyLGBT people serve in public office, andit’s too soon to tell whether we’ll returnour representation back to 1990s levels.With citywide elections, there were asmany as three LGBT supervisors atonce. In the last decade, we’ve had justtwo at once. With district elections hereto stay, the redrawing of the lines willmake all the difference.

The interim mayor (whoever thatis), the new Board of Supervisors, andthe Elections Commission will each ap-point three panelists to the RedistrictingTask Force, and the games will begin.

The old Harvey Milk district couldbe recreated, linking the Haight andCastro by uniting Duboce Triangle inone district. The Lower Polk StreetCorridor, also split between two dis-tricts, could be reconnected. How thepanel deals with thousands of new res-idents in South Beach, Mission Bay,and the Central Waterfront will shapethe balance of power on the board.

Only one thing’s for sure, sincemost of the population growth is onthe city’s East Side, the districts shouldmove east, and that should increasethe relative electoral strength of LGBTvoters.

At the state level, the ability to re-tain LGBT representation in Sacra-mento could be threatened. If the citywinds up with just one Senate or As-sembly seat, that could pit qualifiedand capable LGBT candidates againstqualified and capable Asian Americancandidates.

I will predict that 2011 provides thebest chance to expand LGBT repre-sentation citywide. Right now, Trea-surer Jose Cisneros and CollegeTrustee Lawrence Wong are the onlyout citywide officials. With what areessentially open seats for mayor anddistrict attorney, and a possible wide-open race for sheriff, we have the bestchance of capturing some of theseother seats. Bevan Dufty and PaulHenderson have already declared;Mark Leno and Jim Hammer havebeen rumored.

Here’s hoping our community uni-fies through ranked choice voting tomake sure LGBT candidates win.

Bill BarnesCity Hall aide

I think Senator Lindsey Graham(R-South Carolina) is going to getouted.

I am going to make the bold predic-tion President Obama is going to swing

from civil unions to thinking that gaymarriage is the right thing to do.

Melanie NathanLez Get Real co-publisher

and editor

While we have finally seen somereal bipartisan accomplishments dur-ing the lame-duck session of Con-gress, with the GOP takeover in theHouse and the Democrats holdingonto the Senate, I suspect it is going tobecome increasingly difficult to com-promise at the federal level. The GOPis going to rightly bring up the deficitissue very early in the new Congress,and disagreements over spending willconsume a lot of what happens thiscoming year.

While I think it unlikely that wewill see another government shut-down, without agreement by the De-mocrats and president to reducespending, not much else will make itthrough the House this term.

The economy is going to remain animportant issue, however as it doesslowly improve for some, and othersbecome resigned to the fact that theyare going to be out of work in theshort-to-medium term, focus is goingto move away from jobs and towardsthe long-term deficit.

Politicians are terrified that if theytry to cut spending they will lose favor,however voters deserve more creditthan that. Although some special in-terest groups – especially public em-ployee unions – will be openly hostileto any austerity measures, most peo-ple in the U.S., like most people havein Europe, will understand that sig-nificant steps must be taken for thecountry’s long-term fiscal health.

Because of strong support finan-cially and in terms of campaign and getout the vote infrastructure from unionsfor their party, it may be difficult to getDemocrats on board with some ofthese measures, so it’s likely that we willsee the House passing bills to cutspending which become deadlocked inthe Senate. Unless moderates in bothparties can find a way to compromiseon fiscal issues, it seems likely Congresswill accomplish less in the next twoyears than it has in the last two weeks.

Dan BrownLog Cabin San Francisco chapter

president

2011 will be the year that SanDiego candidates get ready and “prep”for the 2012 mayor elections. All eyeswill be on District Attorney BonnieDumanis (no. 1 in recent polls) andCity Councilman Carl DeMaio, bothgay, Republican, and clear frontrun-ners for mayor.

Out state Assemblywoman ToniAtkins (D-San Diego), who just gotelected, will be getting ready for a stateSenate run as lesbian state SenatorChristine Kehoe (D-San Diego) istermed out in 2012. Atkins will bechallenged by former state Assembly-woman Lori Saldana.

The national conversations will getlouder in 2011 from those alreadytalking about yet another LGBTmarch on Washington. A west cost re-gional office for the Harvey B. MilkFoundation could be opening up inSan Diego in early 2011 ... could StuartMilk be moving to San Diego next?

San Diego had nine elected majorLGBT public office holders ... ManyLGBT leaders have been privately talk-ing about and predicting that there willsoon be a public scandal concerningone of these elected officials. I predictthat this “scandal” will happen in 2011.

Nicole Murray RamirezSan Diego Human Relations

Commissioner and gay newspapercolumnist

I predict 2011 will be fascinatinglegally and politically.

For LGBT equality I’m an optimist.I think the courts will decide in ourfavor on marriage equality.

Politically, the future of our statedoesn’t seem as certain. Now that theDemocrats are completely in controlof our state, they will have the powerto solve many of the problems we face.However, if Governor Brown and ourLegislature cannot tame our crazy


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The federally supported Nation-al Action Alliance for SuicidePrevention on December 30 of-

ficially announced a task force dedi-cated to suicide prevention amongLGBT youth.

Pamela Hyde, the openly gay headof the Substance Abuse and MentalHealth Services Administration, re-vealed plans in November to formsuch a task force. And, on the sameday as the alliance officially an-nounced the task force, SAMHSAseparately announced the availabilityof up to $5.5 million for campus sui-cide prevention programs that meetthe needs of youth the alliance hasidentified as being at particular risk,including LGBT youth.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youthare from 1.5 to seven times morelikely to report having attempted sui-cide than their non-LGBT peers, ac-cording to the alliance. Transgenderyouth, although less well studied, arebelieved to have higher rates of suici-dal behavior as well.

The task force will be led byCharles Robbins, head of the TrevorProject, which operates an LGBTyouth suicide prevention program na-tionwide, and Kevin Jennings, the De-partment of Education’s assistantdeputy secretary for the Office of Safeand Drug-Free Schools. Jennings, whois openly gay, founded the Gay, Les-bian, and Straight Education Network.

The alliance, launched by Secre-tary of Health and Human ServicesKathleen Sebelius and Secretary ofDefense Robert Gates in September,is a public-private partnership sup-ported by SAMHSA, part of HHS. Itis designed to advance and updatethe 2001 National Strategy for Sui-cide Prevention.

Robbins said in an interview thathe believes the task force will be ableto inform government agencies aswell as private nonprofits about “ap-propriate, evidence-based suicideprevention programming that worksfor this community.”

He noted that many different gov-ernment agencies – including the De-partments of Education, Health andHuman Services, and Defense – areinvolved in suicide prevention, andthe task force will be able to “providesome linkages” among the efforts.

He also hopes the task force willbe able to share with and learn fromthe other alliance task forces ad-dressing high-risk populations, in-cluding American Indians/AlaskaNatives and military service mem-bers and veterans.

Robbins said he and Jennings arestill in the process of naming mem-bers to the task force and would beconvening this month to identifyspecific goals for the group.

A string of suicides by teens bulliedfor being gay or perceived to be gay

captured nationwide media attentionlast fall and prompted calls for actionfrom LGBT organizations, celebrities,and the Department of Education,among others. Robbins said, however,that these incidents “are a fraction ofwhat occurs on a regular basis.”

In fact, the federal governmenthas known about suicide as a healthrisk for gay and lesbian youth forover 20 years. The “Report of the Sec-retary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide,”published by HHS in 1989, noted thehigher risk of suicides and suicide at-tempts among that population.

Some questioned the report’smethodology, but subsequent stud-ies have upheld the general conclu-sion that gay and lesbian youth are agroup at high risk for suicide. Butpressure from the right wing led theadministration of George H.W. Bushto suppress the information in thatreport, according to a 1994 piece byChris Bull in the Advocate.

In December 1994, under Presi-dent Bill Clinton, the federal govern-ment held its first conference on theprimary care needs of lesbian and gayyouth. One of the outcomes was a1997 book by the event coordinators,Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., director of theFamily Acceptance Project at SanFrancisco State University, and Dr.Donna Futterman, director of theAdolescent AIDS Program at AlbertEinstein College of Medicine. Thebook included a section on higher sui-cide risk among gay and lesbian youth.

And the 2001 “National Strategyfor Suicide Prevention,” publishedunder Surgeon General David Satch-er just as President George W. Bushtook over from Clinton, also notedstudies with the same conclusions. Itrecommended that “prevention pro-grams for sexual minority popula-tions” should consider “issues of stig-ma, labeling, privacy, and appropri-ateness of referrals” so they are “safeand effective.”

In 2008, the Suicide Resource Pre-vention Center, created by HHS tohelp states and communities “imple-

ment and evaluate suicide preven-tion programs,” released a 63-pagewhite paper, “Suicide Risk and Pre-vention for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender Youth.”

The paper said lesbian, gay, andbisexual youth often lack “importantprotective factors such as family sup-port and safe schools.”

“It would be difficult to overstatethe impact of stigma and discrimina-tion against LGBT individuals in theUnited States,” said the white paper.“Stigma and discrimination are di-rectly tied to risk factors for suicide.”

Robbins said that work amonggovernment entities on suicide pre-vention among LGBT youth “hasbeen happening over a significantperiod of time.” He has been a mem-ber of the consumer subcommitteeof SAMHSA’s National Suicide Pre-

vention Lifeline for three years, andsaid that SAMHSA has been “deeplycommitted” to addressing LGBTyouth suicide prevention.

In government, however, “it takes along time for things to happen,” he said.

The task force was conceived be-

fore the media attention around theLGBT suicides last fall, he noted. Theattention last fall, however, “helpedalign the government with ways theycan address the problem,” and reaf-firmed that “this is a public healthissue.”▼

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budget and lower a hideous unem-ployment rate, I don’t see how voterscan keep them in power.

While I sincerely wish them the best,I’m working on a back up plan. Anyonewant to learn Mandarin with me?

Eric HickokSilicon Valley Log Cabin member

The midterm elections created realchange this year that will dramaticallyaffect national and state politics for atleast the next two.

In New Hampshire, one of fivestates that currently have gay marriage,both houses of the state Legislatureflipped last month. Democrats con-trolled them both when they passed

gay marriage two years ago; now Re-publicans have “super majorities” inboth houses. This is more thanenough to override the governor’spromised veto to save gay marriage.

There are five bills being readied tooverturn gay marriage in New Hamp-shire. This will be the battle royale nextyear. The National Organization forMarriage and their Mormon pup-peteers are burning the midnight oilin Salt Lake City, ready to pounce onthat small state with their millions ofdollars to run their next vicious cam-paign of hate and discrimination.

Fred KargerPotential Republican presidential

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by Matt Baume

Large decorated hearts return tothe streets of San Francisconext month, not just as adorn-

ments but as a life-saving source offunding for San Francisco GeneralHospital.

Launched in 2004, the annualHearts in San Francisco projectcommissions artists, chiefly from theBay Area, to decorate an array ofheart sculptures in both large andtabletop sizes.

The tabletop hearts are auctionedto benefit the San Francisco GeneralHospital Foundation. The largehearts are given to donors, includingAT&T, Virgin America, and the SanFrancisco Giants, who then donatethem back to the foundation forpurchase by private collectors, oftenfor tens of thousands of dollars.

In 2010, the project raised $1.5million.

“We’re on track to come prettyclose to that,” said Stephanie Bray,the foundation’s executive director.

The auction will take place at theFebruary 10 “Heroes and Hearts”luncheon, tickets for which are $300and available at SFGHF.net/hh.

The foundation will also hold anevening event that same day, “HeartsAfter Dark,” complete with a DJ and“chic” dress code to appeal to ayoung and hip demographic.

Over the last six years, the pro-gram has given out several milliondollars to the hospital’s departmentsof psychiatry, pediatrics, andwomen’s health, as well as to PositiveHealth, which supports HIV servicesand research.

The hospital’s orthopedic traumainstitute was created with the help ofa grant made possible by Hearts inSan Francisco.

“The General is the hub of thesafety-net health care system in SanFrancisco,” Bray said. In selectingartists, she said, the foundation is“looking for exposition on the wholeheart theme. ... They’re really look-ing for something that inspires peo-ple to want to have a heart, literally.”

That directive has attracted awide range of talent, includingopenly gay artists like Julian Tom-chin.

“I call it ‘California Calico,’” saidTomchin of his design, which fea-tures a playful herd of animals and a

calico pattern. Inspired by his younggodson, Tomchin hopes that the de-sign will encourage children tosearch for various animals. “Inessence, it’s a game,” he said.

The geometry of the heart provedawkward, Tomchin said. Among thechallenges were moving the objectand laying it on its side (which hesolved by laying down foam), as wellas painting a plaid pattern on acurved surface (solved with the helpof special tape).

Another openly gay artist, DanielTousignant, faced similar challenges.“This is the only time I ever paint onthe 3D surface,” he said, as well as hisonly opportunity to use acrylic paint.

Tousignant’s design features avariation on the tree of life, in keep-ing with a tree theme in his previousdesigns. This year, he wanted toevoke the San Franciscan themes ofrebirth and reinvention.

“It’s a lot of surface and very un-usual,” he said. “Since it’s round, youkind of run around it. It’s physicallyexhausting.”

Tousignant noted that Muni’s 33line provides a direct physical con-nection from the Castro’s LGBTcommunity to the hospital.

“This is such a good idea,” he saidof Hearts in San Francisco. “Any-thing you can do to be helpful to thatparticular hospital, which really ser-vices the homeless, the poor, the in-digent, and turns down nobody –I’m just so impressed by the fact thatthey exist.”▼


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Daniel Tousignant did a variation on the tree of life for his heart design.

Julian Tomchin used animals and hearts in his ‘California Calico’ heart design.

Heart sculptures rechargeSF General’s lifeline

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by Roger Brigham

Sell the car. Let your home go. Tellfriends and family, “Adios.” Sinkyour life savings into a floating

box that runs on a series of gears andwires and pipes and small black boxeswith little understanding of how theywork and even less of how to fixthem. Then push off thedock to go round theworld – and pray youmake it safely homeagain.

That’s what Larry Jacob-son and Ken Smith did adecade ago, setting offfrom their Emeryvillehome in 2001 aboardtheir 50-foot yacht,Julia, to sail around theworld. (See August 9, 2007 columnebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=sports&id=135.) Proudly flying arainbow flag from their mastthrough lands of paradise and landsof war, they cavorted with sea snakes,fled Komodo dragons, bribed offi-cials, made friends on land and atsea, struggled to jerry-rig and bullythe boat’s mechanical systems – and

lived to tell the tale.Which is what Jacobson is doing

now. He’s written a book, The BoyBehind the Gate, due to be publishedthis month. Cobbled together frome-mails, the ship’s log, his personaljournal, and post-adventure reflec-tions, it is a story of chasing a dream

and embracing the unpre-dictable during the five year,eight month voyage.

“I want to share themessage of the dream,” Ja-

cobson, 56, told the Bay Area Re-porter. “I’ve never considered not

fulfilling my dream. It never oc-curred to me that I wouldn’t get

there.”To get there, Jacobson

had to leave here. The fa-miliar. The secure.

“For me, the hardestthing was the decision to go,” he said.“To leave my partner, to leave mybusiness, to leave my identity. To gointo an unknown world.”

At sea, Jacobson had to contendwith a harsh reality for many men ofour generation: We export risk andimport talent. Our fathers couldhandle the mysteries of electricalwiring, plumbing, and engine me-

chanics with ease. We hire somebody.But at two in the morning in themiddle of the Pacific?

“Once the trip had actually start-ed,” Jacobson said, “the hardestthings to overcome were the me-chanical breakdowns. I was fixingthings with beer can shims andpieces of wire in the middle of thenight.

“My father was an aircraft me-chanic and inventor. He could fixanything. I got a bicycle once and heput it together without even readingthe instructions. He just put it to-gether. I couldn’t do that. I didn’ttake the shop class he wanted me to.I was student body president in-stead.”

The zen of auto pilot mainte-nance was not the only repair chal-lenge facing Smith and Jacobson.Circumnavigating the globe was Ja-cobson’s dream, but shortly after thecruise began, Smith returned home.It was a planned departure, but theywere unsure where the relationshipof eight years was headed.

What was unplanned was Smith’sreturn a few weeks later. They werenow voyagers together, this time forkeeps.

“It gave us a bond not unlike sol-diers in the field get,” Jacobson saidof tackling the sail as a couple. “Therewas the common goal we were work-ing together to achieve. We each hadour own strengths and weaknesses.

“There was a time in Spain when

we were having mechanical prob-lems – again – and Ken was flippingout. I wanted to cry also. But I could-n’t because there was never enoughtime for us both to lose it at the sametime.”

The problem with fulfilling adream is that once you’ve caught it,it melts and you are left with the in-timidating reality of, “What’s next?”

Late in his book, Jacobson writes,“Once your dream is fulfilled, it willall be over, and then what? What arewe without our dreams? What guidesus? What keeps us going? I find my-self asking, ‘What’s next for me; whatwill keep me going?’”

What is next for Jacobson, whoformerly helped companies buildthrough marketing and sales incen-tive programs, is a public speakingcareer, for which he hopes the bookis a springboard.

“For me there is a next,” he said.“It’s like a perpetual seeking ofachievement for myself. That’s whatmakes me feel good. I’m not justcontent to have done something andsit on my laurels. I thought if first Iwrite the book, it would be a firststep to speaking. That’s my favoritemedium.”

And though they are indeedhome again, they see the formerly fa-miliar with different eyes. A rollingstone gathers no moss, but it doesgather a lot of nicks and cracks, ac-quiring a more rugged character.

“It makes me feel less of an Amer-ican and more of a citizen of theworld,” Jacobson said of his adven-ture. “It makes me feel less national-istic. I still love this country, but itmakes me aware there is a whole restof the world out there that the Unit-ed States is not the center of.”▼

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Looking for something new tolearn this year? The recentlyformed San Francisco Center for

Performing Arts has announced newclasses in music, theater, and dancethat begin later this month.

John Lehrack, thefounder and president ofthe center, said the non-profit is dedicated toproviding high quality, af-fordable training in theperforming arts to localresidents.

The center offersprivate music instruc-tion in a variety of instruments, in-cluding voice, piano, guitar, drums,flute, trumpet, electric bass, saxo-phone, and clarinet. Group musicclasses range from the ukulele tomusic technology, early childhoodeducation to songwriting, and more.

Dancers can choose from jazz,modern, improv, composition, Latin,flash mob, and parent and childclasses.

Courses in theater include play-writing, stage management, scenestudy, vocal power, basic acting, au-dition preparation, and many others.

Lehrack said that fees for thecourses vary depending on the class-es. Group dance classes are generally$140 for 10 weeks, or $15 per class.

Theater and music courses runabout $10 to $15 per hour but

are 10-week classes and costanywhere from $150-$300depending on the length of

class (90 minutes, twohours, three hours, etc.).

Private music in-struction is $80 perhour.There are discounts

for seniors (30 percent) and students(starting at 10 percent for thoseunder 18, those taking multiple class-es, and extra family members).

A sliding scale is available for low-income persons; those who thinkthey qualify should contact the cen-ter for more information and an ap-plication.

Classes begin January 18. For moreinformation, visit www.sfperforming-

artscenter.org or call (415) 431-2787.

Community health meeting in Oakland

Several East Bay organizations aresponsoring a community dialoguemeeting Monday, January 10 from 6to 8:30 p.m. at the offices of the Sex-ual Minority Alliance of AlamedaCounty, 1608 Webster Street in Oak-land.

The purpose of the meeting is todevelop a dialogue around makingsure that health needs of LGBT peo-ple in Alameda and Contra Costacounties are included in the state’shealth care plan and provide inputinto the California Strategic Plan topromote wellness for LGBTQ resi-dents.

Groups sponsoring the meetinginclude the Pacific Center, RainbowCommunity Center, AIDS Project ofthe East Bay, Bay Area American In-dian Two Spirits, GSA Network, theAsian and Pacific Islander WellnessCenter, Mental Health America ofNorthern California, and EqualityCalifornia.▼

forefront a new set of leaders.“I think it shows that we have ma-

tured as a community,” said openlygay Santa Clara County SupervisorKen Yeager, whose 1999 book Trail-blazers: Profiles of America’s Gay andLesbian Elected Officials profiled adozen of the country’s first out polit-ical leaders.

Not since the early 1990s hasthere been such a wholesale turnoverin the public face of the local LGBTcommunity. In what became knownas the “Lavender Sweep,” San Fran-cisco voters elected four out peopleto political offices in 1990. Four yearslater, a second “Lavender Sweep” oc-curred with the election of five outcandidates to city offices.

“Our organizations have maturedso much that this becomes a news-worthy story when we have changes,”said Leslie Katz, an out lesbian whowas elected to the city’s Community

College Board in 1994 and went onto be a city supervisor. “I think it is asign of both health and growth forthe organizations and the individu-als when they have gotten to a pointfor a need to make some changes.”

From city halls in San Franciscoand Oakland to the statehouse inSacramento, a fresh crop of LGBTleaders will be making their mark in2011.

The state’s largest LGBT group,Equality California, will name a newexecutive director with the departureof Geoff Kors in March. Since hejoined EQCA in 2002, Kors has beena constant presence in the press talk-ing about various LGBT issues.

The San Francisco AIDS Founda-tion already welcomed its new CEO,Neil Giuliano, a former mayor ofTempe, Arizona who comes with analready high national media profiledue to his political work and leader-ship of the Gay and Lesbian AllianceAgainst Defamation.

Following a tumultuous period ofleadership last year, the city’s Pride

board is now being led by NikkiCalma, a transgender woman whoworks in HIV prevention. With theorganization postponing its searchfor a new executive director due to itsfiscal crisis, Calma, as board chair,finds herself in charge of one of thelargest LGBT events on the WestCoast.

Other community groups are alsowelcoming new leaders this year.Academy of Friends, which puts onan annual Oscar-watching AIDSfundraiser, is looking for a new exec-utive director as it also deals with itsown budget problems stemmingfrom last year’s event.

At the Metropolitan CommunityChurch in the Castro, the LGBT con-gregation announced this week ithad brought on the Reverend Dr.William H. Knight as its second pro-visional pastor in as many months.Knight is expected to be the church’sspiritual leader over the next sixmonths as it searches for a perma-nent pastor.

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Charles Gregory HayFebruary 11, 1963 – November 26, 2010

Charles Gre-gory Hay, known asGreg, a former resi-dent of San Fran-cisco, passed awayin Palm Springsafter a brief illness.He was preceded indeath by his life

partner, David Buckles. He and Davidowned Steamy Solutions, a power-washing company, in San Francisco,before moving to Palm Springs in2001.

While living in San Francisco,Greg performed at the Campus The-ater, and was an active member of theSan Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.

After moving to Palm Springs,Greg was employed at the CCBC Re-sort Hotel where he last held the posi-tion of Front Desk Manager. Greg ad-ditionally performed as the infamous“Gladys,” where he entertained andtantalized the resort’s guests.

Greg’s positive outlook and kindheart would easily attract friends. Hewas often thought of as very giving,

with a great sense of humor.Greg will be dearly missed by

his family in Houston, Texas, and byhis numerous friends around theworld.

Dennis J. HealyFebruary 2, 1951 - December 24, 2010

Dennis Healy, oneof the gentlest andsweetest men youcould ever hope tomeet, lost his battleto ALS and left thisearthly plane onChristmas Eve. Itwas a peaceful

passing, in his home with his partnerof 30 years, Rick, holding his hand.The last words he heard were “I loveyou.” He took his last breath secondslater.

He is survived by his partnerRick Bradford, two sisters – SandieBohnenstiehl and Eileen Pulker ofFranklin, Michigan, one brother –John Healy of Apache Junction, Ari-zona, his son Aragorn Healy of SanFrancisco, and his grandson Calvin.

He also leaves behind many rel-atives and extended family from theSan Francisco Pool Association, ofwhich he was a member for 26 years,holding numerous 8-ball tourna-ments wins. His ready smile and gen-tle nature will be missed by everyonewho knew him.

Ted GrangerDecember 24, 1942 – November 20, 2010

Ted Granger,67, died of livercancer at approxi-mately 11:30 p.m.on November 20,2010. Ted diedpeacefully in hissleep at home inCathedral City,

California. To say that a hole has beenleft in the hearts of Dan Livingstonand Bill Brown would be a gross un-derstatement. Ted shared their livesover many years.

Through the years, Ted and Danowned five successful bars located inSan Francisco, the Russian River andPalm Springs.

While Ted may be rememberedby some for his gruff exterior, anyonethat was close to him knew his com-passion for life, his deep love of hisfamily as well as Dan and Bill, hisfierce loyalty and his truly gentle andcaring nature.

You will be missed by many,Ted, most of all by Dan and Bill. Restin peace. Our prayers are with you.

William Thomas Soucy August 23, 1950 - October 28, 2010

WilliamThomas Soucy, alsoknown as Mr. Bill,passed away athome due to com-plications of dia-betes. He was theeldest son of thelate William A. and

Jean M. Soucy of Stafford Springs,CT. He graduated from Stafford Highwhere he was a member of the crosscountry team. William proudlyserved with the U.S. Navy receivingan honorable discharge after whichhe hitchhiked all over the United

States making friends everywhere; Heloved living in San Francisco for over30 years and enjoyed trivia, numbers,history, A.A. and reading. He waswell-known for his great smile, en-dearing charm, wonderful wit andoutrageous costumes.

Bill is survived by five siblings:Ann Soucy, John Soucy and wife Kim,Ellen Soucy, Patrick Soucy and wifePam, all of Stafford Springs, CT andPaul Soucy of Conyers, GA; Also,nine nieces and nephews and numer-ous other relatives. Besides his par-ents, William was predeceased by ayounger brother, Robert Soucy.

Bill’s funeral and burial withmilitary honors were held in Con-necticut. Memorial contributions inWilliam T. Soucy’s name may bemade to the Stafford High SchoolCross Country Team, c/o StaffordHigh School Athletic Booster Club,145 Orcuttville Rd., Stafford Springs,CT 06076. A casual memorial cele-bration will be held on Saturday, Jan-uary 15 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at theCastro Country Club, 4058 18th St.near Castro, in San Francisco. Forfurther info: (860) 614-8080

by Rex Wockner

Ireland’s new same-sex civil-part-nership law took effect January 1.Couples can unite before a regis-

trar after giving three months’ noticeof their intention to tie the knot.

Civil partners receive marriagerights and obligations in matterssuch as taxes, pensions, property, ten-ancy, inheritance, alimony, immigra-tion, and social benefits.

To end a partnership, a couple willgo before a court and prove they havenot lived together for two of the lastthree years.

The law also recognizes foreignsame-sex unions and provides somerights for unregistered couples whohave lived together for at least fiveyears.

Justice Minister Dermot Aherncalled the law “one of the most im-portant pieces of civil rights legisla-tion to be enacted since indepen-dence.”

“Persons in committed gay rela-tionships who wish to share dutiesand responsibilities now have thechoice to register their partner-ship and become part of alegal regime that fully pro-tects them in the course ofthat partnership and, ifnecessary, on its termina-tion,” he said. “The new lawrecognizes and supportsdiversity.”

An informational book-let on the registrationprocess is available atwww.groireland.ie.

Chilean court to rule on same-sex marriage

Following a referral from the San-tiago Court of Appeals, Chile’s Con-stitutional Court will take up a same-sex marriage case this week.

The court will consider a protec-tion demand from MOVILH, theHomosexual Integration and Libera-tion Movement, and three same-sexcouples who want the nation’s oppo-site-sex definition of marriage struckdown on constitutional grounds.

The plaintiffs also seek to negate alaw that blocks recognition of same-sex marriages entered into abroad.

MOVILH President RolandoJiménez called the case a historic be-fore-and-after moment for Chile’sLGBT movement.

All three plaintiff couples seek tomarry in Chile. In addition, one cou-ple seeks recognition of their legalCanadian marriage, and anotherseeks recognition of their legal Ar-gentine marriage. The couples at-tempted to marry in Chile but wereturned away by civil registry officials.

The lawsuit claims that Chile’s banon same-sex marriage and its refusal

to recognize foreign same-sex mar-riages infringe a constitutionalpromise that all people “are born freeand equal in dignity and rights” and aconstitutional guarantee of “equalprotection of the law in the exercise

of rights,” among other vio-lations.

Should the consti-tutional court ruleagainst same-sexmarriage, activistsplan to appeal to the Supreme

Court and, if neces-sary, the Inter-Amer-ican Commission onHuman Rights.

UK to expunge gay sex ‘crimes’The United Kingdom is preparing

legislation to expunge the “crimes” ofadult men who were prosecuted forhaving consensual sex with adultmen in earlier eras.

The slate will be wiped clean formen whose partners were at least 16years old.

At present, such “crimes” must bedisclosed when applying for certainjobs or volunteer positions.

England and Wales decriminal-ized gay sex in 1967 for people overage 21, lowered the age to 18 in 1994and lowered it to 16, the age that ap-plies to heterosexual sex, in 2000.

Scotland and Northern Irelanddecriminalized gay sex in the early1980s. The subsequent age reduc-tions applied to all four UK politicalentities.

Brits quit GodThe latest British social attitudes

survey from the National Centre forSocial Research has found that 51percent of respondents have no reli-gion and 42 percent say they areChristian.

Just 25 years ago, 63 percent wereChristian and only 34 percent had

no religion.The gay humanist group Pink

Triangle Trust “warmly welcomed”the findings.

“The country has become muchless religious and more secular in itsoutlook,” said Pink Triangle secre-tary George Broadhead. “Neverthe-less, the powers that be, includingpoliticians and the media – especial-ly the BBC – choose to ignore thefindings and continue to give specialprivileges to the churches and otherreligious institutions as if they hadoverwhelming support.”

The Guardian newspaper edito-rialized: “This Christmas, for per-haps the first time ever, Britain is amajority non-religious nation. Mostof us have probably seen this mo-ment coming, but it is a substantialevent nonetheless.”

Russian top judge disses Euro court ruling on gays

The chairman of Russia’s Consti-tutional Court, Valery Zorkin, saidDecember 23 that the recent Euro-pean Court of Human Rights deci-sion that struck down Moscow CityHall’s annual bans of gay pride dis-respected Russian sensitivities, espe-cially those of predominantly Islam-ic republics within the Russian Fed-eration.

Zorkin accused the Euro courtjudges of sitting in a “glass buildingand throwing stones.”

In a group of cases brought byMoscow Pride founder Nikolai Alek-seev, the court determined thatMoscow’s pride bans violated guar-antees of the European Conventionon Human Rights and FundamentalFreedoms in the areas of freedom ofassembly and association, right to aneffective remedy and prohibition ofdiscrimination.

Russia was ordered to pay Alek-seev 12,000 euros ($15,928) in dam-ages and 17,510 euros in costs andexpenses.

The ruling has not yet come intoforce, but will be finalized beforenext summer’s sixth attemptedMoscow Pride Parade. It is unknownif the city will accede to the decision.

Malta fights trans marriageMalta’s attorney general is ap-

pealing a ruling that transgenderwoman Joanne Cassar must be al-lowed to marry her boyfriend.

The constitutional arm of theFirst Hall of the Civil Court hadruled that European Law and Euro-pean Court of Human Rights deci-sions establish the right of post-op-erative transgender people to enterinto an opposite-sex marriage as amember of their new sex.

Cassar is no longer engaged butwill continue to pursue the case.

Elton John, partner become parents

Sir Elton John and David Furnishbecame parents December 25. Theirson, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born to a surrogate in Cal-

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comment by Dominguez was madepublic.

It was revealed that Dominguez ac-tively participated in the sting andcalled those subjected to the sting“filthy motherfuckers.”

Dominguez acknowledged makingthe remark and issued an apology lastweek.

“It’s disgusting. It’s absolutely dis-gusting,” said Thomas Van Etten, acommunity activist and former mem-ber of the Palm Springs Police Adviso-ry Committee who resigned in protestover the city’s handling of the contro-versy. Van Etten made his commentsbefore news of the chief ’s retirementwas announced. He had called forDominguez to be fired and had blast-ed the Palm Springs City Council.

There are five members on thePalm Springs City Council, includingthe mayor. Pougnet and two othercouncil members are openly gay. Nonereturned the Bay Area Reporter’s e-mails or phone calls.

“Every time you lift up the rug, youfind another body,” said Robert Stone,a founding member of the WarmSands Neighborhood Organization.

Stone was referring to the unfoldingseries of damaging information beingrevealed in connection with the stingoperation. Just after Dominguez usedthe MF slur, an officer was recorded ontape calling a potential sting suspect a“cock-sucker.”

Stone, who made his commentsbefore Dominguez’s retirement wasannounced, echoed Van Etten’s senti-ments and has called for the chief tobe fired. His organization sent a letterto city officials last week denouncingthe chief ’s remarks but the groupstopped short of recommending thathe be fired. Stone is an author and aB.A.R. contributor who writes underthe pen name Robert Julian.

Dominguez admitted using theslur after a complaint was filed by at-torney Gregory Petersen. The lawyertold the B.A.R. this week that he hasrepresented individual Palm Springspolice officers for 30 years. He hopedthe complaint would help expose whathe considered to be the chief ’shypocrisy. Previously, Dominguezstrongly condemned one of his offi-cers for calling a potential suspect a“cock-sucker.”

“How can you throw stones if youare doing the same thing?” Petersensaid.

Petersen would not say whether he

was representing the officer accused ofmaking the “cock-sucker” remark.

The sting resulted in the arrests of19 suspects. If convicted, the menwould be required to register as sex of-fenders for life in a database thatwould be accessible only to law en-forcement.

Dark parking lotThe sting was conducted in a dark

parking lot of a gay resort. The policedepartment used young, muscularofficers to try to get men to exposetheir genitals. According to RogerTansey, a public defense attorney forsix of the arrested men, it took oneofficer as long as 20 minutes to final-ly get a man to expose himself. An-other man insisted on going with theofficer to his hotel. But the undercov-er officer insisted on “seeing thegoods” before he would go anywherewith the man. The man finally com-plied and was arrested.

A Palm Springs police sergeant anda lieutenant testified in depositionsthat there was a tacit agreement aheadof time with the Riverside CountyDistrict Attorney to charge the menwith penal code section 314, whichcomes with a lifetime sex crime regis-tration. The 314 charge is commonlyused for flashers. City officials deny

that there was any agreement with theDA’s office. But a former prosecutorwith the DA’s office came forward tosay that there was indeed such anagreement.

Dominguez did not return theB.A.R.’s call for comment by presstime. In a December 28 statement hewrote in part: “During the WarmSands arrests an inappropriate com-ment made by me did not display theutmost professional conduct expect-ed from the chief of police and I sin-cerely apologize to the community atlarge. Today, a year and a half after theWarm Sands arrests were made, Ipledge a renewed vigor to the safetyand sensitivity of our community.”

City Manager David Ready didnot return the B.A.R.’s call by presstime, but in a six-page statement alsoissued on December 28, Readychronicled the controversy, again de-nied that there had been any prioragreement with the DA over thecharges, and apologized for the “ex-tremely offensive comments thathave been attributed to some mem-bers of our team.”

One of Palm Springs’ three outcity council members, Ginny Foat,was one of the few elected officials tosay anything about the recent contro-versy over Dominguez’s comments.

She told the Desert Sun newspaperthat although the chief should nothave made those remarks, she does-n’t think they were homophobic.

“I think he was disgusted with thebehavior and he could have put thatcomment in the context of any kindof crime,” Foat told the paper.

According to the complaint filedby Petersen in September, Domingueztold the officers they deserve extra payfor working on the sting and calledthe would-be defendants “a bunch offilthy motherfuckers.”

Van Etten said he was outraged byFoat’s defense of Dominguez.

“She’s a turncoat. She’s an absoluteturncoat,” the activist said.

More allegations?The firestorm over the sting is

showing no signs of dying out. Thisweek, the B.A.R. has learned of anoth-er potentially explosive allegation inthe case. Tansey, the defense attorney,told the B.A.R. that he received ananonymous letter last month that wassent in a Palm Springs Police Depart-ment envelope. It alleged that a policedepartment employee was granted apromotion in exchange for giving tes-timony that would be more favorableto Dominguez. Tansey turned the let-ter over to the FBI.▼

have a development staff, the execu-tive director is always a fundraiser inaddition to his or her other responsi-bilities.”

There has been some speculationthat Jim Carroll, EQCA’s managingdirector, will be chosen to replaceKors.

Davidson said in an interviewthis week that he started laughingwhen he saw the rumor.

“The reality is that we have re-tained a search firm, and we are con-ducting a nationwide search,” saidDavidson. “I have no idea who isgoing to apply or who we’ll select, butwe’re following the process the boardadopted several years ago in the eventGeoff would someday resign.”

Asked in an e-mail this weekabout Carroll and the search, EQCAspokeswoman Vaishalee Raja re-sponded that a contract had beennegotiated and signed with the firmMorris and Berger. She said EQCAplans to provide more informationlater this week.

Mare Keville, the office managerat Morris and Berger and an execu-tive assistant to the partners, saidEQCA has “verbally” hired the firm.

However, Keville, who’s not aspokeswoman for Morris and Berger,

said, “We don’t have a signed contractback, so I would not put anything inprint. Nothing’s official yet.” She saidthe firm would be talking to EQCA’ssearch committee later this week.

Dealing with troubleBesides raising money, knowing

how to lead an organization that ap-pears to be in crisis could also be agood skill for prospective executivedirector candidates.

In October, Mike Horak an-nounced his resignation from Acad-emy of Friends, which is known forits pricey Academy Awards galas andhas contributed more than $8.5 mil-lion to Bay Area HIV/AIDS serviceorganizations over the years.

But last year AOF could not meetits obligations to the beneficiary or-ganizations and tens of thousands ofdollars remain unpaid to those agen-cies.

At the time his departure was an-nounced, Horak said it was unrelat-ed to the group’s financial troubles.Board member Jon Finck told theBay Area Reporter in November thatabout $180,000 remained to be paidto AOF’s current beneficiaries.

In response to e-mailed questionsfrom the B.A.R., Alan Keith, AOF’sboard chair, wrote this week that thesearch for a new executive directorhas begun.

“Since Academy of Friends is pri-

marily a fundraising organization,fundraising skills are a primary re-quirement for our executive direc-tor,” said Keith. The group remains“committed and on target” to pay allbeneficiaries by May 31, he said. Thelast payment was made December29, he said, but he wouldn’t say howmuch remains to be paid.

However, said Keith, “... [N]othingis ‘owed’ as grants to beneficiaries aretied to the relative success of fundrais-ing efforts.”

“Individual underwriting dona-tions are consistent with prior years.

Corporate sponsorship support con-tinues to be challenging as it is formany in this economic environment,”Keith said.

Lyon-Martin Health Services, aSan Francisco-based clinic that pro-vides health care to women and trans-gender people, is another group thatrecently lost its executive director.

Teri McGinnis left the post in No-vember. The agency has been facingdecreases in funding, but around thetime she quit, McGinnis said her de-cision was “truly personal.” She had-n’t yet lined up another job.

Dr. Dawn Harbatkin, Lyon-Mar-tin’s medical director, was appointedto serve as interim director.

Harbatkin said at the time thatMcGinnis’s resignation wasn’t relatedto Lyon-Martin’s finances, but shesaid one key characteristic the agencywould look for in a new director “issomeone who can not only take onthe challenges of health care reformand the systems needed to do that,but also someone who has strongfundraising skills and can really in-vigorate the community and getmore involvement from the commu-nity in Lyon-Martin.”

In response to e-mailed questionsthis week, Harbatkin said the searchfor a new executive director hasn’t yetstarted.

The San Francisco LGBT PrideCelebration Committee is in disar-ray. Amy Andre, the group’s most re-cent executive director, left in No-vember after what the group called a“miscommunication” that resultedin several of its partners being un-derpaid by thousands of dollars.Andre hasn’t told the B.A.R. specifi-cally why she quit.

As of last week, the group’s totaldebt was about $212,000, and theywere holding off on looking for a newdirector.

Nikki Calma, Pride’s board chair,didn’t respond to an e-mail from theB.A.R. this week.▼

At City Hall the departure oflongtime District 8 supervisor andformer mayoral aide Bevan Duftymeans that his successor, openly gaySupervisor-elect Scott Wiener, willbecome the de facto leader of thecity’s gayborhood in the Castro. Italso means that District 9 Supervi-sor David Campos becomes themost senior gay member on theBoard of Supervisors.

Several other newly elected outpeople have been in the media’sspotlight in recent weeks and likelywill continue to be throughout 2011.Freshman state Assemblyman RichGordon (D-Menlo Park), a formerSan Mateo County supervisor, willbe front and center dealing with thestate’s budget problems, whileAlameda County Superior CourtJudge Victoria Kolakowksi will con-tinue to draw attention for being thecountry’s first transgender electedtrial judge.

Oakland’s new mayor, JeanQuan, is expected to name severalLGBT people to prominent posts inher administration. At the same

time, lesbian at-large Oakland CityCouncil woman Rebecca Kaplan’sprofile is expected to increase fol-lowing her strong showing in themayoral race last fall.

Governor Jerry Brown is also ex-pected to announce several LGBTappointments within his adminis-tration. Already, gay former SantaCruz Assemblyman John Laird hasbeen named to run the state NaturalResources Agency.

“I don’t recall as large a turnoveras this,” said Steven Tierney, a gayman who serves on the San Francis-co Health Commission. “It seemsvery hopeful. It is also a reminderwith the new folks coming in that itis our job to train the next genera-tion of LGBT leaders.”

Yeager said having so manyLGBT people in powerful postslends itself to a perpetual farm teamof leaders within the community.

“As we elect more gay peoplethey’re more apt to hire more open-ly gay staffers who can often fill therole of their boss when their bossmoves on,” said Yeager, noting thathis gay chief of staff, John Mills, mayrun for office one day. “There aremore people in the pipeline becausethere are more opportunities.”

More changes await at SF City Hall

Once Mayor Gavin Newsomtakes his oath of office Monday, Jan-uary 10 to become the state’s nextlieutenant governor, there could be ashuffling of a number of top LGBTmayoral aides at San Francisco’s CityHall. Whether or not longtime New-som Chief of Staff Steve Kawa andhis most recent spokesman, TonyWinnicker, remain in their jobs willbe dependent on who becomes thecity’s interim mayor.

With Newsom still in office, whowill be named his replacement will beup to the new Board of Supervisorsto decide after it is sworn into officethis Saturday, January 8 at noon.

This week City AdministratorEdwin Lee emerged as a likely can-didate for the job. Should Lee be-come the interim mayor, it is con-ceivable that he would keep Win-nicker, Kawa and other top Newsomofficials in place as he is viewed asbeing a caretaker of the office untilvoters elect a new mayor this fall.

Or the next mayor, whether it isLee or some other candidate, couldopt to name their own city depart-ment heads, raising the potentialthat current LGBT administrators

could be shown the door while newones are appointed.

“Those conversations certainlyhaven’t occurred yet and would hap-pen only when a new interim mayoris appointed next week. I know Steveand I will both want to support asmooth and stable transition for theinterim mayor and for the city anyway we can,” Winnicker told the BayArea Reporter this week.

Some city officials have alreadydeparted, such as longtime openlygay Health Director Dr. Mitch Katz,who took over Los Angeles County’ssprawling public health agency thisweek. Stepping in to replace Katz isout lesbian Barbara Garcia, who hadbeen his deputy director of publichealth the last 11 years.

With the ongoing intrigue overwho will become mayor – the cur-rent Board of Supervisors will meetone last time this Friday, January 7at 3 p.m. about the selection, thoughany vote would be symbolic since thepost isn’t vacant – there is still the re-mote possibility of seeing a gay manbecome mayor. Several have beenfloated as potential picks, such asCampos, Kawa and Ed Harrington,general manager of the city’s PublicUtilities Commission.

As it will ultimately rest with thenew board to decide, there is noguarantee they will agree to Leebeing interim mayor. With Newsomout of the picture as of Monday, theycould go with their own pick thatisn’t beholden to maintaining New-som’s current administration.

Depending on how the fight forRoom 200 at City Hall plays out,Campos could find himself electedthis weekend as the new president ofthe Board of Supervisors. Or follow-ing what happened four years ago, afreshman supervisor such as incom-ing District 6 Supervisor Jane Kimmay be able to line up the six votesneeded to replace the current boardpresident, Supervisor David Chiu.

With the departure of KamalaHarris as the city’s district attorneythis past Monday to become thestate’s attorney general, Newsom isexpected to name her replacementsometime this week. One possiblepick is Paul Henderson, a gay blackman who was Harris’s chief of ad-ministration. He has made no secrethe would like the job and plans toseek it at the ballot box.

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Laird, 60, represented Santa Cruzin the Assembly for six years beforebeing termed out of office. He lost abid last summer for a coastal stateSenate seat.

Should he be confirmed by thestate Senate to the position, Lairdwill oversee policies that cover every-thing from logging and water to stateparks and farming issues. A longtimeenvironmental activist, Laird is ex-pected to be a vocal opponent of off-shore oil drilling, which he foughtagainst when he served as a citycouncilman and mayor of his home-town.

In Sacramento, Laird helpedpush through the state’s cutting edgeclimate change law known as AB 32,which regulates greenhouse gasemissions and has been fiercely op-posed by oil companies. He was alsoa main voice for protecting Sierraforests, water conservation and re-newable energy while in the state-house.

Laird is the fifth out person to beappointed to a state position in re-cent weeks. Prior to his leaving of-fice, former Governor ArnoldSchwarzenegger announced he hadselected four openly gay or lesbianpeople for state boards and commis-sions.

On New Year’s Eve he appointedhis chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, 50,a Democrat and out lesbian, to a seaton the five-person California HealthBenefit Exchange. Schwarzeneggeralso tapped Kimberly Belshe, 51, hissecretary of the California Healthand Human Services Agency, to aseat on the exchange.

The oversight entity, requiredunder the newly enacted federalhealth care reform, is tasked withwriting the procedures and criteriafor enrolling California consumersand small businesses into health in-surance plans beginning in 2014. Itwill also select the health insuranceproviders allowed to participate inthe program.

The members do not need to beconfirmed by the state Senate andwill serve on a volunteer basis.

On his last day in office, Sunday,January 2, Schwarzenegger an-nounced he had tapped two formerout lawmakers for well-paid posi-tions on state boards.

Roy Ashburn, 56, a Republicanstate senator from Bakersfieldtermed out of office last year, is upfor a seat on the California Unem-ployment Insurance Appeals Board.The position pays $128,109 and re-quires Senate confirmation.

The conservative lawmaker ac-knowledged he was gay following hisarrest last March for drunken dri-ving after a night out at a Sacramen-to gay bar.

Carole Migden, a former Democ-ratic senator from San Francisco, isup for a seat on the AgricultureLabor Relations Board. The positionpays $128,109 and also requires Sen-ate approval. Migden, 62, left officein December 2008 following her re-election defeat in her party primarythat June. Schwarzenegger then ap-pointed the lesbian lawmaker to an-other well-paid post on the Integrat-ed Waste Management Board.

Laird and out lesbian SheilaKuehl, a former state senator fromSanta Monica, also landed that yearon the waste board, whose membersearned $132,000 a year. ButSchwarzenegger eliminated theboard at the end of 2009 in a sym-bolic budget-cutting move.

Last month, right before Christ-mas, Schwarzenegger also an-nounced he had reappointed JamesVaughn, a gay Republican, to theCalifornia State Bar Board of Gover-nors Examining Committee.Vaughn, 46, has served in the un-paid, volunteer capacity since 2007and has been the vice chair of theMoral Character DeterminationSubcommittee.

Vaughn had served as the Cali-fornia director of the Log Cabin Re-publicans and worked closely withSchwarzenegger’s administrationwhile in the position from 2005through 2008.▼


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STATEMENT FILE A-033241100The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as COMAR LAW, 901 MissionSt. #105, San Francisco, CA 94103. Thisbusiness is conducted by an individual, signedDave Inder Comar. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names on01/03/11. The statement was filed with theCity and County of San Francisco, CA on01/04/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033233600The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as LITTLE CITY DAYCARE, 443Peninsula Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134.This business is conducted by an individual,signed Caitlin A. Sharp. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names on08/01/10. The statement was filed with theCity and County of San Francisco, CA on12/30/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENTOF USE OF FICTICIOUSBUSINESS NAME: #A-032509400The following persons have abandoned theuse of the ficticious business name knownas E2 TUTORING SERVICE, 2600 JudahSt., San Francisco, CA 94122. Thisbusiness was conducted by a limitedliability company, signed Samuel KwongHo. The ficticious name was filed with theCity and County of San Francisco, CA on02/28/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011NOTICE OF APPLICATION TOSELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) ofthe applicant(s) is/are: IGOR LITVAK,ALEXANDRE TCHERNIKOV. Theapplicants listed above are applying to theDepartment of Alcoholic Beverage Controlat 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, SanFrancisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholicbeverages at: 433 S Van Ness Ave., SanFrancisco, CA 94103-3629. Type oflicense applied for: 41 ON-SALE BEER AND WINE-EATING PLACE

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DNA technology, even if the attack-er is unknown, if evidence is testedsoon enough, there’s a “real possibil-ity of getting serial rapists off thestreets before they rape again. It’sthat simple.”

Hammer said if rape victims canbe told with certainty that DNA ev-idence in their case will be tested ina timely manner and results will beavailable quickly, the chances ofthem cooperating in the prosecution“go way up,” and with that, thechances of a successful prosecutionincrease.

The ordinance also requires thecity to appropriate sufficient fundseach fiscal year to ensure timely test-ing of DNA evidence in sexual as-sault cases.

The legislation might not costany more than what’s being done al-

ready, said Hammer, because it won’tnecessarily mean more testing, “it’sjust going to be on a faster timeline.”

In response to an e-mailed re-quest for comment, Lieutenant LynTomioka, a San Francisco policespokeswoman, wrote, “Over the nextfew months we will be developingrealistic goals which will provide thebest case management platform forour DNA lab. We were already in theprocess of looking for more qualifiedcriminalists, so we may need to lookat hiring additional people.”

In December 2009, a jury foundFrancis guilty of charges includingforcible oral copulation and robberyof a transgender woman. He wassentenced in January 2010 to 17years and eight months in stateprison for that case, which alsostemmed from 2007.

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREARAPID TRANSIT DISTRICTREQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

NO. 6M8042EXTENSION OF TIME FORRECEIPT OF PROPOSALS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that theGeneral Manager of the San

Francisco Bay Area Rapid TransitDistrict has extended the time for

receipt of Proposals until the hour of2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 25, 2011,

at the District Secretary's Office,23rdFloor, 300 Lakeside Drive,

Oakland, California 94612 or to themailing address: P.O. Box 12688,

Oakland, California, 94604-2688 for,COMMUNITY RELATIONS

SERVICES FOR BARTCONSTRUCTION PROJECTS .

Dated at Oakland, California, this15th day of December, 2010.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033176700The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as STUDIO RONSKY, 324Collingwood Street, San Francisco, CA94114. This business is conducted by anindividual, signed Ronald S. Hermenau. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on 12/01/10. The statementwas filed with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/01/10. DEC. 16,23,30,2010,JAN.06, 2011

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TOSELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) ofthe applicant(s) is/are: AMPARO VIGIL,WILLIAM VIGIL. The applicants listedabove are applying to the Department ofAlcoholic Beverage Control at 71Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco,CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:546 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA94110. Type of license applied for: 47 ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE

DEC 30,2010 JAN 06,13,2011

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TOSELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) ofthe applicant(s) is/are: AKINAI INC. Theapplicants listed above are applying to theDepartment of Alcoholic Beverage Controlat 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, SanFrancisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholicbeverages at: 2092 3rd Street, SanFrancisco, CA 94107. Type of licenseapplied for: 47 ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE

DEC 30,2010 JAN 06,13,2011

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TOSELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) ofthe applicant(s) is/are: SWEET LIMEINC. The applicants listed above areapplying to the Department of AlcoholicBeverage Control at 71 StevensonStreet,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105to sell alcoholic beverages at: 2100 SutterStreet, San Francisco, CA 94115-3120.Type of license applied for: 41 ON-SALE BEER AND WINE-EATING PLACE

DEC 30,2010 JAN 06,13,2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033205300The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as LBE TRANSPORTATION,LLC, 660 4th Street, San Francisco, CA94107. This business is conducted by anlimited liability company, signed Jagtar Chandi.The registrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on 12/14/10. The statementwas filed with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/14/10. DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033196600The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as NICE COLLECTIVE M.S.U.,2544 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA94107. This business is conducted by anlimited liability company, signed RileyJohnDonnell. The registrant(s) commencedto transact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 12/09/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/10. DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033215800The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as TARSIER TRAVEL & TOURS,1048 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA94103. This business is conducted by anhusband and wife, signed Crisostomo Ibarra. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on NA. The statement wasfiled with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/20/10. DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033213800The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as MOTTERSHEADCONSULTING, 101 Lombard Street,#409W, San Francisco, CA 94111. Thisbusiness is conducted by an individual, signedTerri Mottershead. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names on07/30/10. The statement was filed with theCity and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/20/10. DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033213500The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as RAZORS, 4249 18th Street,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business isconducted by an individual, signed Everett C.Stone III. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 01/31/06.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/20/10. DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033215200The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS,760 Church Street,#3, San Francisco, CA94114. This business is conducted by anindividual, signed Charles M. Williams. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on NA. The statement wasfiled with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/20/10. DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033218800The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as CLIMB REAL ESTATEGROUP, 251 Rhode Island Street,#105,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business isconducted by an individual, signed TiffanyCombs. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 12/22/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/22/10. DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033221700The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as 1.WHIMSY MEDIA, 2.GIRLSTHAT ROAM, 3.SIGNATURE NOTARYPUBLIC, 322 12th Avenue,#3,Street, SanFrancisco, CA 94118. This business isconducted by an individual, signed HeatherCassell. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 12/23/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/23/10.

DEC 30, 2010, JAN 06,13,20, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033219000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as STAGE LOUNGE CATERING,408 29th Street, San Francisco, CA94131. This business is conducted by acorporation, signed Tom Basso. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on 12/22/10. The statementwas filed with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/22/10.

DEC 30, 2010, JAN 06,13,20, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033194400The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as NEW ALTERNATIVES,1600Guerrero Street,San Francisco, CA 94110.This business is conducted by an individual,signed Luz A. Bourne-Ruiz. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names on12/08/10.The statement was filedwith the City and County of SanFrancisco,CA on 12/08/10.DEC. 16,23,30,2010,JAN.06, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033195400The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as MYSMTSHOP.COM, 1255Polk Street,#26,San Francisco, CA94109. This business is conducted by anindividual, signed Aleksey Severyukhin. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on NA.The statement wasfiled with the City and County of SanFrancisco,CA on 12/08/10.DEC. 16,23,30,2010,JAN.06, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033196100The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as GREEN CONSTRUCTIONAND LANDSCAPING, 176 CapistranoAvenue ,San Francisco, CA 94112. Thisbusiness is conducted by an individual, signedLawrence Situ. The registrant(s) commencedto transact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 12/08/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco,CA on 12/08/10.DEC. 16,23,30,2010,JAN.06, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033198700The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as PETER JONES COMPUTERCONSULTING, 558 29th Avenue,SanFrancisco, CA 94121. This business isconducted by an individual, signed PeterJones. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on12/09/10. The statement was filed with theCity and County of San Francisco,CA on12/09/10.DEC. 16,23,30,2010,JAN.06, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033187000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as PASSPORT FOLDER,1680Post Street, Ste. C,San Francisco, CA94115. This business is conducted by anindividual, signed Lao Xin. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitiousbusiness name or names on 12/01/10. Thestatement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco,CA on 12/06/10.DEC. 16,23,30,2010,JAN.06, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033198000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as ML TRADING COMPANY,717 Cayuga Avenue ,San Francisco, CA94112. This business is conducted by anindividual, signed Mike Hoy Lau. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on 12/09/10. The statementwas filed with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/09/10. DEC. 16,23,30,2010,JAN.06, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033192200The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as NOBLE, 600 Polk Street, SanFrancisco, CA 94102. This business isconducted by a corporation, signed NareshAhadhal. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 12/07/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/07/10. DEC 30, 2010, JAN 06,13,20 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033214000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as ANNEX FUNDMANAGEMENT, 14 Jersey Street, SanFrancisco, CA 94114. This business isconducted by an individual, signed MoeAlsumidaie. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 11/01/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/22/10. DEC 30, 2010, JAN 06,13,20,2011

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIACOUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCOFAMILY LAW DEPARTMENTSUMMONS FAMILY LAWNOTICE TO RESPONDENT: EDGARKHACHATRYANPETITIONERS NAME: YEVGENIAOSIPOVA AND CASE NO. FDI-10-773553

You have 30 calendar days after thisSummons and Petition are served on youto file a response (Form FL-120 OR FL-123) at the court and have a copy servedon the petitioner. A letter or phone callwill not protect you.If you do not file your Response on time,the court may make orders affection yourmarriage or domestic partnership, yourproperty, and custody of your children.You may be ordered to pay support andattorney fees and costs. If you cannot paythe filing, ask the clerk for a fee waiverform.If you want legal advice, contact a lawyerimmediately. You can get informationabout finding lawyers at the CaliforniaCourts Online Self-Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), at theCalifornia Legal Services Web site(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) or bycontacting your local county barassociation.The name and address of the Court are:

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 400MCALLISTER STREET, SF, CA94102THE NAME, ADDRESS ANDTELEPHONE OF THEPETITIONER’S ATTORNEY:IRINA AEROV, 789 CABRILLOSTREET, SF, CA 94118415-387-9028

JAN.06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033226000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as THE CAFE, 2369 Market St.,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business isconducted by a corporation, signed SuchitraHutachuda. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 12/28/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033226400The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as TRIPLE R EXPRESS, 1000Franklin #401, San Francisco, CA 94109.This business is conducted by an individual,signed Robert Rice. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names on12/28/10. The statement was filed with theCity and County of San Francisco, CA on12/28/10. JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033221800The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as SWEETOOTH STUDIOS, 25653rd St. Studio #303, San Francisco, CA94107. This business is conducted by anindividual, signed Alisha Wilson. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on N/A. The statement wasfiled with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/23/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033191300The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as MOSES LIMOUSINESERVICES, 888 O’Farrell St. #W809,San Francisco, CA 94109. This business isconducted by an individual, signed MusaJaradie. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 12/07/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/07/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033236900The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as PSR ENTERPRISES, 1522Vandyke Ave., San Francisco, CA 94124.This business is conducted by an individual,signed Michael Henry Jr. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names on01/03/11. The statement was filed with theCity and County of San Francisco, CA on01/03/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011

City and County of San FranciscoFor Papers January 6, 2011SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER OUTREACH ADVERTISING SURVEYThe Board of Supervisors is evaluating the effectiveness of Outreach advertising. Please provide your comments at 415-554-7710 or email [email protected]. Please provide the publication name and date.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)OPERATOR-FUNDRAISER FOR THE INT’L AFRICAN MARKETPLACE (IAM) EVENTThe Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco ("Agency") is seeking qualified

respondents to submit proposals for Operator-Fundraiser for the International African Marketplace Event atthe Hunters Point Shipyard. Responses will be accepted until January 24, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.

A Pre-submission meeting will be held on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. at the San FranciscoRedevelopment Agency, located at One South Van Ness Ave. (Fifth Floor). To obtain a copy of the RFP,

please go to the Agency’s website: www.sfgov.org/sfra. If you have questions, please contact GaynellArmstrong-McCurn at (415) 749-2593 or by email at [email protected].

PORT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYThe Port of San Francisco is recruiting for a 9395 Property Manager to implement programs for

management, leasing and rental of Port land and buildings for retail, commercial and industrial tenants. Fora full description of the requirements and application, visit www.jobaps.com/sf. Contact Suzette Love at

415-274-0569 or email at [email protected] if you have any questions.Filing Deadline: 1-7-2011.

FREE SERVICES OFFERED BYTHE S. F. DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES

Are you a single parent in San Francisco and in need of financial support for your children? Free servicesinclude: establishment of an order for the other parent to pay monetary child support, health insurance,medical expenses and child care costs, modification of an existing child support order, and collection of

unpaid child support. We offer online case-opening and individualized appointment times. We’re located at617 Mission Street. For a confidential consultation call (415) 356-2754 or e-mail us at [email protected].

Visit us online at www.sfgov.org/dcss.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGReview of 2010 Pesticide Use on San Francisco City Properties &

Review of the Proposed 2011 San Francisco Reduced Risk Pesticide List. Tuesday, January 18, 4:30-6:30 pmRoom 421, City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco 415-355-3776

Agenda: 1. Use of "Most Limited" (L*) Pesticides on City Properties City departments that used these products in 2010 will provide justification for use. Question & answer period.2. Use of Exempted Pesticides City departments that received exemptions in 2010 for products that are not in the SF Reduced RiskPesticide List will provide justifications for their use. Question & answer period.3. Review of draft 2010 Reduced-Risk Pesticide List (ATTACHMENT C) Review of additions, deletions and changes with rationale. Discussion.4. Public Comment Comments on other issues related to pesticide use on City properties.

The City and County of San Francisco encourage public outreach. Articles are translated into severallanguages to provide better public access. The newspaper makes every effort to translate the articles of

general interest correctly. No liability is assumed by the City and County of San Francisco or the newspapers for errors and omissions.

STATEMENT FILE A-033237000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as THE WINE SHERPA, 571Pointe Pacific Dr. #3, Daly City, CA94014. This business is conducted by anindividual, signed Edmund Guelld. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on N/A. The statement wasfiled with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 01/03/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033237500The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as NORTH BEACH BAKINGCOMPANY, 1501 Grant Ave., SanFrancisco, CA 94133. This business isconducted by a limited liability company, signedDavid Seto. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on 08/01/10.The statement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033238000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as MJR CONSTRUCTION, 255Valdez Ave., San Francisco, CA 94127.This business is conducted by an individual,signed Matthew Ruffer. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names onN/A. The statement was filed with the Cityand County of San Francisco, CA on01/03/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033238000The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as CHINATOUR.COMINTERNATIONAL, 918 Clement St.#101, San Francisco, CA 94118. Thisbusiness is conducted by a corporation, signedBo Wang. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on N/A. Thestatement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 12/21/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033222500The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as 1. GIANT BOMB; 2. ANIMEVICE; 3. COMIC VINE; 4. SCREENED;5. TESTED; 921 Front St. #100, SanFrancisco, CA 94111. This business isconducted by a limited liability company, signedShelby Bonnie. The registrant(s) commencedto transact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on07/01/2010. The statement was filed withthe City and County of San Francisco, CAon 12/23/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033220400The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as BETFAIR US, 201 MissionSt., 9th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.This business is conducted by a limitedliability company, signed Martin Cruddace. Theregistrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on 09/03/08. The statementwas filed with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 12/23/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033240500The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as LINE UP, 398 7th St., SanFrancisco, CA 94114. This business isconducted by a corporation, signed LeticiaLuna. The registrant(s) commenced totransact business under the above listedfictitious business name or names on N/A. Thestatement was filed with the City andCounty of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033239200The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as OZIMO, 3150 18th St. #429,San Francisco, CA 94110. This business isconducted by a general partnership, signedRichard Freitas. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names onN/A. The statement was filed with the Cityand County of San Francisco, CA on01/03/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033232900The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as THE MAS METHOD, 425 1stSt. #2802, San Francisco, CA 94105.This business is conducted by an indivisual,signed Jessica Mas. The registrant(s)commenced to transact business under theabove listed fictitious business name or names on12/30/10 The statement was filed with theCity and County of San Francisco, CA on12/30/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011STATEMENT FILE A-033243100The following person(s) is/are doingbusiness as SUN BEADS, 1650 11th Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94122. This business isconducted by an individual, signed Li Li Zhang.The registrant(s) commenced to transactbusiness under the above listed fictitious businessname or names on 01/04/11. The statementwas filed with the City and County of SanFrancisco, CA on 01/04/11.

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Dancing away the decadeDance writer Paul Parish looks back; also,Isadora Duncan Dance Award nominees.

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Portuguese lightDirector Manoel de Oliveira’s‘Strange Case of Angelica’ opens.

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New Year’s gays‘On the Town’ goes out tosome festive year-end affairs.

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Looking ahead to 2011 in Bay Area museums~ by Sura Wood ~

2011 promises to be an exceptional year at the museums in terms of the variety, quality and quan-tity of scheduled exhibitions, making 2010, with its now-distant rumblings of economic hardtimes, look sparse in comparison. It gets off to an especially strong start at the end of this month,

a streak that continues through the year with shows on fashion, Picasso, photography, exotic cultures,Houdini, and two different exhibits (count ’em) on Gertrude Stein and her orbit. Could this be theyear of “all Gertrude, all the time,” you ask? Not quite. Hold on to your erudition and proffer thosenewly acquired museum passes: here’s a preview of what’s on tap this coming year.

Asian Art Museum: Julia Roberts and Eat, Pray, Love have done their part to boost Bali tourism,but the Asian’s exclusive show, Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance, is the first large-scale, in-depth exami-nation of this balmy tropical paradise’s ritual artworks and traditions to be presented in the US. Evenbetter, air travel is not required (Feb. 25-Sept. 11). In the fall, Maharaja: The Splendor of India’s RoyalCourts showcases the opulent culture and perks of princely India, proving that it’s good to be king (Oct.21, 2011-April 8, 2012).

Contemporary Jewish Museum: Since opening their new space two years ago, CJM has hit its stridewith exhibitions that just get better and better. Three here are worth singling out: Charlotte Salomon:

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Seldom-seen Hitchcock films play the Castro Theatre • by Tavo Amador

Prolific director Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) is associated with suspense, but he wasalso a master of sly humor, sometimes combining both in a single film. From Jan. 8-13, theCastro Theatre will show several of his rarely revived movies that are well worth viewing.

In The Lady Vanishes (1938), Margaret Lockwood is traveling by train when she realizesthat an elderly passenger (the splendid Dame May Whitty) has disappeared. She suspectsfoul play. With the bisexual Michael Redgrave (father of Vanessa, Lynn, and Colin). In The 39Steps (1935), Robert Donat aids an English counterspy, but when the agent is killed, he’scharged with murder. He flees from the authorities while trying to stop a foreign intelligencering from stealing classified information. With lovely Madeleine Carroll, one of Hitchcock’searliest cool blondes, and Peggy Ashcroft. Set in London. (1/8)

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John Dall and FarleyGranger in AlfredHitchcock’s Rope.

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by Roberto Friedman

Pookie, I’m hoooooor-rrrrrnnnny!” That’s what queerfolk will be howling on this

coming Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, at leCastro The-ay-tah as producer MarcHuestis presents movie star LesleyAnn Warren live and in-person in hisVictor/Victoria Valentine. The glamOscar nominee who virtually stoleV/V as the dumb blonde Norma Cas-sady will reveal her Victor/Victoria se-crets and dish about her fab career todiva-licious Coco Peru. The night willalso feature a knock-out, drag-downperformance by Matthew Martin,and a screening of the gender-bend-ing classic film Victor/Victoria, in-troduced by le jazz hat Jan Wahl.

Why VV for VD Day? we askedContessa Huestis. “Other than offer-ing the perfect alliteration [V/VV],the film deals with romantic love ofall stripes – gay, straight, bi, transand questioning – as well as featur-ing a rarity in cinema: a truly lovingrelationship between a gay man anda woman.” That’s what she said!

Might we add the evening willalso be a tender tribute to the lategreat director Blake Edwards, whoso recently passed away. So whetheryou’re a man or woman, or a manpretending to be a woman, or awoman pretending to be a woman,or a jazz hottie of any kind, cum ondown to the Castro for Cupid’s spe-cial day of target practice. Call (415)863-0611 and get an extra-special$10 discount on priority seating. Tellthem Pookie sent you, and give Marcour heartiest regards.

Gray ritesImmortal gay author Oscar

Wilde’s classic 1890 novel about asingular Faustian deal Dorian Grayhas been brought to the screen in allits gore and glory. Yummy actor BenBarnes (Prince Caspian in the Nar-nia sequel) stars as a naive and vainyouth who arrives in Victorian Lon-don and promptly sells his soul tothe devil in return for eternal youth-fulness. Only his portrait will age,showing his moral decay in everycrevice. Actor Colin Firth, who ishaving quite a career moment, ap-pears as the debauched lord who ea-gerly leads Dorian down the prim-rose path. The film drips in perioddetail and atmosphere. DirectorOliver Parker takes his latest Wildeadaptation (following An Ideal Hus-band and The Importance of Being

Earnest) to the extreme of gothichorror. You feel like you are accom-panying Dorian on his rounds ofopium dens. It’s a guilty pleasure notto be missed.

Dorian Gray will play on Tues.,Feb. 8, 9:30 p.m. at the Vogue The-ater in SF, as part of the Most-ly British Film Festival (newand classic films fromthe UK, Ireland, Aus-tralia, New Zealand andIndia), coming up Feb.3-10. Find more info atwww.mostlybritish.org.

Glass worksHey, Out There

knows we’re barely into2011, but we’ve got anexciting cultural event lined up for2012 already. The production com-pany Pomegranate Arts has an-nounced that it will revive the semi-nal Philip Glass opera Einstein onthe Beach for a world tour in 2012.The 1976 work will begin perfor-mances in Montpellier, France, inMarch 2012, then travel to London,Toronto, Brooklyn and Berkeley, CA– for a Cal Performances run – be-fore closing in Amsterdam in Janu-ary 2013. Glass and his collaborator,

the director Robert Wilson, will beinvolved in the restaging. Starting inJanuary 2012, the company will re-hearse and give previews at the Uni-versity of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Einstein on the Beach was the firstcollaboration between Glass and Wil-

son. For the new produc-tion, they are working with

a number of their long-time collaborators, in-cluding Lucinda Childs,

who will choreograph, asshe did in 1984 and a pre-vious revival in 1992.

In a statement releasedby the producers, Glasswas enthusiastic aboutthe revival. “For Boband me, the 2012-13 re-

vival of Einstein on the Beach will be amost significant event, since in alllikelihood, this will be the last timethat we will be together and able towork on the piece.” The major collab-orators are presently all in their 70s.

Hitchcock talesAn Alfred Hitchcock series com-

ing to the Castro Theatre this com-ing week prompted our movie-buffpal Cinema Cindy to recall a greatHitch-related anecdote.

On the first day of rehearsals forStage Fright (1950), Marlene Diet-rich, then 49, started telling thelighting people how she needed tobe photographed. Hitchcockstopped her and said, “You don’t un-derstand, Miss Dietrich. I am the di-rector, and I will tell the lightingcrew how to set the scene.”

She looked at him coolly andreplied, “No, Mr. Hitchcock, it is youwho does not understand. You havehired me to play a glamorouschanteuse. I will take care of theglamour. The rest I will leave to you.”Then she turned to the lighting manand said, “My key light must behere.”

Hitchcock later commented,“Marlene Dietrich is a professional.A professional actress, a profession-al singer, a professional costume de-signer, a professional lighting direc-tor, a professional everything.”

One good anecdote deserves an-other, Cindy! Actor Joseph Cottonswore that he witnessed this one. Hewas on the set early in the shootingof Lifeboat. After Hitchcock said,“Cut!” the cameraman rushed up tohim and whispered, “Sir, we cannot

use this footage.”“Why not?” replied the director.“Because Miss [Tallulah]

Bankhead isn’t wearing any panties,and we can see everything.”

Without missing a beat, Hitch-cock replied, “That’s not my con-cern. Call the studio hairdresser.”

Gay old ‘Times’When did The New York Times’

Style section become a gay paper?Last week’s Style included a gushyprofile of adorable actor/directorJohn Cameron Mitchell, whose filmRabbit Hole has recently opened. Butthe puff piece centered on Mitchell’smonthly dance party at the old-timey gay bar Julius’ in NYC’s WestVillage.

“He ordered a vodka and soda.‘It’s the gay drink,’ he said flatly. Hesipped it with a straw, ‘so I don’tmess up my lipstick.’

“Mr. Mitchell said he wanted toacquaint a younger generation to gaylore. ‘Queerness isn’t just Lady Gagaand overpriced drinks and faux-hawks,’ he said. ‘It’s James Baldwinand Bea Arthur and Gertrude Steinand Gore Vidal.’”

The name of his monthly club?Mattachine, “after the pioneeringgay rights group the Mattachine So-ciety, which was founded in 1950 byHarry Hay.” Thanks for the gay his-tory lesson, New York Times!

But wait, there’s more! Because inthe same issue, Times writer GuyTrebay goes backstage with the gen-derbending dancers of Les BalletsTrockadero de Monte Carlo. “‘Noth-ing is straight’ about the Trocks, saidPaul Ghiselin, the company’s balletmaster, and a prima ballerina whosestage name is Ida Nevasayneva.‘Everything is bent.’

“‘It’s a good test of a potentialboyfriend when you drop the Face-book bomb,’ said Brock Hayhoe, aToronto native who plays both An-drei Verikose and Vanya Verikose,male and female roles.” After all thisgay stuff, all of the heterosexual mat-rimony announced in the SundayTimes’ weddings listings seemsdownright anti-climactic.

Out There closed out the year byattending Marga Gomez’s NewYear’s Eve Spectacular at the VictoriaTheatre, which was hilarious asusual. Gomez says it’s her last NYESpectacular, which is a shame, be-cause she claims it’s her favorite hol-iday. “Because I love false hope!”▼

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It is a dark and rainy night as Por-tuguese writer/director Manoel deOliveira’s The Strange Case of An-

gelica opens outside a small photog-raphy shop in a tiny provincial town.A driver calls up to the wife of theproprietor, declaring that his em-ployer needs a photographer as soonas possible. The woman explains thather husband won’t return for anoth-er day. “I’ll wait, then,” the driverreplies. A passerby notes that a youngJewish photographer lives nearby,and offers to take the driver to him.

For the first quarter-hour of thelatest film from one of the world’soldest practicing directors, very littlehappens, and every single act unfold-ing before de Oliveira’s camera, in-cluding the rain, occurs as it might inreal life. The self-taught de Oliveira,who turned 102 last month, doesn’tbelieve in quick, MTV-style cuts, fastpatter or special effects, at least notuntil his young protagonist aims hiscamera at a freshly deceased youngbride whose corpse is tastefully laidout on a couch before a roomful ofmourners.

The formality and aesthetic puri-ty of the scene comes across in the di-alogue the young man has with the

siblings of the deceased.“Are you the photographer?”“Yes.”“Follow me. It’s Angelica – such a

sad loss. We’ve just finished dressingher. Our mother wants one moresouvenir, even if it is very sad.”

“My condolences.”“It is fate. So young, and only just

married. Her husband is incon-solable.”

“What is your name?”“Isaac.”“Isaac?”“Yes, Isaac, sister.”“My name is Maria Dolores. I’m

Angelica’s sister, and I’m a devoutChristian.”

“Yes, I can see that you’re a nun.Personally, I have nothing againstthat.”

“Good, that is a comfort to me.”The simple world that de Oliveira

opens up for us feels nestled in a pe-culiar time-warp. While the technolo-gy and landscape are of our time, thecharacters seem oddly stuck a half-a-century or so back, preoccupied by re-ligious or spiritual impulses that seemdated, almost musty. As hinted at inthe dialogue, there’s a slight tensionbetween the Jewish Isaac (RicardoTrepa) and the other, mostly Christ-ian-identified characters.

The single startling moment inthe first act happens when Isaacpoints his camera at Angelica andthe young woman appears, throughhis lens at least, to be still alive, as ifshe had just awoken from a nap.Isaac doesn’t share this disconcertingperception with anyone else, al-though from that time until the endof the film, his every waking mo-ment and dreams are taken over by akind of pure love for a dead creaturehe cannot possess. There are mo-

ments when we observe the youngman’s soul leave his body and jointhe dead woman’s. Otherwise, hespends his waking hours pho-tographing a gang of workers hack-ing away at a nearby hill with pick-axes, following a traditional methodfor preparing a wine orchard. Isaaclives in a kind of bed and breakfast,whose fussy owner and her stiff-necked guests regard the young manas having lost his mind. Withoutspoiling the last act, in which a form

of reconciliation unfolds, TheStrange Case of Angelica is recom-mended mostly for fans of a formal,purist cinema that rejects most ofthe technological innovations sincethe advent of talking pictures.

Manoel de Oliveira is one of therare artists whose output has actual-ly increased since he turned 80. LikeWoody Allen, he creates one featurea year, films that play Cannes,Venice, Toronto, and New York, butrarely San Francisco. He has workedwith some of Europe’s great filmstars – Mastroianni, Deneuve, andeven John Malkovich. But for the lastdecade, the stolid young actor whoappears as Isaac, his grandson Ricar-do Trepa, has been his chosen in-strument.

Is this one for you? In the pro-duction notes, de Oliveira notes thatone of his own favorite films featuresa Dutch director filming Rem-brandt’s self-portraits in close-up,“which confirmed that the eyes al-ways stay the same, inalterable. Theface changes until it becomes old. Inthe last of the paintings he said,‘Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.’ Theawards and applause, it’s all vanity.”Sound like fun? The Strange Case ofAngelica plays the Roxie Theater fora week beginning Friday.▼

by David Lamble

This week we find buried trea-sure on DVD. Ride with theDevil is a critically important,

exhilarating film from director AngLee, who, with his friend, writing part-ner and producer James Schamus, hasgiven us three top-drawer queer-themed films: The Wedding Banquet,Brokeback Mountain and TakingWoodstock. In deciding to adapt DanielWoodrell’s Civil War novel Woe to LiveOn By, Lee and Schamus were em-barking on an unusually dauntingchallenge, even by their illustriousstandards: translating a little-knownsidebar of America’s greatest domesticcrisis into popular entertainment, andattempting to shoot an epic on an in-dependent-film budget, with a largelyunknown cast of 20something actors,many of whom were just making theirfirst stab at stardom.

In a DVD commentary trackrecorded for this Criterion Collectionedition, Schamus admits that Ridewith the Devil is a kind of accidentaldress rehearsal for their future saga ofcowboys in love.

“So clearly this is Brokeback Moun-tain territory that we’re in now – abunch of guys living in the woods,hanging out, loving each other. Ang hasalways been drawn to stories of friend-ship, and particularly to the nature ofmale friendship in his work, and nomore so than in Ride with the Devil.”

Ang Lee is even more direct in not-ing this Civil War story’s roiling queersubtext. “It’s a coming-of-age story,young boys, their competitive jeal-ousies all play out. When I did thisfilm, I had done The Wedding Banquet.I’m not that innocent about puttinghomosexual scenes on the screen.When you do this scene, you can’t helpbut see that some of the flamboyantcharacters might be gay themselves.The book never illustrated that, andthis is not a project about that issue,but you can see the gay subtext all overthe place. Somehow I feel I’m doinganother gay film in this one. Actually, itplays pretty innocently as friendship, asaffection, as living together, but all thepsychology is going on.”

Ang Lee’s 1999 “pre-Western,” abloody lost chapter of our Civil War,features a stellar ensemble. TobeyMaguire shines as an idealistic Ger-man American teen (Jake “Dutchie”Roedel) fighting with Southern guer-rillas in Bloody Kansas/Marauding

Missouri, who undergoes a change ofheart after bonding with a newly freedslave, Daniel Holt (Jeffrey Wright).The acting gem in this epic is the hair-raising rivalry between Maguire and aferal young killer. Jonathan Rhys-Mey-ers imbues his Pitt Mackeson with thecultural/racial mojo we associate withflying the Confederate flag. The youngIrish actor – with his skinny torso, an-gular features, shoulder-length hair,dandy attire and cold eyes – becomesa kind of androgynous Clint East-wood, with a scary bi-polar charmthat foreshadows the transformationof soldiers into outlaws (Jesse James),as well as a preview of his tennis-prokiller in Woody Allen’s Match Point.

The “Tobey/Johnny” showdowndisplays a screen chemistry that couldhave produced an alternative Jack andEnnis if Lee had got the Brokeback giga few years earlier.

Writer Schamus adroitly employslanguage to undercut our intoxica-tion for re-fighting the Civil Warfrom a Southern perspective. “John-ny” is simultaneously sexy and men-acing as he spits out Tobey’s deroga-tory screen nickname, “Dutchie,”with murderous intent.

In a heart-stopping scene, Pitt andJake nearly shoot it out in a Lawrence,Kansas restaurant, as in the back-ground, their “bushwacker” buddiesconduct a vicious massacre of the able-bodied male townfolks. This well-doc-umented piece of history qualifies asone of the worst atrocities in the entirewar. The scene is given a gut-wrench-ing verisimilitude by the intensity ofthe actors and the beautifully archaic,at times profane, and oddly formal

words they hurl at each other.Pitt – Rhys-Meyers dressed and ca-

vorting, at Lee’s suggestion, like amodern rock star (like his character inTodd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine) – de-mands that Jake allow two civilians (anold man and a small boy) to go out-side to face execution. Jake demurs.

“We’ll attend to them once we’vehad our vittles.”

“Why, you little Dutch son-of-a-bitch, you do what I tell ya, or I’ll killya!”

“And when do you figure to do thismean thing to me, Mackeson? Is thisvery moment convenient for you? It isfor me.” (Jake draws on Pitt.)

“The hell with it, there’s plentymore of them jayhawkers to kill, any-how. I’ll see you back in Missouri, youtiny little sack of shit!”

After spitting out those words,Mackeson leaves the building the wayJagger might, with a swish of his hips,his right hand twirling in a rude ges-ture. Mackeson’s homicidal/suicidalmanner is doubly scary. It allows himto waltz through the killing fields witha kind of satanic immunity.

Flipping back to Lee’s commentarytrack, you’ll get a vicarious charge fromhearing the director chuckling as he re-peats Pitt’s oath in jest, indicating hiscreative satisfaction with how this firstof two non-shooting shootouts waspulled off by his actor desperadoes. Leeand Schamus are scrupulous in usingthe Southerners’ 19th-century Englishto signal an odd code of chivalry thatlies beneath the raw violence of themain plot. Later this language willprove a crucial underpinning for amagnificent scene where Holt stops

fighting for the Confederacy and de-clares his emancipation. It’s a finalethat has him and Jake salute each otherin a tribute to the journey they’ve beenon: the white boy addresses a formerslave by his full Christian name,“Daniel Holt,” to be followed by Holt’slovingly uttered “Jake Roedel,” just be-fore heading out to the frontier to be-come a symbolic first black cowboy.

The film is graced by Tobey

Maguire’s first adult role (and sexscene). He projects an inner decencywhile shedding puppy-dog innocence:a screen test for Peter Parker.

Special features include two com-mentary tracks: the first with Lee andSchamus; the second with the crew; avideo chat with Jeffrey Wright; and abooklet with background on the his-torical events that inspired Woodrell’snovel. ▼

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by Paul Parish

Looking back on 2010 is aqueasy-making process. I’mkinda doing it with hands over

my eyes, looking through my fingers.The state of things in general is pre-carious. The stock market has recov-ered, but companies have returnedto profitability by getting rid of allthe workers. Everybody who still hasa job is working harder, and moreanxious rather than less. Economicnews is the news, and “the market-place” threatens to become the onlyarbiter of value.

On the other hand, disaster hasn’tactually struck, and many are success-fully whistling past the graveyard. It’salarming when a raft of Republicanloonies win elections, and Sarah Palin’sdaughter nearly wins the title on Danc-ing with the Stars, and alarming indeedwhen a major university abolishes itsPhilosophy, Classics, French, Italian,and Russian departments, but still thesituation is desperate but not serious.And some good things happened inthe midst of all that.

Great news it was when the ODCTheater re-opened after retrofitting;the realm of contemporary dancenow has a roof over its head, thanksto Brenda Way, director of ODC/SF,who has had the vision to get outand fund-raise and make the casethat San Francisco is a dance town,and that the whole range of dancing– tap, jazz, flamenco, contact im-prov, aerobics, all kinds of ethnicdance, as well as brainy moderndance – need warm, clean, dryspaces to practice in, and dignified,comfortable stages to perform on.The house re-opened to month-longcelebrations, involving most of thedance community here, which is thelargest and most diverse in the wholecountry outside New York. Bravo tothem, and hooray for us all.

And there was a thrilling newclassical ballet, the first in my expe-rience to feel totally contemporarysince the death of Balanchine, at our

internationally famousSan Francisco Ballet. It’sby a Russian émigré,Yuri Possokhov, who’sdanced here now fordecades and made thispiece in memory of histeacher at the Bolshoi,who “threw boots at usand made us go to mu-seums,” and dedicatedhimself to makingartists out of his stu-dents, whom he tookcharge of as children.The dancers are doingall the hardest steps inthe book as if they werekids on skateboards,flying through the airlike swallows, weavingaround each other asthey leap and spin,with the fearlessness ofyouth. Classical Sym-phony was thrillingwhen first seen, and held up well torepeat visits, so maybe it really isgoing to be a classic.

Young love made a heroic ap-pearance, again at the ballet, with aperformance in Romeo and Juliet bySarah van Patten that the wholeworld could have made a pilgrimageto see. Van Patten has a wide rangeand excels in the kind of dance inwhich tough steps are set to weirdmusic, but also in comedy, and espe-cially in lyric dance. Juliet is a natur-al for her, and in the potentially greatmoments in the story she gives agrandeur that could not have beenexceeded by Fonteyn or Ulanova. Itis to be hoped that she’ll danceGiselle in the upcoming season.

Kind of a downer was Black Swan– not that it’s not a great portrait ofdelusional pathology, but because itreally only used dancing as decor. Asa Sacramento Ballet dancer wasquoted as saying, “That movie is toballet as Psycho is to the motel busi-ness.” Burlesque, on the other hand,is a modest “star is born” movie that

uses all the conventions of the back-stage movie in ways that never rangfalse to me. “Diamonds are a girl’sbest friend” is only one of the manydance numbers given exquisite treat-ment; Christina Aguilera (channel-ing Etta James, a very good idea) de-serves the many reaction shots thatare necessary to tell a success-storylike this; the Adolf Menjou role fromStage Door gets revivified in all itssnake-in-the-grass glory by a hunkyLA real-estate mogul; and darlingCher triumphs over him asKatharine Hepburn did in the orig-inal Stage Door. Cher has becomelike Fred Astaire, the model for con-temporary manners – from here onout, when I don’t know what to say,I’m just going to ask myself, “Whatwould Cher do in this situation?”

The worst news is that the superbworld-dance choreographer Wan-Chao Chan has been denied a greencard, and is likely to be deported. Sheis foremost among the Ethnic Dancecommunity in refashioning tradi-tional materials, and has the admi-

ration of all her peers; hercraft is superb, and her in-tentions are no less than tointroduce feminism and lib-eral values in to the Chinesetraditional dance forms,which value harmony andsubmission to authority; it’srevolutionary, but the polishis so great, the tensions are sobeautifully contained, it’s likea performance by a greatclassic actress, you have toknow how they must feel. Ev-idently, to be at the top of hergame in San Francisco is stillconsidered by the INS to bemerely of local importance.

Back to good news: Itlooks like the Oakland Balletmay come back to life. TheNutcracker, choreographedby their new director GrahamLustig, rehearsed in the dancestudios of Mills College, andbacked by Clorox, Chevron

and the Oakland civic community,played to a packed house at the Para-mount Theater and went over tohuge success. The crowd includedevery race and creed, there weremany children there, and the specta-cle revealed tremendous stagecraft,wit, and charm. It certainly bodeswell for their Spring season, withmore experimental choreographythat may very well be interesting.

On the larger stage, two bookscome in as very welcome. JenniferHomans has written the first com-prehensive, definitive history of bal-let, Apollo’s Angels, which places bal-let in historical context. She makes itlively reading to find out how LouisXIV forced his nobility to dance at-tendance upon him and made thefear of the faux pas a literal thing – ifyou couldn’t dance, you did not havea chance in that society. She brings itforward from there, showing howfrom the beginning the form waspopular – thousands of ordinarypeople crowded in, trying to see thespectacles – which allowed ballet to

survive the violent revolutions thatoverthrew the aristocracies inFrance, later in Russia. She is proba-bly at her best showing how Russ-ian-émigré Balanchine took the nat-ural attributes of American danceand turned ballet into a spectaclethat reflected our lives. It’s sellingwell, for a book that’s about to be-come the standard text in collegedance-history courses in the Eng-lish-speaking world.

Last, let me welcome An Athlete inTights, Bruce Weber’s quasi-porno-graphic study of the danseur nobleRoberto Bolle, who is the purest ex-ample of the matinee idol amongcurrently active ballet dancers. Asmost queers know, Weber inventedthe Abercrombie look – porn starson elephants wearing the clothes allteenagers want to be seen in. And thisbook, which some might think a re-treat from the edge, sneaked in at theend of last year with little notice, per-haps because no-one knew how toreview it. I would love to know whatJohn Karr will think of it – StevenUnderhill had not seen it, nor heardof it, when I asked him about it lastmonth. Athlete inhabits the border-land between erotic art, soft porn,and the “physical-culture” study of amodel like the immortal Tony San-sone. I think it might belong to thekind of documentary that finds itsapogee in the movie Rivers and Tides,the sincere homage of an artist in onemedium to a greater artist workingin another.

Athlete in Tights is not the perfectmarriage of the documentarist andthe artist, but it is a fascinating andvery welcome wad of gorgeous pho-tographs. Spoiler: no cock shots.Weber’s insistence on doing Bolle ingritty black-and-white may standthe test of time, and posed againstRenaissance Italian marble sculp-tures – the Trevi Fountain and thelike – that have endured centuries ofwind and storms and sport the


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The year just past in Bay Area dance

The Izzies are announcedThe Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee (the “Izzies”)

announced the 2009-10 performance season award nominees.The winners will be honored in an awards ceremony to be held onMon., March 14, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum,701 Mission St., SF. The event, which is free and open to the pub-lic, will begin with a greeting reception in the lobby at 6 p.m., fol-lowed by the awards ceremony at 7 p.m. A full list of this year’snominees follows.

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography:Wan-Chao Chang, Eurasia, Wan-Chao Dance, Ethnic Dance

Festival, Weekend 4

Hsiang-Hsiu Lin, Mix & Match 2010, Lin HH Dance Theatre

Sara Shelton Mann, Tribes/Dominion, Sara Shelton MannDancers

Yuri Possokhov, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet

Amy Seiwert, White Noise, Im’ij-re

Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Individual:

Jenna McClintock, Coppelia, Diablo Ballet

Pascal Molat, for his entire year of performances, includingthe San Francisco Ballet and The Tosca Project, American Con-servatory Theater

Luisa Lopez Saavedra, La Marinera Norteña, El Tunante

Nol Simonse, for his entire year of performances, includingThe Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater

Sofiane Sylve, in the middle, somewhat elevated, San Francis-co Ballet

Yuan Yuan Tan, The Little Mermaid, San Francisco Ballet

Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Ensemble:

Stephanie Bastos, Daniel Brevi, Guy De Chalus, Zkiya Harris,Eyla Moore, Veleda Roehl, Amara Tabor Smith, Adia TamarWhitaker, and Sonia Whittle, Ampey!, a work-in-progress, 2009CounterPULSE Performing Diaspora Festival

Jaime Garcia Castilla, Daniel Deivison-Oliviera, Victor Luiz,Gennadi Nedvigin, James Sofranko, and Hansuke Yamamoto, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet

Heather Cooper and Brian Fisher, Another Time, MarkFoehringer Dance Project

Chad Dawson and Nol Simonse, Two Rooms, Stephen PeltonDance Company

Andrea Faraci and Iveta Pauryte, a season of International Standard Ballroom Dancing

Private Freeman and Yukie Fujimoto, Lettre à Dos from Je MeSouviens, Sonya Delwaide at ODC

Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Company:

American Conservatory Theater and various guest artists, TheTosca Project, American Conservatory Theater

Eszterlánc Hungarian Folk Ensemble, Traditional Dance Cyclefrom the Village of Magyarszovát, Ethnic Dance Festival, Weekend 3

Janice Garrett & Charles Moulton, The Illustrated Book of Invis-ible Stories, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum

Hui Tama Nui, Pepe Hau, Ethnic Dance Festival, Weekend 3

Natyalaya, Parvathi, the Divine, Ethnic Dance Festival, Weekend 2

Scott Wells & Dancers, Ball-ist-ic, CounterPULSE

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design:Matthew Antaky, lighting design; Christine Darch, costume

design; and Frieder Weiss, video design, White Noise, Im’ij-re

Patty-Ann Farrell, lighting design, and Aaron Sencil, costumeand prop design, Pepe Hau, Hui Tama Nui

David Finn and Yuri Zhukov, visual design, Classical Symphony,San Francisco Ballet

Mary Louise Geiger, lighting design; Laura Jellinek, scenic design;and Mark Zappone, costume design, Ghosts, San Francisco Ballet

Krissy Keefer, costume design, The Great Liberation, DanceBrigade

Larry Reed, visual design, and ZeJie Zheng, calligraphy design,Good-for-Nothing-Lover, ShadowLight Productions

Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text:Abhinaya Dance Company and San Jose Taiko, music, Synergy,

Abhinaya Dance Company and San Jose Taiko

The Cultural Heritage Choir and Fua Dia Congo drummers,

music, Nzobi, Fua Dia Congo

Hope Mohr and Brenda Hillman, text, Far from Perfect,Hope Mohr Dance

Stellamara, musical adaptation of Strumica/Azade, Eurasia,Wan Chao Dance

Kip Winger, music, Ghosts, San Francisco Ballet

Outstanding Achievement in Restaging/Revival/Reconstruction:

Roslyn Anderson, Petite Mort, Smuin Ballet

Sonya Delwaide, Lettre à Jos from Je Me Souviens,Sonya Delwaide at ODC

Isabelle Fokine, Petrouchka, San Francisco Ballet

Mythili Kumar and Rasika Kumar, Varsha – The Rainy Season,Abhinaya Dance Company

Donald Mahler, Continuo, Ballet San Jose

Special Awards:Brenda Way and ODC: For her vision, commitment, and per-

severance to build a major dance center with a broad range of pro-grams and resources for dance professionals, children, and the com-munity.

YAK FILMS/Yoram Savion, Director: For documenting the turfdancing by Oakland youth, particularly those videos that featurethe RIP dances recorded at the locations in the Bay Area where otheryouth have died, and for making them available on YouTube.

Sustained Achievement:Denise Jourdaine, Stephan Kraeul, and Rex Lewis, co-owners of

Imperial Ballroom: For their years of instruction and operation ofthe Imperial Ballroom in Redwood City, their training of profes-sional ballroom competitors, and their continued management ofinternationally recognized ballroom competitions.

Mythili Kumar, Founder and Director of Abhinaya Dance Com-pany: For three decades of teaching, directing, and creation in SouthIndian classical dance forms of Bharata Natyam and Kuchipudi,and for providing Bay Area dance audiences with an understandingof the richness in these complex and historical dance forms.

Josefa Villanueva, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Santa ClaraBallet: For establishing and directing a dance repertory companywith her late husband Benjamin Reyes for over 37 years. For offer-ing instruction and training in classical ballet, for creating chore-ography for the company, and for providing performance oppor-tunities for children and Bay Area professional dancers. ▼

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by Victoria A. Brownworth

On New Year’s Eve, the EastCoast was still digging outfrom the Boxing Day Snow-

pocalypse, but that didn’t keep amillion-plus people from waiting forhours for the ball to drop in TimesSquare in New York. ABC owns therights to the ball drop and thebiggest TV ratings bonanza of theyear. Dick Clark did the countdown to2011, and a new decade was officiallyborn.

So now that we’ve ush-ered out the old yearand welcomed the newwith the thought that2011 just has to be betterthan 2010, everyone isconsidering their reso-lutions in earnest.

Here are someresolutions we sug-gest for your list:

1. Vow to read atleast one book for every TV series youwatch regularly. It will help recreate thekind of balance that the digitalizationof America has eviscerated. Books re-quire you to bring something to themental table that even the most sophis-ticated and engaging TV just cannot.

2. Promise to stand and walk inplace for a half-hour of every TV-watching period (unless you are homein bed with the flu or its sicknessequivalent), preferably while holdingfive-pound weights in each hand andswinging your arms as you “walk.”

A half-hour of walking in place is1,800 steps, more if you do it morebriskly – almost 20% of the 10,000steps required to actually lose weightjust from walking in the course of aday. Combining the pleasure of TVwith the painful necessity of exercise isa win-win. And nothing is easier thanwalking. You don’t need a fancy ma-chine, just step, step, step. How betterto heal your heart and enjoy a guiltypleasure? Drinking a glass of ice waterfirst will make it even better. As welearned from Dr. Oz, the best doctorever to grace the tube, drinking twoglasses of ice water several times a dayburns calories, because the body has toheat the water. How easy is that?

3. Resolve to watch only TV that isworthy. You can choose one or two oreven three guilty pleasures, but youcan’t fill the board with Real House-wives, American Idol and The X Factor.And you must avoid all things Kar-dashian. This doesn’t mean you are re-stricted to PBS, AMC and Bravo, butit does mean you should consider howmany hours you could be doing some-thing better for your body, soul and es-pecially mind than just watching un-mitigated crap.

4. Resolve to tell anyone who sniffsthat they “don’t have time for TV” that

George Bush said that too, and lookwhere it got us. TV is the pulse of theZeitgeist. If you don’t watch TV, youhaven’t got a clue. And we aren’t talk-ing about Wheel of Fortune. Good, badand mediocre, TV teaches us.

5. Vow to watch real news on thetube. We love Jon Stewart, but as he re-minds his own audience, uh, daily, he’sa comedian, not a reporter. (That he’sa better reporter than most reportersand a better pundit than nearly allpundits is beside the point.) We rec-ommend you watch BBC World News

(on PBS and BBC America),with a smattering ofCNN, regular viewing ofABC’s Nightline, and any-thing that Lisa Ling re-ports on for National Ge-ographic and DiscoveryChannel, because she is

one of the most in-trepid reporters inTV journalism todayand has risked her

life repeatedly to bring us news wearen’t seeing. These news venues willtake you out of the insularity of mostAmerican news and broaden yourworld view.

6. Watch some serious, difficult,have-to-pay-attention-to-it TV. Alas,Lost is over (the Best Series of 2010 andany other year in which The Wire was-n’t on the tube), and some of the newstellar series like The Whole Truth andThe Event or last season’s FlashForwardgot axed before they found their nicheaudience, but Mad Men, Big Love, TrueBlood, The Closer, Dexter, The GoodWife, Fringe, V, BBC’s spectacularBeing Human, the new breakout hitsWalking Dead and Justified, all thingsMasterpiece on PBS, and some of theshows debuting this season, notablyAMC’s The Killing, Fox’s The ChicagoCode and MTV’s reprise of the Britishqueer/teen hit Skins are solid, serious,make-you-think shows in which char-acters push and pull at moral and eth-ical boundaries in ways that can keepyou pondering days later.

7. Settle on some fun TV and laughyourself silly. A bazillion studies havetaught us that laughter is the best med-icine for everything that ails us: stress,depression, a hard day at work, pain.There are some very funny comediesout there, and committing to one ortwo will not rot your brain but mightjust boost your endorphins. We rec-ommend Modern Family, Big BangTheory, 30 Rock, Two and a Half Menand The Simpsons. These sitcoms areconsistently funny and smart, MF hasits own queer family, and The Simpsonshas some queer characters as well.

Sure, in each of these shows there’ssome low-brow humor, but it’s bal-anced by the high-brow, reach-for-itjoke that makes you feel satisfied you“got it.” (Will we ever forget Maggie at-tending the Ayn Rand School for Tots

on The Simpsons? Or Sheldon dressedas the Doppler Effect at a costumeparty on Big Bang?)

8. Pay attention to political TV.We’re not suggesting Fox or MSNBC24/7 – therein lies madness, quite ob-viously if you look at the punditry. But2011 is the precursor to the electionyear, and what gets said (or what does-n’t) in the next 12 months will impactNovember 2012 in a huge way. Know-ing who’s saying what is important.Second-hand reportage doesn’t work.This is why Wikipedia is not acceptedas a source by any academic institu-tion, and why the blogospheric recapon the news is not the same as drawingyour own conclusions from your ownviewing.

9. Note who’s using TV to make theworld better, and give them your sup-port (and note their advertising spon-sors). Three of the best shows we sawin 2010 did just that. We didn’t have thespace to note them in our best andworst column, so let us laud them now.

CBS’ daytime soap The Bold andthe Beautiful, which has the second-highest ratings in the US and is themost-watched soap worldwide, wentway out on a limb and did a storyline(which they are continuing in 2011)on homelessness in America.Stephanie Forrester (played by ru-mored-to-be lesbian actress and di-rector Susan Flannery, a multipleEmmy-winner) inveigled the show’screators, Bradley and Lee Philip Bell,to take the show, set in the Los Ange-les fashion industry, to LA’s skid row.Stephanie was dealing with a cancerdiagnosis and the impending end ofher life. She ended up in skid rowwhile embarked on a bucket-list jour-ney, and discovered just how manyhomeless people there were in herown city.

Up to that point, the millionairematriarch had restricted her philan-thropy to writing checks and holdingballs and benefits. Flannery, who has

directed all the on-site skid-rowepisodes, took Stephanie out of herBeverly Hills comfort zone and downinto the mean streets. In a series ofepisodes shown between Thanksgivingand Christmas, Flannery/Stephanie in-terviewed actual skid-row denizens.Scenes were set in shelters as well as onthe streets. No actors, real people.

It was deeply moving and com-pelling TV, and had the added benefitfor the show of boosting ratings evenhigher. The stories of the individualmen and women – largely Latino, butalso black and white – were as gut-wrenching as one would expect. Butthey forced both the show’s charactersand the audience to address the un-seen homelessness in America.

ABC has long been involved in TVthat shows us things we don’t want tosee. In a compelling hour the week be-fore Christmas, ABC News anchorDiane Sawyer debuted the first in anongoing series to be scheduled for thenext 12 months on “Save a Life, Be theChange.” We have repeatedly noted inthis column that TV can change us andmake us better – it was connecting peo-ple long before Facebook. Seeing howothers are living makes us think aboutnot just the lives of those we are view-ing, but our own lives in comparison.

SaveOne at ABCnews.com has thespecifics on ABC’s project. But the firsthour-long show was an eye-opener.

Five Asian students from Stanford de-signed and are now marketing aportable incubator to India (the firstcountry, others will follow), because inrural areas there is no access to theselife-saving machines. Two million chil-dren die each year in India because ofpremature birth. Babies must work tokeep themselves warm, which ex-hausts them and drains energy fromtheir tiny organs. The portable incu-bator will likely save a million lives inthe next three years.

This was just one of the manycompelling changes shown on theshow. Check it out at ABCnews.com,and see how you can involve yourselfin changing the world through TV. Forexample, just $10 will provide cleandrinking water to a household inBangladesh for a month. More than20% of children under five die fromwater-borne diarrheal diseases in thatcountry. For the price of a latte and acookie, you can save a life.

Oprah has been the queen of life-saving TV for 25 years. Her farewellseason is no exception. Several of hershows this season have delved intohow to save lives, from addressingHIV/AIDS to getting tested for coloncancer and diabetes, to saving yourselffrom abusive relationships. She hasalso been addressing addiction and

Out with the old on the lavender tube!


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stains of car fumes and acid rain,may strike the exact balance betweenhard muscle under the surface andthe perfect proportions Bolle hastrained those muscles to develop,through daily ballet exercises and theadrenaline-pumping exactitudes ofperformance which bring certainforms into ideal prominence.

It’s not new to think of dancers asathletes, it’s always taken some doingnot to think of the connection, andwhen the hierarchy of art over sportwas up-ended, postmodern contact-improv dancers took to it gleefully,using gymnastics, wrestling andmartial-arts moves, and by the 1970sthe Joffrey Ballet were doing franklyathletic, bare-legged, bare-chested,all-male hunk-fests that were bor-derline pornographic.

Bolle is not like that – he is notpushing anything except perfection.His movements are so beautifullyschooled he never makes a mistake,

the pirouettes are perfectly placed,the thigh completely rotated, thefoot on which he turns is beautiful-ly arched, the smile perfectly cordial,the pecs beautifully chiseled, the nip-ples just so – he looks particularlygood in a lion skin with maybe asmall red cape, as Actaeon or Amyn-ta or the nameless cavalier in Excel-sior.

Bolle evokes in me the feelingsShakespeare expressed in his crypticsonnet: “They that have power tohurt, and will do none.” The verymildness and reserve and carefularray of Bolle’s perfections leads meand many to a kind of unrequitedlove, one that’s somehow social –everyone feels this way, nobody isentitled to complain; such people, asthe Bard says, “who moving others,are themselves as stone, Unmoved,cold, and to temptation slow, Theyare the lords and owners of theirfaces.”

See for yourself. It is a kind ofbeauty that remains unplumbable,the art conceals itself. Some thingsreally do abide.▼

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Dick Clark did the countdown to 2011 in Times Square.

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by Gregg Shapiro

The British invasion is far fromover. Arriving a little more thana year after the comprehensive

mono and stereo Beatles box sets arethe remastered and repackaged reis-sues of the 1973 (vinyl)/1993 (CD)double-disc compilation sets 1962-1966 and 1967-1970 (AppleCorps/EMI), a.k.a. Red and Blue, re-spectively. Red features four monoand 22 stereo recordings of earlyBeatles hit singles, including “SheLoves You,” “I Want To Hold YourHand,” “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Yes-terday,” “Help!,” “Drive My Car,” “InMy Life” and “Eleanor Rigby.” Repre-senting the post-Sgt. Pepper era, Bluecontains classics “Strawberry FieldsForever,” “A Day in the Life,” “I Amthe Walrus,” “Hello, Goodbye,” “HeyJude,” “Revolution,” “Get Back,”“Here Comes the Sun,” “Come To-gether,” “Something,” “Let It Be” and“The Long and Winding Road.”These collections are essentialwhether you are a Beatles completistor a casual listener.

Judy Collins tapped into the Bea-tles for her newly reissued 1966album In My Life (Collectors’ ChoiceMusic). Her cover of the title tune issimply beautiful, and went on to be-come one of her signature tunes. Shealso covered Leonard Cohen(“Suzanne,” “Dress Rehearsal Rag”),Randy Newman (“I Think It’s Gonna

Rain Today”), Bob Dylan (“Just LikeTom Thumb’s Blues”) and Donovan(“Sunny Goode Street”), and ex-panded her palette, exhibiting a the-atrical side with her rendition of theBrecht/Weill number “Pirate Jenny.”

Guitar god Jimi Hendrix didn’tsuffer the sophomore slump on hissecond album, late 1967’s Axis: BoldAs Love (Experience Hen-drix/Legacy). Instead, he deftly bal-anced blazing rockers such as “Span-ish Castle Magic,” “You Got MeFloatin’,” “Little Miss Lover” and thetitle tune with mellower numbersthat perfectly illustrated his broadmusical range. Listen to the funkygroove of “Up from the Skies,” the se-ductive pop of “Wait Until Tomor-row” and stunning, electrified ballads“Little Wing” and “Castles Made ofSand” as examples of Hendrix’s vasttalents as a songwriter. The expand-ed reissue of the Jimi Hendrix Expe-rience’s Axis: Bold As Love also in-cludes a bonus DVD with a “makingof” mini-doc.

Of course, you can’t talk aboutguitars and the 1960s without men-tioning Wes Montgomery and DickDale. Like Hendrix, jazz guitar virtu-oso Montgomery died young (age 43in 1968), but not before recordingsome essential and classic albums.Originally released on Riverside, theCD reissue of Boss Guitar (OJC Re-masters/Concord) includes Mont-gomery’s interpretations of “Days of

Wine and Roses,” “Canadian Sunset”and “Besame Mucho,” as well asswinging originals “The Trick Bag”and “Fried Pies.” The three-CDbonus tracks are takes on some ofthese tunes. Sadly, we’ll never knowwhat else the gifted Montgomery wascapable of doing.

Still kicking at 73, surf guitar kingDick Dale’s legendary fretwork is cel-ebrated on the aptly named GuitarLegend: The Very Best of Dick Dale(Shout Factory). In addition to

“Miserlou,” which Pulp Fiction fanswill recognize instantly, the 16-trackanthology includes Dale’s uniquerendition of “Hava Nagila,” “Ridersin the Sky,” “Let’s Go Trippin’,”“Pipeline” (his 1987 comebackrecording, with the late Stevie RayVaughan), “Surf Beat” and, natural-ly, “King of the Surf Guitar.”

For something completely differ-ent, but equally indicative of the1960s, there is the expanded reissueof jazz pianist Bill Evans’ Waltz for

Debbie (OJC Remasters/Concord).Recorded live at the Village Vanguardnearly 50 years ago by Evans’ trio (in-cluding Paul Motian and the lateScott LaFaro), the recording stillsounds innovative and timeless. Thematerial, ranging from Evans’ origi-nal title cut and Miles Davis’ “Mile-stones” to musical-theater selections“Some Other Time” and “My Ro-mance,” are all exquisitely and coollyrendered. As is “Porgy (I Loves You,Porgy),” one of five bonus tracks.▼

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Arriving at the beginning of thedecade, Miles Davis’ 1970 mas-terwork Bitches Brew (Colum-

bia/Legacy) was poised to make animpact, and it did. Studio wizardryaside, it’s the musicianship of Davisand the assembled players includingWayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, ChickCorea, John McLaughlin and JackDeJohnette that makes this such agroundbreaking recording. The 40thanniversary deluxe Legacy editionconsists of two CDs (the originaldouble LP, plus bonus material) anda DVD containing a Nov. 1969 con-cert filmed in Copenhagen. Settingthe standard as it did, and paving theway for jazz fusion, Bitches Brew isbitchin’.

David Bowie sings about “the re-turn of the thin white duke” on thenear-epic, funky, clickety-clackety,transporting title track to Station toStation (Capitol/EMI), newly reis-sued in an expanded (almost 35thanniversary) edition. The disco in-fluence of the title cut is replayed in“Golden Years” as well as on the soul-ful “Stay,” unofficially qualifyingBowie as the ultimate detached discodiva. But don‘t dismiss the drama,there’s plenty to be found on “Wordon a Wing,” “Wild Is the Wind” and“TVC15.” The reissue includes a dou-ble-disc concert set recorded at theNassau Coliseum in March, 1976.

Looking back, there’s probablynothing that could have predictedthe arrival of Akron, Ohio’s Devo in1978. One of the first new wavebands on any shore, Devo were un-

like anything we’d seen before (al-though Blondie and Talking Headshinted at their possibility). The ex-panded reissue of Devo’s debutalbum Q: Are We Not Men? A: WeAre Devo! (WB) arrived shortly be-fore the reformed band released adisc of new material, played Lolla-palooza and toured. Early Devo clas-sics, including their insanely inspiredrevision of the Rolling Stones’ “(ICan’t Get No) Satisfaction” and orig-inals such as “Uncontrollable Urge,”“Mongoloid,” “Jocko Homo” and“Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy),”still sound inventive and distinctive.The 11 live bonus tracks were record-ed in London in the Spring of 2009at a special concert performance ofthe album.

The 1970s weren’t especially kindto artists from earlier eras. Peggy Lee,

however, did her part to keep as cur-rent as she possibly could. She evenhad a hit single in 1969 with the song“Is That All There Is?” Her 1974 At-lantic Records release Let’s Love (reis-sued by Collectors’ Choice Music)not only features the title track, writ-ten and produced by Paul McCart-ney, but also an early Melissa Man-chester composition (“He Is theOne”) and songs by James Taylor(“Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight”)and the Stylistics (“You Make MeFeel Brand New”).

To commemorate what wouldhave been John Lennon’s 70th birth-day in October 2010, his entire solocatalog has been reissued by Capitolin remastered and repackaged edi-tions with expanded liner notes. Be-ginning with the musical catharsis of1970’s Plastic Ono Band (“Mother,”

“Love, God” and “Working ClassHero”), these recordings not only il-lustrate the differences betweenLennon and his former bandmates,but also function as the ultimate de-clarations of independence. Eachdisc, including 1971’s Imagine (thetimeless title tune, “Jealous Guy,”“Gimme Some Truth”), 1973’s MindGames and 1975’s Walls and Bridges(with the Elton John collaboration“Whatever Gets You Through theNight”), serves as a reminder ofLennon’s indisputable contributions,and the great loss we suffered.

White-bread pop star Donny Os-mond’s career has lasted more than40 years. The single disc DefinitiveCollection (Polydor/Ume) touches onthe various phases, beginning with“One Bad Apple” and “Sweet & In-nocent,” songs he recorded as part of

the singing group The Osmondswith his older brothers. It wasn’t longbefore Donny, like Michael Jackson,left his brothers behind for a solo ca-reer. Donny’s solo hits, including “GoAway Little Girl,” “Hey Girl,” “PuppyLove,” “Too Young” and “The Twelfthof Never,” are all featured here. Stillnot through, Donny teamed up withsister Marie for a string of whole-some hits such as “I’m Leaving It AllUp to You,” “Morning Side of theMountain” and the goofy “A Little BitCountry, A Little Bit Rock & Roll”(yeah, right). Osmond had one lastbit of solo chart success in the 1980swith “Soldier of Love,” before em-barking on the ultimate career re-vival as Joseph in Joseph & the Amaz-ing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as heardin the song “Any Dream Will Do.”

Judy Collins is approaching her50th year as a recording artist. A pairof Collins’ 1970s Elektra albums,Whales & Nightingales and True Sto-ries and Other Dreams (both on Col-lectors’ Choice Music), have beenreissued on CD. Released in 1970 atthe height of the Vietnam war,Whales begins on a political folk bentwith Joan Baez’s “Song for David,”Jacques Brel’s “Sons of” and DominicBehan’s “The Patriot Game.” TheBob Dylan cover “Time Passes Slow-ly” is one of the least political songson the disc, as is the Collins original“Nightingale I.” 1973’s True Storiesopens with the sweet Valerie Carternumber “Cook with Honey,” and isfollowed by several of Collins’ owncompositions, including “Song forMartin.” Her reading of StephenStills’ “So Begins the Task” is also apleasure.▼

hunger. Oprah debuted her new network,

OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), atNoon on New Year’s Day. The net-work is devoted to all the thingsOprah has built over the years, andwill feature many of her “finds,”from Rachel Ray, Dr. Phil and Dr. Ozto renowned sex-therapist Dr. LauraBerman, queer fashionista and inno-

vator extraordinaire Carson Kress-ley, and the lesbian leader of allthings financial, Suze Orman.

No one has ever done whatOprah is doing, so all eyes in the in-dustry are watching. But it’s hard toimagine that the woman who madeTolstoy’s Anna Karenina a bestsellerby having her book club read itcould possibly fail. And Oprah’s de-votion to people living their bestlives means we will all continue toglean tidbits from her experience.

10. Demand better and more in-

clusive TV from its purveyors. Forexample, to date there is only onequeer character on CBS prime time,The Good Wife’s bisexual Kalinda.CBS has the CSI, NCIS and CriminalMinds franchises, a total of sevenprime-time series, and not one has aqueer character, despite the fact thatthey are all set in major urban me-tropolises.

The same problem exists over atthe NBC Law & Order franchises.(Go ahead and make Olivia queer al-ready, please. It’s been 10 years, and

she’s never met the right man once.)Grey’s Anatomy and Modern Familyshould not be the only network fran-chise series with regular lead queercharacters.

Shows that have been on the tubefor more than a few years risk noth-ing by adding queer characters totheir casts. Rather, they broaden per-spective within the context of theirprograms and add a subtext to over-all plotting that is almost always acompelling addition. (Note thequeer storyline last season on Big

Love. No one expects queers in apolygamous culture.)

For years, there were no people ofcolor on the tube, but then racialand ethnic minorities demanded in-clusion, and got it. It’s past time thequeer community got full represen-tation somewhere other than TheJerry Springer Show. So don’t shrugand be complacent about the dearthof queer characters on the tube. De-mand more.

11. Happy New Year, and staytuned.▼


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Life? or Theater?, about a youngBerlin artist who produced over 800paintings in a creative frenzy beforeshe was arrested and murdered atAuschwitz at age 26 (March 31-July31); Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Storiesilluminates Stein’s personal life, herwritings and her pivotal role in the artworld (May 12-Sept. 6); and an exhi-bition on an audacious showman whoachieved mythic status. Houdini: Artand Magic features tools of the escapeartist’s trade, including his straitjack-et, handcuffs and milk can, things nomagic man should be without (Sept.20- Jan. 16, 2012).

MOAD: Uniting two of the mostpopular artistic forms in AfricanAmerican culture, Textural Rhythms:Constructing the Jazz Tradition bringstogether 64 quilts and jazz (Jan. 27-April 24).

de Young Museum: Last year’s Im-pressionism double-header is a hardact to follow, but the de Young has sev-eral tantalizing shows up its sleeve,such as Olmec: Colossal Masterworks ofAncient Mexico, with over 100 objectsby America’s oldest civilization,heretofore best-known for creatingthose enigmatic colossal heads carvedfrom giant boulders discovered in themid-19th century (Feb.19-May 8); Ba-lenciaga and Spain looks at the impactof Spanish history, culture and tradi-tion on haute couture designer Cristo-bal Balenciaga, of luxury handbagfame. Nearly 120 nifty high-fashionensembles will be displayed (March26-July 4). Once again, one institu-tion’s temporary closure is San Fran-cisco’s gain. Arriving this summer: Pi-casso from Musee National Picasso,Paris, a thrilling exhibition of over 100masterpieces by an undisputed giantof modern art, from every phase of hiscareer (June 11-Sept. 25). And let’s notforget the event of the spring, the stun-ning Bouquets to Art, where floral de-signers respond to works in the muse-

um’s collection (March 15-19).Legion of Honor is mounting

what appears to be another knock-out costuming exhibition, PulpFashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borch-grave. Like some ancient wizard outof a fairy tale conjuring in her magicworkshop, the Belgian artist manip-ulates and paints paper, transform-ing otherwise mundane materialsinto elaborate trompe l’oeil gownsinspired by early European painting,Renaissance finery worthy of theMedicis, fashion deities Dior andChanel, and splendid royal attireworn by Elizabeth I and Marie-An-toinette (Feb. 5-June 5).

SFMOMA continues its paradeof stellar photography exhibitionswith Helios: Eadweard Muybridge ina Time of Change, the first retro-spective to chart the career of one ofthe medium’s formative and mostinventive early practitioners. It as-sembles 300 objects, including hisanimal locomotion studies and ex-periments in moving pictures (Feb.26-June 7). Easily one of the mostfascinating American expatriates liv-ing in Paris (or anywhere else) dur-ing the early 20th century, the emi-nently quotable Gertrude Stein wasan avid art collector and a prescientone, presiding over an elite salon andpurchasing works initially shunnedby critics and the Academy that arenow considered masterpieces. Therole she and her family played bothas patrons of the arts and in shapingaesthetic taste is the focus of TheSteins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, andthe Parisian Avant-Garde. Amongthe 200 paintings, sculptures, draw-ings, prints, archival materials and il-lustrated books are 60 works by Ma-tisse, 40 by Picasso, along with piecesby Picabia, Cezanne and Bonnard(May 21-Sept. 6); a lesser-knownoeuvre of the titanic artist best-known for forging monumentalsculptures is explored in RichardSerra: Drawing in Retrospect (Oct.15-Jan. 17, 2012).

San Jose Museum of Art: Pho-tographer Robert Mapplethorpe,

who aspired to be a successful artistfrom when he was in his early 20s,courted controversy, achieving fame,no small amount of notoriety andthe undying enmity of the CatholicChurch for his homo-eroticallycharged imagery, before his death atage 42, in 1989, from AIDS. Tame hewas not. In Robert Mapplethorpe:Portraits, he captures the vanishedNew York cultural scene of the late1970s and 80s through pictures ofartists, actors, dealers, writers andmusicians like soulmate Patti Smith(Jan. 29-June 5); Roots in the Air,Branches Below: Modern and Con-temporary Art from India, a surveydating from 1947, when Indiagained independence from BritishColonial rule, opens at the end ofFebruary (Feb. 25-Sept. 4).

Cantor Center for the Arts: Twoconcurrent photography shows, In aNew York Minute: Photographs byHelen Levitt and Paths through theGlobal City: Photographs by Leo Ru-binfien, run Feb. 2-May 1.

Berkeley Art Museum: AlthoughEve Hesse’s brilliant career was cutshort by a fatal brain tumor at theage of 34, she left behind a small butintense body of work haunted byterminal illness, frustration with theNew York art world, and her child-hood escape from Nazi Germany.Her fragile, waif-like polyester andresin structures are suffused withpower and mystery. Eve Hesse; Stu-diowork presents small-scale, exper-imental sculptures, including papiermache creations never exhibited be-fore (Jan. 26-April 10). Down theroad, Create highlights three localcenters for adult artists with disabil-ities (May 11-Sept 25); and KurtSchwitters: Color and Collage, em-phasizing the relationship betweencollage and painting, provides anoverview of work by the Germanartist, and a recreation of Merzbau,his monumental, walk-in architec-tural construction made of foundmaterials; the original was destroyedin a WWII bombing raid (Aug. 3-Nov. 27).▼


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Since it’s a new year, with resolutions and all that, it seems timely toshare a column – yes, an actual self-absorbed, opinionated rant –about going to the theatre. Having been a well-behaved theatre-goer

since about age five, it seems timely to share my thoughts, and defend ourright to a well-mannered theatrical experience.

Going out to see live shows should be fun. The theatrical arts are meantto stimulate us. And undoubtedly, the vast majority of you dear readersknow how to behave in a theatre, and how not to behave.

Unfortunately, we increasingly encounter those who, in the words ofmy dearly departed Aunt Minnie, “ain’t got no couth.”

Cinemas are mostly a lost cause, excepting movies that are artsy, in smallvenues like the Roxie, Embarcadero or Kabuki, and well after opening days.I would say The Metreon displeases me due to the number of shouting,yakking, texting patrons having been shot by guards and police. Upon sec-ond thought, perhaps the guards ought to become more aggressive.

Why? Several recent theatrical events at popular venues have been tar-nished by a bevy of idiotic behaviors, which you are thoroughly encouragedto protest and prevent.

The minor offenders are:Cough Music – the increasing wave of “ahem”s emitted during a par-

ticularly quiet or un-thrilling phase in a show. It seems to spread from onepatron to another until the venue acoustically resembles a tuberculosisward. This most often happens at dance concerts where the music resem-bles, or is, a John Cage score (in which case the coughing becomes a part ofthe score).

Here’s the thing, people. Unless you’re about to get up onstage andspeak, or be even more rude and expectorate on the theatre floor, you don’tneed to cough. Deal with your phlegm silently, and in advance, and with-out those preposterous candy wrappers.

Toe-Tappers – Hey, bub, guess what? The drummer onstage has rhythm.You don’t. Grooving along is fine, but contain yourself. And get your handoff my knee.

Bridge of Sighs – common at modern dance concerts in moments ofquiet; verbally empathetic artsy types feel the need to audibly coo and purrappreciation from the audience. Thanks, dear, But the choreographer al-ready chose the accompaniment, and it’s not Pet Sounds.

Cellaholics – Unless you’re a cardiologist on call, just leave it at home orin the car. Seriously; nothing happening in the world outside the theatre ismore important. If you can’t suspend that disbelief, don’t enter the theatrein the first place.

But the worst offenders of all, of course, are the Talkers. This isn’t about the occasional whisper to a friend. The problem is the

increasing epidemic of completely self-absorbed blabbing aloud morons.The Talkers bring their living rooms with them wherever they go. If it’s afilm, a dance concert, or any show where actual people aren’t talking –even,oftimes, live dramas– the uncouth and the narcissistic consider their opin-ions and ongoing narrative to be superior to any other taking place in theroom.

They’re not. And this is not a proposal to constrict behavior, such as hearty laughter,

applause or even some good-natured cheering for an outstanding perfor-mance.

No, this is about the arrogantly rude patrons who simply won’t shut up.Should you encountersuch oafs, ask them tobe quiet. Do it quickly.Do it firmly. Don’t do ittwice. Resist the urge tolightly smack the blab-bermouth in front ofyou. That’s when pro-fessional help should berecruited.

We must not cowerto their arrogance. Wemust, as arts lovers,

band together with a collective “shush” and let all patrons enjoy the per-formance.

Shut up for Shakespeare. Shut up for Paul Taylor. Just shut up.As we enter a new year, a new decade, and hopefully, a new way of life,

you are encouraged to patronize the performing arts, and encourage politetheatre-going behavior wherever you go. ▼

Fri 7>>Beach Blanket Babylon@ Club FugaziMusical comedy revue, now in its 35th year,with an ever-changing lineup of political andpop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30,9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served;cash only). 678 Beach Blanket BabylonBlvd (Green St.). 421-4222.www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Coraline @ SF PlayhouseMusical stage version of the story and ani-mated film about a girl whose familychanges in an alternate reality; extendedthru Jan. 15. $30-$40. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat &Sun 3pm. Some 7pm weeknights. 533 Sut-ter St. 677-9597. www.sfplayhouse.org

Dirty Little Showtunes@ New Conservatory TheatreTom Orr’s wicked and wacky musical revueof campy parody songs includes six specialguest performers. $24-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm.Sun 2pm. Thru Jan. 16. 25 Van Ness Ave.,lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Forever Tango @ Marines’ Memorial TheatreLuis Bravo’s dance show stars local instruc-tor (and Dancing With the Stars pro) CherylBurke, with 12 dancers, a live band, and hottango dancing. $55-$100. Tue-Sat 8pm,Sun 7pm. Also Wed, Sat, Sun at 2pm. ThruJan. 9. 609 Sutter St. 2nd floor. 771-6900.www.marinesmemorialtheatre.com

Ghetto Disco @ The EndupDJs Hawthorne, Wayne G., James Torriesand Cuervo spin tunes for the new decade.Free before 0pm. $10-$20. Open til 6am.6th St. at Harrison. www.theendup.com

Hayes Valley Show @ Marlena’sGalilea’s weekly drag show starts off yourweekend with Kitty Glamore, Saybaline,Melenie, Sofonda boyz, Emma Peel, EllaGant, and Ana Mae Cox. No cover. 9:30pm.488 Hayes St. at Octavia.www.marlenasbarsf.com

The Lion in Winter@ Actors TheatreLocal production of James Goldman’s in-triguing play about 1183-era English royal-ty. $26-$38. Wed-Sat 8pm. Extended thruJan 15. 855 Bush St. at Taylor. 345-1287.www.actorstheatresf.org

Lost in Yonkers @ Jewish Community CenterNeil Simon’s comic coming-of-age play isperformed by the Jewish Theatre of SanFrancisco. $20-$39. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun2pm & 7pm. Thru Jan. 16. Kanbar Hall,3200 California St. 292-1233.www.jccsf.org/arts

A Penis Show @ MagnetOpening reception for Jack Davis’s exhibitof crocheted penis sculptures. 8pm-10pm.Thru Jan. 4122 18th st. at Castro.www.magnetsf.org

The Phenomenauts @ Rickshaw StopSpace-surf android rockers perform. Also,Tornado Rider and Manzanita. $12. 8pm.All ages. 155 Fell St.www.rickshawstop.com

Siddhartha, The Bright Path @ The MarshRevival of the uplifting popular 2007Youth Theatre adaptation of the storyof the Indian prince and his journey tobecome the Buddha, with Indian Bol-lywood dances, music and scenery.$10-$50. Mon-Sun 3pm. Thu-Sat7:30pm. Thru Jan. 9. 1074 ValenciaSt. at 21st. (800) 838-3006.www.themarsh.org

Some Thing @ The StudDragtastic show hosted byGlamamore, and a New Year’s party,and DJs Juanita More, Sidekick andStanley Frank. $10. 9pm-2am. 3999th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

The Three Degress @ The Rrazz RoomClassic soul and R&B band (“TSOP”aka the Soul Train theme song,“When Will I See You Again?”) per-form their hits. $40. Thru Jan. 8,8pm. Also Jan 9, 7pm. 8pm. 2-drinkminimum. Hotel Nikko, 222 MasonSt. at Ellis. (800) 380-3095.www.therrazzroom.com

Sat 8>>Alfred Hitchcock Films @ Castro TheatreMini-fest of a dozen rarely screened myster-ies, thrillers and comedies from the master.Jan 8, The Lady Vanishes and The 39 StepsJan 9, Rope and I Confess. Jan 10, TornCurtain and Stage Fright. Jan 11, The Trou-ble With Harry and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.Jan 12, Lifeboat and The Wrong Man. Jan13, Frenzy and Family Plot. $10. Checkwebsite or call for times. 429 Castro St.621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Curious George Saves the Day @ ContemporaryJewish MuseumFascinating exhibit of 80 drawings by Mar-gret and H.A. Rey, cocreators of the impishmonkey books, and how their daring escapefrom the Nazis in Europe was aided by theirdrawings. Also, Reclaimed: Paintings fromthe Collection of Jacques Goudstikker andBlack Sabbath: The Secret Musical Historyof Black-Jewish Relations (both thruMarch). Thu-Tue 11am-5pm. Thu 1pm-8pm. 736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800.Thru March 13. www.thecjm.org

Ethnic Dance FestivalAuditions @ Zellerbach Hall, BerkeleyFour days of acts in audition by more than130 (nearly every) ethnic dance company inNorthern California. $10 per day (kidsunder 12 free; in-out privs). 10am-6pm.Also Jan 9 10am-7pm; Jan 15 10am-7:30pm; Jan 16 10am-7pm. Bancroft Wayat Telegraph Ave., UC Berkeley campus.474-3914. www.worldartswest.org

Japanesque@ Legion of HonorExhibit of Japanese prints from 1700-1900,and its relationship to Impressionism. ThruJan. 9. $6-$10. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm.100 34th Av. at Clement, Lincoln Park.www.legionofhonor.org

Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead @ Berkeley RepStrangely amusing musical comedy based onthe author’s orchestral narrative work; star-ring Geoff Hoyle and 100 puppets; devel-oped by Phantom Limb Company; music byNathaniel Stookey; directed by Tony Tac-cone. $14.50-$73. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed& Sun 7pm. Thu, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Jan.16. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Perverts Put Out @ Center for Sex & CultureGreta Christina, Gina DeVries, horehoundstillpoint, Kirk Read, Lady Monster, PhilipHuang, Sherilyn Connelly, Hew Wolff, andhost Simon Sheppard read smut for thesmart. $10-$15. 7:30pm. 1519 Mission St.www.simonsheppard.comwww.sexandculture.org

SF Hiking Club @ Crystal SpringsJoin GLBT hikers for an 8-mile walk alongpaved Crystal Springs Trail to the reservoir.Bring water, lunch, hat, layers, good walk-ing shoes. Carpool meets at Safeway sign,Market & Dolores, 9am. (650) 615-0151.www.sfhiking.com

Vintage Paper Fair @ Hall of FlowersShop from dozens of sellers’ collectiosn ofold postcards, pinups, prints, photos andmore. 10am-6pm. Also Jan. 9, 10am-4pm.County Fair Bldg., 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way,Golden Gate Park.www.vintagepaperfair.com

Sun 9>>Art/Object @ Museum of the African DiasporaExhibit of masks, costumes, sculptures andobjects from ancient Africa, which showshow they’re used in rituals and contempo-rary settings. Thru Jan. 16, 2011. 685 Mis-sion St. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

The Art of Dr. Seuss@ Dennis Rae Fine ArtFascinating exhibit of rarely seen prints,paintings, sculptures and a few of the moreknown drawings by Theodor Geisel, the au-thor/illustrator of the immensely popularchildren’s books. Ongoing, with updates andnew items. 351A Geary St. 391-1948.www.dennisraefineart.com

Animation Exhibits @ Walt Disney Museum See biographical exhibits about Walt Dis-ney, early sketches and ephemera from his-toric Disney movies. Frequent lectures andfilm screenings. $12-$20. 104 MontgomerySt., The Presidio. www.waltdisney.org

Design & Wine 1976 to Now @ SF MOMAExhibit of the rich culture of wine, with his-torical artifacts, art, installations designedby Diller Scofidio and Renfro. Special con-tests with prizes, including hotel stays inNapa, SF and Sonoma. 151 3rd St.www.sfmoma.org

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk RadioInterview show with gay writer AdamSandel as host. 8pm.www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Ice Skating @ Union Square RinkCelebrate the post-holidays (or exhaust visit-ing relatives) at the retail center of town,with a round of ice skating. $4.50-$9.10am-10pm. Powell St. at Geary. Thru Jan.17. www.unionsquareicerink.com

Judy Butterfield @ The Rrazz RoomYoung cabaret singer performs classics bythe Gershwins, Cole Porter, and JoniMitchell and Bob Dylan. $35 (special 18-and-under $17.50) 3pm. Also Jan. 10, 8pm.2-drink minimum. Hotel Nikko, 222 MasonSt. at Ellis. (800) 380-3095.www.therrazzroom.com

Kvetch @ ErosQueer open mic with Kirk Read, LoganKnight and Rose Tully. $3-$5. 8pm. 2051Market St. www.erossf.com

Photo Show @ Good VibrationsExhibit of works by photographers RinkFoto and Kija Lucas and painter Sholeh As-gary. Thru Jan. 20. 1620 Polk St. at Sacra-mento. 345-0400. www.goodvibes.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550Country-western dancing for the LGBT com-munity and friends two night a week, everySunday and Thursday. $5-$8. 21+. Sun-days 5pm-10:30pm, lessons 5:30–7:15pm.Thursdays 6:30–10:30pm, lessons 7pm-8pm. 550 Barneveld Ave., near Bayshoreand Industrial. www.sundancesaloon.org

Sunday’s a Drag@ Starlight RoomDonna Sachet and Harry Denton host thefabulous weekly brunch and drag show. $45.11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Swing-out Sundays @ Rock-it RoomSlim Jenkins and other bands play weeklyfor your same- and opposite-sex swing danc-ing pleasure. $5 includes a lesson. 8pm-11pm. 406 Clement St.www.SwingChampionships.com


Cough Musicby Jim Provenzano

OUT&ABOUTHarmonLeon atKung PaoKoshercomedy,Monday

A PenisShow,Friday

Ethnic Dance FestivalAuditions, Saturday

Lost in Japan, Thursday

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29License to Kiss II is the new showat the theatre-tent-dinner extrav-aganza with Kevin Kent, twin ac-robats Ming and Rui, VerticalTango rope dance, plus magic,comedy, a five-course dinner, anda lot of fun. $117-$145. Satur-day 11:30am “Breve” show$63—$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun5pm). Pier 29 at EmbarcaderoAve. 438-2668.www.teatrozinzanni.com

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Beyond@ de Young MuseumPost-Impressionist Masterpieces from theMusee d’Orsay, the second of two exhibi-tions from the Paris museum’s permanentcollection, thru Jan. 18. Also, Developedand Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes,thru March 6. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Thru Jan. 18, 2011. 50 HagiwaraTea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park,www.famsf.org

Various Exhibits @ OaklandMuseum of CaliforniaBay Area figurative art, Dorothea Langearchive, early landscape paintings, GoldRush Era works, California ceramics.Gallery of California Natural Sciences fo-cuses on California’s unique status as a re-gion of extreme biological and geological di-versity. $6-$12. 1000 Oak St. Oakland.(510) 238-2200. www.museumca.org

Mon 10>>Jeremy Novy @ LGBT CenterExhibit of gay street art stencils by the localartist. Thru Jan. 18. 1800 Market St.www.sfcenter.org

Kung Pao Kosher Comedy @ El RioRay Ferrer, Maureen Langan, Harmon Leon(columnist, author of The Infiltrator: MyUndercover Exploits in Right WingAmerica) Candy Churilla and Lisa Geduldigperform multicultural comedy that doesn’tinsult (most) people, but is still hilarious.$7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission st. at Precita.(800) 838-3006. www.elriosf.com

Reinforcing Stereotypes @ Yoshi’sComics Frankie Quinoes, Emily Heller,Yayne Abeba and Ronn Vigh tell jokesabout their own ethnicity, race and sexualorentation. Not for the sensitive! $15. 8pm.1330 Fillmore St. at Eddy.

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104David Perry’s new talk show about LGBTlocal issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm,Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Tue 11>>Blue Room Comedy @ Club 93Weekly adults-only jokes at the divey smallbar; David Hawkins hosts. 10pm. 93 9th St.at Mission.

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’sRonn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. One drink or menuitem minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Martha Reeves @ The Rrazz RoomMotown great performs R&B, jazz andblues classics. $40-$45. 8pm thru Jan. 15.Also Jan 16, 7pm. 2-drink minimum. HotelNikko, 222 Mason St. at Ellis. (800) 380-3095. www.therrazzroom.com

Meditation Classes @ Kadampa Buddhist TempleTessa Logan teaches drop-in meditation class-es. $10. 7-8:45pm. 3324 17th St. 503-1187.www.meditationinnortherncalifornia.org

Michael Ajerman @ Toomey Tourell Fine ArtExhibit of works by the painter of lushdreamlike scenes. 5:30-7:30pm. thru Jan.31. 49 Geary St. , 4th floor. www.toomey-tourell.com

Yoga Classes @ The Sun RoomHeated, healing weekly yoga classes in anew location. Suggested donation $10-20.12pm-1pm. Tue & Thu. 2390 Mission St,3rd floor. 794-4619.www.billmohleryoga.com

Wed 12>>A-List Martini Nights @ Various BarsAntoine Delaitre’s roving weekly cocktailevents for gay men and their pals, held atdifferent stylish venues. Sign up for emailupdates. www.sfalist.com

Angels in America at 20 @ Museum ofPerformance & DesignExhibit documenting the award-winningTony Kushner drama, with an array of origi-nal costumes, props, manuscripts, videoclips, photos, designs and audio interviews.Wed-Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Mar. 26. 401Van Ness Ave. 255-4800. www.mpdsf.org

AWARD Show @ ODC TheaterDance showcase and competition, with theaudience voting on awards of up to$10,000. Jan. 12, 8pm: works by ManuelitoBiag, Liss Fain, Katie Faulkner and Cather-ine Galasso. Jan. 13, 8pm, works by ScottWells, Stacey Printz, Pearl Marill and KaraDavis. Jan. 14, 8pm, works by Alex Ketley,Jacinta Vlach, Dominic Duong and JodieLomask. Jan 15, 8pm, all finalists from pre-vious nights performs. $20. 3153 17th St.863-9834. www.ocdtheater.org

Badly Happy@ Performance Art InstitutePain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Roman-ian Art, a group exhibit representing a gen-eration which struggles to make sense out ofthe rapidly changing post-communist world.Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm. Thru Jan. 8, 2011.575 Sutter St. 501-0575.www.theperformanceartinstitute.org

Clue @ Boxcar PlayhouseBoxcar Theatre’s stage adaptation of thedark comedy murder mystery film based onthe classic board game. $10-$25. Wed-Sat8pm. Sat 7p, & 10pm. thru Feb. 5. 505Natoma St. at 6th.

Galeria 4.0@ Galeria de la Raza40th anniversary exhibit, with Lati-no/Chicano works spanning four decades.Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm (Tue 1pm-7pm) thruJan. 29, 2011. 2857 24th St.www.galeriadelaraza.org

Mike Daisey @ Berkeley RepMaster storyteller tells tall talesThe Last Cargo Cult (natives whoworship shipments from overseas)and The Agony and the Ecstasy ofSteve Jobs (computer guru’s pre-carious trip to China). Thu-Sat8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Thu, Sat,Sun 2pm. $15-$73. Thru Feb.27. 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

New Year’s SexResolutions @ Good VibrationsSexologist Dr. Carol Queen dis-

cusses adding sexy spice to your love life.Singles, couples, LGBT or straight welcome.6:30pm. 603 Valencia St. at 17th. 522-5460. www.events.goodvibes.com

Numina Press Night @ Rickshaw StopGay and straight authors read from theirworks as part of a new literary press collec-tive, including Kemble Scott (The Sower,SoMa), Joe Quirk (It’s Not You, It’s Biolo-gy: The Science of Love, Sex and Relation-ships) Tamim Ansary (West of Kabul, Eastof New York), James warner, RansomStephens and Jed Diamond. All ages. Tick-ets at the door. 155 Fell St.www.rickshawstop.com

Reprise @ Robert Tat GalleryFavorite photographs on display at the fineart gallery of historic prints. Thru Feb. 26.Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm. 49 Geary St. #211.781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Roger Arvid Anderson, Bill Bowers @ Steven Wolk Fine ArtsSee rare Cockettes-era photos, collages andcostumes by the two veteran gay artists.Thru Jan. 29. 2747 19th St. A. 263-3677.www.stevenwolffinearts.com

Thu 13>>It’s all a Blur @ SOMArts Cultural CenterExhibit of works by Guillermo Gomez-Peña,Dale Hoyt and Tony Labat. Exhibit Tue-Fri12pm-7pm. Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Jan. 28.934 Brannan St. at 8th. www.somarts.org

Jess Curtis/Gravity @ YBCALocal dance company performs site-specificdances in advance of their full concerts inFebruary. 4pm-8pm thru Jan. 15. Severalvisual art exhibits, too: Nina Bier: Agents ofChange (thru Jan. 23) and Lauren DiCioc-cio: Remember the Times (thru Mar. 27),ongoing Middle East videos and more.$5-$7. Thu-Sat 12pm-8pm. Sun 12pm-6pm.Free first Thursdays. 701 Mission St. at3rd. www.ybca.org

Larry-bob Roberts @ Books Inc.Author of the acclaimed The InternationalHomosexual Conspiracy, musician andzinester emeritus reads and chats. 7:30pm.2275 Market St. at Noe. 864-6777.www.booksinc.net

Lost in Japan @ YBCAMini-fest of the existential comedies of YuyaIshii. First, Sawako Decides (7:30pm andJan. 15, 1pm). To Walk Beside You, Jan.14, 7:30pm, Jan 15, 4pm. $6-$8 (includesgallery admission). 701 Mission St.www.ybca.org

Nightlife @ CaliforniaAcademy of SciencesWeekly parties with different themes at thenew museum of life sciences. Enjoy the ex-hibits while drinking and schmoozing; Life:A Cosmic Story, narrated by Jodie Foster inthe Planetarium. $12. (Reg, admission $20-$30). 21+. 6pm-10pm. Golden Gate Park.www.calacademy.org/nightlife

Our Vast Queer Past@ GLBT History MuseumGrand opening of the new exhibit from theGLBT Historical Society, with a wide arrayof rare historic items on display. Free. 7pm-9pm. Reg, hours: Free for members-$5.Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 412718th St. www.glbthistory.org

Yoga Journal Conference @Hyatt Regency EmbarcaderoLarge-scale four-day conference with panels,workshops, shopping, celebrity authors, livemusic, and of course, yoga products andclasses. $29-$99. Thru Jan. 17.www.yjevents.com/sf/

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by Donna Sachet

We saw the NewYear in at thelegendary End

Up at a Stoli Vodka party or-ganized by Patrik Gallineaux.If you’ve lived in San Francis-co for any length of time, you have anEndup story,maybe about you,maybe about acelebrity, maybe embarrassing,maybe hilarious, but undoubtedly, ajuicy story. What better place to cre-

ate new memories! 2011 is the Yearof the Hare, so two visiting Play-

boy Bunnies, DiannaBrooks and Hiromi Os-hima, seemed perfectly

at home, mugging for thecamera and posing for all,

joined by handsome StoliBoys in their version of the

classic bunny cos-tume. Entertain-ment includedJosh Klipp & the

Klipptones andCassandra Cass in a glittering, gor-geous new bunny outfit of her own.There to celebrate were Michael

Daniels, Caroline Lund, LonnieTuck, John Marez, Eric Williams,Richard Sablatura, Norm Clay-baugh, Keith Addy, Adam Sandel,Joe Seiler & Ken Henderson, GaryThackeray, Al Treuter, Shawn Perry,and Kirk Gregor. There were smilesall around as Bebe Sweetbriar madeher first public appearance aftermonths of health problems and re-covery.

New Year’s Day, we started at alovely brunch at John Newmeyer’shistoric Gough House, where tradi-tional holiday dishes were served to

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Thu., Jan. 6: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse(1347 Folsom), 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drinkspecials. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Thu., Jan. 6: Edges Wet Munch at Renegades Bar(501 W. Taylor St., San Jose). 7 p.m. Happy hour for thesex-positive and alternative communities, 4-7 p.m. Goto: www.edges.biz or www.renegadesbar.com.

Thu, Jan. 6: EduKink – Beginners’ Dungeon Classwith Angela and Iain at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission).Doors open at 7 p.m., program from 7:30-10:30 p.m.Free admission, suggested donation of $10-$20. Go to:edukink.tribe.net or www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Jan. 7: Jockstraps at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom).Go-Go Studs at 10:30 p.m. Free clothes check. DJ Sam,bootblack on duty. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chaps-barsanfrancisco.com.

Fri., Jan. 7: Urge – San Francisco’s only play party forguys under 40, at the SF Citadel. Party starts at 8 p.m.goes until 1 a.m. Admission: $25. Membership required!One-year membership is available at the door for only$10. For work exchange (a volunteer shifts earns youfree entry, but still requires membership), [email protected] or go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Jan. 8: Back Bar Action at The Eagle Tavern (39812th St.) Back patio and bar opened to all gear/fetish/leather.10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com.

Sat., Jan. 8: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 per person. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Jan. 8: Bearracuda Underwear Night at Club 8(1151 Folsom) featuring DJ Craig Gabler. 9 p.m.-3 a.m.$8 cover, $6 before 10 p.m., 2 for 1 drinks before 10 p.m.Go to: www.bearracuda.com.

Sat., Jan. 8: Hell Hole Fisting Party. 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.Door closes at Midnight. $25 admission. Free clothescheck. For an invitation, visit: www.HellHoleSF.com.

Sat., Jan. 8: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse, 10 p.m.Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Jan. 8: Military at Chaps Bar. Army, Navy, AirForce, Marines – Dog-tags & Camos! DJ Jim, plus go-gostuds at 10:30 p.m. Lots of drink specials. Go to:www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sun., Jan. 9: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sun-day at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to:www.castrobear.com.

Sun., Jan 9: SF Men’s Spanking Party at The PowerExchange (220 Jones St). This is a male-only event. Youmust be 18+ with valid ID. 1-6 p.m. Go to:http://www.voy.com/201188/.

Sun., Jan. 9: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. DJKeith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Mon., Jan. 10: Cheap Ass Happy Hour at Chaps Bar.Mon.-Thu., 6-9 p.m.; plus Fri. and Sat., 4-9 p.m. Lotsof drink specials. Go to:www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Tue., Jan. 11: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SFCitadel. 6:30-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Jan. 11: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at ThePowerhouse. 9 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Tue., Jan. 11: Skins N Punks at Chaps Bar. Drink spe-cials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Tue., Jan. 11: The Crooked Path: Carving Out YourNiche in the BDSM communities at the SF Citadel. Thisis a panel discussion moderated by Mr. Steve Ward. $20admission. 8-10 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Jan. 12: Golden Shower Buddies at Blow Bud-dies (933 Harrison). It’s all about the yellow hankie!Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play til late. Go to:www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Jan. 12: Nipple Play at the Powerhouse (Dore& Folsom), 10 p.m. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Wed., Jan. 12: Busted! at Chaps Bar. This week’s edi-tion: Fisting hosted by Hell Hole. Greasy fun starts at 9p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com orwww.HellHoleSF.com.

Wed., Jan. 12: SoMa’s Men’s Club. Every Wed., theSoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star,Hole in the Wall, The Eagle) have specials for those whowear the Men’s Club dogtags.

Submit listings to: [email protected].

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by John F. Karr

The gay-4-pay Marines of ActiveDuty Productions irritate me –their sex is generally shallow

and absent of any emotional quotient.Sure, they Do It. But do they Feel It?Despite that, the production’s guysprovoke me – the social transactionsthey’re negotiating run rings roundtheir rods. And after irritation andprovocation, every so often comes aguy who enthralls me. You gottaadmit, some of them are gorgeous. Orunique, like the unforgettably hungand irresistibly enthusiastic Cole. Justnow, I’m infatuated with Dane.Sheesh, he busts my nut.

The single-named dude is a quar-terback-sized blond – he’s so blond hiseyebrows are white slashes of ice, andhis bountiful butt and pile-driver legsare dusted with fine down that glistenswith diamonds when he sweats up. Hecombines the hard-muscled body andclose-cropped hair of a Marine withthe classic, strapping Midwestern farmboy (oh, those Minnesota Swedes werehard to give up when I moved West).Dane’s translucent pubic hair is tight-ly clipped, and his dick is – well, it’squite a piece. Meaty, hard. And unlikemany of the Active Duty dudes whodo it dutifully, he’s really gung-ho. Hekisses with passion, dives into cock-sucking like it’s going to save theworld, and throws his legs up – thosebig and beefy thighs! – to enjoy gettingreamed to heaven. And, never one tomiss a flip, he reams right back withpowerful urgency.

Dane had already been pretty busyat Active Duty by the time I first sawhim, in last year’s Double Time 3. Be-fore that, he’d done a couplejack-off solos, a duo or two,and even earned himself abox-cover photo for histhreeway in Pullin’ Rank2. Third man Quinn wasnearly shut out whileDane flip-fucked withJack, his fave co-star.These two guys are likesoulmates. Or, more tothe point, lovers. Theyshowed how well theyclicked in a handful oflive shows for the company’s website.Got so hot together that hungry Daneeven let Jack shove a dildo Up There.I’ve seen all these other movies. Dane’snice to watch in any scene. But nonecan compare with what he and Jack doin Double Time 3. Theirs is a uniqueand splendid relationship, and withtheir ingenuousness, spontaneity, andpassion, their scene certainly raised thebar for other Active Duty performers.

Firewatch most recently pairedDane with another Active Duty stal-wart, the solidly built, thick-dickedbruiser Dorian. It’s a real meeting-of-the-muscle. The sex is hot, but thechemistry’s not what it was with Jack.

Still, Dane dishes it out impressive-ly, and Dorian gives almost as goodas he gets, lacking only a touch ofDane’s fire. Dane devours cock;Dorian sucks with professionalskill, in that dutiful Active Dutyway. But, oops – like Toto pullingback the curtain to expose the Wiz-ard, the Active Duty camera catch-es the television monitor just be-

hind Dane, on which we can seethe hetero porn that’s

keeping Dorianaroused while he’sfucking Dane. Imag-

ine needing outsidestimulation when

Dane’s impaled onyour cock! Even so, Dori-

an’s muscle-butt isawfully nice to watchwhile he’s banging hisfuckbuddy’s booty,and he’s thoughtfulenough as he pumps

to grab hold of Dane’s steely cockand firmly stroke it.

Then it’s time for the guys to flip.Dane’s a fierce fucker, and Dorian’spretty receptive. When Dane shootshis load across Dorian’s back, he lapsup the white treasure. Not many Ac-tive Duty stars do that!

Other things they don’t do muchare seen in the movie’s second scene, athreeway between Ethan, Damian, andJack. That’s right, Dane’s Jack. I thinkhe’s the one who kick-starts the actionhere – they’re all pretty amiable,though there’s nothing too specialgoing on. And then things get prettyrough. It’s a good example of the gay-

ing of Active Duty. Pacé, Dorian, but Ithink these days there are fewer ActiveDuty performers watching het pornover their partner’s shoulder. Str8 guysex, proficient and professional, isyielding more and more to scenes ofgay guy get-it-on, get-it-off, let-me-at-the-boys sex. Like this scene of Fire-watch. Check out the surprising chainfuck that works em up good, and theeven more surprising appearance of amighty big dildo that really gets emoff. www.ActiveDuty.com▼

an eclectic assortment of guests. Thishouse predates the 1906 earthquake,and boasts spacious rooms, enor-mous windows, and beautiful origi-nal detailing throughout. We caughtup with Jerome Goldstein & TommyTaylor, Dan Joraanstad & Bob Her-mann, Keith Perry, Michael Loftis,and Eric Nickel. From there weheaded to the annual Soul Food NewYear’s Day celebration at the spa-cious home of Supervisor BevanDufty. The food was incredible, thedrinks were generous, and the diver-sity of the guests was proof of thewide swath of support he has devel-oped during his years of public ser-vice. The broiling local politicalscene was on everyone’s lips, includ-ing guests State AssemblypersonFiona Ma, City Treasurer Jose Cis-neros, Rebecca Goldfader, LeslieKatz, Tom Horn, Alex Randolph,Bevin Shamel, Dan Glazer, Bill

Hemenger & Franke Lambetecchio,and Audrey Joseph. Our final day-time stop was at the home of DonHo Tse, spilling over with friendsfrom the Imperial Court, the Ducal

Court, the leather community, andother service organizations. Thishost and his friend Brian Hrychocan certainly cook, as demonstratedby an abundance of hot and coldfood, quickly snapped up by appre-ciative eaters, including Carlos Medal,Patrick Noonan, Mark Paladini, andHector Crawford & Ralph Hibbs. Aswe gazed out at the sweeping view ofSan Francisco, we were filled withhope for an incredible 2011!

So we’re off to a year full of activ-ities, bound to include somethingfor every reader of this column. Al-though January is not typically thebusiest month of events, this is thetime to revisit your personal sched-ule and commitments. Are you aslave to your schedule, trudgingfrom event to event without real in-terest, or are you picking events thatreally appeal to you, consciouslychoosing your level of involvement,and best using your talents, energy,and creativity? Our LGBT commu-nity needs you. Step forward. Get in-volved!▼

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by Tim Pfaff

What with winter travel hav-ing been the top of the newsfor weeks, it’s fitting that a

fine new recording of Schubert’s Win-terreise (Linn) (from the UK, no less)should appear. After the proverbial“heavy weather” Mark Padmore andPaul Lewis made of Schubert’s great-est song cycle earlier this year (Har-monia Mundi), to raves from theobedient British press, bass-baritonePeter Harvey and fortepianist GaryCooper, fellow Brits to be sure, havearrived to clear the air.

Like Padmore and Lewis, they havereturned to original sources with theexpress wish of making music some-thing like Schubert himself wouldhave heard. Besides enlisting a PaulWinston copy of an 1832 Brodmannfortepiano – from the very decade inwhich Winterreise was composed –they’ve turned to a more historical-ly sensitive performing style. Harvey,whose own translations of the 24Wilhelm Mueller poems are used inthe booklet, also provides a deeplyinsightful essay about the work andthe pair’s artistic intentions in per-forming it as they do. And to top itall off, Linn, which deservedly justwon Gramophone’s Label of the YearAward, presents the results in jaw-droppingly good, bell-clear sound.

If it did nothing more than show

up the Padmore-Lewis – withits attention-seeking, harmo-ny-grinding “Der Leiermann”at the end – for the hoax it is, itwould be welcome. But it doessomething far more subtle andinvolving by moving throughthe music with integrity, de-void of such sensationalism.The music has rarely been laidout this plainly, its famousbareness the easier to appreci-ate. Theirs is a cycle that – fromwhat seems dangerously liketinkling in the keyboard andpreciousness in the delivery ofthe strophes of “Gute Nacht” –sneaks up on you.

If only the music-making had thederring-do of all the thought thatwent into it. In songs like “Der stuer-mische Morgen,” Cooper makes thekinds of noises that prove that thefortepiano is no wimp, and Harveydistills some fine emotions from thetext. But instead of rising to a greatmusical partnership, Cooper is defi-nitely riding shotgun – and Harvey,having rightly become a near-hero inthe early-music set for his astound-ing singing throughout the JohnEliot Gardiner Bach Cantata Pil-grimage, does little more than provethat he has the chops to sing a killerWinterreise, maybe next time. Prettymuch you wait in vain for the hair onthe back of your neck to stand up, asit really should in a Winterreise that

sounds like the one a reportedlyshuddering Schubert played andsang for his friends when the ink hadbarely dried on the score.

Padmore, sans Lewis, followed uptheir CD with performances of astaged, Schubert-Samuel BeckettWinterreise that left even his admir-ers scratching their heads. FellowBrits Simon Keenlyside and IanBostridge – who have both takenpart in staged performances of Win-terreise otherwise unadulterated –have made persuasive cases for thecycle as an extension of the Britishtheater tradition. And they have notbeen alone in the relatively recententerprise of turning the cycle into apsychodrama: Mr. Everyman-No-body Goes to Hell. But there’s a rea-

son the first names that spring tomind when you think of great Win-terreise interpretations are those ofnative German speakers.

That all sent me running back foranother listen to the forgotten Win-terreise of 2010, Harmonia Mundi’s“other” Winterreise, with Germantenor Werner Guera and Austrianforetpianist Christoph Berner. Itsonly flaw is that someone, perhapsin the design department, sneakedthe dreaded (and incorrect) articleDie into the work’s title, though itdoesn’t appear after the booklet’s

title page. And, in another demeritfor the art department, the coverboasts a Caspar David Friedrichpainting that, while topical enoughfor Winterreise, is notably lacking indread or Sehnsucht.

It hardly matters, since Guera andBerner supply the expression, abun-dantly yet with consummate taste.Theirs is a dynamic partnership startto finish, and there’s never a sense ofpoint-making of any kind abouttheir utterly absorbing performance.There’s a refreshing confidence, ease,and naturalness about their work(they’ve previously paired up forSchwanengesang), but not a casual,tossed-off note from either of them.

Berner’s fortepiano, a Roenischfrom 1872, is a vastly more colorfulinstrument than Cooper’s, but ofcourse it’s the playing that matters,and Berner’s is as brimming withcharacter as is Guera’s liquid tenor.You hear the menacing flapping ofwings as the fateful crows make theirfirst appearance, taking wing, in theopening of “Rueckblick” (“BackwardGlance”), and Guera’s horror at theapparition is palpable in his almostcontortionist rendering of the text.

What this pair does as well as anysince Britten-Pears is capture theshifts from naturalism to the super-natural that occur not only over thelong arc of the cycle but within indi-vidual songs. They redefine achingbeauty.▼

by Gregg Shapiro

Thanks to Owl City (a.k.a. AdamYoung), one-person musicalunits operating under a pseudo-

nym are on the rise. In fact, you canhear the influence of Young on I’mAlive, I’m Dreaming(Sire/Decaydance)by The Ready Set (nee Jordan Witzi-greuter). Not surprisingly, The ReadySet’s songs suffer from the same lackof variety and innovation as OwlCity’s, providing further proof thatthe home computer and recordingstudio could turn out to be the down-fall of popular culture and creativity.There’s something so insular aboutthese types of “basement tapes” cre-ations (see Lights’ disc The Listening)that it almost becomes a kind of ex-clusive club for electro nerds.

One of the things that sets Becom-ing a Jackal (Domino) by Villagers(a.k.a. Conor J. O’Brien) apart fromthe disc by The Ready Set is thatO’Brien had already logged time in aband (the short-lived The Immediate),so there was a foundation there fromwhich he could pursue other musicalavenues. What you get is a more variedand mature set of songs that rely lesson technological trickery. That is clearthroughout Becoming a Jackal.

The league of assumed-name mu-sicians is not an exclusively male asso-ciation. Sea of Bees, for example, is ac-

tually a queer woman named JulieBaenziger. Like St. Vincent and MyBrightest Diamond, both aliases of fe-male musicians, Sea of Bees has a dis-tinctive sound that could potentiallyearn her a following through heralbum Songs for the Ravens (Cross-bill). Check out the deceptively bare“Skinnybone,” the understated heat of“Fyre,” the sweetened rock of “Mar-malade,” the dream pop of “Willis”and the sinister “Won’t Be Long.”

Definitely one of the more grati-fying debuts of 2010, the well-round-

ed Ring (True Panther Sounds) byGlasser, the musical alias of CameronMesirow, never ceases to amaze.From the stomping rhythms and pri-mal shouts of “Apply” to the hip-shaking handclaps of “Home,” Glass-er gives you every reason to go withthe flow. The atmospheric “PlaneTemp” sounds like the ideal sound-track for stargazing, while the moregrounded “Tremel” laps at the shoreof our senses. Listening to the exotic“Treasure of We” feels like discover-ing a new country, and album closer

“Clamour” subtly lives up to itsname.

Shady Retreat (Paper Garden) isthe third full-length disc by Peasant,a.k.a. Damien DeRose. You can hear astrong Elliott Smith influence on thedisc, although it’s not so overpower-ing that Peasant sacrifices his ownmusical identity.

Formerly of noise-poppers TestIcicles, Devonte Hynes morphed intoLightspeed Champion, releasing adisc under that moniker in 2007. LifeIs Sweet! Nice To Meet You (Domino)

is Lightspeed Champion’s vastly bet-ter sophomore effort. Touching on avariety of musical styles over morethan a dozen tracks, the disc, separat-ed into four “sides” (complete withtwo musical “intermissions”), allowsLC to dabble in his more theatricalside. There are retro elements at playon “I Don’t Want To Wake Up Alone”and the flirty “Mamie Van Doren,”while LC bares his pure pop soul onthe shimmering “Middle of theDark.”

Aqualung’s 2005 domestic debutStrange & Beautiful introduced us toMatt Hale. Aqualung’s latest, Magnet-ic North (Verve Forecast), doesn’t veertoo far off the map.

Sparklehorse, the musical projectof the late Mark Linkous, released ahandful of acclaimed discs beginningin the mid-90s. Dedicated to bothLinkous and the late Vic Chesnutt(who performs on the disc), the final,posthumously released Sparklehorsealbum Dark Night of the Soul (Capi-tol) is a collaboration with DangerMouse (and other musicians) andDavid Lynch. As the title suggests,this is not a lighthearted listen, but itdeserves to be heard. “Revenge” (TheFlaming Lips), “Little Girl” (JulianCasablancas), “Daddy’s Gone” (Link-ous), “Star Eyes (I Can’t Catch It)”(Lynch) and “The Man Who PlayedGod” (Suzanne Vega) are particularlybeguiling.▼


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Bass-baritone Peter Harvey.

Journey into winter’s heart

A band by any other name

Rope (1948), Hitchcock’s firstcolor film, was based on a play in-spired by the notorious murder ofBobby Franks by gay University ofChicago students/lovers NathanLeopold and Richard Loeb. Theyhide their victim’s body in theirapartment, then invite family andfriends for a party, smug about hav-ing committed the “perfect crime.”Their sexuality is only suggested,but, in a unique casting coup, theyare portrayed by the gay John Dalland the bisexual, gorgeous FarleyGranger (who has been in a rela-tionship with his male partner fordecades). With James Stewart, giving

a painfully straightperformance, CedricHardwicke and lesbianConstance Collier.Shot in “real time”with long takes – atechnique Hitchcocknever repeated. In IConfess (53), gayMontgomery Clift is apriest who refuses toanswer police ques-tions about a murderbecause he learned ofit during a confession.The cops think he’s thekiller. With Anne Bax-ter, Karl Malden, andBrian Aherne. (1/9)

Torn Curtain(1966) is a cold war

thriller set in a divid-ed Berlin. Paul New-man portrays anAmerican scientistwho publicly defectsto East Germany,leaving Julie Andrewsto figure out what’sgoing on. Cleverlyplotted, with plentyof surprises. In StageFright (50), MarleneDietrich is elegant en-tertainer CharlotteInwood, whose hus-band is murdered.Lover Johnny Cooper(Richard Greene)shields her from sus-picion. Eve Gill (JaneWyman), a RADA

drama student, thinks Johnny’sbeing framed. Michael Wilding is theinvestigating cop. Dame SybilThorndike and Alistair Sim are Eve’seccentric parents. The bisexual Diet-rich sings “La Vie en Rose” and ColePorter’s “The Laziest Gal in Town.”Both became staples of her leg-endary cabaret act. When Eve, actingas her substitute dresser, wonders if akiller is hiding in the theatre, Char-lotte cracks, “Don’t be silly, darling.The only murderer here is the or-chestra leader.” Dietrich’s Charlotteis wonderfully vain, manipulative,and funny. The film doesn’t play fair,but it’s hugely entertaining. (1/10)

Shirley MacLaine became a starin her screen debut, The Troublewith Harry (1955). No one knows

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by Ernie Alderete

Slick Dogs is a hardcore continua-tion of last year’s Folsom Flesh,featuring several members of the

same cast, including porn star WillParker, and the same interior settingwithin a green, backlit parachute!

Once again we see star Tony Buffin fetish wear, but in place of theheavy leather apron he wore in FolsomFlesh, this time Buff is attired in alighter-weight rubber apron, glossyyellow with bold black stripes, and aMohawk haircut! Co-star SpencerReed also wears his dark hair in a verysimilar Mohawk style, making it hardto tell which player you’re looking at.

Other rubberwear includes a full-body, zippered, slick, pale brown out-fit complete with long sleeves down tothe wrists. Imagine how uncomfort-able it was working under harsh stu-dio lights in these airless body gloves.

The most interesting scene fea-tures a handsome bottom, BillyBerlin, caged within a see-thru box orcube, wearing what amounts to awhole body condom! I suppose he’staken safer sex to its ultimate conclu-sion. While he’s immobilized in hissheer, neck-to-ankle latex cocoon, he’sbattered on both ends. One guy isface-fucking him while another guy is

fisting him up to the elbow. It’s aneasy-entry double penetration, cer-tainly not the first time he’s had some-thing large up his behind.

The same bottom gets anotherdouble penetration by the same pairof tops, this time face-fucked andscrewed up the ass, then in yet anoth-er position, both tops screwing his ass,but the shock value of the first tag-team penetration has been totally lostby this point.

Virtually every scene is drenchedin fetish appeal. Yep, you guessed it,there’s water sports galore. Everyonegets wet.

If you have to pick just one DVDbetween Folsom Flesh and Slick Dogs,choose Folsom Flesh for the better sex.Select Slick Dogs if you want hardcorekink. There’s no dialogue in eitherDVD, nor story development, whichis just fine. Just nonstop sex. AlthoughFolsom Flesh was released in 2009, andSlick Dogs the following year, I wouldnot be surprised if they were filmedduring the same sessions.▼

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