The San Francisco Marriott will be swarming with LGBT luminaries on Saturday night, May 10, for the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation honors those who promote positive images of our community in the media, and this year the lineup of honorees and presenters is especially stellar. Sharon Stone, The L-Word creator Ilene Chaiken, Brokeback Mountain producer James Schamus and political activist David Mixner will be honored, along with SF's very own Theatre Rhinoceros. (read more)

Forget all the talk about "children's opera." The San Francisco Opera production of The Little Prince bubbles over with charm and delight. Fanciful, touching, and ultimately mystical in its fusion of earthly realities with interstellar travel, it will transport you far from the nightmares of our current neocon universe to a place where wonder, adventure, love, and pure joy are the order of the day.

Staged in UC Berkeley's amplified Zellerbach Hall, with an excellent cast, superb conducting by Sara Jobin, and divine direction by Sarah Meyers, the opera based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, boasts an engaging score by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright, production by out lesbian Francesca Zambello, and seizes attention from first note to last. (read more)