Here in the arts pages, our last few issues have explored the past year's offerings and the year to come in Bay Area culture. We pile it on with 12 more arts events coming soon to a Bay Area venue near you.

You've gone over your holiday gifts and while you may be content, you forgot to get a calendar full of hunky men. Here's your chance to indulge some beefcake viewing while helping a good cause.

Oh those press releases, they do pile up in Out There's old in-box!

The English singer-songwriter Seal is known for his international pop music and his smooth, mellifluous voice.

It's not unusual for Out There to spend five nights out of seven attending cultural events, as we did last week.

Out There is a reluctant poster boy for red/green color-blindness.

Boy, did I sell Dennis Bell short. Bell, the owner of the entire Athletic Model Guild catalogue, is the visionary founder of the Bob Mizer Foundation. His latest means of marketing invaluable archival material is to revive AMG's "Physique Pictorial."

Breast Cancer Emergency Fund again hosted This Old Bag, their annual fundraiser where handbags donated by designer retailers, celebrities, and others are made available for silent auction.

Curious about the history of pagan and occult interests among LGBT people in San Francisco? This is the perfect time of year to explore that topic.

When Out There goes to an art museum, there's always one initial, telling click of an art buzz, like that moment when the caffeine kicks in after downing a double espresso.

What the Davies Hall nightclub SoundBox is to the San Francisco Symphony, SF Opera Lab Pop-Ups are to the San Francisco Opera.

"You can't overstate enough how important 1977 was, from in the spring when we knew we were under attack by Anita Bryant, all the way into 1978," said oral historian Glenne McElhinney.

It was the San Francisco Symphony's Opening Night Gala Concert in Davies Symphony Hall that took the cake pop for starriest opener.

Transcendence Theatre Company is currently in the midst of its "Broadway Under the Stars" 2017 summer season performed in the Winery Ruins at Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen, CA.