We've got advance word on composer-pianist-conductor Thomas Ades' San Francisco Symphony conducting debut this weekend (March 5-7).

Biographies can be great reads. They let you walk a mile in another woman's shoes. Here are brief mentions of three new bios that have recently come across our desk. Look for reviews to come.

As someone who is blind and has a public voice via a weekly radio segment and a syndicated column, this is a time when I get flooded with emails asking for relationship guidance.

Maybe it's because we're in the midst of San Francisco Ballet season again, but recently we dreamed about the late B.A.R. dance and music critic Stephanie von Buchau.

Every year, Landmark Theatres screens programs of Oscar-nominated live action, animated and documentary shorts. Last week, Out There caught the first two compilations.

If you're tired of the prescriptive nature of Valentine's Day (the purchasing of teddy bears, the making of Italian reservations, the writing of bad poetry), then forget V-day. Have a me-day. Check out "Bawdy Storytelling."

Isn't it playing with dynamite to attempt to recreate the old Wooster magic on the page?

It began as a platform to foster gay pride during a time when homosexuality was still classified as a mental disorder. Over time it grew into a major fundraising vehicle for a vast array of causes.

The small picturesque town of Healdsburg in the North Bay is in the midst of its inaugural Hands on Healdsburg program, set to run through Feb. 28. It's all about do-it-yourself activities.

The history of the Imperial Court of San Francisco continues in this unique contribution to GLBT History.

Who can forget the poster of McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange," looking both sinister and oddly jolly in his rampaging get-up?

1975: At the Investiture of the Daisy Empress X Doris, there was a bomb threat. This event, and a lot more LGBT history, may be in the verge of disappearing.

We know we are in the hands of a natural born writer from its very first pages, about Stephen Patrick Morrissey's childhood in the hardscrabble North of England.

Everyone make it through the holiday season okay? Out There had a merry Festivus, or Hanukmas, or Christukkah, or whatever it's called. Despite early deadlines and breakneck production schedules, we managed to pack some festivity in.