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Dance moves: Amy Seiwert on becoming the new artistic director of Smuin Contemporary Ballet

DANCE | April 22, 2024 | by Philip Mayard

As Smuin Contemporary Ballet approaches the conclusion of its ambitious 30th anniversary season, Celia Fushille prepares to step down after 17 years as Artistic Director and turn the leadership of Smuin Ballet over to choreographer Amy Seiwert.

SFFilm's queer picks: 67th annual film festival's diverse screenings

MOVIES
by Brian Bromberger
Apr 23, 2024

"Film, always a reflection of and beacon for society, remains the gateway to a vibrant healthy future of our culture and city,"says Anne Lai, Executive Director of SFFilm. The 67th San Francisco International Film Festival will run April 24-28.

SF International Arts Festival offers podium to LGBTQ performers: music and dance are on the menu

DANCE
by David-Elijah Nahmod
Apr 23, 2024

Since 2003 the San Francisco International Arts Festival has celebrated the arts by bringing together a global community of performers and audiences. The festival will run from May 1 until May 12 at various venues around the city's Mission District.

Xiangqi Chen's 'Out Museum' at 41 Ross

ART
by Heather Cassell
Apr 23, 2024

Nearly 100 people came out to the opening reception of "Out Museum: A Chinese Queer Museum" exhibit on April 12. The "Chinese queer museum prototype" by lesbian Chinese artist Xiangqi Chen opened at 41 Ross Alley art studio in the historic Chinatown.

Vanessa Briscoe Hay - singer on Pylon Reenactment Society's musical magnetism

MUSIC
by Gregg Shapiro
Apr 21, 2024

Pylon Reenactment Society, led by the band's original vocalist Vanessa Briscoe Hay, along with Jason Nesmith, Kay Stanton, and Gregory Sanders, makes its album debut on "Magnet Factory."

'Liar, Alleged' - author David Vass tells all

BOOKS
by David-Elijah Nahmod
Apr 20, 2024

David Vass has lived a colorful life. Now in his 70s, he has seen and done it all. In his new memoir, "Liar, Alleged: A Tell-all: Celebrities, Sex, and all the Rest," Vass recalls his life behind the scenes in show business & growing up gay in the 1950s.

Going Out, April 18-26, 2024

CULTURE
by Jim Provenzano
Apr 18, 2024

What's black and white and read all over? Our arts and nightlife listings! Check it out this week and every week in Going Out.

'The Tutor' - passion play's penetrating perspectives at NCTC

THEATER
by Jim Gladstone
Apr 16, 2024

"The Tutor," Torange Yeghiazarian's hardly mellow drama, commissioned by New Conservatory Theater Center, plays with a love triangle as sharp and spiky as the dagger-like points on a backgammon board.

'Japanese Prints in Transition' - classics and contemporaries at the Legion of Honor

ART
by Robert Brokl
Apr 16, 2024

The lavish new exhibit, "Japanese Prints in Transition," at the Legion of Honor, is as welcome as spring. The exhibit spans the earliest prints to works by artists competing with photography in the early 20th century, plus contemporary works.

'Forever Plaid' - pitch-perfect melodies from beyond the grave

THEATER
by David-Elijah Nahmod
Apr 16, 2024

A show that begins with the deaths of its lead characters might not seem like a fun evening at the theater, but that's exactly how "Forever Plaid" begins. 42nd Street Moon will stage a revival of the 1989 play at the Gateway Theater.

Boldly go, girl: The Lavender Tube on 'Star Trek: Discovery,' Alan Ritchson, 'AHS' and more

TELEVISION
by Victoria A. Brownworth
Apr 16, 2024

"Star Trek: Discovery" closes out at five queer-inclusive seasons, the hunky "Reacher" star speaks out, and Kim Kardashian can act? Yup, all this and more in our TV columnist's watchful eye.

'Bitch Slap!' - 'Dynasty' in drag at Oasis

THEATER
by David-Elijah Nahmod
Apr 16, 2024

In 2017, Oasis staged "Bitch Slap!," a live-on stage homage to "Dynasty" with a touch of "Days of Our Lives" and novelist Jackie Collins thrown in for good measure. "Bitch Slap!" proved to be so popular that Oasis is doing it again.

Cynthia Carr's 'Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar'

BOOKS
by Mark William Norby
Apr 16, 2024

Cynthia Carr's biography "Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar" astonishing at every turn, deeply excavates the Darling archive in order to bring a pioneering trans woman into the spotlight of 1970s New York.

National Poetry Month LGBTQ reading list

BOOKS
by Gregg Shapiro
Apr 16, 2024

To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, April (aka National Poetry Month), is the queerest month. There are so many books from which to choose before April's end, here are nine selections, including books by Richard Blanco, Kim Roberts and Emanuel Xavier.

'Ahead of the Curve' - inspiring tribute to Franco Stevens and Curve Magazine

BOOKS
by Laura Moreno
Apr 13, 2024

The documentary film "Ahead of the Curve," directed by Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow, tells the long-awaited real-life story of Franco Stevens and her groundbreaking career as founding publisher of Curve Magazine.

Arts & Culture

Dance moves: Amy Seiwert on becoming the new artistic director of Smuin Contemporary Ballet

SFFilm's queer picks: 67th annual film festival's diverse screenings

SF International Arts Festival offers podium to LGBTQ performers: music and dance are on the menu

Xiangqi Chen's 'Out Museum' at 41 Ross

Vanessa Briscoe Hay - singer on Pylon Reenactment Society's musical magnetism

'Liar, Alleged' - author David Vass tells all

Going Out, April 18-26, 2024

'The Tutor' - passion play's penetrating perspectives at NCTC

'Japanese Prints in Transition' - classics and contemporaries at the Legion of Honor

'Forever Plaid' - pitch-perfect melodies from beyond the grave

Boldly go, girl: The Lavender Tube on 'Star Trek: Discovery,' Alan Ritchson, 'AHS' and more

'Bitch Slap!' - 'Dynasty' in drag at Oasis

Cynthia Carr's 'Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar'

National Poetry Month LGBTQ reading list

'Ahead of the Curve' - inspiring tribute to Franco Stevens and Curve Magazine

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