Award-winning San Francisco contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will start the new year with the seventh edition of its popular annual series, a program of music…
By Gary M. Kramer— The Choral, directed by out gay filmmaker Nicholas Hytner and written by the out gay Alan Bennett, is a genteel period drama about making rousing music,…
By Jan Wahl— Let there be light. Hamnet, Wicked, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Nuremberg, Marty Supreme … how many bad movies can they make or remake? We just went through a year of…
Photos and Story by Mike Kirschner I’ve been a Deadhead since I first heard the album Live Dead when I was 15 in 1974. So, Bob Weir has been part…
By Sister Dana Van Iquity— Sister Dana sez, “So, the new year is here, and you’ve already broken your new year’s resolution? Well, take my resolution solution, because it’s unbreakable:…
Photos and Story by Jerome Parmer The 2025 Smuin Christmas Ballet LGBTQ+ Night was a fun-filled holiday spectacular. Though the weather outside (was not) frightful, the performance inside was indeed…
Fernando Camino, correspondent from New York City and moderator of the SuperFriends NYC livestreams on YouTube, has represented the San Francisco Bay Times at many special events including his visit…
By Jon Finck— The 2025 San Francisco Gay Men’s ChorusHoliday Spectacular was widely celebrated as one of the Bay Area’s standout cultural events of the season, reinforcing the chorus’ reputation…
By David Landis, The Gay Gourmet — Glamorous. It’s the one word that describes the feeling that envelops you the moment you walk into the newly reopened Bourbon Steak at…
Since early 2025, demonstrators have been gathering at the Tesla showroom in San Francisco at 999 Van Ness Avenue near O’Farrell for weekly rallies—originally part of the #TeslaTakedown movement—to protest…
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