By Andrea Shorter– Who doesn’t remember one of the best scenes in the near cult classic TBS perennially aired movie My Cousin Vinny, when fiancée Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei)…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– We and many others had long feared the day might come. It did on June 27, 2018, when Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he was…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– With all of the painful and offensive things going on in the world today, it can sometimes be difficult to maintain hope. And…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– State budgets are statements of our priorities and provide a framework for us to strengthen and uplift our communities. They are the most powerful tool California…
By Kin Folkz– June: 30 days, 720 hours, 43,200 minutes. It was a magnificent month filled with precious Pride opportunities for our TLGBQIA+ community to publicly profess the rightness of…
Business Tips from GGBA Commissioner Orders Workers’ Comp Insurers to Report Federal Income Tax Savings Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones recently issued an order requiring that every insurer licensed to write…
By Tom Moon, MFT– Q: I’ve been depressed for a long time and finally started getting treatment for it last year. I’ve been taking antidepressants and seeing a therapist for…
By Dr. Frankie Bashan– With the recent high-profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, new attention is again being dedicated to mental health, depression and the struggle that many…
By Gary M. Kramer– Out gay writer-director Ofir Raul Graizer’s gentle, absorbing drama, The Cakemaker, opens July 20 at the Landmark Theaters in San Francisco and Berkeley. It begins with…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– The three women were at the height of their careers, the peak of their creative abilities. Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was one of “the high royalty…
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