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    New Coming of Age Comedy Considers a Teen’s Identity

    New Coming of Age Comedy Considers a Teen’s Identity

    By Gary M. Kramer– More wise than witty, writer/director Megan Park’s low-key comedy My Old Ass, now playing at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema New Mission and opening September 20 at…

    The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Transgender Artist Nicki Green’s First Solo Museum Exhibition

    The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Transgender Artist Nicki Green’s First Solo Museum Exhibition

    The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) is now presenting Nicki Green: Firmament, the transgender and transdisciplinary artist’s first solo museum exhibition. In this presentation, Green explores identity, transformation, and Jewish…

    Boats and Votes

    Boats and Votes

    By Jan Wahl– Like many of you, I love cruising. And unlike many of you, I do it on a boat! Okay, old joke. But there is nothing old about…

    Sean Dorsey Dance to Perform Special 20th Anniversary Home Season

    Sean Dorsey Dance to Perform Special 20th Anniversary Home Season

    Transgender trailblazer Sean Dorsey will celebrate two decades of his award-winning artistry September 19–21 at Z Space in San Francisco. Sean Dorsey Dance will perform a powerful retrospective program of…

    A Classy Doc on the Filmmaking Couple Merchant Ivory

    A Classy Doc on the Filmmaking Couple Merchant Ivory

    By Gary Kramer– The name Merchant Ivory is synonymous with classy period films, especially their E.M. Forster adaptations that achieved critical and/or commercial success: A Room With a View, Maurice,…

    Linda Tillery to Celebrate 76th Birthday at the Freight & Salvage on September 1

    Linda Tillery to Celebrate 76th Birthday at the Freight & Salvage on September 1

    Linda Tillery, a trailblazer in the Northern California music scene, will celebrate her 76th birthday on September 1 at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. Her illustrious career spans over…

    Blink Twice Features Trouble in Paradise

    Blink Twice Features Trouble in Paradise

    By Gary Kramer– Would it be hell to indulge in nothing but pleasure for days on end? That is the conceit of the ambitious new thriller, Blink Twice, opening August…

    A Place that Was Made for Movies

    A Place that Was Made for Movies

    By Jan Wahl– The Beverly Hillbillies theme song was really the soundtrack of my early life. I grew up in West Los Angeles, the land of swimming pools and movie…

    Gay Filmmaker’s Outstanding America Depicts an Emotional Love Triangle

    Gay Filmmaker’s Outstanding America Depicts an Emotional Love Triangle

    By Gary Kramer– America, opening August 9 in the Bay Area, is an outstanding film about three intertwined lives. Out gay writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer’s (The Cakemaker) thoughtful, meditative character…

    Festival del Sole in Sonoma to Feature Robert Redford and Other Stars to Promote Environmental Awareness

    Festival del Sole in Sonoma to Feature Robert Redford and Other Stars to Promote Environmental Awareness

    The international Festival del Sole, started in 2003 in Tuscany, Italy, and now held in the Napa Valley, will take place this year from August 1–4 at The Green Music…