By Donna Sachet– The headlines are full of announcements of the return to live and in-person events, so keep that proof of vaccination handy, tuck a mask in every jacket…
By Philip Ruth– “Wow, this is nice!” “This thing is a tank!” I got those two very different assessments over two weeks of similarly-priced luxury SUVs from a buddy who…
By David Landis– Ash Walker is the new, conductor of the 40-year-old ensemble East Bay-based Pacific Edge Voices (PEV). I had the pleasure of speaking with him for the San…
By David Landis– If you’re like The Gay Gourmet, often at the end of the day you think it’s simpler (especially in foodie-crazy San Francisco) to just go out to…
By Michele Karlsberg– “Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother?” wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The true crime was not just a family…
A Quilt for David by Steven Reigns This series of prose poems focuses on a tragic episode from the height of the AIDS crisis when a gay dentist became the…
I Was Better Last Night (nonfiction/memoir – hardbound) by Harvey Fierstein This poignant and hilarious memoir bares the inner life of this eccentric nonconforming child from his roots in 1952 Brooklyn, to…
By Heather Freyer– Bacardí Dragonberry Flavored Rum captures the exotic taste of ripe dragon fruit, which comes from a cactus native to Mexico, Central, and South America. Its mildly sweet…
By Marc Smolowitz– Two years ago, all of our lives changed when the pandemic started, and each of us has our unique version of what life became during the first…
By Ann Rostow– Chugging the Pierian Spring I was struck by an op-ed in Tuesday’s The New York Times written by a Ukrainian woman of Polish descent who has been living in…
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