oc 22 Q news- Castro branch library, Maine, census, more

NEWS from Bay Area Reporter, week of 22 Oct 2009

Minorities, housing must be part of AIDS strategy,
White House told

Speakers lined up last week at a meeting in San Francisco and told President Barack Obama's top domestic AIDS policy adviser that they want to see funding, minorities,...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4277
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LGBT census outreach

Efforts to educate LGBT people on how to fill out the 2010 census forms
are kicking into overdrive in the Bay Area,
with a meeting today, Thursday, October 22 in San F...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4278
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Castro branch library reopens Saturday [ Oct 24?]

A renovated and seismically retrofitted Castro branch library will reopen to the public this weekend after being closed for nearly 19 months. ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4279
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B.A.R. election endorsements

These are election endorsements for the upcoming November 3 ballot.

Congress

Dist. 10 John Garamendi


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http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4280
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Opening reception draws artists

The opening reception for
"Depth and Distance III,
Out of the Closet and On the Wall,"
a group exhibit of art by seniors and disabled clients at New Leaf...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4281
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Journalists honored by NLGJA

The Northern California chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association held its annual Fall Honors awards reception Monday, October 19 and honored Rob...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4282
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Project Inform forum focuses on
HIV and aging

Aging has become a key focus for people with HIV and their health care providers, but much remains to be learned about the medical and psychosocial aspects of the agin...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4283
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Maine marriage fight
heads down to the wire

Less than two weeks away from the [ Nov. ] vote on Maine's marriage equality law,
things are looking up for marriage equality supporters,
but they're not letting down their guard...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4285
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Online extra: Political Notes:
Pro-gay provision in military bill
trumps Woolsey's anti-war stance

Anti-war Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) normally joins with members of the House's Progressive Caucus to vote against military spending bills. Yet th...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4276
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Political Notebook:
Prozan enters D8 supe race

Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Prozan officially entered the race for District 8 supervisor ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4286
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News in brief:
Halloween's early with 'Queens' party

With no Halloween in the Castro this year [on Oct 31],
partygoers are invited to celebrate early at "Queens Are Wild,"
a costume and dance party that will also feature casin...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4287
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ARTS

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Music - San Francisco Opera's dazzling 'Daughter'


Everyone expected to go wild when tenor Juan Diego Florez Tonio nailed his nine high Cs in San Francisco Opera's new co-production of Donizetti's sparkling comedy, The Daughter of the ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=music&article=654
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Out There - Deans of the dance belt


We'll never forget the day a classical dance critic finally confirmed for us what we had always suspected about ballet: "It's all about the sex, boy." Sex conquest, sex appeal, ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=outthere&article=235
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Theatre - Politician-in-chief


David Mamet is an enigmatic playwright. "Very enigmatic," director Ron Lagomarsino appended. But when Lagomarsino was offered the job directing Mamet's November ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=theatre&article=557

Books - Manhattan redux


City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 70s by Edmund White; Bloomsbury Press, $26

Instead of imagining that far-fetched, ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=482

Film - Footloose & feckless


Sorry, Thanks In this awkward, sweet, painfully accurate new comedy from the producer of Beeswax, our increasingly gentrified Mission District becomes "the Valley of ex...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=684

Books - Oral interpretations


Sugarless by James Magruder; Wisconsin Press, $24.95

Before you scoff, you should know that the late Gilda Radner was an Oral Interpretation major a...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=483

DVD - Cruel & unusual punishment


Of all the recent movie trends, World War II seems to be the least likely to surface and pick up steam. Consider a pair of 2008 films: Edward Zwick's Defiance, which featured Danie...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=dvd&article=272

Books - Fresh faces


Perhaps the best composition in Sandro & Maykson: Enjoy (Bruno Gmunder; $52..99) features a fully nude young man in sublime repose. He's sprawled on his back on a messy floor li...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=484

Music - Music of the spheres


Tsabropoulos, Lechner, & Gandhi, Melos (ECM)

Where does the mystical music of Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff end and that of pianist/composer Vas...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=music&article=655

Film - Predators in fancy cars


An Education As film director Roman Polanski rots in a Swiss jail, a new screen romance puts a zesty new wrinkle on the curse of dirty old men and young girls with large musical ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=685

Out & About - Costume, Mary


Even though Halloween is next weekend, you've got plenty of opportunities to don a mask or more, try out a costume and have some pre-holiday revelry.

Dress up Friday, Oct. 23 ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=outabout&article=328

In the Bars - Bar & Nightclub Events, Oct. 22–29


Costume parties at several bars and nightclubs help you get your pre-Halloween mood on.

Thu 22

The Crib @ City Nights

Pop music...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=inthebars&article=119
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Calendare - Amplified


Three current and recent productions prove the best and worst of the genre known as the rock opera. Thin on spoken dialogue, heavy with guitar licks and anthems, the rock opera grew in ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=calendare&article=85
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