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Breaking: Frank to marry longtime partner
Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) confirmed
through a spokesman Thursday that he and partner of five years, Jim Ready, plan
to marry.
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Castro plaza rules inch closer to passage
Rules governing two outdoor plazas in the Castro inched
closer to passage this week after a Board of Supervisors' committee endorsed
the proposed regulations.
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New ED joins
Project Open Hand
The executive director of a San Francisco nonprofit that prepares and delivers meals to critically ill homebound clients, seniors, and those living with HIV/AIDS has officially started work. (read more)
Mayors unite
for marriage
Nearly two-dozen California mayors are among those who have joined Freedom to Marry's new campaign to advance marriage for same-sex couples across the country. (read more)
Castro to get
AIDS quilt display
An emotionally wrenching show timed to Valentine's Day is headed to the city's Castro district as community leaders plan to display the largest collection of AIDS quilt panels San Francisco has seen in decades. (read more)
LGBT seniors seek housing, greater visibility
Twelve months ago Nicky Frausto left San Francisco. "I was forced out. I am low income and I was just not
able to find a place."
(read more)
New captain for
Mission police station
The San Francisco Police Department's Mission Station, which oversees the Castro and surrounding neighborhoods, has a new leader. (read more)
Nightlife fans, residents reveal concerns at SOMA meeting
Looking to concerns about protecting nightlife in the South of Market district while allowing for more residential construction, area residents and entertainment officials met last week and heard a number of views on the issue. (read more)
More Arts
Music - Sailing into an operatic season
Despite a time in which some major opera companies teeter on the precipice and others have folded entirely, San Francisco Opera's 2012-13 season speaks far more of strength and daring than compromise. (read more)
Dance - San Francisco Ballet gala takes flight
If there's a recession on, you'd never have known it from the gay face of the crowd for San Francisco Ballet's opening night gala last Thursday. (read more)
Out There - In merry olde England
King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher (Faber and Faber) is the latest proof that the old-fashioned English-language novel is alive and well in the hands of its modern practitioners. (read more)
Theatre - Corpus curriculum
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there," said American inventor Charles F. Kettenring. (read more)
Theatre - Circus
in his blood
Lorenzo Pisoni has a couple of confessions to make at the start of Humor Abuse. "I sweat a lot," says the performer, who soon confirms that statement. (read more)
Music - Confident Beethoven
For some of us, Riccardo Chailly will forever be the unknown 26-year-old who stepped into the War Memorial Opera House pit to conduct the 1977 production of Puccini's Turandot. (read more)
