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The drama, which aired on the BBC, is making the Lgbt film festival rounds — it opens San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival on June 17 and plays Los Angeles' Outfest in July, among others.The film stars Maxine Peake as Lister — a landowner, traveler and industrialist who lived in ...
After the many years spent backing Hawkins and Dylan, the Band was ill-prepared for the vulnerability they felt singing their own songs onstage. After a disastrous debut atWinterland in San Francisco, they played to the massed tribes of the 1969Woodstock festival. “We felt like a bunch of...
In addition to internalizing stigmatization associated with sex work, MSWs discussed the forms of enacted stigma from battling police as police tried to keep them off the streets [83]. Such encounters with the police led to MSWs never utilizing the police when encountering violence, so they began...
That deal came on the heels of another controversial vote to give Disney a long-term tax exemption that protects it from a potential levy on tickets to its local theme parks.Several U.S. cities have such entertainment taxes. In San Francisco, a similar levy of up to $2.25 per ticket is...
This Day In The History Of Music. 1825: Gioachino Rossini's "Il Viaggio a Reims" premieres. 1932: 1st concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove. 1960: Loretta Lynn records "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl". 1961: "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23. 1961: Pat Boone...
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Leaving Oakland on the California Zephyr, I’d hit mountains quickly enough, but those would be the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, themselves further inland already than the Coast Ranges, into which the San Francisco Bay is tucked. I was setting out to cross the third continent on my trip...
The gardens at Filoli near San Francisco feature a brick wall with the “Bourn Door” (named for the original owner) leading out into the main garden. I’ve visited Filoli in springtime when that leafy ‘Phyllis Bide’ rambler rose above the door is in full, lovely bloom. When I visite...