Once upon a time in 2010, during a FAM trip for writers to Fort Lauderdale, I met my friend, the Maplewood, N.J.,-based playwright Tim Pinckney. Last winter, Tim came to San Francisco to debut his play Still at Risk at the New Conservatory Theatre Center. A bit of a period piece set post-AIDS crisis, Still […]
The Hayes Loin. Make it happen. The rain has cleared for now. It’s (still) beyond-chilly. And windy. But the sky is clearer than it’s been in days. Weeks, even. It’s been a winter. I’ll take it. Sutro Tower’s was ready for a moment. Clique click.
When I was kid (what you would call a tween now), 1996 was It. It was the year I started frequently going to the movies, really consuming Hollywood. I was still growing up in Lima, Peru, and it was around that time that nice, new, modern como-en-Estados Unidos-like multiplexes-as-commercial anchors entertainment hubs began to pop […]
There is a man, a seemingly homeless man (quite likely a drug user, but not a junkie), who sits out on the corner of where we live out here in the middle of San Francisco and who, without fail, almost always (no joke, I’m talkin’ pretty much every afternoon for the past four years) asks […]
Butts, butts, butts everywhere. Look at this one, look at that one, and at that one. People. Smokers, I do mean smokers. Smokers. If you are lucky to get your hands on some butts, the least you can do is honor dem butts by properly dispensing with ’em butts when you are done with dem […]
Nothing to say. Good show. Remove the ego, everything gets a little clearer. A show is a show. And this show used to be the show. Back when we didn’t jump to a reaction that could be massively shared, we’d roll our eyes and turn to the person next to us to ask if something […]
It was a day to bundle up and head out to Treasure Island to get bomboloni from Mister Bomboloni, San Franciscos. See. It’s not all doom and gloom over here…. Couldn’t make it today, San Franciscos? Then, head out to get bomboloni from Mister Bomboloni tomorrow, hostless-Oscars Sunday, and pick up some treats for dem […]
The Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival – a bacchanalia I attended pretty much every winter when I lived in Miami Beach – is now in full swing, with more than 100 events on schedule for its 18th annual edition as one of the Magic City’s premier fundraising efforts benefiting […]
I have decided I don’t care what anybody has to say or for the jabs some have taken: Jennifer Lopez was asked to bring something to last Sunday’s Grammy Awards, the 61st annual, and Jennifer Lopez did that: She brought it. And, then, the shoulding began. Hey! Carrie Bradshaw warned us against shoulding. It is […]
How lucky am I, to have seen two James Rosenquists, two months apart, on two different coasts. It’s the American Dream. Now, I’m not sure about “Women’s Intuition (After Aspen),” which caught my eye at the Pérez Art Museum Miami during #MiamiArtWeek2018, but I can tell you that the fantastic “Leaky Ride for Dr. Leakey,” currently […]
