March is a month we collectively agreed to celebrate the women that helped shape this world. So many of these pioneers ...

San Francisco Bay Times former columnists Jennifer Kroot and Robert Holgate gave us a sneak peek at their new collaboration, ...

Director Cate Shortland’s spectacular drama, Somersault, remains as potent today as it was on initial release twenty years ...

Sister Dana sez, “HAPPY MARDI GRAS to one and all! Yes, I know we already had that on February 17 for Fat Tuesday, but we at ...

Photos by Drew Altizer and Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography Grace Cathedral’s annual fundraising gala Carnivale, ...

In her book Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag wrote, “Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone ...

Well over 1000 people gathered on March 1, 2026, at the Calvin Simmons Theater at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland for the Celebration of Life of Betty Reid Soskin (1921–2025), who, ...

At the risk of sounding like a naive school girl with a childish crush, we report with giddy delight that the Kamala Harris who invited us a few years ago to the Vice President’s Residence in ...

Cruel and Unusual In the last issue we covered several transgender stories, notably the bad bill out of Kansas, as well as the Trump administration’s continuing clampdown on prisoners. Among other ...

This Women’s History Month, the GLBT Historical Society is thrilled to present Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995—a new exhibition tracing the everyday efforts ...

Independent commissions, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, are under threat now in San Francisco. The Commission Streamlining Task Force has been making recommendations about ways to ...

In basketball—and theatre—the stakes are high. Climactic action, movement, and emotion escalate to a fever pitch, causing your heart to pound until the final moments. Center court will meet center ...