Reminder: West Coast Premiere of Coraline by SF Playhouse @ Fri Dec 3 8pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » West Coast Premiere of Coraline by SF Playhouse The SF Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director; Susi Damilano, Producing Director) are thrilled to announce casting for the West Coast Premiere (and only second presentation) of Coraline which will fill the previously unannounced slot in their 2010-11 season. http://www.sfplayhouse.org/season1011/coraline.php The cast will star twelve year old, Maya Donato (Annie, Broadway by the Bay) in the title role and Susi Damilano, Jackson Davis*, Maureen McVeery*, Stacy Ross*, Brian Degan Scott and Brian Yates Sharber*. Bill English will direct, Erika Chong Shuch will choreograph and Robert Moreno will be music director. The play will also include puppets created by Chris White. Costumes by Valera Coble and light design by Michael Oesch. Poor bored Coraline. She's left to rattle 'round her perpetually distracted, workaholic parents' house all by her lonesome. But late one night, her dreams of a better reality come true as she opens a big, carved, wooden door at the far end of the drawing room and passes into a perfect replica of her own world. When she's greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, she's thrilled! But as the rats start to creep from the floorboards, and the way home becomes increasingly unclear, Coraline begins to suspect that, perhaps, all is not as perfect as it seems... A musical like no other, Coraline sprang from the minds of three of the most wildly popular cult figures of our time. Adapted from the terrifying children's book by Neil Gaiman (author of the international sensation Sandman), this tale of menace and mayhem was set to music and lyrics by smart-rock iconoclast Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, and boasted a book by celebrated downtown actor/playwright, David Greenspan (She Stoops to Comedy, Dead Mother), who served double-duty as the villainous Other Mother in the original off-Broadway premiere. Stephin Merritt (Composer) releases albums under the band names the Magnetic Fields, the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and Future Bible Heroes. With his band The Magnetic Fields, Merritt has written, produced and recorded eight albums to date. Their 1999 album 69 Love Songs was a 3-disc masterwork which garnered Merritt widespread acclaim, including "best of" year-end lists in Spin, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post and most other major national publications. In 2002, Merritt signed to Nonesuch Records. The Magnetic Fields performed as part of Lincoln Center's 'American Songwriters' series and at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music's 'Next Wave of Song'. Merritt has composed original music and lyrics for three music theater pieces directed by Chen Shi-Zheng; The Orphan of Zhao in 2003 for the Lincoln Center Festival; Peach Blossom Fan, produced at Cal Arts in 2004; and My Life As a Fairy Tale, at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2005. Merritt composed the score for the academy award nominated film Pieces of April (dir. Peter Hedges) and for the independent film Eban and Charley, and released soundtrack albums for each. His song "The Book of Love," was performed by Peter Gabriel and appears in the film Shall We Dance. He has composed incidental music for the HarperCollins' audio books of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and for Neil Gaiman's Coraline, and subsequently released an album Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2008, Magnetic Fields toured in the US and Europe to support their new album, Distortion, on Nonesuch records. Additional information on Merritt and his work can be found at www.houseoftomorrow.com. David GreenSPAN (Book writer / Other Mother) was previously seen at MCC in José Rivera's Sueño. Other credits include The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass), Obie for his performances in Some Men (Second Stage) and Goethe's Faust (Target Margin), The Wax (Playwrights Horizons), Lipstick Traces (Foundry), The Boys in the Band (Obie) and his plays Jack, The Home Show Pieces and 2 Samuel 11, Etc., (Home) Dead Mother (Public, TJT), She Stoops to Comedy (SF Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, Obie), The Myopia (Foundry) and The Argument (Target Margin, Obie). An alumnus of New Dramatists, he has received Revson, McKnight, Guggenheim, Lucille Lortel Foundation fellowships and an Alpert Award in the Arts When Fri Dec 3 8pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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Reminder: Live Music at Dolores Park Cafe @ Fri Dec 3 7:30pm - 9:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Live Music at Dolores Park Cafe Live Music, see http://www.doloresparkcafe.org for featured performers. Dolores Park Cafe, 501 Dolores at 18th St., SF When Fri Dec 3 7:30pm – 9:30pm Pacific Time Where Dolores Park Cafe, 501 Dolores at 18th St., San Francisco (map) Calendar Queer Things Who • Larry Bob Roberts - creator

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Reminder: Oakland: Country Nights: Women's partner dancing @ Fri Dec 3 7:30pm - 11pm (Queer Things)

more details » Oakland: Country Nights: Women's partner dancing ~COUNTRY NIGHTS~ Women's partner dancing in Oakland First Fridays NO EXPERIENCE OR PARTNER NECESSARY! Two-step, Waltz, Swing, Latin, & Line dancing! Instruction 7:30-8:45; open dancing 8:45-11 pm DJ: Joanna Gritz $10 (includes lesson & light refreshments) All ages welcome-- excellent teachers and a warm and inviting atmosphere. Walk in, dance out! Smoke, scent & alcohol free. Leather soled shoes recommended for dancing. Lake Merritt Dance Center, 200 Grand Avenue (a fully disabled accessible venue) Questions? CountryNightsDance@sbcglobal.net or call Joanna, 510-534-6226 http://www.CountryNightsDance.com Join us on Facebook as well! When Fri Dec 3 7:30pm – 11pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things

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Reminder: Young Workers United Silent Art Auction @ Fri Dec 3 7pm - 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Young Workers United Silent Art Auction Young Workers United will be hosting their 2nd annual silent art auction this Friday, December 3rd @ 7pm. It will be happening at the Mission Cultural Center (2868 Mission St. @ 25th) and you are all cordially invited. Come join us for an evening of food, drinks, live music by Josué & Roney and DJ Adan, and most importantly art! Help kick off the early holiday festivities. The drinks will be flowing, so come partake in the fun raffle and browse all the great art for sale (including 2 photographs by the 2010 SF Bay Guardian's Best Emerging Artist, Genea Barnes! http://www.geneabarnes.com ) There will also be a live Painting that will be auctioned off by Sourmash (Pilkinton Original's) http://pilkintonoriginals.tumblr.com/ http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_119840831411511#!/pages/Pilkinton-Originals/141903339169779 If you can't make it, please consider an online donation (we love monthly donors!!!) https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=1002369&code=General+Donations For Facebook event info, follow this link and invite your friends! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1304213900#!/event.php?eid=169994529680671 We hope to see you there! $5-25 suggested Donation at the door No one turned away for lack of funds When Fri Dec 3 7pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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Reminder: East Bay: Photo opening at Pictopia Gallery @ Fri Dec 3 7pm - 11:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » East Bay: Photo opening at Pictopia Gallery Pictopia.com, the leading provider of professionally sourced photographs, today announced the launch of Pictopia Gallery, a unique East Bay photography art-space. The Gallery will feature local Bay Area artist's photography and prints from the vast image archives of Pictopia's photo store Media Partners, a few of which include National Geographic, The Associated Press, Marvel Comics, SFGate.com, The National Archives, Getty Images and many others. Pictopia 1300 66th St Emeryville, CA 94608 "We're very excited to launch Pictopia Gallery as a resource for photographers in all stages of their artistic development," said Damian Taylor, Pictopia's Production Manager and the Gallery's Producer. "Our goals with this new space are to promote local photography talent and provide resources from our high-end photo lab to emerging photographers. We would also like to share some of the incredible photography we have access to through our network of Media Partners. For example, we are planning on printing and showing a series of amazing National Parks photographs that Ansel Adams did for the National Archives. Lastly, there are some charitable initiatives that we're looking to associate with the Gallery." Pictopia Gallery will hold six shows throughout the year. Shows will open on the first Friday of the month and run for two months. The shows can be viewed M-F, 8am to 5pm. The schedule for the remainder of 2010 is as follows: * Friday, December 3rd, 2010 – A Year in Photographs. The gallery will showcase fifty of the most beautiful, striking, moving and engaging images that we've seen in the past year. The opening will be at 7pm on Friday, December 3rd. Dates for the 2011 shows are currently under development and will open on the first Fridays of February, April, June, August, October and December. About Pictopia.com Pictopia.com was founded as an online professional and fine art photo lab in 1999 near San Francisco, California. Pictopia provides an online and dedicated solution for over one thousand media partners. Pictopia's partners include many of the world's top media companies, historic collections, photographers, and other organizations. Pictopia.com is headquartered in Emeryville, CA. For more information visit http://www.pictopia.com . Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Pictopia1 About Pictopia Labs Pictopia Labs offers a full range of services to its clients and customers including, ICC matched color profiling and correction, Photoshop image enhancement, Heidelberg drum scanning, Chromogenic printing using matte, gloss and super-gloss Fuji Crystal Archival papers, and Selected Giclee and other output on a range of papers, canvas, and finishes. Media Contact: Damian Taylor 510.658.6500 x.123 pictopiagallery.com When Fri Dec 3 7pm – 11:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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Reminder: Berkeley: Leslie Scalapino Memorial Reading @ Fri Dec 3 6:30pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » Berkeley: Leslie Scalapino Memorial Reading Friday, December 3, 2010; 6:30 - 9:00 pm Leslie Scalapino Memorial Reading with Lyn Hejinian, Simone Fattal, Michael McClure, Norma Cole, Laura Moriarty, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Joanne Kyger, Konrad Steiner, E. Tracy Grinnell, Judith Goldman, Norman Fischer, Alicia Cohen, Rae Armantrout, Stephen Ratcliffe, Michael Cross, M. Mara-Ann, & Bob Grenier Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall; University of California, Berkeley http://www.lesliescalapino.com When Fri Dec 3 6:30pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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Reminder: Hayes Valley Holiday Party @ Fri Dec 3 6pm - 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » Hayes Valley Holiday Party Hayes Valley Merchants 20th Annual Holiday Block Party - Friday December 03rd, 6-9pm http://www.hayesvalley.com/ When Fri Dec 3 6pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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