Democrat Daniel Lurie—a philanthropist, founder and former CEO of the Tipping Point Community, an heir to the Levi Strauss ...

As the official biographer of Alice Walker, I spent nearly a decade researching the art and activism of a writer whose signature work, The Color Purple (1982), has sold more than five million copies ...

Local film curator Jenni Olson has assembled another program of Trans Masc films that will screen January 17 through February 23 at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) in Berkeley. The ...

It’s 2025. We face it with mixed emotions shrouded with varying degrees of dread. This past week, I stepped into the first day of my 75th year. I did so kicking and screaming. OK, I’m 74, I was just ...

“Today, visitors to the Garden of the Heavenly Rest will find a well-manicured cemetery … . But on the sweltering day when Alice first visited the site, it was choked with waist-high brambles and ...

As we enter a brand-new year, let’s look back at 2024 and its many ups and downs. April led us to a number of major events, including a fundraiser for OUTWORDS, another in the Memory Keepers ...

Southern California’s LGBTQ+ communities, skilled at organizing and fundraising, were among the first to raise funds and collect essential items for victims of the Palisades, Eaton, and other fires ...

Mollie Stone’s Castro, a family-run grocery store that’s been open in the San Francisco neighborhood since 2009, held a Grand Reopening celebration on the morning of January 17, 2025, after months of ...

Ever play that game around a table full of friends asking, “What is your one favorite character trait of your own?” It is a good question to start us off on a positive during these challenging times.

Sister Dana sez, “I know many of us democracy-loving citizens are extremely anxious about the upcoming Presidential Inauguration aka ‘In-Aggravation’—including the cruel and vindictive Administration ...

The setting was both beautiful and haunting. The jagged snow-capped peaks of the Eastern Sierra gleamed against the clear blue sky. A warm winter sun shone on the barren high desert at the foot of the ...