Archive for January, 2008

GGNRA Endangered Species Big Year

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

January 30
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area sustains more federally threatened and endangered species than Yosemite, Yellowstone, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks combined. The San Francisco Bay Area is considered the 6th most important biological diversity hotspot in the United States by the Nature Conservancy. UNESCO has even granted the GGNRA “Biosphere Reserve” status, [...]

Art & Politics: Andrew Schoultz

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

January 16
Schoultz’s distinctive murals full of strange animals, twisting buildings and floating birdhouses caught the angst of modern life. Lately he’s gone to a surrealistic sea and we’ll get a full look at his work and hear what he says about it tonight.
podcast: http://diva.sfsu.edu/users/Chris.Carlsson/ssf_talks?podcast=21

Class and Power in Queer San Francisco

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

January 9, 2008
What does ‘class’ or ‘community’ mean? How does the newbie Midwesterner serving burgers at a Castro street diner relate to the landlord and shop owner ‘Gay Community’ spokesmen? How do the schisms between different classes of women, whether lesbian or bi or undefined, show up in daily life and local politics (or not)? [...]