Hands-On Healing
Posted on November 7, 2011 by A&U in Features
San Francisco’s Positive Being celebrates ten years of providing healing bodywork to low-income people living with HIV by Brent Calderwood Certified massage therapist Bill Stern, PhD, founded Positive Being three years after he nearly died of complications from AIDS in 1996. “After several close calls, I started seeing a massage therapist regularly,” recalled Stern. “The [...]
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City
Posted on August 1, 2011 by A&U in Music, Dance & Theater, The Arts
[Review] Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City Music and lyrics by Jake Shears and John Garden, book by Jeff Whitty American Conservatory Theater When potential Broadway backers recently passed on the new musical version of writer Armistead Maupin’s much-loved Tales of the City, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater snapped it up. And why not? The [...]
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Posted on June 15, 2011 by A&U in Features, Noteworthy
A giant red ribbon has been pinned to the Earth. On the side of Twin Peaks, looming over San Francisco, the symbol of AIDS awareness stands guard like a sentinel, shines like a beacon. It’s capable of a different kind of broadcast than the radio towers that rise above it. Assembled as part of San [...]
