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SAN LEANDRO, CA The City of San Leandro Library is joining a national trend by permanently eliminating overdue fines and offering a one-time overdue fine amnesty by waiving outstanding fines. The library s proposal was approved Monday by the City Council and took effect immediately. By eliminating overdue fines, the Library will remove financial barriers and restrictions, making the San Leandro Public Library a more equitable place for all of its members, officials said in a news release. Library members will still be expected to return library materials on time and will be billed for lost or damaged items.
Jack King
, February 20th, 2021 13:20
Bronski Beat s 1984 floor-filler Smalltown Boy has travelled through cinema as a marker as gay cultural subjectivities since 1986 s Parting Glances. Jack King maps the song s onscreen history and its reckoning with the queer tension between love and death
A young gay man stands alone on a train platform, caught in the midst of a very on-the-nose downpour. All he has left, aside from the meagre possessions packed into his little bag, is himself. We hear what has brought the eponymous small town boy to this moment, to be stood, drenched, waiting for a train. His story, up to this point, has been of homophobic ostracism, one far from new to the queer imagination, recorded at a time when gays and lesbians were escaping hometown prejudices to the big cities in their droves – a pattern of migration that has stuck into the present. He clutches a one-way ticket.
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Love Streams. Courtesy of Criterion ChannelEvery Friday, we write about four films that you can t find on major US streaming services in our column Unstreamable. We didn t have time to watch new picks this week because we were slammed with Sundance coverage (which you should really read right here). Instead, we re bringing you ten previous picks from each year of the 1980s that you can t technically stream. All of them fucking rule. (And yes, we know you can find many things online illegally, but we don t consider user-generated videos, like unauthorized YouTube uploads, to be streamable.)
The Pop Culture That Helped Us Through the Year
From murder mysteries to fingerpicked tunes, these cultural nuggets helped make 2020 just a little more bearable.
By
Portland Monthly Staff
12/24/2020 at 10:50am
John Prine passed away this year due to complications from COVID-19.Â
Portland Monthly senior editor at-large Fiona McCann found solace in his songbook.
2020 was rough. Before we search for silver linings, let s just knock that one out: basic functioning was a feat for much of this year, and it s a huge win that things are looking (slightly) brighter at the moment.Â
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were silver linings, though. Free time became all but meaningless, and many of us tunneled into TV epics and classic films and our ever-growing book piles, reading and watching and listening our way through surreal world development after surreal world development. The arts have always offered flotation and encouraged reflection, and this year they pulled double duty. As the holidays roll