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December 24 : San Francisco
LGCSF Perform "Magic Snow"

LGCSF Chorus Concert with the SF Gay Men's Chorus.

Monday 9 PM in the historic 1407-seat CASTRO THEATRE, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco

LGCSF performs a New Christmas Carol "Magic Snow" by Jack Curtis Dubowsky.

Original text by Jack Curtis Dubowsky and Randy Timothy Nolan

December 20, 21, 22 : San Francisco
LGCSF Perform "Magic Snow"

LGCSF Chorus Concert

Featuring "Magic Snow" a New Christmas Carol by Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Original text by Jack Curtis Dubowsky and Randy Timothy Nolan

Christmas Crap-Array: A Twisted Adult Cabaret at the EXIT Theatre, San Francisco, 8pm

December 19 : Hayward, CA
Mount Eden Chorus and Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra, World Premiere: "Quaker Peace Testimony"

"Quaker Peace Testimony" for Chorus and Orchestra by Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Performed by Mount Eden Choir and the Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra

Mount Eden Winter Concert

Ken Rawdon, Mount Eden Choir Artistic Director

Josh Cohen, Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra conductor

All Saints Catholic Church

2nd and 'D' St. Hayward CA

7:30 pm $10 Tickets available at the door.

December 13 : San Francisco
Winsome Griffles CD Release Concert at the Eagle Tavern

Thursday 9pm $6 at the Eagle Tavern, 12th and Harrison.

Come celebrate the release of our new CD, Meet The Griffles!

Available now online and at Amoeba Records and other fine stores.

Or Download it at Digstation.

November 10-11 : San Francisco
Music in Film Class at Film Arts Foundation

Saturday + Sunday, November 10 + 11, 10am-6pm

Use music to give your film the impact you want. Get what you need from your composer or supervisor. View and analyze excerpts from dramatic, comedic, and documentary films to learn how music functions in film. Leave knowing options and opportunities for music, and able to confidently communicate and discuss approaches.

November 6 : Nationwide
Rock Haven DVD Release

Original score by Jack Curtis Dubowsky. Directed by David Lewis.

Buy the DVD

Rock Haven Original Soundtrack available here

October 4-25 : NYC
Audioscapes: Analysis of Cinematic Sound at NYU

Jack Curtis Dubowsky teaches at NYU

Audioscapes: Analysis of Cinematic Sound

X34.9233 / Non‚Credit / $215

New for FALL 2007

Thursdays 6:20 - 9:20 PM

Washington Square NYU Location

To register, visit here or call 212 998 7150

 

Music and sound contribute, along with the visual image, to the distinctive mood and feeling of a film narrative. Students in this course investigate the importance of music and sound to movies, including the use of scores, songs, musical motives, ambient sound, as well as diegetic and nondiegetic sound. Class discussions include the relationship between a director and a composer, how soundtracks add a psychological element to a film, and how the use of foley enhances a sense of fantasy or realism. This course is for cinephiles and anyone interested in the dynamics of audio and visual arts.

Oct 16 : Boston MA
Winsome Griffles East Coast Tour

Tuesday 9 pm

Truth Serum presents Winsome Griffles, Spoilsport at O'Brien's Pub in Allston (Boston).

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Oct 13 : Providence RI
Winsome Griffles East Coast Tour

Saturday 9 pm

"Your Roots Are Showing" at AS 220

hosted by Lucky 57

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Oct 12 : NYC
Winsome Griffles East Coast Tour

Friday 9 pm

at Otto's Shrunken Head. Free!!!

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Oct 9 : Rutgers NJ
Winsome Griffles East Coast Tour

Tuesday 2 pm

Generation Q Radio show on WRSU Rutgers NJ

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Sept 11 : NYC
Born in a Barn Screening at The Pioneer

CINEKINK @ PIONEER: Born in a Barn

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 7 pm

The Pioneer Theater and CineKink team up to present another evening of kinky movies, pizza and beer.

BORN IN A BARN

 

(Audience Choice Award - Best Documentary/CineKink 2004) An intimate and sometimes humorous look into the extraordinary erotic lives of four seemingly ordinary people. Delving deep into the world of ponyplay, the fast-growing fetish in which enthusiast's roleplay as human ponies and handlers, this documentary explores the complex motives that drive this particular passion and reveals how identity can be found in the pursuit of unconventional desire.

Directed by Elizabeth Elson, 2004, USA, 50 minutes.

Original Score by Jack Curtis Dubowsky

 

Free pizza and beer reception follows for all ticket holders!

More info and tickets here.

 

Pioneer Theater 155 E. Third Street (@ Avenue A)

$10; $6 seniors/students; 18+ only.

Plays with SHINE: CONFESSIONS OF A RUBBER FETISHIST, a funny, thought-provoking and unapologetic visit with Shine, who goes to work everyday, plays chess, likes to dress in rubber and craves being whipped by his friends. (Directed by Karine Baczynski, 2003, USA, 28 minutes; Best Documentary Short/CineKink 2003.)

Sept 2 : San Francisco
Winsome Griffles at Hairrison Street Fair

Labor Day Weekend, Sunday at Noon

On the Main Stage

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July 17 : Worldwide
Rock Haven Soundtrack Digital Download Release

Listen to free samples or Buy it here

Score Reviews Forum Discussion

BEOCD French Soundtrack Website Link

Film's Official Website

TLA Press Release for Rock Haven (See May 1st 2007)

TLA Releasing's DVD Product Page

July 14 : Los Angeles, CA
Rock Haven at Outfest

Outfest presents Rock Haven

Original Music by Jack Curtis Dubowsky

2pm Saturday

Showcase: Regent Showcase

614 N. La Brea, Hollywood, 90036

Major Cross Street: Melrose

July : Philadelphia, PA
Rock Haven at Phillyfests

Phillyfests presents Rock Haven

Original Music by Jack Curtis Dubowsky

June 22 : San Francisco, CA
Winsome Griffles at Jon Sims Center

Friday at 8pm at the Jon Sims Center

June 21 : San Francisco, CA
Rock Haven World Premiere at Frameline

Frameline presents Rock Haven

Original Music by Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Thursday 9:30pm at the Castro Theatre

June 15 : San Francisco, CA
Winsome Griffles at Jon Sims Center

Friday at 8pm at the Jon Sims Center

June 10 : Mendocino, CA
Winsome Griffles at Mendicino Pride

Sunday at Noon at Mendocino Pride

May 26 : Oakland, CA
Winsome Griffles at the Stork Club, Oakland CA

Saturday, 2330 Telegraph Ave

May 25 : San Francisco
Winsome Griffles at Theatre Rhino

Friday with Actor/Model at Theatre Rhino

The Winsome Griffles play a discerning spirited mix of southern/Americana/rural tunes from the Great American Songbook, plus sassy queer originals. Sincerity and humor vie for lead during high energy and splendidly played sets.

May 24 : California State University, SF
My latest article published

My latest article, Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar: BDSM in Popular Music has just been published by California State University.

Read it online free!

May 18 : San Francisco
Winsome Griffles at Jon Sims Center

Friday at 8pm

With AC Lewis on drums

In Fi Fi and Fanny's show and TV taping

May 11 : San Francisco
Winsome Griffles at Jon Sims Center

Friday at 8pm

With Brad on Drums

In Fi Fi and Fanny's show and TV taping

Feb 9-10 : San Francisco
LGCSF "Love Bites the Hand that Feeds It" at Theatre Rhino

Friday and Saturday, 8 pm

Theatre Rhinoceros

2926 16th Street, San Francisco, CA

Tickets are $15 to $30, sliding scale.

Call 415-861-5079 or visit Theatre Rhino

 

Love takes its usual beating when the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco presents its annual anti-Valentine's Day cabaret, "Love Bites the Hand That Feeds It."

 

LGCSF is proud to showcase the world premiere of "Your New Stupid Boyfriend," written by Bay Area composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky.

 

Emceed by its own "Soprano with a Whip" Carolyn Eidson, the chorus performs selections that run the gamut, from the 70-year-old Broadway tune "Down With Love" to Tom Lehrer's catchy ditty "I Got It From Agnes" to the "Neighbors' Chorus" from the comic opera La Jolie Parfumeuse.

 

Under the direction of Stephanie Lynne Smith and featuring original "choralography" by Kirk Johnson, "Love Bites" is a unique experience, where depravity and fun go hand in hand.

 

Theatre Rhino is reachable by BART (16th and Mission station), Muni underground and surface lines 14, 22, and 33. Street parking is available on South Van Ness between 14th and 16th Streets, and there is a parking garage on 16th Street between Mission and Valencia.

 

Read Theatre Mania's write up

Jan 31 : San Francisco
Winsome Griffles at Virgin Megastore

Wednesday 7pm at Citizen Cupcake in the Virgin Megastore on Market Street.

 

The Winsome Griffles play a discerning spirited mix of southern/Americana/rural tunes from the Great American Songbook, plus sassy queer originals. Sincerity and humor vie for lead during high energy and splendidly played sets.

Jan 28 : San Francisco
Winsome Griffles at El Rio

Sunday, with the Gay Deceivers at El Rio

3158 Mission Street between Cesar Chavez and Valencia, tel. (415) 282-3325.

 

The Winsome Griffles play a discerning spirited mix of southern/Americana/rural tunes from the Great American Songbook, plus sassy queer originals. Sincerity and humor vie for lead during high energy and splendidly played sets.

Jan 19 : Park City, UT / Philadelphia, PA
TLA Releasing Acquires Rock Haven

TLA Releasing has acquired worldwide distribution rights to ROCK HAVEN (USA, 2007) a film that marks the feature length, directorial debut of journalist and screenwriter David Lewis, who had previously written the screenplay for TLA Releasing¼s popular home video title, Under One Roof. ROCK HAVEN will play the film festival circuit before its release on home video at the end of 2007. TLA acquired directly from filmmaker David Lewis; TLA Releasing was represented by TLA partner and Director of Acquisitions Richard A. Wolff. The deal was finalized at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

 

ROCK HAVEN will feature an original score by Jack Curtis Dubowsky.

 

ROCK HAVEN tells the story about Brady (newcomer Sean Hoagland), a young, spiritual man who moves to the coastal seaside town of Rock Haven with his overprotective mother Marty (Laura Jane Coles), who is setting up a Christian school nearby. When Brady meets worldly, seductive Clifford (Owen Alabado) there is an instant attraction to each other, even though homosexuality conflicts with Brady's devoutly Christian beliefs. Filmmaker Lewis says, "With America more politically polarized than ever, I wanted to tell a story about a young gay man who finds solace not by abandoning his religious beliefs, but by finding a higher spiritual ground in which to practice his beliefs. ROCK HAVEN is not just a sensual story about a young man who discovers the joy of first love; it is also a spiritual meditation on the transformative power of faith."

 

About his collaboration with TLA, David Lewis also said, "I couldn't be more delighted that TLA Releasing has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to ROCK HAVEN. Above all, the company has a passion for film, and it will make sure this movie finds its audience. ROCK HAVEN could not be in better hands."

 

David Lewis' previous screenplay, Under One Roof (USA, 2002), tells the comedic and touching story about a gay Chinese-American juggling a healthy, sexual dating life and his relationship with his traditional Chinese mother. The film played over 40 film festival around the world, including the Mill Valley Film Festival and the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and was released on home video by TLA Releasing in 2003.

 

For additional information about ROCK HAVEN, visit www.tlareleasing.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Lewis Tice

National Press Liaison

234 Market, Philadelphia PA 19106

P: 215-733-0608 x 227

F: 215-733-0637

E: ltice@tlavideo.com

W: tlareleasing.com

Jan 9
Jack Curtis Dubowsky signs on to score Rock Haven

Jack Curtis Dubowsky will compose the original score for the new feature film Rock Haven by director David Lewis. David is known as the writer of Under One Roof and Can't Buy Me Love, two films by Todd Wilson.

Jan 6
Winsome Griffles record with Karl Derfler

The Winsome Griffles hit the studio to record basic tracks for our upcoming album.

Produced by Jack Curtis Dubowsky and engineered by Karl Derfler, the Griffles recorded thirteen tracks in one day! The album is still untitled.

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