Caitlin Donohue

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Caitlin Donohue grew up in the Sunset and attended Jefferson Elementary School. She writes about weed, sex, perreo, and other methods of dismantling power structures. Her current center of operations is Mexico City.

Arts + Culture

SF Carnaval: How it began and what it looks like 37 years later

May 19, 2016

Carnaval in the Mission is next weekend (May 28-29). The yearly parade and street festival has been around long enough that it's become an institution to...

Arts + Culture

Mr. David gives us definitive SF style

May 9, 2016

Mr. David, also known as Glamamore, is widely honored as the drag matriarch of San Francisco. That title is a big deal in a performance...

Arts + Culture

Slants for all: Museum of Propaganda opens in San Rafael

May 2, 2016

There is nothing more unpleasant than a United States election year. Half the fatigue has to be attributable to the fact that every time you...

News + Politics

Your next anxiety attack: rising sea levels

April 21, 2016

In a way, we all knew that something like sea level rise was coming to the Bay Area. It was only a matter of...

Arts + Culture

Digging deep, empowered by grief

April 13, 2016

Performer Mika Lemoine didn't fully grasp the power of Destiny Arts Center and Embodiment Project's documentary play Seed Language until its opening night. (The...

News + Politics

Make America great again

April 1, 2016

After two years of living in Mexico City, the United States has become somewhat of an abstraction. It’s the land where my parents and...

Art

“Like watching your parents have sex”

February 10, 2016

ART LOOKS I harbor a sick love for art fairs and have been known to travel across the country on my own dime to...

Arts + Culture

Mexico City: The fallacy of ‘cheap’

January 31, 2016

MEXICO CITY, MEX. — The massive secondhand clothes market that lies on the edge of Mercado de Pino Suárez in the Centro Histórico neighborhood...

Arts + Culture

Can you whack?

January 7, 2016

MEXICO CITY, MEX. -- Maybe it’s cliché, but it’s also true that vogue and whacking – the latter a dance that sprung up in...

News + Politics

Open source tech meets indigenous Oaxaqueños

November 24, 2015

How vital cell phone networks are reaching rural areas that corporate telecommunications have written off By Caitlin Donohue MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- A few years ago,...