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Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson lives in San Francisco. She has written for different outlets, including Smithsonian.com, The Daily Beast, Hyperallergic, Women’s Media Center, The Observer, Alta Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, California Magazine, UC Santa Cruz Magazine, and SF Weekly. For many years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco. She hosts the short biweekly podcast Art Is Awesome.

Celebrating 50 groundbreaking years of Ethnic Studies with ‘Solidarity’

When he was 13, PJ Gubatina Policarpio moved from the Philippines to San Francisco’s Excelsior District. As a student at Balboa High School, he...

Dancing in different senses with ‘(in)Visible’

For many of us, going to a dance performance means going to a theater, sitting in the dark and watching the bodies move onstage.  But...

At 85, a revered glassblower inspired by SF’s ‘Radiance’

Lino Tagliapietra became an apprentice glassblower in his hometown of Murano, Italy, at 11 years old and was given the title of Maestro when...

A Green Film Festival to fire you up

In organizing the San Francisco Green Film Festival, executive director Rachel Caplan has several things she’d like to see come out of the six...

Watching movies—and coping and connecting—in ‘The Flick’

 Jon Tracy says the first time he read Annie Baker’s play, The Flick, (which he is directing at Shotgun Players, through October 6) it...

‘Exit Strategy’: Can they save a crumbling high school?

Adam Niemann has a monologue in Exit Strategy at the Aurora Theatre (Through September 29) that he "feels like going down on a ramp...

‘If you’re done with poverty, build your union’

When Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, talked about the protestors in Hong Kong and police violence, she got choked...

The joy of big bamboo—and lots of it

ART LOOKS Tanabe Chikuunsai IV has been surrounded by bamboo since he was born. A fourth generation Japanese bamboo artist, he studied at sculpture at...

‘Art of Peace’ transforms guns into beauty

ART LOOKS Pati Navalta Poblete grew up in Vallejo. But after her 23-year-old son Robby Poblete was shot there in 2014, she had such...

At Creativity Explored, Isaac Haney-Owens curates a vibrant ‘Cityscape’

ART LOOKS Artist Isaac Haney-Owens lives in San Francisco, in the Rincon Hill neighborhood. He likes walking around. He likes the skyline. He likes the...