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.

‘A Gothic Tale’ plumbs Legion of Honor’s haunting depths

October 28, 2019

Does Halloween have you in the mood for some film noir? Maybe some mirrored walls and alternate selves? Something SPOOKternatural? Then head to the Legion...

Onstage

Lesbian history finally takes center stage in ‘The Daughters’

October 23, 2019

The first act of The Daughters, a comedy by Patricia Cotter (at the San Francisco Playhouse through November 2), imagines the Daughters of Bilitis’ first meeting...

Arts + Culture

‘Free For All’: Not your great-great-grandmother’s Miss Julie

October 9, 2019

While Megan Cohen was attending Stanford University, she considered a career in acting. But performing scenes from August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, where Julie, an aristocrat...

Culture

Celebrating 50 groundbreaking years of Ethnic Studies with ‘Solidarity’

October 7, 2019

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...

Dance

Dancing in different senses with ‘(in)Visible’

September 30, 2019

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...

Arts + Culture

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

September 27, 2019

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

Movies

A Green Film Festival to fire you up

September 20, 2019

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...

Onstage

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

September 12, 2019

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...

Onstage

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

September 6, 2019

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

News + Politics

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

September 3, 2019

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