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Emily Wilson

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.

Tattoo legend “Lew the Jew” Alberts rediscovered at CJM

Don Ed Hardy, who became obsessed by tattoos when he was only 10 years old, hates how the artform was perceived for a long...
Movies

‘Dark Money’ explores the terrible consequences of Citizens United

MOVIES When Kimberly Reed first heard about Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that determined corporations were people and money was speech, allowing...
Culture

A night market bursting with flavor at Asian Art Museum

Chef Tu David Phu had just one requirement for the dozen chefs joining him at the Chef’s Hawker Centre Festival at the Asian Art...

Fake news and viral lies: de Young show and panel examine propaganda

“Propaganda can be as important as petroleum. The heart, too, must have its combustibles; the engine that is man must be stocked with hatreds.”  ...
Onstage

An Asian American twist on the bourgeoisie, white wine included

ONSTAGE A couple years ago Leah Nanako Winkler and her colleagues at Youngblood, a collective of playwrights under 30, were looking at the season...
Onstage

Comedian Gina Yashere rides the ‘up’ elevator to stardom

ONSTAGE Growing up in London, Gina Yashere never considered a career in comedy. She came from an academic family, and her mother had specific careers...
Culture

In classic doc ‘Sing Faster,’ stagehands tackle epic ‘Ring Cycle’

Filmmaker Jon Else,whose 2000 documentary, Sing Faster, about the stagehands working on Richard Wagner’s epic The Ring Cycle at the San Francisco Opera, didn’t used...
Onstage

Swimming through teen girls’ intense friendship in ‘Dry Land’

ONSTAGE Grace Ng played Wilhelm, the lead, in the Shotgun Player’s recent production of The Black Rider. So when the theater held auditions for...
Onstage

Stephen Spinella: Playing Trump and Reagan’s lawyer in ‘Angels in America’

ONSTAGE Twenty-five years ago, Stephen Spinella won two Tonys playing main character Prior Walter in the Broadway debut of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...
Movies

Flying high with ‘The Seagull’ (and a few other things, beside)

Michael Mayer, who won a Tony for Broadway rock musical/teenage hormone eruption "Spring Awakening," has directed TV shows, operas, and movies, along with theater....
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