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.

Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns, setting brilliant Black voices in motion

March 22, 2022

Storied company features works by Robert Battle celebrating Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder. Plus: A pandemic-inspired 'Holding Space'

Onstage

In ‘Otto Frank,’ Roger Guenveur Smith illuminates the life of Anne Frank’s father

March 10, 2022

At Magic Theatre, the veteran playwright and actor's solo show revolves around the Holocaust survivor's life and struggle.

Art

A women’s eye: Academy of Science targets gender issues in wildlife photography industry

February 24, 2022

Considerable discounts for women entering annual photo competition is just the beginning.

Music

At 50, Blue Bear School of Music is just tuning up

February 18, 2022

Opening an East Bay campus, bringing back live performances, and more sweet-sounding news from the institution.

Art

Geographically graphic: Emily Fromm details SF’s urban charm at 111 Minna

February 15, 2022

The artist immortalizes some of her favorite street scenes from the Bay and beyond in 'There You Go, Wherever You Are.'

Onstage

With ‘The Kind Ones,’ a gift play for a woman in a Montana shelter

February 2, 2022

Miranda Rose Hall's new work at Magic Theatre contemplates what happens when systems fail.

Culture

At 100, plant paradise Delano Nursery is still turning over new leaves

January 12, 2022

The wholesale nursery is spreading its limbs, from the Mission to Pescadero—while investing in its diverse employees.

Art

The bright, strong magic of Joan Mitchell

January 3, 2022

A grand SFMOMA retrospective—ending soon—brings all the brilliance and range of the abstract painter to the fore.

Lit

How Kristina Wong’s ‘Auntie Sewing Squad’ sewed to the rescue in the pandemic

December 21, 2021

The comedian's book tells a story of grassroots radical care—and making hundreds of thousands of masks for essential workers

Art

Photo show provides a flaneur’s eye view of 1940s San Francisco

November 30, 2021

Minor White captured changing demographics, architecture—and the side street shoeshines that gave the city life.