Marke B.

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Marke Bieschke is the publisher and arts and culture editor of 48 Hills. He co-owns the Stud bar in SoMa. Reach him at marke (at) 48hills.org, follow @supermarke on Twitter.

Music

SF Symphony dives into diverse local sounds with online ‘Currents’

September 3, 2020

"Music isn't just about an end result. It's about what people do and how people come into things," conductor Michael Morgan told me over...

Nightlife

Grab that virtual wig, it’s all aboard for Oaklash!

September 2, 2020

Weekend-long Oakland drag festival Oaklash (Fri/4-Sun/6 at www.twitch.tv/oaklash2020) has become such an integral part of the Bay Area queer performance scene that I was taken...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Necessary conversations in a time of nightlife consternation

August 18, 2020

Imagine a city that cared enough about a $6 billion dollar industry—and the creative people who've built it—that it figured out a way to...

Culture

Searing, prescient, hilarious: ‘Laughter Against the Machine’ returns onscreen

August 13, 2020

Travel back with me to a distant time when the economy had collapsed, the country was visibly divided, protesters took over the streets, a...

Dance

Review: Two random ballroom dancers in the Chinese Pavilion at Stow Lake

July 28, 2020

How long has it been? 135 Days. Nineteen weeks. Five months! You've had another heavy but predictable meltdown with your lockdown partner, or you...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Change finally comes to dance music

July 23, 2020

Superstar DJ The Black Madonna has changed her name to The Blessed Madonna. Beloved disco-house DJ Joey Negro has dropped his stage name and...

Lit

Dare to be a ‘Brave Sis’? It’s all in the planner

July 8, 2020

Anyone who knows local arts leader Rozella Kennedy knows she's a force of nature. Definitely one of those hyper-achievers that spur you to ask,...

Culture

Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising

July 1, 2020

The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have...

News + Politics

People’s March on Pride: Reclaiming the streets and looking fierce

June 30, 2020

A 2020 Pride faerytale: First Pride was cancelled and almost everyone was sad. The glowing Pink Triangle in the sky offered some gorgeous solace,...

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

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