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.

Arts + Culture

Sarah Patterson named executive director of Folsom Street Events

January 29, 2020

The annual Folsom Street Fair in September is the biggest kink and BDSM-centered event in the world (and one of the city's biggest festivals)....

Onstage

Reviews: Laurie Anderson and Gina LaDivina, two very different storytellers

January 28, 2020

With her shock of hair and electric violin, Laurie Anderson is an instantly recognized avatar of '80s cool, although of course her pioneering electronics-based...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: A whole weekend with Laurie Anderson and more

January 22, 2020

ARTS FORECAST The shock of hair seems to have been tamed into a tiny ponytail atop her head, but electro-poetic pioneer Laurie Anderson certainly...

News + Politics

Scenes from an anti-war protest: Here we go again

January 7, 2020

Code Pink, ANSWER, chants of "US Out of Iraq!"... For some of us it felt like a real (and depressing) timewarp back to the...

News + Politics

Where to protest US actions in Iraq

January 3, 2020

A rally/march is being organized Saturday, January 4, at noon, at Powell and Market Streets in downtown San Francisco. It's part of coordinated protest...

Party Radar

Comedowns are for losers! New Year’s Day parties

December 30, 2019

New Year's Eve 2020 is a very big deal. Yes, yes, it's the beginning of a decade (although that's controversial), and hopefully an end...

News + Politics

Our top stories of 2019

December 28, 2019

From the election of Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston to a renewed spirit of arts and culture in the face of displacement, the 48...

Culture

Korrupt’s rogue looks fit our apocalyptic times to a T

December 16, 2019

I met local fashion label Korrupt's Henry Miyoshi and his business-and-life partner John McArdle at a bastion of old school Lower Haight spirit, Cafe...

News + Politics

Plans dropped for Ghost Ship show after community response

December 14, 2019

A planned CBS show about Ghost Ship, originally to helmed by local authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, has been shelved after the idea...

News + Politics

[UPDATED] Outrage as CBS announces development of Ghost Ship show

December 12, 2019

UPDATE: After readers responded, Waldman and Chabon have decided not to go ahead with the show. The San Jose Mercury News reported on Tuesday that...