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.

Onstage

Review: Toot toot! Beep beep! It’s the Donna Summer musical

December 7, 2019

On paper, "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" (through December 29 at Golden Gate Theater) doesn't have much going for it: another jukebox musical in...

News + Politics

KQED says 48 Hills is a story of the decade

December 6, 2019

KQED released a beautifully designed, memory-triggering package yesterday called "Our Turbulent Decade." It's an in-depth, year-by-year look some of the most impactful events and...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Burning Man: The Musical, more

December 4, 2019

Blades will slice, crystals will fly, Mariah will be Careyed up to the high heavens. OK, it's not as dramatic as all that—I wish—but...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop (Dance Fest) hurray! + more

November 20, 2019

I'm old enough to remember rappers on Fillmore corners and TURF dancers in Oakland intersections. The homeboys gathered on my stoop throughout the day...

Honoring a queer anti-establishment harpsichordist

November 14, 2019

While contemporary music remains a hotbed of iconoclasm, one rarely finds punk-like figures pumping out the standard classical repertoire. That situation is slowly being...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: And here’s the real kicker…

November 13, 2019

ARTS FORECAST The Stomp tour stomped into town for a very brief visit at ACT last weekend (why, when it could stay so much longer?)—and the...

Culture

Fog City News celebrates 20 years of great reads (and sweet treats)

November 7, 2019

1200+ magazines carried. 4000+ chocolates evaluated. 1000+ greeting cards displayed. All in the cozy 920 square-foot Fog City News downtown, which is celebrating 20...

Arts + Culture

Local musicians step up to ‘Blanket the Homeless’

November 5, 2019

When I spoke with storied music producer Scott Mickelson last month, San Francisco was in the midst of a nationally covered anti-homeless kerfuffle. Housed...

News + Politics

Scenes from the Día de los Muertos #CloseTheCamps procession

November 2, 2019

Día de los Muertos is a simultaneously a solemn and lively occasion—and a Saturday protest against Trump's border policy embodied both. At 10am on Saturday...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Day of the Dead in the City of Souls

October 30, 2019

Ready to shed the rotting pumpkin skin of Halloween and sniff the sweet spice of the afterlife? OK that question is a lot, but...