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 Forecast

Arts Forecast: Clutter, Zinefest, Wavy Gravy

August 27, 2018

ARTS FORECAST We are in the midst of the glorious "Silence of the Burn" in which the empty streets echo with the emptiness of those...

Party Radar

Party Radar + Arts Forecast: Double whammy!

August 23, 2018

ARTS FORECAST + PARTY RADAR Whoops, I started celebrating my birthday week a little early, and now I'm a "little behind." So? BONUS! I'm combining...

Movies

A peek at pre-Internet SF

August 22, 2018

ARTS FORECAST In start-up clogged SF, nostalgia for a time before the Internet was capitalized has certainly been growing. On September 13, a new film...

Arts + Culture

Party Radar: For Navid

August 15, 2018

PARTY RADAR The Bay Area nightlife community has weathered a lot of ghastly blows in the past couple years, from Ghost Ship and the shooting...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Hemlock Tavern closing, Polk Street Blues Fest, Erasure …

August 14, 2018

ARTS FORECAST More housing is coming to Polk Street, and, despite a Peskin-led effort to preserve it in some fashion, belovedly scruffy rock spot Hemlock...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Pistahan, Salsa Festival, Ronnie Spector …

August 8, 2018

ARTS FORECAST This weekend heralds another massive Outside Lands—the first in its 10-year history to be headlined by a woman, the awesome Janet Jackson. The...

News + Politics

Drag queens fight for their home after Ellis Act eviction notice

August 3, 2018

Three longtime drag queens—including an Empress of the charitable Imperial Court of San Francisco—and two housemates received an Ellis Act notice to vacate their...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Hip-hop pioneers, classic punks, Hawaiian fun…

July 26, 2018

ARTS FORECAST It's weird growing older in a media-saturated environment. For years, the only connection I had to my hip-hop-adoring youth was a clutch of...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Here, piggy, piggy (oink!)

July 24, 2018

PARTY RADAR This is one of those "too much of a good thing" weekends in San Francisco. If most of the nightlife fam isn't...

Party Radar

Party Radar: A Wicked weekend, indeed

July 18, 2018

PARTY RADAR OK I think I seriously slipped on a rainbow oil slick broke something at Pride this year: I'm just now recovering! (Throwing a...