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: 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...

Party Radar

Party Radar: A monster mash of Halloween bashes

October 24, 2019

While hardly as wild as it used to be, Halloween is still a hoot in this devilish town. Let us never forget the year...

Culture

Join us for the Best of the Bay party this Thursday!

October 20, 2019

You're invited! Join 48 Hills editor Tim Redmond, publisher Marke B, and the winners of this year's Best of the Bay for a FREE...

Lit

‘Disasterama!’ chronicles SF’s wild, lost queer underground

October 15, 2019

A certain queer generation has come of memoir age—which is a bit bracing (read: terrifying) for those of us who survived the '80s and...