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

Join us Jan. 19 for the 48 Hills Pre-Trumpocalypse Happy Hour!

January 11, 2017

January 19. The last day before the dreaded Presidential Inauguration. Our final moment of freedom before a horrid human Cheeto strolls into the Oval...

Arts + Culture

Will the Thrillpeddlers meet their doom?

January 10, 2017

ONSTAGE From beloved annual Halloween tradition "Shocktoberfest" to hugely successful revivals of early Cockettes musicals like "Pearls Over Shanghai" (with stops in saucy Paris...

Arts + Culture

Woven through a movement

December 8, 2016

The arc of the public gay rights movement's history is not very long at all. It's just about the length of one full life,...

Music

Party Radar: Ghost Ship fire fundraisers all week

December 7, 2016

PARTY RADAR "Closure is a myth," local punk legend, DJ, and preacher-of-a-sort Jello Biafra told a crowd of thousands that the luminous memorial for...

Music

In the Ghost Ship aftermath

December 4, 2016

The mood was tenderly festive last night at the long-awaited party for the reopening of RS94109, the Tenderloin record store and cafe. A slight...

News + Politics

Oakland party fire claims nine lives, dozens are missing

December 3, 2016

A fire broke out around 11:30pm Friday night at during a party at GhostShip in Oakland's Fruitvale district -- an artist-collective space that regularly...

Arts + Culture

What if AIDS never happened?

November 30, 2016

SCREEN GRABS What if Sylvester sang at this year's Grammys? What if Keith Haring was speaking right now at Art Basel Miami, or appearing at...

Arts + Culture

Ding-dong aesthetics

November 28, 2016

ALL EARS Bay Area experimental music composer and legend Pauline Oliveros, who passed away last Thursday, once described her famous Deep Listening practice as...

Music

655 Tubesteak Connections — and still growing!

November 9, 2016

PARTY RADAR That disco music has been the recent historical music of oppressed people of color and queers is a cliche -- but that doesn't...

Arts + Culture

Thrills and frills

November 2, 2016

ONSTAGE The first thing you should know about the New Conservatory Theatre Center's spiffy new makeover is that there's a cocktail named after a...