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.

Music

Party Radar: Movements and movings on …

July 14, 2016

PARTY RADAR It seems like the bad news just keeps coming for nightlife this month -- Beatbox and Mighty closing, The Stud facing a huge...

Music

A month of listening adventurously

July 7, 2016

ALL EARS Why July? This month seems especially full of experimental, experiential, and just plain extra-lovely live music, much of it contemporary. SF has...

Music

‘SOS’ effort launched to save The Stud

July 5, 2016

In the wake of Sunday's shock announcement that SF's 50-year-old gay bar the Stud faces a 200-percent rent hike and may close, a co-op...

Music

50-year-old gay bar The Stud faces closure as rent triples

July 3, 2016

UPDATE: Artist and nightlife fixture Mica Sigourney aka VivvyAnne ForeverMore!, hostess of Club Some Thing at the Stud, has announced he is forming a community...

News + Politics

Black Lives Matter, others pull out of SF Pride Parade

June 24, 2016

Three major participants have dropped out of this year's SF Pride parade, after the SF Pride organization announced earlier this week that it would...

Music

Ultimate Pride Guide 2016

June 21, 2016

PARTY RADAR The night of the Orlando shootings, I was at the African American Arts and Culture Complex surrounded by friends I've shared hundreds...

News + Politics

SF Latino, LGBT communities march in solidarity for Orlando

June 19, 2016

Along the sidelines, observers cried, applauded, threw the peace sign, and waved rainbow flags. But the mood among the hundreds of marchers who took...

Music

Switchboard Music Fest lights up with new sounds

June 16, 2016

ALL EARS Festival fatigue can come on quickly -- I'm exhausted just looking at the recently rereleased Treasure Island Music Festival lineup -- especially when...

Nightlife

SF nightlife comes together for Orlando

June 14, 2016

The attack happened at a nightclub. A gay nightclub. A Latin music night at a gay nightclub. A sanctuary for an often-reviled, often-invisible community,...

Arts + Culture

Madness, yet with method in’t

May 2, 2016

ONSTAGE "Oh shoot, they picked the white guy." OK, OK, no one actually said that when it was announced that the part of Hamlet --...