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

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...

Santana mural in the Mission vandalized: “a blatant act of hate”

July 16, 2018

"Growing up in the Mission, murals are something sacred. No one touches them because they tell our story, the story of a multicultural community...

Movies

‘Black Powers: Reframing Hollywood’ at SFMOMA celebrates plucky cinematic classics

July 11, 2018

MOVIES We're currently in a moment of black film director fierceness: Ryan Coogler's Black Panther, Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, Jordan Peele's Get Out, and anything by...

Pioneering machine artist Kal Spelletich is being evicted: Help save his robots!

July 9, 2018

"On a troubling note, after 25 years, I am getting evicted from my home base and studio space," artist Kal Spelletich tweeted this morning. "I...