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Marke B.

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.
Onstage

The sheer audacity of ‘Angels in America’

ONSTAGE "Why is Angels in America still the most prominent story being told about AIDS?" asked a wonderfully provocative essay about the epic early '90s...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Gray Area Festival lineup, Laborfest, Fillmore Jazz Fest…

ARTS FORECAST Lots of fests coming at you fast! We've got details below, but here's a future one to put on your radar: The Gray...
Dance

Pride gets Xtra with vogue legend grand marshalls Luis and Jose Xtravaganza

PRIDE "One of the reasons vogue is coming into vogue again," legendary practitioner of the venerated black, queer dance form Luis Extravaganza tells me over...
Arts + Culture

Party Radar: ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2018

PARTY RADAR OK! There is a lot going on. But you are ready to dive in. You've shoed your fantasy unicorn, reactivated your quirky Tumblr/Grindr,...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Fresh Meat, North Beach Festival, Corgi Con…

ARTS FORECAST Pride is looming in the distance like a monstrous, rainbow-bedecked Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man—look for my guide to drop soon—but alongside the parades and...

A hot-button ‘Ring’ at SF Opera? You bet your Brünnhilde

ALL EARS With great art comes great baggage. And quite possibly no work comes with greater baggage than Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle (opening...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: A Princely debut, the Science of Rhythm, Haight Street Fair, more …

ARTS FORECAST It's not every day a new art gallery opens up in this SF economic climate, especially one in tune with the laidback,...
Campaign Trail

Campaign Trail: How are the mayoral candidates on queer issues?

In April, the GLBT Historical Society published something unique. It sent out a survey to the SF mayoral candidates specifically about queer history and...
Onstage

Heaven’s Gate reverberates in mystical coming-of-age tale ‘Barn Owl’

ONSTAGE Playwright and actor Evan Johnson's drag queen alter ego, Martha T. Lipton the Failed Actress, is one of the most delightfully surreal performers in...
Dance

Keith Hennessy’s fiercely political, achingly intimate ‘Crotch’ and ‘Sink’

DANCE/PERFORMANCE A pagan drag queen Green Man, sporting a maypole-ribbon corset and tiny Speedo, hopping about madly on stilts? A ferocious clown satire of the...
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