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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.
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...

Don’t stand back, it’s time for ‘Night of 1,001 Stevies’

MUSIC A night of Stevie Nicks' music, performed by awesome live bands, benefitting Access: Women's Health Justice? Stop dragging' your feet around and hit up...
Onstage

The Civil War, from another side, in ‘Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3’

ONSTAGE A historical epic, a taut thriller, a chamber melodrama, a heart-warming comedy, a social scalding: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrings a lot from her...

Very live, from the Bay Area: Pop-Up Magazine returns with fresh new stories

"Live is definitely its own medium," says Anita Badejo, senior producer for Pop-Up Magazine—the marvelous, one-time-only, three-times-a-year live show that originates in the Bay Area...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Trog, Mercury Soul, Bay Area Book Festival …

ARTS FORECAST Two lovely and illuminating things to kick us off this week.  The first is the installation of Charles Gadeken's gorgeous 50-foot tall "geometric tree"...
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