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.

Dance

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

June 22, 2018

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

June 20, 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…

June 12, 2018

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

June 11, 2018

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 …

June 6, 2018

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?

May 31, 2018

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’

May 28, 2018

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’

May 28, 2018

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’

May 22, 2018

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’

May 10, 2018

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...