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

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...

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

May 3, 2018

"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 …

April 26, 2018

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"...

Onstage

A giddy Go-Go’s time warp in “Head Over Heels”

April 23, 2018

ONSTAGE It's real cute, the good kind of cute. Head Over Heels (through May 6 at the Curran Theatre), the "posh meets punk" Elizabethan...

Arts + Culture

Party Radar: Are you ready for the Cleveland techno invasion?

April 18, 2018

PARTY RADAR The greater Midwest is central to the story of electronic music in the United States, but it gets short shrift these days:...

Dance

Sean Dorsey Dance’s ‘Boys in Trouble’ unpacks toxic masculinity

April 17, 2018

DANCE Alt-right, #metoo, the Trump administration: Toxic masculinity and its effects are all the rage. We live in a culture that only allows (and rewards)...

News + Politics

March against US bombing Syria this Sat/14 and Sun/15

April 13, 2018

Welp, it's happening again. Rally and march against all US wars on Sunday, April 15, starting at 11am in Oakland. We'll post here as...

Exclusive

Rose Aguilar and Tom Ammiano to appear at 48 Hills Gala, May 1

April 7, 2018

Join us for the 48 Fifth Anniversary Hills May Day Gala at Mission Cultural Center, May 1, 6pm-9pm. Enjoy food fro Casa Sanchez, beer...