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.

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...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Fortnight of Fun—Love Glove Edition

April 5, 2018

PARTY RADAR Get ready for two whole weeks of debauchery, because I'm toast next week working on some special projects—including promoting the awesomest party...

Lit

Read something new! California Book Award finalists announced

April 2, 2018

LIT Spring brings an overflow of book recommendations, when the announcements of both the Northern California Book Award winners and the California Book Award...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: An Ethio-jazz marvel, a Tenderloin snapper, The Residents …

April 1, 2018

ARTS FORECAST All the talk this week will be about the San Francisco International Film Festival—check out this week's Screen Grabs film column for our...