Marke B.

1109 POSTS46 COMMENTS

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: Coolest holiday events for everyone

December 5, 2017

ARTS FORECAST Holidays can be a drag -- and that's a good thing! Two big drag holiday traditions lead our list of fun events...

The Ghost Ship fire, one year later

November 29, 2017

It's been a rough year of "firsts" for Andy Kershaw, a DJ and record label owner who lost his wife, Amanda Allen, last December in...

Arts + Culture

Forget the chains: Shop local with our Best of Bay Shopping winners!

November 24, 2017

Black Friday, #smallbusinesssaturday, exhaustion Sunday ... and then Cyber Monday? That's a lot! Keep it local this year with the winners of our 2017...

Music

‘Girls of the Golden West’: a new opera’s fresh take on the Gold Rush

November 20, 2017

ALL EARS After two decades of well-worn Gold Rush metaphors about Silicon Valley, we're long overdue for a fresh take on a time period calcified...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Fortnight of fun, fun, fun

November 16, 2017

PARTY RADAR I'm off for a wee break to restore my sanity and grow back some of my liver -- who am I kidding I'll...

Lit

Sunday’s Howard Zinn Book Fair envisions “The World We Want”

November 15, 2017

LIT The world is flaming on Twitter, your friends are frothing on Facebook, and, well, let's just say online political discourse in this precarious global...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Druid Film Fest, San Fransgiving, Amplify Her…

November 12, 2017

COMMUNITY CREATING SAFER AND WELCOMING NEIGHBORHOODS "Racial profiling thrives in so-called 'pursuit of safety' efforts throughout our communities. From social media spaces to crime...

News + Politics

Watch the D8 candidate debate live on Monday with 48 Hills

November 10, 2017

48 Hills will be streaming Mon/13 evening's D8 supervisor candidate debate live on our 48 Hills Facebook page. Join us at our page on...

Party Radar

Party Radar: A tenth of Honey

November 9, 2017

PARTY RADAR Good goddess, I've written about Honey Soundsystem for more than a decade. Certainly, in terms of a groundbreaking nightlife collective that injected...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Trans Film Fest, Renegade Craft Fair, Rebirth Brass Band …

November 7, 2017

ARTS FORECAST The biggest local arts news of last week was the announcement that Michael Tilson Thomas will step down as conductor of the...