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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.

Vibing strong, 20 years on

PARTY RADAR "I think of dub as anything but conservative," Dub Mission's DJ Sep tells me. "Part of the reason I really got into...

Megablast for a minimal giant

ALL EARS One of the most incredible yet undersung developments of the past decade on the SF scene has been the explosion of interest in...

PARTY RADAR: Rave of Thrones, Freq Fest, Afrolicious, American Tripps …

PARTY RADAR Starting off this week with some good news: San Francisco's pioneering "Legacy Business" legislation, offering lifelines for longtime businesses in danger of...

Party Radar: Can this colorful crew save the Stud?

PARTY RADAR In a world where gentrification and skyrocketing rents are forcing vital arts and nightlife spaces into exile, can a scrappy, rag-tag group...

Party Radar: Dore to-dos, Mr. Scruff, New Wave Prom, more

PARTY RADAR Ahoy-hoy. This Sunday is the infamous Dore Alley Fair, aka Up Your Alley, Folsom Street Fair's "dirty little brother," and there are so...

The straight dope

ONSTAGE It's been a minute since hyperkinetic comic actor John Leguizamo tore up the boards here -- I last caught him nearly half a decade...

Incredible portraits of Cleveland

While what's going on inside Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena continues to fascinate and mortify, it's the crowd gathered outside the arena that yields a...

Party Radar: Movements and movings on …

PARTY RADAR It seems like the bad news just keeps coming for nightlife this month -- Beatbox and Mighty closing, The Stud facing a huge...

A month of listening adventurously

ALL EARS Why July? This month seems especially full of experimental, experiential, and just plain extra-lovely live music, much of it contemporary. SF has...

‘SOS’ effort launched to save The Stud

In the wake of Sunday's shock announcement that SF's 50-year-old gay bar the Stud faces a 200-percent rent hike and may close, a co-op...