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.

Music

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

August 11, 2016

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...

Music

Party Radar: Can this colorful crew save the Stud?

August 4, 2016

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...

Music

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

July 28, 2016

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...

Arts + Culture

The straight dope

July 27, 2016

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...

Art

Incredible portraits of Cleveland

July 21, 2016

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...

Music

Party Radar: Movements and movings on …

July 14, 2016

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

Music

A month of listening adventurously

July 7, 2016

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...

Music

‘SOS’ effort launched to save The Stud

July 5, 2016

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...

Music

50-year-old gay bar The Stud faces closure as rent triples

July 3, 2016

UPDATE: Artist and nightlife fixture Mica Sigourney aka VivvyAnne ForeverMore!, hostess of Club Some Thing at the Stud, has announced he is forming a community...

News + Politics

Black Lives Matter, others pull out of SF Pride Parade

June 24, 2016

Three major participants have dropped out of this year's SF Pride parade, after the SF Pride organization announced earlier this week that it would...