Joshua Rotter

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Joshua Rotter is a contributing writer for 48 Hills. He’s also written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, SF Examiner, SF Chronicle, and CNET.

Onstage

Theatre of Yugen stages ‘A Christmas Carol’ with an ancient Japanese spin

November 29, 2019

There are plenty of ways to experience yūgen or “beauty, with a tinge of sadness,” according to the great 14th- and 15th- century Japanese...

From Lagos with love—and the god of fire

November 24, 2019

Bisi is more than a stage name for the 29-year-old Nigerian singer-songwriter who’s called San Francisco home for the last decade. It’s also a...

Movies

Martin Scorsese on ‘The Irishman,’ old friends, and loving Castro Theatre

November 20, 2019

Martin Scorsese loves San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. So much so that the legendary Mean Streets, Goodfellas, and Casino director opened his latest gangster epic,...

The lo-fi psych-pop joys of Still Woozy

November 11, 2019

Still Woozy (playing Wed/13 through Friday/15 at The New Parish) was hanging out backstage at Lollapalooza at Chicago’s Grant Park, last summer. He had...

Lit

Red-hot but clear-eyed, Flea recounts his youth in ‘Acid for the Children’

November 4, 2019

Michael “Flea” Balzary told 48 Hills that he credits three things with keeping the fiery Red Hot Chili Peppers together for almost four decades. First,...

Natasha Bedingfield takes some poignant new curves

October 30, 2019

Natasha Bedingfield (playing Sun/3 at The Fillmore) has never been overtly political in her music. That is, until the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter — best known for...

Culture

‘Women aren’t funny’? Tell that to Cirque clown Kelsey Custard

October 29, 2019

When Kelsey Custard was studying at San Francisco’s Clown Conservatory school a decade ago, she and some of her female colleagues were advised by...

Marc Almond speaks on Soft Cell, his new album, and life in Moscow

October 26, 2019

It’s 2019: do you know where your little art, fashion, and music freaks are? At Sex Cells, of course, a traveling genre- and gender-fluid...

Dance

Nature takes astounding flight in ‘Viva MOMIX!’

October 17, 2019

With its 40th birthday fast approaching in 2020, the MOMIX dance company is excited to bring a vibrant “compilation album” of its “greatest hits”...

Movies

Olympia Dukakis has a few words

October 10, 2019

'Do what you want. Treat people decently,' says the film legend, with a new doc and honors at the Greek Film Festival.