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Joshua Rotter

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.

We love you, Mamie Van Doren

95-year-old Hollywood legend's new memoir 'You Thought I Was Dead' gushes with celebrities, sex, champagne—and survival.

Surely, they must still be joking: ‘Airplane! Live’ lands classic 1980 movie’s gags

'The more serious we were, the more the comedy worked,' says star Robert Hays, coming to SF with co-star Julie Hagerty.

San Francisco does, indeed, want The Human League

Monster '80s hitmakers return to city where they feel at home, this time with Soft Cell and Alison Moyet in tow.

Ladytron resurfaces, with the cool synth pleasures of ‘Paradises’

'Without electroclash, there’s no Lady Gaga,' says band that embodied and transcended that scene, returning to SF.

Shoegaze dreamers Chapterhouse leap back into ‘Whirlpool,’ 35 years on

'Incredible pop tunes hidden in all that noise': UK outfit's landmark LP swam in scene's deep end—and still grows in influence.

Boots Riley is here to boost you

Oakland icon pulls no punches talking about new movie 'I Love Boosters' and the power of collective organizing.

Comedy pioneers BATS Improv turn 40, with more wild flights of storytelling

'The excitement of improvisation was palpable, and the joy of being onstage together was addictive,' co-founder says of early years.

50 years in, electronic pioneers Cabaret Voltaire sound prophetic as ever

'Our reasons for being paranoid were only partly paranoid' say proto-industrial UK group, now on grand farewell tour.

Wavy Gravy is turning 90. Of course there’s a wild party.

Maria Muldaur, Harper Simon, Cat Power, Rickie Lee Jones, Steve Earle, more to celebrate SF's 'saint in a clown suit.'

Allen Ginsberg ‘Howl’s again at all-star centennial celebration

Kronos Quartet, Kim Stanley Robinson, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, Andy Cabic, more mark 100 years of poet-iconoclast.