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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.
Music

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.
Music

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.'
Lit

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.
Fashion

New looks now: Academy of Art fashion students bloom into view

19 graduating designers send their theses down the runway at two special shows and a Halston-inspired Union Square showcase.
Dance

Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: ‘When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other’

His legendary dance company's 22nd annual home season offers 'a balm for this moment in America.'
Music

How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist's intense memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' peels back rock icon mythos
Music

A decade in, the Back Room still holds space for intimate musical encounters

Berkeley mainstay hosts 10-day concert series marking 10 years of diverse, all-ages, BYOB, communal gigs.
Lit

Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine ‘Homocore’ blasts back into view

New anthology collects the DIY publication's precious few issues, which gave voice to anti-assimilationist sexual outlaws.
Music

Femmes rock fiercely at Doll Fest

With two dozen bands, Maria Chaos's weekend-long festival bucks men-only lineups and calls all girls to the front.
Music

On supergroup 1Umbrella’s debut, Bay Area hip-hop reigns

Sonic fingerprints of Visitacion Valley, Oakland, and the Fillmore audible in album's hard trap and smooth R&B.
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