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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.
Comedy

Marga Gomez wants you to laugh your dinghy off at ‘Swimming with Lesbians’

Comedian's cruise-themed farce navigates starry hookups, loaded buffets, and 'female ejaculation at a Macarena party.'
Music

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass favorite John Doe leaps back to 1890s for latest album

The punk/Americana hero talks 'Fables in a Foreign Land,' SF's classic music scene—and 'The Bodyguard' soundtrack
Music

James ‘Sticknasty’ Small brings beats, and heart, to fore on ‘A Universal Love Language’

Berkeley drummer, a force behind major acts, levels up with album forged out of personal change and positivity
Lit

Budding again at 30, classic ‘Golden Gate Gardening’ takes on new climate challenges

Updated edition of vegetation sage Pam Peirce's manual adapts to a changing Bay Area with essential tips
Music

Swans’ Michael Gira: ‘Successful music is a river of blood, urine, and semen. Swim!’

41 years in, the legendary experimental band still finds beauty in nihilism on latest album 'The Beggar'
Movies

Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema celebrates 20 years of awe beneath the stars

Hyperlocal film festival 'builds vibrant community and connects us to our shared humanity,' say cofounders
Music

Jazz legend John Santos teaches ‘Rhythms of Resistance’ to defeat gentrification

New course on Cuban and Puerto Rican music at MoAD highlights their role in the struggle for social justice
Music

Still Pleasure Victims: Berlin swings into the Bay to take our breath away

David Diamond of the '80s favorites on touring with Boy George, crushing on Tom Cruise, and retooling their biggest hit
Music

Belinda Carlisle: ‘Pop music is especially important now—uplifting people is good’

Before hitting the Bay Area, the Go-Gos legend speaks on her inspiring solo return, and what keeps her going.
Onstage

Confronting decline while flying through the air in ‘the Curve’ at Fringe Fest

Circus acrobat Genie Cartier's show combines gravity-defying feats with candid tales of a body slowing down
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