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Review: Anderson .Paak’s rap showmanship lights up Bill Graham

Daniel Bromfield - July 2, 2019

MUSIC REVIEW More than four decades into rap’s existence, the genre still struggles with how to present itself live. The bulk of rap shows...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The perils of ‘Midsommar’

Dennis Harvey - July 1, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The big noise commercially this week is Spider-Man: Far From Home, yet another entry in the most confusingly overpopulated movie franchise of...

News + Politics

UC’s deal with Big Pharma should raise red flags

Tina Stevens - June 27, 2019

Last week, the drug company GlaxoSmithKline announced a five-year, $67 million partnership with UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. Their stated goal is to establish a...

Movies

From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to Frameline: Kate Walsh on acting and activism

Joshua Rotter - June 25, 2019

More is what six friends living in New York City are striving for in Sell By, Mike Doyle’s new romantic comedy. In the film, premiering...

Party Radar

Party Radar: ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2019

Marke B. - June 23, 2019

PRIDE Heeeeeeey, Happy GIANT PRODE, everybody! Party Radar's been on a wee hiatus while I finish this crazy book, sorry. I miss getting nuts...

Onstage

Matteo Lane gets Clusterfested

Joshua Rotter - June 19, 2019

ONSTAGE Out New York-based comedian Matteo Lane didn’t dream of a career in comedy, growing up. In fact, the “Moving On” (2015), “Crashing” (2018), and...

Onstage

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Emily Wilson - June 18, 2019

ONSTAGE Waiting after school for his mother to pick him up after a high school French club meeting, Rotimi Agbabiaka—whose new show Manifesto plays at...

News + Politics

Wiener quietly turns barber bill into major housing legislation

Hydee Feldstein - June 18, 2019

State Sen. Scott Wiener, as predicted here, has taken an uncontroversial bill about cosmetology licenses and turned it into a complex and detailed piece...

Onstage

Immersive Jazz Age decadence in ‘The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws’

Dennis Harvey - June 13, 2019

ONSTAGE One hundred years ago the US Senate bowed to the pressure of temperance activists and passed the National Prohibition Act. It was one...

Onstage

Tracing how Silicon Valley treats women in ‘The Fit’

Emily Wilson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Carey Perloff started off as a playwright. Then she was named artistic director of the Classic Stage Company in New York, before coming to...

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Review: Anderson .Paak’s rap showmanship lights up Bill Graham

Screen Grabs: The perils of ‘Midsommar’

UC’s deal with Big Pharma should raise red flags

From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to Frameline: Kate Walsh on acting and activism

Party Radar: ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2019

Matteo Lane gets Clusterfested

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Wiener quietly turns barber bill into major housing legislation

Immersive Jazz Age decadence in ‘The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws’

Tracing how Silicon Valley treats women in ‘The Fit’

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