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Dance

Reviews: Gender under the microscope in ‘Queent’ and ‘Boys in Trouble’

Marke B. - March 18, 2019

DANCE What happens when drag gestures are codified as dance? What happens if drag struggles are brought to the dance arena? And how can...

Onstage

Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Emily Wilson - March 15, 2019

ONSTAGE While writing the nine plays of the Ufot Family Cycle, which follows several generations of a family of Nigerians in America, Mfoniso Udofia...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

Dennis Harvey - March 11, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Though it doesn’t get the same international nostalgic attention these days accorded similar movements in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, one of...

News + Politics

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

Tim Redmond - March 10, 2019

The long-term impact of the Twitter tax break was never going to be the money that came in or was lost by the city...

Onstage

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Elaine Elinson - March 7, 2019

ONSTAGE A young woman frantically shouts into a graffiti-scrawled pay phone in a shabby airline terminal. She clutches a green handbag and tries to keep...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Dennis Harvey - March 5, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

News + Politics

The Democrats in Sacramento want to deregulate housing — but that has never worked

Tim Redmond - March 3, 2019

Of all the information that came out of the hearing on homelessness last week, when several supervisors said the Mayor’s Office and its Department of...

Arts + Culture

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Emily Wilson - February 27, 2019

ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...

News + Politics

Police commission defies Sunshine Task Force and refuses new vote on Tasers

Haley Keizur - February 26, 2019

“We were literally locked out of City Hall.” That’s how community activist Magick Altman described the November 3, 2017 San Francisco Police Commission vote to...

News + Politics

An ethics pledge for the district attorney race

Larry Bush - February 23, 2019

Two candidates for district attorney, Chesa Boudin and Leif Dautch, have created an ethics pledge for the campaign, and it takes us further toward...

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