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Capturing Harvey Milk’s martyrdom and living legacy

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassinations of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. (It's also the 10th anniversary of Milk, the movie...

Arts Forecast: Mezzanine closing, Taylor Mac, Laurie Anderson, Angela Davis…

ARTS FORECAST Right before Thanksgiving came the infuriating news that, after 16 years, SF's largest woman-owned independent music venue, Mezzanine, was planning to close next...

Rami Malek, the man who would be Queen, on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

When Rami Malek was originally cast to play Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," (opening Friday), he knew little about the lead singer...

Reconstituting Orson Welles, in ‘Wind’ and in ‘Love’

When Orson Welles died in 1985 at age 70—hardly “prematurely,” since given his prodigious appetites (esp. culinary) it was already a miracle he’d survived...

Can you ever forgive Richard E. Grant?

Richard E. Grant told 48 Hills he faced a major obstacle when it came time to portray Jack Hock in Can You Ever Forgive...

Post-human radical inclusivity, center-stage in ‘Beyond Gravity’

DANCE Choreographer Jess Curtis grew up in Chico and studied dance and English at Cal State there. Then he came to San Francisco, which changed...

Peter Hujar’s brilliant, too brilliant icons

ART LOOKS If you were a hip gay American man at a certain point in history, say about 1988-1993, you were expected to be in...

Party Radar: El Rio’s 40th, Bardot-A-Go-Go, Juliana Huxtable …

PARTY RADAR Welp, it took me two weeks to recover from Folsom Street Fair, so that means we've got a lot to catch up on!...

Rupert Everett on ‘Happy Prince,’ gay victories, and Oscar Wilde’s schlong

Actor Rupert Everett, who’d already garnered critical notice in acclaimed art house films Another Country (1984), Dance with a Stranger (1985), and The Madness...

Screen Grabs: Mill Valley, SF Dance, Drunken Film Fests ….

SCREEN GRABS It’s a starry as well as busy week in Bay Area filmgoing, with major openings including the new Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga A Star...