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News + Politics

And yet we signed: Behind the letter to the president of Nicaragua

Elaine Elinson - July 15, 2021

Hundreds who spent the 1980s doing Sandinista solidarity work are now condemning Daniel Ortega's new wave of political repression. Here's why.

Art

This Bay sculptor is grateful for lessons that clay has taught her

Mary Corbin - July 14, 2021

Symbolist artist Sara Lisch has stories to tell. In this interview, she spins a few.

Art

In “Altered States” exhibition, artists play with the illegible

Genevieve Quick - July 13, 2021

Kandis Williams' sculpture of a monstera plant, intervened with images of Frederick and Helen Pitts Douglass, leads the way.

Nightlife

La Moni Stat comes home for SF edition of her Asian drag monthly SENSAZN

Caitlin Donohue - July 12, 2021

On this beloved shady queen's stage, AAPI representation is key.

Movies

Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ purposefully hands 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival its flowers

John-Paul Shiver - July 11, 2021

This was an unparalleled summit of Black art.

Art

Feeling blue: The calming canvases of Tiffany Conway

Mary Corbin - July 11, 2021

The artist and creator of 'Project Get Free: The Coloring Book for Navigating the Diaspora' shares the process behind her celebrations of spirit.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two deeply different narratives of sex work in ‘Working Girls’ and ‘Medusa’

Dennis Harvey - July 8, 2021

Plus: Saudi Arabian feminist mythology soars in 'Scales' and 'Dachra's creepy atmospherics.

Art

“Seeing Sound” argues that creating noise is the most human act of all

Genevieve Quick - July 8, 2021

The KADIST group show (through July 24) presents alternative auditory realities and spaces.

Movies

Fred Halsted’s ‘70s gay porn invades the arthouse multiplex

Johnny Ray Huston - July 7, 2021

Fists of fury, influential slow-pans, and a double feature that refuses to be defined by its sensationalist sex acts.

Nightlife

Nicki Jizz’s Black drag revue Reparations goes IRL after raising $20k online

Caitlin Donohue - July 7, 2021

Local queen didn't see the melanin-heavy show of her dreams as a baby gay. So she decided to create one.

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