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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Dennis Harvey - July 28, 2020

Social media political propaganda campaigns, sexual abuse accusations, invaded privacy—art certainly seems to be imitating life even more than usual amongst new streaming releases...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise

Dennis Harvey - July 24, 2020

While the stampede of sexual harassment and assault accusations unleashed by the #MeToo movement may make it seem the entertainment industry is a sexist...

New Music: Oakland collective SMARTBOMB has that feeling of futurism

John-Paul Shiver - July 23, 2020

Beat music, the defiant all-inclusive electronic aesthetic that seizes and chops up odd bits of hip-hop, library music, jazz, bass music, IDM, and anything...

Movies

City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Pam Grady - July 22, 2020

When the Roxie Theater announced the first open call for a Mixtape event in 2015, the festival was never meant to become an annual...

Campaign Trail

Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The San Francisco Democratic Party will vote on endorsements for the Board of Supes Wednesday/22, and while the party nod doesn’t always mean victory,...

New Music: A classic Oneness of Juju re-release jolts consciousness

John-Paul Shiver - July 21, 2020

Witness the rhythmic agency of soundtracking a movement. Prudent is the beat that moves your feet and mind simultaneously, jolting up new pathways of...

Onstage

Take that, 2020: The Mime Troupe pivots to web

Caitlin Donohue - July 20, 2020

It’s a rough time for live theater. As San Francisco arts organizations brainstorm ways to carry their message into the COVID era, some of...

Cartoonist Tanna Tucker creates works of art to celebrate voices of incarcerated kids

Maddy Clifford - July 20, 2020

Last May, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a plan to close California’s state-run youth prisons, an initiative that has since been stalled. But San Francisco...

News + Politics

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Tina Gerhardt - July 19, 2020

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...

Arts + Culture

Purpose in precarity: SF arts orgs share COVID-era gameplans

Caitlin Donohue - July 17, 2020

The COVID crisis has hit us all differently, and that variance certainly applies to local arts organizations. While the virus refuses to give a...

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