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Blackface betrayal and ‘Black Lies’ in Edgar Arceneaux’s new YBCA installation

Emily Wilson - March 15, 2018

ART LOOKS In 1981, Ben Vereen, known for his role as Chicken George in the miniseries Roots, and for winning a Tony in Bob...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Walking the Irish border, making epic poetry

Marke B. - March 14, 2018

ARTS FORECAST The Counterpulse Festival is on this week (Wed/14-Sun/18) and its bursting with performance and arts innovation. One of its most interesting moments: aon mhac...

A spirited walk through incredible queer history in ‘OUT of Site’

Marke B. - March 7, 2018

Consider the case of Milton Matson. Arrested for check fraud in 1895 in Los Gatos, he was placed in the men's section of the...

21st Romani Music Festival lights up with electrifying horns, cultural openness

Joanna Ladd - March 5, 2018

ALL EARS You know your Balkan party scene is good when top-shelf Balkan musicians want in on it. The Romani clarinet wizard Ismail Lumanovski...

Puff

Puff: Why isn’t SF a cannabis sanctuary city?

Dan Karkoska - February 20, 2018

PUFF On February 13, the city of Berkeley declared itself a sanctuary city for recreational marijuana, firmly kicking San Francisco’s cool cred in the butt. As proposed...

Dance

Renowned dance company taps street musicians for ‘Bootstrap Tales’

Emily Wilson - February 19, 2018

DANCE Dancer and choreographer Robert Moses says he’s inherently optimistic and likes a challenge. So he decided his renowned company, Robert Moses’ Kin, would...

News + Politics

The big winner in the mayoral vote …

Tim Redmond - January 28, 2018

The New York Times, which has local reporters and ought to know better, ran a headline last week stating that the progressives had “ousted”...

News + Politics

Ed Lee’s development legacy and the end of ‘balanced growth’

Calvin Welch - January 7, 2018

There is one defining fact about Ed Lee's years as mayor that has been missed in all that has been written about his legacy:...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Bowie Wowie Zowies!

Marke B. - January 4, 2018

ARTS FORECAST It's been two years since David Bowie's shocking death -- an event that many pinpoint as the beginning of world's current madness spiral,...

Arts + Culture

Our most-read stories of 2017

Marke B. - December 30, 2017

This was a truly unsettling year, from the election of Donald Trump and the resurgence of white supremacist movements to the sudden death of...

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