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Food & Drink

Chef Diep Tran treats Chron food critic Soleil Ho to chả trứng chiên, live

Emily Wilson - November 13, 2021

At Asian Art Museum, the two queer Vietnamese Americans will dish about food's cultural legacy and workers' rights.

Art

Chanel Miller, artist and ‘Emily Doe’ in Stanford assault case, speaks at Asian Art Museum

Emily Wilson - September 21, 2021

Writer Esmé Weijun Wang interviews Miller, whose 75-foot mural hangs in the new Wilbur Gallery.

Art

Shimmying fish and flowing Kanji immerse viewers in myth at ‘Continuity’

Emily Wilson - August 24, 2021

Innovative, interactive digital teamLab exhibit inaugurates new pavilion at Asian Art Museum.

Art

A new gallery uplifts contemporary Asian art to counter misconceptions

Emily Wilson - June 7, 2021

Curator Abby Chen on how the Asian Art Museum's Hambrecht Contemporary Gallery connects antiquities to urgent current concerns.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Holy smokes, I went to a show. And ate inside a restaurant!

Marke B. - May 4, 2021

Sidewalk drag and classic cioppino as SF prepares to enter the yellow tier. Plus: events you can attend! (If you're ready)

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Museums reopen, Litquake rolls out… and music in parklets?

Marke B. - October 8, 2020

Plus: SOMArts Día de los Muertos show, DJ Mark Farina, California Symphony, 'Heads of Hip Hop, more.

Onstage

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

Emily Wilson - June 16, 2020

Last year, the Tenderloin Museum hosted 22 sold-out performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. One of the writers, Donna Personna, saw about half of...

Asian American women artists on creativity, activism—and COVID racism

Emily Wilson - May 25, 2020

While the Asian Art Museum, like other arts institutions, is closed during the COVID crisis, the staff is stepping up its museuming from home,...

Housing

First sanctioned tent city opens in SF

Garrett Leahy - May 14, 2020

San Francisco's first city-sanctioned safe sleeping site began operations yesterday afternoon. The site, referred to as the Safe Sleeping Village, has 50 spaces for...

COVID

The dangerous, inaccurate reporting on homelessness and the COVID crisis

Tim Redmond - May 7, 2020

Take some salacious information, add a single person with a point of view, and suddenly you have a major international story – that can...

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