Bay Area Archives - Page 156 of 218

Michael Sneed’s ‘Days We Lost’ claps back at depression, debt

John-Paul Shiver - October 15, 2019

When Oakland artist Michael Sneed returned home in 2017 from graduating college in Washington DC, he didnʻt feel all that celebratory. Trying to sort out the next...

News + Politics

The problem with the Blue Angels

Christopher D. Cook - October 12, 2019

Editor’s note: The news media in San Francisco are all agog about the Blue Angels – as they always are, every year. The main...

Bumping serious boogie-funk with The Pendletons

John-Paul Shiver - October 10, 2019

E da Boss, one half of Myron and E, aka Eric Boss, and Daniel Meisenheimer aka Trailer Limon, are the root basis, writing, and arrangers of...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….

Marke B. - October 10, 2019

ARTS FORECAST File under: more of this please! According to the Bay Area Reporter, the buildings housing legendary Latinx queer bar El Rio have...

The Onyx spirals upward, beaming ‘Black Girl Magic’

Joanna Ladd - October 7, 2019

It’s a Thursday night at The Uptown in Oakland, and people are filtering in for the opening set. Six black women take the stage,...

Culture

Celebrating 50 groundbreaking years of Ethnic Studies with ‘Solidarity’

Emily Wilson - October 7, 2019

When he was 13, PJ Gubatina Policarpio moved from the Philippines to San Francisco’s Excelsior District. As a student at Balboa High School, he...

Lit

At Litquake, the infamous Literary Death Match hits 500

Peter-Astrid Kane - October 7, 2019

The field of literature is often criticized for its focus on dead writers, but you can’t blame Literary Death Match for adding to the...

Campaign Trail

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From ‘The Joker’ to Japan…

Dennis Harvey - October 1, 2019

It’s no joke that the film crowding out all others this week is Todd Phillips’ Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix drawing bets as a likely...

Dance

Dancing in different senses with ‘(in)Visible’

Emily Wilson - September 30, 2019

For many of us, going to a dance performance means going to a theater, sitting in the dark and watching the bodies move onstage. But...

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