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Onstage

Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Emily Wilson - March 15, 2019

ONSTAGE While writing the nine plays of the Ufot Family Cycle, which follows several generations of a family of Nigerians in America, Mfoniso Udofia...

Onstage

Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’

Emily Wilson - March 12, 2019

ONSTAGE In the first grade, Michael A. Curry had a role in “The Wiz.” He loved being on stage, and he never really considered another...

News + Politics

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

Tim Redmond - March 10, 2019

The long-term impact of the Twitter tax break was never going to be the money that came in or was lost by the city...

Dance

Sean Dorsey Dance continues to shatter boundaries, 15 years on

Marke B. - March 9, 2019

DANCE "I'm still pinching myself at this 15th anniversary milestone!" says Sean Dorsey, whose groundbreaking dance company celebrates a decade and a half this...

Onstage

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Elaine Elinson - March 7, 2019

ONSTAGE A young woman frantically shouts into a graffiti-scrawled pay phone in a shabby airline terminal. She clutches a green handbag and tries to keep...

News + Politics

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Tiny - March 6, 2019

No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

News + Politics

The Sierra Club attacks our story; here’s our response

Zelda Bronstein - February 24, 2019

On February 19, the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter posted an entry on its home page blog attacking my article “The Sierra Club...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance (and Slamdance), part 4: Narrative features

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 21, 2019

SUNDANCE 2019 Our festival critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Sundance Film Festival. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here! Honey...

Exploring the ‘Convergence’ of Yiddish and African American spiritual music

Emily Wilson - February 19, 2019

ALL EARS There are a couple of reactions that stand out to Black Yiddishist opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell when he performs a...

News + Politics

The Sierra Club and the luxury-housing developer

Zelda Bronstein - February 17, 2019

Are you a Sierra Club member who lives in Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, Alameda, Piedmont or San Leandro? If so, you fall under the aegis...

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Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

Sean Dorsey Dance continues to shatter boundaries, 15 years on

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

The Sierra Club attacks our story; here’s our response

What we saw at Sundance (and Slamdance), part 4: Narrative features

Exploring the ‘Convergence’ of Yiddish and African American spiritual music

The Sierra Club and the luxury-housing developer

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