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Environment

The Hunters Point Shipyard: Art survives amid toxic waste

Tom Molanphy - March 5, 2023

Part II: As artists move into the former base, the level of contamination reaches the point where 'if it can't be cleaned, stay the hell out.'

Music

Neither rain nor hail could keep The Roots from delivering hip-hop love

John-Paul Shiver - March 5, 2023

Their appearance at the Masonic may have been delayed, but the legendary outfit made it for some old school healing

Art

Herb Greene’s ’60s Haight-Ashbury shots immortalize era, Grace Slick’s bird

Leticia Lopez - March 2, 2023

Legendary rock scene photographer's retrospective at Haight Street Art Center glittered with familiar faces.

Environment

The tragic toxic legacy of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

Tom Molanphy - March 1, 2023

Aided by a USC fellowship, reporter Tom Molanphy and 48hills dug into the overwhelming history of data concerning the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which...

Stage Review

‘Getting There’ wove Ugly American tropes into Parisian storylines of love and loss

Charles Lewis III - March 1, 2023

Dipika Guha’s world premiere one-act at New Conservatory entertained as it lampooned.

Onstage

Erin Merritt stirs domestic terrorism, violent rhetoric—and humor!—into ‘Tea Party’

Emily Wilson - February 28, 2023

The director, weathering ALS, fulfills a decade-long dream to stage Gordon Dahlquist's scabrous satire.

Movies

What We Saw at Sundance: In 39th edition, fest finds strength in powerful newcomers

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 28, 2023

Bay rapper Tia Nomore's film debut, terrifying teen spirit-conjuring, and a grisly 'Frankenstein' reboot thrilled.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: ‘Headlands’ is a whodunnit steeped in SF nostalgia

Marke B. - February 23, 2023

Many authors have used tales of mystery to dissect society and the self. Agatha Christie took a scalpel to the British upper crust's hypocritical...

Stage Review

In ‘Crushing Wheelchairs,’ stinging tales of being unhoused, by the unhoused

Charles Lewis III - February 22, 2023

Theatre of the POOR's production builds a sense of community while calling out 'the violence of looking away.'

Music

30 years of wild Noise Pop nights and ‘talent beyond genre’

Joshua Rotter - February 21, 2023

Festival co-owner Jordan Kurland on filling the city with independent music and his favorite live moments

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