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Art

J.L. King’s bold, curious art doesn’t shy from the peculiar

Mary Corbin - February 15, 2024

'Weird can be good, to me,' says the San Francisco oil painter, who calls her spirited art 'trick the mind.'

Movies

Screen Grabs: Rare queer films, from the dawn of Gay Lib to the onset of AIDS

Dennis Harvey - February 15, 2024

Plus: 'Taste of Things,' 'Totem,' 'Perfect Days,' and a mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker’s perspective

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: ‘The Wiz’ whisks us right down that Yellow Brick Road

Marke B. - February 1, 2024

Plus: Danny Glover, Kafana Balkan, Valentine's Gay, Tongues Untied, parallax errors, Bob Dylan Center, more great things to do

Art

Elizabeth Barlow paints ‘the fierce life force in even the tiniest flower’

Mary Corbin - January 31, 2024

Potent symbols—and beauty with a capital B—in the artist's vivid 'Flora Portraits.'

Stage Review

‘Babes in Ho-lland’: Black lesbians deserve cute rom-coms, too

Charles Lewis III - January 30, 2024

Unexpected love in the college dorm brings up memories of '90s sitcoms in Shotgun Players' latest.

Stage Review

Don’t mind the AI, ‘Mere Mortals’ is a human triumph

Marke B. - January 29, 2024

SF Ballet's techno take on the Pandora's box of Artificial Intelligence feels like something completely new

Movies

Screen Grabs: With ‘Bushman,’ a trip back to nearly unrecognizable 1971 SF

Dennis Harvey - January 29, 2024

A feast of revivals including 'Household Saints' and 'Ghosts of Mars;' 'Vishniac captures Jewish ghetto life, more

Homelessness

Tiny homes with giant restrictions are not a solution to homelessness

Tiny - January 25, 2024

Tiny tombs, I mean tiny homes Not a place to call our own Tiny tombs better describes the triggerr of those jail-like rooms The InsideNOTsafe is a...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Edwardian Ball Returns, new Music Book Club launches, more

Marke B. - January 25, 2024

Stage Dive into Life, Kate Bush drag tribute, Floating Points, Icebreaker's Ball, 'Colonizing America'—get out there

Art

In a globalized art world, why does SF need its own fairs? The answer lies in FOG

Emily Wilson - January 21, 2024

Smaller galleries like Jonathan Carver Moore, Schlomer Haus, CULT Aimee Friberg welcomed far-flung visitors to local excellence

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