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Movies

There’s a ‘Mad God’ at the Drunken Film Fest

Joshua Rotter - October 1, 2019

Clocking in at under an hour, Mad God, a highly experimental stop-motion film about an assassin who descends into a scary subterranean dystopia—full of...

Onstage

Review: ACT’s ‘Top Girls’ spotlights ladies of the ’80s (and 800s)

Dennis Harvey - September 27, 2019

With Cloud Nine in 1979 and Top Girls (through October 13 at ACT) three years later, Caryl Churchill shot to the front ranks of living...

News + Politics

An open letter to Marc Benioff about homelessness

Tiny - September 24, 2019

Dear Marc Benioff: A few months ago you announced the launch of a $30 million study of homelessness: Benioff Homelessness and Housing initiative . As you launch...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: All the latest from Iran

Dennis Harvey - September 24, 2019

Fall is a busy time for Bay Area screens beyond the multiplex, and this week is no exception. There are no less than three...

Culture

Enola Gay and the witchy origin of the first AIDS protest

Marke B. - September 19, 2019

Just around the crack of dawn on September 23, 1984, a handful of gay men gathered outside the gates of the Lawrence Livermore National...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Marke B. - September 17, 2019

MUCH ADO ABOUT FOLSOM Folsom Street Fair is two Sundays away (watch for my party guide), and what better way could organizers seize the news...

Onstage

Watching movies—and coping and connecting—in ‘The Flick’

Emily Wilson - September 12, 2019

Jon Tracy says the first time he read Annie Baker’s play, The Flick, (which he is directing at Shotgun Players, through October 6) it...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Native American Reelism, Bay Area Thrash Metal …

Dennis Harvey - September 10, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The ever-lengthening annual period known as “awards season” arguably starts this Friday with the arrival of The Goldfinch, which premiered at the Toronto...

News + Politics

SF’s PG&E buyout makes political — and economic — sense

Tim Redmond - September 9, 2019

It has been, my former colleague Savannah Blackwell reminds me, 50 years (and a few months) since the Bay Guardian first published a story...

Onstage

‘Exit Strategy’: Can they save a crumbling high school?

Emily Wilson - September 6, 2019

Adam Niemann has a monologue in Exit Strategy at the Aurora Theatre (Through September 29) that he "feels like going down on a ramp...

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