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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Cannabis nuns, Sapphic poets, Riot Grrrl blues….

Dennis Harvey - April 15, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The SFFILM Festival, whose second half continues through Tues/23 at various SF and East Bay venues, has like many such organizations made a significant...

Dance

Dimensions Dance comes ‘Armed with Joy’ and ‘Sanctuary’

Emily Wilson - April 4, 2019

DANCE Choreographer Erik Lee has always seen dance as a form of worship. Now he thinks that idea has growing acceptance, and he’s glad to be...

Movies

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

Dennis Harvey - April 3, 2019

The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...

News + Politics

Some humanity for people without homes

Davey D Cook - March 29, 2019

In the past week, we've seen some very disturbing things that have shown just how bad things are in terms of the lack of...

News + Politics

Homeless people — in cages

Tiny - March 23, 2019

Here lies the unhoused soldier Killed in the undeclared war on the poor Just tryin to survive outside -- to hide on a bus bench, away from your...

News + Politics

The view from a homeless shelter

michelle - March 18, 2019

Will someone please adopt me? Take me in? I’m going to be 45 at the end of this month and I’m trying to wade through...

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...

Onstage

In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

Emily Wilson - March 9, 2019

ONSTAGE When Dipika Guha got her Bachelor’s degree in English from University College London, she wasn’t thinking of being a playwright. She’d just moved with...

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...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Dennis Harvey - March 5, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

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Screen Grabs: Cannabis nuns, Sapphic poets, Riot Grrrl blues….

Dimensions Dance comes ‘Armed with Joy’ and ‘Sanctuary’

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

Some humanity for people without homes

Homeless people — in cages

The view from a homeless shelter

Exploring consent—and its conversations—in ‘Actually’

In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

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