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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,...

News + Politics

The Democrats in Sacramento want to deregulate housing — but that has never worked

Tim Redmond - March 3, 2019

Of all the information that came out of the hearing on homelessness last week, when several supervisors said the Mayor’s Office and its Department of...

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...

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...

News + Politics

Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

Haley Keizur - February 12, 2019

Nine hundred ninety-eight. That’s how many people were shot and killed by police in the US in 2018. And 115 of those were in...

Onstage

Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’

Emily Wilson - February 12, 2019

ONSTAGE When actor Benjamin Ismail was in high school, he loved Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. "They're so primal and ancient...

Arts + Culture

Teens takeover the Contemporary Jewish Museum — and it’s about time

Emily Wilson - February 7, 2019

“When we talked it through, they were interested in the openness and breaking strict and rigid notions of identity and gender and sexuality,” said PJ...

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