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Lit

Aya De León’s ‘Side Chick Nation’ explores post-Maria Puerto Rico

James De Julius - August 19, 2019

LIT Aya De León is a writer, activist, educator, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series, including latest installment Side Chick Nation. The...

Lit

AIDS, sex, and ‘Illuminations on Market Street’

James De Julius - August 14, 2019

LIT Author Benjamin Heim Shepard is a Brooklyn-based activist who has published 10 books, including White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: What happened to Dag Hammarskjold?

Dennis Harvey - August 13, 2019

SCREEN GRABS It’s mid-August, the weather is theoretically fine, the summer blockbusters are already well into their runs—it is not a time of the...

The B-52s at 40, still dancing that mess around

Joshua Rotter - August 7, 2019

ALL EARS Getting weird is good — great, even — when you’re The B-52s (playing Mon/12 at Mountain Winery). Everyone’s favorite party band has been...

Arts + Culture

Joan Jett Blakk for President, perpetually!

Johnny Ray Huston - August 6, 2019

“Hunny, I cannot tell you, it’s so weird being history.” Terence Alan Smith, aka Joan Jett Blakk, is over at my apartment for lunch, and...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A devil in Tasmania, Tel Aviv on fire…

Dennis Harvey - August 6, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque has been doing all too many posthumous tribute programs of late, as major figures of experimental film and video...

Lit

Beyond the valley of the gig economy

Johnny Ray Huston - July 10, 2019

Spanning the month of July, this year’s incarnation of LaborFest, the 26th annual, includes history talks and walks, union gatherings, films (including Sorry to...

Arts + Culture

A ‘Witch Hunt’ that reverberates today

Emily Wilson - July 10, 2019

ONSTAGE In 2014, playwright Carol Lashof and director Elizabeth Vega wanted to put on a play, Just Deserts, that Lashof had written. “We connected because...

News + Politics

Gig economy horror stories frame supes hearing

Tim Redmond - June 28, 2019

The litany of horror stories at today’s hearing on the gig economy was alarming. One Uber driver said he used to get paid $50...

Movies

From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to Frameline: Kate Walsh on acting and activism

Joshua Rotter - June 25, 2019

More is what six friends living in New York City are striving for in Sell By, Mike Doyle’s new romantic comedy. In the film, premiering...

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