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Surprising looks and gorgeous silks in ‘Kimono Refashioned’

Emily Wilson - April 25, 2019

ART LOOKS There are many reasons kimonos can fascinate—the fabric, the embroidery, botanical motifs like bamboo or plum blossoms, or the loose construction and simple...

News + Politics

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

Calvin Welch - April 25, 2019

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Bye, bye, Babylon…

Marke B. - April 23, 2019

ARTS FORECAST San Francisco, your Golden Gates are closing, it sometimes feels like—especially with the announcement that, after 45 years of high spirits and higher...

News + Politics

I am not a homeless vampire

michelle - April 2, 2019

I didn’t come to this city because I wanted to take advantage of all the homeless resources and services. I’m not some homeless vampire...

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...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….

Marke B. - March 5, 2019

ARTS FORECAST For decades, if you had a question about sex, any question at all, you would "Ask Isadora." The goddess of alternative weekly...

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...

Arts + Culture

‘Take back our lives:’ The words of poverty scholars

Tony Robles - February 6, 2019

May 2 marks the 10-year anniversary of the passing of poet Al Robles. Al Robles was conferred much respect as a poverty scholar of...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore confronts queer assimilation in ‘Sketchtasy’

Caitlin Donohue - January 22, 2019

A standing ovation to Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel Sketchtasy, which follows a group of friends navigating Boston nightlife and LGBTQ assimilation, has been...

DJ Spooky spins the Web in YBCA’s ‘Quantopia’

Marke B. - January 7, 2019

ALL EARS For many, the Internet has come to seem ominous in recent years: It now represents, among other things, gentrification, invasion, surveillance, weird...

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