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Movies

Screen Grabs: Past pieties, present violence, future songs

Dennis Harvey - May 30, 2024

Intricate 'Kidnapped,' gory 'In a Violent Nature,' and gorgeous 'Songs of Earth' span the chronological spectrum.

Movies

Screen Grabs: A couple of powerful mothers

Dennis Harvey - March 7, 2024

'Shayda' portrays life in a women's shelter for Iranian mother and child, 'Cabrini' highlights a nun on a mission.

Lit

Booker winner Anne Enright: ‘I don’t play hide-and-seek, I play hide-and-hide’

Lou Fancher - October 15, 2023

The Dublin author on new 'The Wren, The Wren,' which centers the women left behind by a garrulous poet

News + Politics

The local record and legacy of Dianne Feinstein

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2023

Let's celebrate her accomplishments. But there's another story that needs to be told. I was there.

Onstage

‘We’re telling our fathers’ stories’: Luis Alfaro’s ‘The Travelers’ comes to Magic Theatre

Emily Wilson - February 14, 2023

Director Catherine Castellanos on new Campo Santo play, which revolves around a Central Valley seminary

Movies

Screen Grabs: A stricken hero fights for better healthcare in ‘Not Going Quietly’

Dennis Harvey - August 16, 2021

Plus a slew of affecting new docs on Barbara Lee, immigration tragedy, arthouse beginnings, and celebrity worship.

News + Politics

Some warned 20 years ago that the US was creating a disaster in Afghanistan

Tim Redmond - August 15, 2021

Plus: SF just lost two notable activists, James Hormel and Alvin Duskin. That's The Agenda for August 15-22

Nightlife

Remembering Phatima Rude, fearless legend of SF’s nightlife scene

Don Baird - July 20, 2021

Magical, complex, transcendent: Our patron goddess of wild performance has moved on. Here's where to pay respects

Movies

Screen Grabs: This devastating war film should win the Oscar

Dennis Harvey - March 15, 2021

Bosnia and Herzegovina's 'Quo Vadis, Aida?' deserves Best International Feature. Serbia's entry, however, is too much.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: When political violence is no longer unimaginable

Dennis Harvey - December 17, 2020

Stories of oppression, terror, murder—and heroism. Plus: 'Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Rea & Stimpy Story,' more

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Screen Grabs: Past pieties, present violence, future songs

Screen Grabs: A couple of powerful mothers

Booker winner Anne Enright: ‘I don’t play hide-and-seek, I play hide-and-hide’

The local record and legacy of Dianne Feinstein

‘We’re telling our fathers’ stories’: Luis Alfaro’s ‘The Travelers’ comes to Magic Theatre

Screen Grabs: A stricken hero fights for better healthcare in ‘Not Going Quietly’

Some warned 20 years ago that the US was creating a disaster in Afghanistan

Remembering Phatima Rude, fearless legend of SF’s nightlife scene

Screen Grabs: This devastating war film should win the Oscar

Screen Grabs: When political violence is no longer unimaginable

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