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Onstage

In ‘Rusalka,’ water nymphs, a frog king, and humanity’s destructive nature

Emily Wilson - June 14, 2019

ONSTAGE Leah Hausman worked on Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka with Sir David McVicar five years ago for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Now she is directing the...

News + Politics

Haney moves to save Mezzanine — and Soma nightlife

Jeantelle Laberinto - June 13, 2019

Supervisor Matt Haney announced Thursday that he will introduce a resolution that would give an added layer of protection to nightlife and entertainment venues...

Onstage

Tracing how Silicon Valley treats women in ‘The Fit’

Emily Wilson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Carey Perloff started off as a playwright. Then she was named artistic director of the Classic Stage Company in New York, before coming to...

Onstage

Review: Herd mentality writ large (and snorting) in ‘Rhinoceros’

Elaine Elinson - June 11, 2019

ONSTAGE If you think it unlikely that an absurdist comedy about raging rhinoceroses in a small French town could resonate deeply with the concerns...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: She’s the Official Coolest Person Ever

Dennis Harvey - June 11, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Here’s something you don’t normally see mid-summer at the multiplex: Simultaneous openings of two movies with Emma Thompson. Neither are exactly Howard’s...

Pride time: 6 quick picks at the National Queer Arts Festival

Matt Sussman - June 3, 2019

Despite the tea on Twitter, Pride month isn’t just about the continued corporate cashing-in on on-normative identity disguised as celebratory hedonism. Case in point:...

Culture

Broke-Ass Stuart is on ‘Shaky Ground’ in spot-on new web series

Caitlin Donohue - May 29, 2019

This was going to be a really mopey essay about moving away from San Francisco, and coming back to visit, and being sad and...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Going big, from Woodstock to Godzilla

Dennis Harvey - May 27, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Bigger is presumably better this week, with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (the third Hollywood film about the critter who’s starred in...

Arts + Culture

I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

Dennis Harvey - May 24, 2019

Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Lessons from the dictatorship mark ‘The Silence of Others’

Dennis Harvey - May 15, 2019

SCREEN GRABS This week brings the arrival of John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, the latest entry in what’s been one of the few action-oriented franchises worth...

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