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Arts + Culture

As Omicron surged, local arts venues were left to fend for themselves

Marke B. - January 11, 2022

Why did organizations have to make their own decision to close or stay open, with no specific guidance from the city?

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: CounterPulse fest, Bowie Bash, Opera at the Ballpark ….

Marke B. - September 8, 2021

Plus: Carrie Mae Weems finds a home for her art in SF, How Weird and Burning Man: The Musical scratch that freaky itch.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Walk gently into reopening with Kronos Festival and Pop-Up Mag

Marke B. - June 9, 2021

SOUNDWALK and 'The Sidewalk Issue' get you outside. Plus: Performing Diaspora, Flor Y Canto fest, Out of Site, more

Arts + Culture

Purpose in precarity: SF arts orgs share COVID-era gameplans

Caitlin Donohue - July 17, 2020

The COVID crisis has hit us all differently, and that variance certainly applies to local arts organizations. While the virus refuses to give a...

News + Politics

PHOTOS: Tenderloin streets filled with trans activists, allies for Courthouse 2 Compton’s march

Marke B. - June 21, 2020

Honoring the historic Compton's Cafeteria Riot, the trans and sex worker uprising against police which helped launch the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement—and in the...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

Marke B. - April 30, 2020

As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop (Dance Fest) hurray! + more

Marke B. - November 20, 2019

I'm old enough to remember rappers on Fillmore corners and TURF dancers in Oakland intersections. The homeboys gathered on my stoop throughout the day...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Day of the Dead in the City of Souls

Marke B. - October 30, 2019

Ready to shed the rotting pumpkin skin of Halloween and sniff the sweet spice of the afterlife? OK that question is a lot, but...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A bounty of international film fests

Dennis Harvey - October 15, 2019

Mill Valley may be over, but the fall cavalcade of local film festivals continues. This week alone brings at least four (that we know...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….

Marke B. - October 10, 2019

ARTS FORECAST File under: more of this please! According to the Bay Area Reporter, the buildings housing legendary Latinx queer bar El Rio have...

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