Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tagged with: Counterpulse

A philosopher and a drag queen meet on a dance floor …

ONSTAGE "Why is Fauxnique making Judith Butler dance?" Trying to head off any audience confusion, Fauxnique (Monique Jenkinson) has posed the question herself. "Because we intend...

Party Radar: A tenth of Honey

PARTY RADAR Good goddess, I've written about Honey Soundsystem for more than a decade. Certainly, in terms of a groundbreaking nightlife collective that injected...

Arts Forecast: Dia de los Muertos, Open Studios, Circus Veritas …

ARTS FORECAST You've mastered Halloween (or, like me you've mastered watching everyone's Halloween costumes on Instagram), but are you ready for Day of the Dead?...

2016: Some very bright spots

Good lord, 2016 -- the year the music died, the year the Internet got too real, the year America got majorly oranged. When the...

Do toy drones dream of an Arab future?

This week at CounterPulse (Thu/15-Sat/17), multidisciplinary artists Keith Hennessy and Jassem Hindi  come together for future friend/ships, "an idiot’s perspective on violence and despair,...

Ultimate Pride Guide 2016

PARTY RADAR The night of the Orlando shootings, I was at the African American Arts and Culture Complex surrounded by friends I've shared hundreds...

Pulsing onward

A renaissance at 25? For almost a quarter century, CounterPulse had been producing "risk-taking art that shatters assumptions and builds community," providing San Francisco...

La Chica Boom explodes herself (almost)

Multimedia artist brings raw, transformative retrospective to Galeria de la Raza -- hot sauce strap-ons included.  By Caitlin Donohue ART LOOKS Xandra Ibarra, a.k.a. Bay Area multimedia artist La...

National Queer Arts Festival in full, fabulous swing

Monthlong, immersive celebration of queer expression takes on cholo culture, punk outbursts, hot comics, high-wire acts, #queerfails, hanky code twists, more  By Marke B. ART LOOKS...

Art Looks: Science in Surrealism, banned authors, 22 years of Counterpulse, gender nonconforming kiddos, Flor y Canto Literary Festival

By Caitlin Donohue Walk down 24th Street tonight and you won't get far without running into a poet. Local businesses will be full of readings by...