Culture Archives - 48 hills

Art

Tintype photographer Jenny Sampson captures women on wheels, roundness of meals

Mary Corbin - December 1, 2023

Collage, her work in professional kitchens, skate culture inspire Sampson's images.

Movies

Ruffled muppet slaughterhouse? Another Hole in the Head still stocks the campiest of gore

Dennis Harvey - November 29, 2023

Film festival's 20th edition features 1920 classic 'Dr. Caligari,' ice mummies—and even Freddy Krueger as waterbed.

Onstage

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre stages Black women’s healing with joyful jeté

Lou Fancher - November 29, 2023

Artistic director Margo Hall celebrates company's mentorship opportunities and high-spirited holiday production 'Soulful Christmas.'

Music

Under the Stars: It’s gonna be a very The Roots December

John-Paul Shiver - November 27, 2023

Plus: Maya Rudolph's Prince cover band comes to town, synth wiz Franck Martin takes San Jose, more music news

Movies

Screen Grabs: 50 years of downs and ups for extraordinary ‘Holy Mountain’

Dennis Harvey - November 25, 2023

Jodorowsky’s masterpiece once truly defined underground cinema. Plus: 'The Star Wars Holiday Special' resurrected, Taiwanese gems, more

Stage Review

How to get a ‘Hedwig’ in queer theater

Charles Lewis III - November 21, 2023

20 years in, the transgender rock chanteuse from East Germany inspires and provokes at Shotgun.

News + Politics

After 60 years, the major media still won’t tell the truth about the JFK assassination

David Talbot - November 21, 2023

The evidence that top officials in the military and CIA killed the president is overwhelming—but The New York Times won't even run an oped about it.

Movies

Screen Grabs: This Thanksgiving, don’t stream a turkey

Dennis Harvey - November 20, 2023

Deep family trauma to 5000 aliens on tap. Plus: 'The Rolling Stones & Brian Jones,' Nic Cage in your dreams, more

Music

How the B-52’s 1982 EP ‘Mesopotamia’ became a Black radio lodestar

John-Paul Shiver - November 19, 2023

Detroit DJs from The Electrifying Mojo to Theo Parrish have kept band's techno precursor hot.

Sports

Track by track, the Bay runs the court on ‘NBA2K’ series

Danny Acosta - November 16, 2023

E-40, Too $hort, Zion I, Snow Tha Product... The 2K franchise has fused hip-hop and gaming for decades. Here's the playlist

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Tintype photographer Jenny Sampson captures women on wheels, roundness of meals

Ruffled muppet slaughterhouse? Another Hole in the Head still stocks the campiest of gore

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre stages Black women’s healing with joyful jeté

Under the Stars: It’s gonna be a very The Roots December

Screen Grabs: 50 years of downs and ups for extraordinary ‘Holy Mountain’

How to get a ‘Hedwig’ in queer theater

After 60 years, the major media still won’t tell the truth about the JFK assassination

Screen Grabs: This Thanksgiving, don’t stream a turkey

How the B-52’s 1982 EP ‘Mesopotamia’ became a Black radio lodestar

Track by track, the Bay runs the court on ‘NBA2K’ series

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