Tag: Culture
Bottoms up for spirits-lifting Oakland Cocktail Week (now a month)
Support local bars and drink in good company, as the festival pivots to a vital fundraiser.
Screen Grabs: Open your queer eye for Frameline
Global tales, intimate history, naughty fun: The LGBTQ+ film fest returns (online) to fierce up your fall.
All Ears: 25 new albums for fall survival
From Sade and Róisín Murphy to Hot Chip and the Flaming Lips, here are the sounds you'll need to keep your own world spinning.
Screen Grabs: Meet in the middle
This week's must-stream films bring visions of faraway lands and all-too-close looks at our own.
Oakland’s Jun Yu represents in ‘Mulan’
The young actor, playing Cricket in the live-action version of the beloved film, breaks out on the big (and small) screen.
‘Salud es Poder’: A special Carnaval, COVID edition
After its traditional date was cancelled, the festival transformed into a health fair as well as a cultural celebration
SF Symphony dives into diverse local sounds with online ‘Currents’
"Music isn't just about an end result. It's about what people do and how people come into things," conductor Michael Morgan told me over the phone. "While symphonic music...
All Ears: Nubya Garcia’s debut album ‘Source’ is a family affair
Via her debut full-length record Source, the moment has arrived for those searching out an entry point to the root of 28-year-old London tenor sax player Nubya Garcia's inspiration....
Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical
For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as late as 1976, the protagonist...
Supes call for major cuts in police budget
The Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee moved toward some significant cuts for the Police Department today, with the chair, Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer, proposing that the next...
