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Arts + Culture

Life before dot-com: Two exhibitions explore the not-so-distant past of SF

Dennis Harvey - November 26, 2019

San Francisco has tended to be defined by its high profile cultural moments and movements, from the libertine Barbary Coast era to the Beats,...

From Lagos with love—and the god of fire

Joshua Rotter - November 24, 2019

Bisi is more than a stage name for the 29-year-old Nigerian singer-songwriter who’s called San Francisco home for the last decade. It’s also a...

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...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Now that’s Italian!

Dennis Harvey - November 18, 2019

Most weeks of the year in the Bay Area there’s some film festival or other—sometimes several at once. Amidst such plenty, it’s easy to...

Defying genre, Pursuit Grooves flies high with ‘Bess’

John-Paul Shiver - November 15, 2019

While researching Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, Pursuit Grooves, aka Vanese Smith, read about her bringing Bessie Colemanʻs photograph along for the journey into...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Three of the year’s best dramas and more

Dennis Harvey - November 13, 2019

Many new films of interest opening this Friday—so many, in fact, that we had to write separately about the week’s revival highlights (see here)...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two movies for grown-ups at the multiplex

Dennis Harvey - November 7, 2019

Last month 76-year-old Martin Scorcese ignited a firestorm—at least amongst fuming fanboy types—when he shrugged that he’d “tried” to grok superhero movies, “But that’s...

Culture

Marina Times editor freaks out about diversity

Peter-Astrid Kane - November 6, 2019

Everyone knew this was coming. When the San Francisco Chronicle hired restaurant critic Soleil Ho to replace 30-year veteran Michael Bauer, the question wasn’t so...

News + Politics

Scenes from the Día de los Muertos #CloseTheCamps procession

Marke B. - November 2, 2019

Día de los Muertos is a simultaneously a solemn and lively occasion—and a Saturday protest against Trump's border policy embodied both. At 10am on Saturday...

Marc Almond speaks on Soft Cell, his new album, and life in Moscow

Joshua Rotter - October 26, 2019

It’s 2019: do you know where your little art, fashion, and music freaks are? At Sex Cells, of course, a traveling genre- and gender-fluid...

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