Sponsored link
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Sponsored link

Tagged with: Culture

Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

ONSTAGE While writing the nine plays of the Ufot Family Cycle, which follows several generations of a family of Nigerians in America, Mfoniso Udofia...

Sean Dorsey Dance continues to shatter boundaries, 15 years on

DANCE "I'm still pinching myself at this 15th anniversary milestone!" says Sean Dorsey, whose groundbreaking dance company celebrates a decade and a half this...

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

  No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….

ARTS FORECAST For decades, if you had a question about sex, any question at all, you would "Ask Isadora." The goddess of alternative weekly...

The Sierra Club attacks our story; here’s our response

On February 19, the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter posted an entry on its home page blog attacking my article “The Sierra Club...

What we saw at Sundance, Part 3: MiDNiTE MOViES and Beyond!

SUNDANCE 2019 Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from Sundance. See part 1 here and part 2 here!  The Death of Dick Long (Daniel Scheinert, US)  Absurdism dates back to...

SOMArts’ ‘Forever, A Moment’ curators build Blackness allowed to define itself

Those with the chance to visit “Forever, A Moment,” the SOMArts exhibition curated by Yetunde J. Olagbaju and Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye that opens...

Solate finds lush, soulful music in intimate connections

ALL EARS I’ve lived in California for 11 years, and feel pretty well-adapted, but the Golden State still springs the occasional culture shock on...

Arts Forecast: Son Jarocho Festival, J Dilla shots, and queer gamers unite!

ARTS FORECAST In the years that have passed since the 2006 death of Detroit producer, J. Dilla’s import has only come into sharper focus....

Review: A marvelous Chinatown ride in ‘King of the Yees’

ONSTAGE In one intriguing scene in King of the Yees (at SF Playhouse through March 2), the Sichuan Face Changer (Jomar Tagatac) poses a...