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Review: Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity

Winston Mann - July 31, 2019

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. —Dante, The Inferno. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. —Camus, The Myth of...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Celebrating an Iranian giant’s ‘life as art’

Dennis Harvey - July 30, 2019

SCREEN GRABS As the White House agitates off-and-on for war against Iran, it’s a particularly poignant juncture for the first major posthumous retrospective of...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: A gripping dispatch from the heart of Aleppo

Dennis Harvey - July 24, 2019

SCREEN GRABS No doubt many cineastes in the Bay Area and well beyond will be lining up this weekend for arguably the first interesting mainstream...

Movies

‘The Great Hack’: They’ve got your data, and yes they’ve used it

Joshua Rotter - July 23, 2019

Social network Facebook has faced fierce criticism for its dubious privacy practices for years. In the beginning, it was tracking user activity via "Like"...

At Creativity Explored, Isaac Haney-Owens curates a vibrant ‘Cityscape’

Emily Wilson - July 22, 2019

ART LOOKS Artist Isaac Haney-Owens lives in San Francisco, in the Rincon Hill neighborhood. He likes walking around. He likes the skyline. He likes the...

Onstage

Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

Karen Macklin - July 17, 2019

ONSTAGE Bay Area writer-performer Dan Hoyle, with his smart and poignant brand of journalistic theater, is at it again with his latest solo show, Border...

Movies

Lulu Wang on good lies and immigrant family ties in ‘The Farewell’

Joshua Rotter - July 16, 2019

Director Lulu Wang’s films are built on secrets and lies. Her 2014 directorial debut, Posthumous, explores what happens when a struggling artist (Jack Huston), who...

Culture

Designer Dexter Simmons’ new ‘Wavy’ line was born in SF clubs

Joshua Rotter - July 15, 2019

Earlier this month, breakout Oakland-born fashion designer, celebrity stylist, and "Project Runway" alum Dexter Simmons launched his first-ever website. It will serve as a one-stop-shop...

Arts + Culture

A ‘Witch Hunt’ that reverberates today

Emily Wilson - July 10, 2019

ONSTAGE In 2014, playwright Carol Lashof and director Elizabeth Vega wanted to put on a play, Just Deserts, that Lashof had written. “We connected because...

Onstage

Bring it on, Bob the Drag Queen

Joshua Rotter - July 8, 2019

ONSTAGE Coming in at number eight on “New York Magazine”’s “The Most Powerful Drag Queens in America” list meant next to nothing to Bob the...

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Review: Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity

Screen Grabs: Celebrating an Iranian giant’s ‘life as art’

Screen Grabs: A gripping dispatch from the heart of Aleppo

‘The Great Hack’: They’ve got your data, and yes they’ve used it

At Creativity Explored, Isaac Haney-Owens curates a vibrant ‘Cityscape’

Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

Lulu Wang on good lies and immigrant family ties in ‘The Farewell’

Designer Dexter Simmons’ new ‘Wavy’ line was born in SF clubs

A ‘Witch Hunt’ that reverberates today

Bring it on, Bob the Drag Queen

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