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Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore confronts queer assimilation in ‘Sketchtasy’

Caitlin Donohue - January 22, 2019

A standing ovation to Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel Sketchtasy, which follows a group of friends navigating Boston nightlife and LGBTQ assimilation, has been...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: How Rickshaw Stop made it to 15 years young

Caitlin Donohue - January 8, 2019

ARTS FORECAST This week, Rickshaw Stop takes a moment to celebrate its longevity as a center of San Francisco music culture. Fans of the...

DJ Spooky spins the Web in YBCA’s ‘Quantopia’

Marke B. - January 7, 2019

ALL EARS For many, the Internet has come to seem ominous in recent years: It now represents, among other things, gentrification, invasion, surveillance, weird...

Movies

Ficks’ Picks: Best Movies of 2018

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - January 6, 2019

FICKS' PICKS Jesse Hawthorne Ficks picks his favorite films of 2018 and presents them in a double bill format. Save this spoiler-free list for...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ‘Lost Landscapes of San Francisco’ returns

Dennis Harvey - January 2, 2019

SCREEN GRABS In the silent era there were numerous important women filmmakers—a testament, alas, to how the medium wasn’t taken “seriously” for many years,...

Opinion

Beyond Zuckerberg General Hospital

Bob Prentice - December 5, 2018

The current flap over Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s proposal to remove Mark Zuckerberg’s name from San Francisco General Hospital because of Facebook’s failure to protect...

“Buildings demolished on your cellphone”: Ratskin Records’ experimental resilience

Daniel Bromfield - December 4, 2018

ALL EARS Michael Daddona never thought he’d own a dog. “What’s a dog even gonna do at a noise show?” he asks. “Or sit around while...

Party Radar

A decade of pure disco bliss at Go BANG!

Marke B. - November 28, 2018

Named for a famed Arthur Russell disco production ("I want to see all my friends at once!") and featuring an outright disco legend on...

Culture

Capturing Harvey Milk’s martyrdom and living legacy

Marke B. - November 27, 2018

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the assassinations of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. (It's also the 10th anniversary of Milk, the movie...

Movies

Short film ‘n95’ documents toxic air disaster in SF