Tag: Fashion
Screen Grabs: Two notorious tricksters return—as does the big screen(?)
This week sees the US release at last of what must be the most re-scheduled movie in history, Tenet. Christopher Nolan’s latest Rubik’s Cube-y sci-fi extravaganza was the highest-profile...
Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’
One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of how far we’ve come as...
Lawyers say it’s unsafe to restart eviction cases
Last week, about 30 lawyers and organizers gathered outside the state building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue to demand that the state Judicial Council extend Emergency Rule 1, which...
Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice
Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations with electronic, funk-rock, and experimental...
Following the money in D1
District One has always been a key political battleground, a part of town that’s around 60 percent tenants and 40 percent homeowners and that, since the return of district...
New Music: Five great local artists to support
Local music platform Bandcamp will continue its special "Bandcamp Friday" series for the rest of the year, waiving its revenue share on all sales on the first Friday of...
Screen Grabs: Art imitates life
Social media political propaganda campaigns, sexual abuse accusations, invaded privacy—art certainly seems to be imitating life even more than usual amongst new streaming releases at present, and that’s just...
Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal
New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between. It’s an assortment that particularly...
A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’
Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter. Even in ones she liked,...
Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community
Donald Trump has – no surprise – turned a basic public-health practice into a political issue, putting millions of lives at risk.
Trump has consistently refused to wear a mask,...
