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Tagged with: Festival

Onstage

Secrets, lies, and a roiling harem in ‘House of Joy’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE It is the waning days of the Mughal Empire. The Emperor’s rebellious son is leading an uprising. Famine stalks the land. But you would never...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Frameline Fest gets new executive director, more …

Marke B. -
ARTS FORECAST I honestly have no idea how one would wrangle an organization that puts on such a huge annual film festival—more than 60,000 attendees,...
Culture

Grass Lands: The future of cannabis at music fests?

Jon Bauer -
At last year's Outside Lands, a new area was introduced—Grass Lands, a showcase and safe space for cannabis users. Which, come on, it's a...
Arts + Culture

Joan Jett Blakk for President, perpetually!

Johnny Ray Huston -
“Hunny, I cannot tell you, it’s so weird being history.” Terence Alan Smith, aka Joan Jett Blakk, is over at my apartment for lunch, and...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A devil in Tasmania, Tel Aviv on fire…

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque has been doing all too many posthumous tribute programs of late, as major figures of experimental film and video...
Culture

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

Winston Mann -
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 -
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...
Movies

Jewish Film Festival sparks with romance, tragedy, fiddler on roof

Dennis Harvey -
Though it has programmed its share of controversial fare over the years, the 39th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will open...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A Japanese master of ‘The Human Condition’ gets his due

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Considered by some one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers of a brilliant period (the Fifties and Sixties), the late Masaki Kobayashi nevertheless never...
Dance

Ethnic Dance Fest transcends borders 41 years in

Emily Wilson -
Patrick Makuakāne, the founder and director of the Hawaiian dance company Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu, wants to keep traditions of the dance form intact....
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