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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: White Night rally marks SF’s legacy of insurrection

Caitlin Donohue - May 15, 2019

ARTS FORECAST It was a bitter pill for the Castro the day Supervisor Harvey Milk and George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall in...

Culture

Queering Psychedelics conference aims to expand definitions, minds

Marke B. - May 11, 2019

Psychedelics are having a moment that's turning into a movement. Shrooms are being decriminalized. MDMA is being (re)approved for post-traumatic stress therapy. Ketamine is...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: All weekend long, the Roxie celebrates French noir

Dennis Harvey - May 8, 2019

SCREEN GRABS If you’re not busy this week with CAAM (see our preview here), there’s a competing mini-festival of sorts which overlaps with it just...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: The week’s best moments to honor Momma

Caitlin Donohue - May 8, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Every day is a good day to show Mom love, but this weekend is an excuse to go in big. Mother’s Day...

A stellar Mutek.SF refreshed spirits weary of tech’s cynical slide

Winston Mann - May 7, 2019

We descended on last weekend's MUTEK San Francisco festival drifting through a massive digital space station, orbiting weightless above a radiant earth, which soon dissolved, revealing...

Movies

Hello Kitty to ‘Happy Cleaners’: Asian American film shines at CAAMFest

Dennis Harvey - May 1, 2019

From SF’s own Chinatown to the crisscrossing currents of transnational adoption, this year’s CAAMFest—formerly known as the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival—covers the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

Dennis Harvey - April 30, 2019

SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...

Time is on Passion Pit’s side, as classic ‘Manners’ hits 10

Daniel Bromfield - April 29, 2019

ALL EARS When Michael Angelakos first toured Manners, the 2009 debut of his then-rising project Passion Pit, he couldn’t hit the high notes. A side...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: 48 Hills Spring Gala, How Weird Street Faire, New Wave Prom…

Marke B. - April 28, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Hello! Did you know that we are having an some fundraising party this Thu/2, 6pm-9pm at the lovely Oasis? Please support what we...

Movies

Silent Film Fest ranges afar—but don’t worry, there’s still Buster

Dennis Harvey - April 26, 2019

It's been edging in this direction for a while, and it’s probably not a strategy that can or should be repeated ad finitum. But...

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