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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The perils of ‘Midsommar’

Dennis Harvey - July 1, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The big noise commercially this week is Spider-Man: Far From Home, yet another entry in the most confusingly overpopulated movie franchise of...

Culture

Call the ‘Please Force’: Wavy Gravy revisits Woodstock in new doc

Joshua Rotter - May 28, 2019

Plagued by site issues, limited construction time, a surplus of attendees, heavy traffic delays, inclement weather conditions, a scarcity of food and medical supplies,...

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...

Onstage

‘We Have Iré’ celebrates the Afro-Cuban immigrant experience—and challenge

Emily Wilson - May 4, 2019

ONSTAGE Paul Flores grew up in Chula Vista, California, near the Mexican border. His single mom worked a lot, and his grandmother was a central...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Bye, bye, Babylon…

Marke B. - April 23, 2019

ARTS FORECAST San Francisco, your Golden Gates are closing, it sometimes feels like—especially with the announcement that, after 45 years of high spirits and higher...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Stern Grove and Yerba Buena Festivals head into bloom

Marke B. - April 9, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Spring is here, and all's a-bloom and sneezing. So what better time to plan your outdoor sunshine festivities? After our official festival season...

Movies

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

Dennis Harvey - April 3, 2019

The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...

News + Politics

I am not a homeless vampire

michelle - April 2, 2019

I didn’t come to this city because I wanted to take advantage of all the homeless resources and services. I’m not some homeless vampire...

The raver soul of Yoshi Flower

Daniel Bromfield - February 19, 2019

ALL EARS Two tracks into Yoshi Flower’s debut mixtape American Raver we hear a voicemail from his dad. It’s a shortcut to pathos we’ve...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance, part 2: Documentaries

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 14, 2019

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Sundance Film Festival: See part 1 here and part 3 here! SUNDANCE 2019 The Documentary categories are often the best...

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