High School Archives

Music

Under the Stars: Ezra Collective would like you to please keep dancing

John-Paul Shiver - October 24, 2024

Plus: Mill Valley Music Fest early birds, Kendra Morris is retrotastic, Peanut Butter Wolf gets jingle-jangle, more new music

Art

A mysterious illness led Mona Chiang to the easel. Now, she paints her own way

Mary Corbin - September 24, 2024

Berkeley artist urges healing through creativity and freedom from restrictions : 'Just make art and laugh.'

Onstage

When it comes to telling Black womens’ stories, Lisa B. Thompson goes big

Lou Fancher - September 23, 2024

Latest play 'The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body' at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre embraces the universal.

Music

Don Was revs up Motor City sounds with Pan-Detroit Ensemble

Joshua Rotter - September 21, 2024

Legendary producer, Blue Note jazz label head, and musical mind behind Was (Not Was) brings 'positive' new band to SF.

Movies

Screen Grabs: You might just fall in love with ‘My Old Ass’

Dennis Harvey - September 20, 2024

Plus: A wealth of (very different) films about women, cruising movies for Leather Week, 'Psychosis,' more

Art

Five elements whirled through Chinatown at Edge on the Square arts fest

Emily Wilson - September 9, 2024

A vibrant series of community events is showing how 'art is an elemental force that stretches boundaries.'

Art

In former Hunters Point submarine barracks, Tor Archer hammers out the feminine form

Mary Corbin - August 15, 2024

Copper, cast iron, rusted steel—all fodder for works that can rise to heights of six feet.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Family time’s not great in ‘Good Half’ and ‘Good One’

Dennis Harvey - August 14, 2024

Plus: 'Sugarcane' doc platforms Indigenous survivors, Japan's Shinji Somai takes over the Roxie.

Sports

If you’re going to be an Oakland Baller, you better have the fit

Emily Wilson - August 13, 2024

How star sportswear designer Dustin O. Canalin tapped deep local history for new minor league team's look.

Art

Fueled by anger at injustice, an artist forged a new path through ‘Beauty and Terror’

Mary Corbin - August 9, 2024

Using colored string and wax, Robin L. Bernstein connects generations of Jewish heritage—and antisemitism.

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