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Lit

In Phuc Tran’s memoir: grammar, tattoos, and the refugee experience

Emily Wilson - June 24, 2020

When Phuc Tran, who will be in conversation with author Viet Thanh Nguyen this Fri/26 evening, was asked to do a TEDx talk a...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Trans films to the front for Pride

Dennis Harvey - June 21, 2020

Normally, the Frameline International LGBTQ Film Festival would already be open, though this year COVID-19 has pushed the festival into a smaller online edition running this...

News + Politics

Women’s protest calls for justice and equality

Garrett Leahy - June 14, 2020

Salam Asmerom works as a nurse at a wellness center in San Francisco. Not long ago, she told me, she encountered a patient who...

The radical glamour and versatility of Bonnie Pointer

John-Paul Shiver - June 9, 2020

The first time Oakland's famous sibling group The Pointer Sisters performed "Yes We Can Can" on Don Cornelius' hippiest trip in America, two minutes...

Beyond ‘Suavecito’: A tribute journey through Jorge Santana’s Chicano rock

John-Paul Shiver - June 8, 2020

Guillermo "Jorge" Santana, the musician, guitarist, and younger brother of Carlos Santana—who passed on May 14 of natural causes at the age of 68...

Culture

How teachers leapt inequity hurdles when COVID shut schools

Emily Wilson - June 4, 2020

Reynaldo Dulaney, who teaches Ethnic Studies, Leadership, and Advanced Placement US History at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, says the quick switch from teaching...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Into ‘The Vast of Night’—and beyond

Dennis Harvey - May 30, 2020

A couple restored minor classics, plus new features about recording-industry sexism, Islamic fundamentalism and UFO invasion, make this another wide-ranging week in the streaming...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Big hearts and summer lovin’

Dennis Harvey - May 27, 2020

Summer romance is the foundation on which many a movie used to be built, before summer moviegoing became primarily about comic-book heroes and other...

Arts + Culture

Rediscovering the fantastic music of Akiko Yano

Johnny Ray Huston - May 20, 2020

Few forms of exhilaration quite match that of discovering a vital artist who is in fact deep within their story, having created a rich...

A Soccer Mommy top 10: counting down the bedroom indie phenom

Johnny Ray Huston - May 12, 2020

Johnny Ray Huston offers a chronological—and with her latest release Color Theory, chromatic—guide to Nashville singer-songwriter Soccer Mommy's releases, from Bandcamp self-expression to the...

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