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Music

Jazz legend John Santos teaches ‘Rhythms of Resistance’ to defeat gentrification

Joshua Rotter -
New course on Cuban and Puerto Rican music at MoAD highlights their role in the struggle for social justice
Lit

Shipwrecks and scurvy: ‘The Wager’ reveals human frailty beneath European colonialism

Lou Fancher -
Novelist David Grann's tale of 18th-century maritime disaster adds to his record of relentless truth-telling, rats and all
Lit

In ‘Leaning Toward Light,’ tending to life through a garden of poems

Marke B. -
Tess Taylor's anthology gathers verse giants and local greenhorns, recipes and short essays into an almanac of living
Movies

Screen Grabs: The scream queen has evolved—and she’s got real problems

Dennis Harvey -
A Tunisian cop gets burned, a relationship spirals catastrophically, and 'The Shining' but lesbian. New movies!
Stage Review

‘Sylvester, the Mighty Real’ chases SF’s soul through city streets

Charles Lewis III -
Marvin K. White and Eye Zen's dramatic walking tour beatifies the queer singer, but dances around a central conflict
Art

Fabric portraitist Alice Beasley stitches together politics and community

Mary Corbin -
Piedmont resident sews poignant scenes from the both the Civil Rights movement and the neighborhood cafe.
Stage Review

World’s longest poem gets a speedy, sassy retelling in ‘Mahābhārata’

Charles Lewis III -
At Z Space, J Jha shines as production's sole interpreter of boundless Indian mythology.
Music

Still Pleasure Victims: Berlin swings into the Bay to take our breath away

Joshua Rotter -
David Diamond of the '80s favorites on touring with Boy George, crushing on Tom Cruise, and retooling their biggest hit
Music

Free jazz fire: The well-deserved hype over Irreversible Entanglements signing to Impulse

John-Paul Shiver -
With a new home among legends, the punkish quintet now has an explicit connection to Miles Davis' death stare.
Music

Seeing Ghost, and the importance of embracing Satan amid fabricated panics

Danny Acosta -
In the age of QANON and hysterical anti-LGBTQ backlash, one rock band embodies a hellishly fantastic alternative.
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