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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Dennis Harvey - July 21, 2020

The Trump regime’s egregious wrongdoing and pollutive effect on society has wound up bringing greater attention to long-term (yet rapidly worsening) woes of American...

News + Politics

Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Tim Redmond - July 19, 2020

For the first time in history, San Francisco will soon have a permanent monument to a person of color killed by the police. I was...

Movies

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Johnny Ray Huston - July 17, 2020

Imagine, if you will, a time before carefully categorized and context-free snippets and vignettes on PornHub—a time before 10,000 slangy, jokey descriptors turned sex...

Culture

Police union opposes Black Lives Matter posters

Tim Redmond - July 16, 2020

The San Francisco Police Commission wants to put Black Lives Matter posters in every police station. Chief Bill Scott supports the idea. Officers for...

Pianist Holly Mead echoes quarantine angst on new album ‘Solitary Animals’

Joanna Ladd - July 15, 2020

Pianist and composer Holly Mead picked the title Solitary Animals for her fourth album months before COVID-19 spun us all into cocoons of solitude....

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Welcome to Jewish Film Fest’s online ‘Cinegogue’

Dennis Harvey - July 14, 2020

Four months into the COVID crisis (with no end in sight yet), many film festivals and organizations have had time to come up with...

Onstage

In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display

Emily Wilson - July 14, 2020

In The Niceties, playing online from Shotgun Theater, a Black student, Zoe (Regina Monique) at an unnamed elite Northeast university (clearly Yale given it’s...

COVID

Special Report: HIV, COVID, and the Latinx community

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - July 13, 2020

A deadly virus enters the United States and disproportionately hits Black and Brown communities, while the White House fails to respond quickly to the...

New Music: Jayda G channels life-force into the moment with ‘Both of Us’

John-Paul Shiver - July 13, 2020

Let's get one thing straight. Jayda Guy is smart. Like nerdy, goofy, love the environment, NASA scientist-type intelligence. No joke. She's got the marine...

Lit

Dare to be a ‘Brave Sis’? It’s all in the planner

Marke B. - July 8, 2020

Anyone who knows local arts leader Rozella Kennedy knows she's a force of nature. Definitely one of those hyper-achievers that spur you to ask,...

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