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Onstage

Review: ‘Toni Stone’ hits a home run (and you can watch it on your couch)

Elaine Elinson - March 17, 2020

Editor's Note: In the wake of its theaters shutting down, ACT is streaming its plays Gloria (reviewed here) and Toni Stone, reviewed below on...

News + Politics

Is SF General ready for the crisis?

Tim Redmond - March 15, 2020

The Board of Supes is still meeting at this point, although the board is encouraging people to submit comments online and avoid public gatherings...

Lit

SF’s Juli Delgado Lopera on language, matriarchy, and ‘Fiebre Tropical’

Marke B. - March 11, 2020

UPDATE: The book release party has been postponed, but you can still buy Fiebre Tropical at Booksmith. When I met San Francisco author, artist, and...

Culture

How do you represent Black and Latino communities at major museum shows?

Emily Wilson - March 8, 2020

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco started its Community Representatives program back in 1992 when it hosted an exhibit of the work of...

Music

Noise Pop snaps, crackles, and jangles with surprises and new favorites

John-Paul Shiver - March 6, 2020

Facilitators of Noise Pop Music and Arts Festival know the key to running a successful week-long bill of shows throughout the Bay Area, which extended...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Traveling the world, popcorn in hand

Dennis Harvey - March 4, 2020

This week’s openings personify the movies’ appeal as armchair travel, encompassing cinematic detours to Ireland, Israel, Poland, China (twice), American backroads and various African...

’80s troubadour Colin Hay is still a man at work

Joshua Rotter - March 2, 2020

Singer Colin Hay could have written Men at Work’s first major hit “Who Can It Be Now?” anywhere. But there was something about conceiving it...

News + Politics

Castro march a ‘funeral’ for vacant storefronts

Garrett Leahy - March 2, 2020

About 100 people gathered by the Harvey Milk Memorial Flagpole Saturday to participate in “A March To Remember and Reignite Hope,” organized by Juanita...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance, part 3: Crossed borders and different lives

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 27, 2020

Culling through the forty features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

Movies

Robbie Robertson on heart-wrenching The Band doc ‘Once Were Brothers’

Joshua Rotter - February 24, 2020

The Band’s Robbie Robertson feels that most rock autobiographies and documentaries lack “feeling." But finding so much pathos and excitement in much of his former...

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