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Chatting by cell: ‘Uncuffed’ is a prison podcast for our time

Peter-Astrid Kane - December 23, 2019

As setups to Thanksgiving jokes go, a manic wild turkey that burst into a California prison compound seems almost too on-the-nose, considering how two...

Our critic picks 2019’s Music of Note

John-Paul Shiver - December 18, 2019

There is no through-line to this 2019 Music of Note line-up. Just honest music that runs the gamut of progressive soul, breakbeat mayhem, a...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Bombshells, Cats, and Star Wars—must be holiday time

Dennis Harvey - December 17, 2019

As we are now single-digit shopping days from Xmas, the really big multiplex presents are arriving, whether they were on your wish list or...

Culture

Korrupt’s rogue looks fit our apocalyptic times to a T

Marke B. - December 16, 2019

I met local fashion label Korrupt's Henry Miyoshi and his business-and-life partner John McArdle at a bastion of old school Lower Haight spirit, Cafe...

News + Politics

Downtown prepares attack on jobs-housing measure

Tim Redmond - December 15, 2019

The Chamber of Commerce will apparently be leading the opposition to Prop. E, the measure that would link office growth to housing– and the...

News + Politics

[UPDATED] Outrage as CBS announces development of Ghost Ship show

Marke B. - December 12, 2019

UPDATE: After readers responded, Waldman and Chabon have decided not to go ahead with the show. The San Jose Mercury News reported on Tuesday that...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Fake news from Clint Eastwood and Imelda Marcos

Dennis Harvey - December 10, 2019

As impeachment proceedings move forward, suggesting there might yet be room for truth in politics after all, the week’s major new commercial arrival (apart...

Arts + Culture

Burger Boogaloo 2020 announces killer lineup

John-Paul Shiver - December 10, 2019

Alice Bag, who fronted first-wave LA punk band The Bags and appeared in Penelope Spheerisʻ eye-opening 1981 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, adapted...

Onstage

Drag star Miz Cracker on ‘Femlins,’ feminism, and overall fabulousness

Joshua Rotter - December 9, 2019

An idyllic Christmastime setting, a loving family, and the gift that keeps on giving grief. Gremlins, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, has...

Onstage

From ‘Lock Her Up!’ to ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’

Emily Wilson - December 8, 2019

Growing up, MacArthur “Genius” Award winner and Tony nominee Sarah Ruhl read The Witch of Blackbird Pond, about a young woman, Kit Tyler, who...

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