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Arts + Culture

‘Free For All’: Not your great-great-grandmother’s Miss Julie

Emily Wilson - October 9, 2019

While Megan Cohen was attending Stanford University, she considered a career in acting. But performing scenes from August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, where Julie, an aristocrat...

Onstage

Navigating gender’s fluidity in a sea of apps with ‘#femMASCULINE’

Peter-Astrid Kane - October 8, 2019

When San Francisco artist Kevin Seaman walked into the Lone Star or other similar LGBTQ spaces dressed as his outspoken and cartoonishly hyperfeminine drag...

Culture

Celebrating 50 groundbreaking years of Ethnic Studies with ‘Solidarity’

Emily Wilson - October 7, 2019

When he was 13, PJ Gubatina Policarpio moved from the Philippines to San Francisco’s Excelsior District. As a student at Balboa High School, he...

Campaign Trail

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Turkey plans attack on Syrian Kurds

Reese Erlich - October 6, 2019

ISTANBUL —The Turkish government plans to use Syrian refugees to displace the local Kurdish population in northern Syria. But so far, the scheme isn’t...

Movies

There’s a ‘Mad God’ at the Drunken Film Fest

Joshua Rotter - October 1, 2019

Clocking in at under an hour, Mad God, a highly experimental stop-motion film about an assassin who descends into a scary subterranean dystopia—full of...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From ‘The Joker’ to Japan…

Dennis Harvey - October 1, 2019

It’s no joke that the film crowding out all others this week is Todd Phillips’ Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix drawing bets as a likely...

Onstage

Review: ACT’s ‘Top Girls’ spotlights ladies of the ’80s (and 800s)

Dennis Harvey - September 27, 2019

With Cloud Nine in 1979 and Top Girls (through October 13 at ACT) three years later, Caryl Churchill shot to the front ranks of living...

Nightlife

Quick ‘n Dirty Guide to Folsom Parties 2019

Marke B. - September 26, 2019

Let your fetish flag wave! On Sunday, September 22, a giant leather flag was raised in SoMa on the site of the new Eagle...

Movies

Ficks’ Picks: The best of the Toronto International Film Fest!

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - September 22, 2019

Our festival critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks had a golden ticket to all the latest films debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019. Check...

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