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Fab 5 Freddy sheds musical light on racist cannabis laws

Joshua Rotter - April 30, 2019

In the early ‘80s, Fab 5 Freddy helped popularize graffiti art by taking it from the sides of New York subway cars to the...

Movies

Silent Film Fest ranges afar—but don’t worry, there’s still Buster

Dennis Harvey - April 26, 2019

It's been edging in this direction for a while, and it’s probably not a strategy that can or should be repeated ad finitum. But...

News + Politics

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

Calvin Welch - April 25, 2019

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

Onstage

What is Bay Area drag? Oaklash Festival has some wild ideas

Caitlin Donohue - April 25, 2019

"Television is not nor has it ever been the ultimate form of drag," Oaklash Drag Festival co-founder and performer and East Bay-based drag queen...

Culture

A live cinema event to ‘Remember Los Siete’ in the Mission

Caitlin Donohue - April 24, 2019

On May 1,1969, a pair of cops stopped a group of Latino activists on the Mission District's Alvarado Street. In the ensuring altercation, one...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Bye, bye, Babylon…

Marke B. - April 23, 2019

ARTS FORECAST San Francisco, your Golden Gates are closing, it sometimes feels like—especially with the announcement that, after 45 years of high spirits and higher...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A seriously funny Italian legend, JT LeRoy, Hail Satan?

Dennis Harvey - April 23, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Though he never reached the heights of international fame achieved by such fellow countrymen as Marcello Mastroianni or Franco Nero, Ugo Tognazzi was...

News + Politics

Should the tech boom pay the costs of the tech boom?

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2019

The Board of Supes will discuss two very different issues this week that are actually closely related and could inform some productive discussion about...

Examined Life

Examined Life: On shaky ground

Karen Macklin - April 16, 2019

EXAMINED LIFE We are, none of us, on steady ground. This is a spiritual truth, but it’s also increasingly become a practical truth, especially in...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Easter with the Sisters returns to Dolores Park, more

Marke B. - April 16, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Everybody loves a Hunky Jesus, a Foxy Mary, a too-cute Easter egg hunt, and of course the most elaborate bonnet competition this side...

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