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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Blood for Dracula, Peterloo…..

Dennis Harvey - April 9, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Yes, this is the opening week of the SFFILM Festival, the event so big we gave it its own separate feature (see here)....

Onstage

Reviews: News of the real world in ‘The Jungle’ and ‘N—aroo’

Marke B. - April 8, 2019

ONSTAGE "Theater brings news," an old saw goes. That can be interpreted any number of ways, but The Jungle (through May 19 at the Curran) brings...

News + Politics

The bizarre argument in favor of Wiener’s housing bill

Tim Redmond - April 7, 2019

A Board of Supes committee has passed a resolution opposing SB 50, the Scott Wiener bill that would allow a lot more market-rate housing...

News + Politics

The Agenda: Saving a SoMa park

Tim Redmond - April 7, 2019

The Board of Supes will hear an appeal Tuesday/9 of a project in SoMa, and the outcome will show how serious the city is about...

Movies

From Gorbachev to ‘Red Joan’: SFFILM Fest gets geopolitical

Reese Erlich - April 5, 2019

MOVIES The 62nd SFFILM Festival kicks off next week, and as usual there's a plethora of movies to choose from (see our preview here)....

Dance

David Herrera Performance Company explores the power of empathy—and loss

Marke B. - March 27, 2019

DANCE The mission of David Herrera's acclaimed dance-performance company is "to promote the diversity of the Latinx experience in the United States, in an effort...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

Dennis Harvey - March 26, 2019

SCREEN GRABS In a week that brings the literally elephantine spectacle of a (mostly) live-action Dumbo remake by Tim Burton, you might well run in...

Campaign Trail

Large, enthusiastic crowd welcomes Bernie Sanders to San Francisco

Haley Keizur - March 25, 2019

Adults, teens, children and their pets gathered in Green Meadow Park near Fort Mason on a sunny Sunday afternoon March 24. Sen. Bernie Sanders...

Onstage

Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’

Elaine Elinson - March 20, 2019

ONSTAGE Black Eagles (through March 31 at Marines' Memorial Theatre), now being staged by the African-American Shakespeare Company and directed by L. Peter Callender, illuminates...

San Pablo’s Los Cenzontles ramps up its Mexican rhythms

Caitlin Donohue - March 19, 2019

ALL EARS There are certain well-worn channels through which culture tends to move. Socioeconomically dominant countries export cultural products, regional art forms are picked...

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