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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The terror that is ‘Us’

Dennis Harvey - March 20, 2019

SCREEN GRABS For many, the movie of 2017 was Get Out, the first directorial feature for Jordan Peele of the comedy duo Key &...

Onstage

Review: Carrying the weight of diaspora in ‘Her Portmanteau’

Elaine Elinson - March 7, 2019

ONSTAGE A young woman frantically shouts into a graffiti-scrawled pay phone in a shabby airline terminal. She clutches a green handbag and tries to keep...

Onstage

Review: ‘Fiorello!’ sets the LaGuardia legend to rousing music

Elaine Elinson - March 4, 2019

ONSTAGE For those unfamiliar with Fiorello LaGuardia, the friend-of-the-working class Republican who fought Tammany Hall to become the 99th Mayor of New York City, the...

Onstage

Review: The gleaming, steaming ‘Hamilton’ machine

Marke B. - March 4, 2019

ONSTAGE OK, Thomas Jefferson as Slick Rick got me. Dazzlingly embodied by actor Simon Longnight in the latest touring production of Hamilton to hit SF (through...

Arts + Culture

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Emily Wilson - February 27, 2019

ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...

News + Politics

Public Defender Jeff Adachi dies

Tim Redmond - February 23, 2019

Jeff Adachi, who built the San Francisco Public Defender's Office into one of the best in the country, has died at 59. His death, apparently...

Somi sings of Harlem immigrants (and gentrification’s effects) on ‘Petite Afrique’

Joanna Ladd - January 4, 2019

ALL EARS The sound of Harlem during its jazz heyday is so indelible that it jumps to mind instantly, almost a century later. For...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: A Camp Fire benefit that couldn’t be more San Francisco

Marke B. - December 13, 2018

ARTS FORECAST What happens when your family loses everything, almost in an instant? That's the horror event producer Daniel James Burke faced as the Camp...

News + Politics

David Campos remembers crossing the border

Tim Redmond - November 27, 2018

David Campos looked at the pictures of tear gas at the US-Mexico border and flashed back to 1985. That’s when the assistant Santa Clara...

Onstage

Sisters tell stories of undocumented Filipina caregivers in ‘Chasing Papeles’

Emily Wilson - October 31, 2018

ONSTAGE For her masters’ thesis in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, Aureen Almario wrote about the stories of undocumented people. Telling those...

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