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Saturday, December 20, 2025

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Tagged with: Jazz

Party Radar + Arts Forecast: Double whammy!

ARTS FORECAST + PARTY RADAR Whoops, I started celebrating my birthday week a little early, and now I'm a "little behind." So? BONUS! I'm combining...

A peek at pre-Internet SF

ARTS FORECAST In start-up clogged SF, nostalgia for a time before the Internet was capitalized has certainly been growing. On September 13, a new film...

Arts Forecast: Hemlock Tavern closing, Polk Street Blues Fest, Erasure …

ARTS FORECAST More housing is coming to Polk Street, and, despite a Peskin-led effort to preserve it in some fashion, belovedly scruffy rock spot Hemlock...

Screen Grabs: Alice Cooper, Cecil Beaton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk….

SCREEN GRABS Let’s hope the weather is nice this weekend, because you should go out and play. In other words, there’s not a lot hugely...

Arts Forecast: Hip-hop pioneers, classic punks, Hawaiian fun…

ARTS FORECAST It's weird growing older in a media-saturated environment. For years, the only connection I had to my hip-hop-adoring youth was a clutch of...

Screen Grabs: Dark Money, Generation Wealth, Everything Else

SCREEN GRABS This week’s movies seem unified by the theme of money—not least the big new popcorn movie Mission: Impossible 6, because no one...

Arts Forecast: Gray Area Festival lineup, Laborfest, Fillmore Jazz Fest…

ARTS FORECAST Lots of fests coming at you fast! We've got details below, but here's a future one to put on your radar: The Gray...

Hattie McDaniel’s pioneering, tumultuous life—in song

ONSTAGE What most people know about Hattie McDaniel is that she was the first African American woman to win an Oscar, for her outstanding performance...

Campaign trail: Alioto, Breed seek GOP support …

Angela Alioto’s surprising announcement that she wants to radically weaken the city’s Sanctuary ordinance has already cost her political support. Mark Leno announced Friday that...

The Civil War, from another side, in ‘Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3’

ONSTAGE A historical epic, a taut thriller, a chamber melodrama, a heart-warming comedy, a social scalding: Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrings a lot from her...