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Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Edwardian Ball Returns, new Music Book Club launches, more

Marke B. - January 25, 2024

Stage Dive into Life, Kate Bush drag tribute, Floating Points, Icebreaker's Ball, 'Colonizing America'—get out there

Movies

Screen Grabs: Two great social justice filmmakers return to the screen

Dennis Harvey - January 22, 2024

Skip Norman's revolutionary '60s-'70s films and Glauber Rocha's daring 'Black God, White Devil' play BAMPFA.

Art

‘Mini to monstrous,’ Lorene Anderson’s paintings surge with the Earth’s force

Mary Corbin - January 18, 2024

Seismic, self-organizing ripples echo the Oakland-based artist's call to chaos.

Music

New Music Book Club launches! Join us

Tamara Palmer - January 10, 2024

Online community features interviews and insights from writers like Ann Powers, Dan Charnas, Danyel Smith, Pamela Des Barres, and DJ Disciple

Housing

The Chron, voting rights, and district elections

Tim Redmond - December 28, 2023

If the state Legislature starts to see district elections of local legislators as a Nimby problem, the oligarchs in SF will rejoice.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Reaching for the golden ring with an ‘Iron Claw’

Dennis Harvey - December 20, 2023

Plus: 'American Fiction' critiques racial conundrums with feeling, 'Menus-Plaisirs' delivers a full plate of gastronomic delight

Lit

10 cult classics: Books on charismatic leaders to nourish your squint-eyed cynicism

Zack Ruskin - November 30, 2023

Popularity of follower docs aside, unraveling sects might be best as a book-length pursuit. Here are titles that take on the task.

Music

Live Shots: Janelle Monáe dazzled with sensual pleasures (and a dash of vulnerabilty)

Jon Bauer and Patty Riek - November 5, 2023

The singer delivered an unabashedly sexy set to a hyper-diverse crowd, in support of new album 'The Age of Pleasure'

Stage Review

A dreamlike tale of anxious immigrant experiences in ‘Citizen’

Charles Lewis III - October 30, 2023

Word for Word stages Greg Sarris' story of a young Mexican-Native American man grappling with a unique identity

Lit

A 24-hour celebration of banned queer books? Come get ‘Read for Filth’

Marke B. - October 4, 2023

Fabulosa Books in the Castro hosts a full, affirming day of literature, storytelling, performance, and more for Books Not Bans

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