Medicine Archives

Art

A kickass tattoo artist honors her Mescalero Apache roots

Danny Acosta - June 20, 2024

'It's in my blood,' says 24th Street Studio's Renette Hammer, who felt destined to open up shop in SF.

Stage Review

A time-jumping tale of environmental degradation in ‘Garuda’s Wing’

Charles Lewis III - June 17, 2024

Gripping tale and great ensemble work from Magic Theatre drive home heavy subject without bumper sticker platitudes.

Opinion

Does Mayor Breed just hate poor people?

Tiny - June 9, 2024

A solution lead by the unhoused is working in Oakland—but we can't get any traction in San Francisco.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Three wizards of cinema light up local screens

Dennis Harvey - June 6, 2024

Hayao Miyazaki, Les Blank, and Jean-Luc Godard bring magic old and new to BAMPFA and The Lab.

Lit

In ‘Death Trip,’ exorcising Holocaust family trauma through psychedelics

Marke B. - June 3, 2024

Punk writer Seth Lorinczi found a surprising way through midlife crisis and tragic ancestral legacy: MDMA therapy

Art Review

Poetic efficiencies, subtle subversions streak through ‘vītatio’

Bec Imrich - May 16, 2024

Thoughtful group show at Altman Siegel coalesces into third space beyond gender binaries and colonial violence.

Music

Under the Stars: Gauging the Bay Area spring music hype

John-Paul Shiver - April 19, 2024

Do you want to know what's good, mostly musical, coming from The Bay and beyond this spring? Hop on and let’s get right into...

Media

Wildly inaccurate story leads to death threats for activist, 48hills writer

Tim Redmond - April 14, 2024

Lisa Gray Garcia, who writes as Tiny, gets attacked after New York Post does a sensational story about her work with UCLA medical students.

News + Politics

In Cuba, educators struggle with the impacts of the ongoing US embargo

Mark Ginsburg - April 11, 2024

And yet, their resilience is impressive.

Stage Review

In poignant ‘The Far Country,’ immigrants caught in an endless cycle of abuse

Charles Lewis III - March 26, 2024

Lloyd Suh's Berkeley Rep premiere shows the racist US system's damaging affects on Chinese workers.

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