Mexico City Archives

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Dining with SF’s ‘Top Chef’ hopeful

Tamara Palmer - April 3, 2024

As a James Beard semi-finalist and TV competitor, Dalida chef-owner Laura Ozyilmaz is climbing the food world pinnacle.

Art

Sticking to it: The packing tape art of Pablo Manga

Mary Corbin - April 2, 2024

A chance encounter with the medium outside a Mexico City metro station changed the Oakland artist's trajectory.

Art

Looking for a new art crush? That’s more than fine… it’s Superfine

Marke B. - March 20, 2024

The independent art fair at Fort Mason hits a sweet spot between accessibility and expression, with plenty of local flair.

Movies

Screen Grabs: The revelatory, overwhelming, and a little scary world of Luther Price

Dennis Harvey - March 18, 2024

Looking back at the filmmaker who freaked everyone out. Plus: an Agnes Varda retrospective and recent Mexican movies

Music

Tony Jay drifts through the fog with a painted face

Daniel Bromfield - November 9, 2023

'Dejected crooner of the quotidian' speaks about new record 'Perfect Worlds' and affinity for colder SF days

Movies

Screen Grabs: Doc Stories fest sheds light in these fact-challenged times

Dennis Harvey - October 31, 2023

Plus: King Crimson at 50, escaping North Korea in 'Beyond Utopia,' Robert Irwin's diaphanous art, more new movies

Onstage

In ‘Y Basta Ya!,’ NAKA Dance Theater reflects on healing circles of storytelling

Mary Carbonara - October 24, 2023

A long collaboration with Mujeres Unidas y Activas yields a deep look into empowering 'Circulos de Aprendizaje'

Music

Los Cenzontles pair twinkling, traditional Cuban and Veracruzan legacies on ‘Son Con Son’

Caitlin Donohue - October 22, 2023

Artists Kiki Valera and Mono Blanco came to the Bay Area to explore their birth countries' deep musical connection.

Onstage

After death, she’s living: Per Sia returns to hosts Día de los Muertos drag showcase

Caitlin Donohue - October 16, 2023

'It feels like every year we go in deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper,' performer says of SOMArts celebration

Drug policy

The myth of drug cartels is a cover for state-sanctioned violence

Caitlin Donohue - August 11, 2023

Author Oswaldo Zavala says the way we think about Mexican narcos is all wrong

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