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Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 2

Read part 1 of our coverage here. Three days ago, anthropologists Seth M. Holmes, Fabian Fernandez, and Levi Vonk returned to UC Berkeley after meeting...

Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 1

Three days ago, anthropologists Seth M. Holmes, Fabian Fernandez, and Levi Vonk returned to UC Berkeley after meeting the migrant caravan in Tijuana. During...

David Campos remembers crossing the border

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...

Screen Grabs: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Roma, The Favourite …

SCREEN GRABS This is no time for Christmas shopping, at least if you’re a film buff—not only is the genre festival Another Hole in the...

Screen Grabs: Suspiria, Boy Erased, The Wild Pussycat …

SCREEN GRABS It being Halloweek, it would be just plain wrong not to lead off with a horror film, and as it happens Friday...

ACT’s ‘Sweat’ asks: When does class solidarity end and racism begin?

ONSTAGE  The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...

25 cheers for the Kinsey Sicks!

ONSTAGE Creamy voices, sharp tongues, bright dresses, and a whole lot of hairspray have been the calling cards of "dragapella" performance quartet the Kinsey Sicks...

Screen Grabs: Joan Jett, Hola Mexico, Hong Kong Cinema …

SCREEN GRABS This week brings a whole lot of mini-festivals to various Bay Area screens. The Roxie has the Hola Mexico, a three-day touring edition...

Ficks’ Picks at TIFF: The grand masters return

48 Hills critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Toronto International Film Festival. Read more of his on-the-ground reviews and impressions here.  TIFF Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters which...

Screen Grabs: The Last Movie, Perfect Blue, Pick of the Litter…

SCREEN GRABS Whales, nuns, puppies, anime, 70s Italian crime-drama homage and one genuine, vintage 1971, no-longer-easy-riding “dirty hippie”—it’s a potluck kinda week at the...