Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Mission

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...

The Patty Hearst kidnapping and the rise of community-based organizations in SF

UPDATED, see the end. The 1974 kidnapping of Patricia “Patty” Hearst, granddaughter of the founder of the Hearst media empire, was a dramatic chapter in...

A live cinema event to ‘Remember Los Siete’ in the Mission

On May 1,1969, a pair of cops stopped a group of Latino activists on the Mission District's Alvarado Street. In the ensuring altercation, one...

At Mutek.SF fest the techno is ambitious. So is the food.

The second iteration of MUTEK San Francisco, the international festival of digital creativity which takes place from May 2-5, is a descendent of the...

We’ll be honoring the Anchor Brewing union organizers at our Spring Gala, May 2!

One of the bright spots of the last few years has been the terrific energy of young people and other workers poured into organizing....

Screen Grabs: Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Blood for Dracula, Peterloo…..

SCREEN GRABS Yes, this is the opening week of the SFFILM Festival, the event so big we gave it its own separate feature (see here)....

Puff: Welcome to the spaced race

PUFF Fly me to the moon, I just found something new that will send you spinning into that what-the-f*ck atmosphere. Moon rocks. They're the...

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...

Pete Buttigieg makes a splash in SF — but what does he really stand for?

For the second time in as many months, presidential hopeful and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg made an appearance in San Francisco. But unlike...

David Herrera Performance Company explores the power of empathy—and loss

DANCE The mission of David Herrera's acclaimed dance-performance company is "to promote the diversity of the Latinx experience in the United States, in an effort...