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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: For Pride, where to find SF’s queer film fests online

Dennis Harvey - June 10, 2020

Normally at this time of year many Bay Areans (and a few visitors arriving just for this reason) would be about to suspend nearly...

The radical glamour and versatility of Bonnie Pointer

John-Paul Shiver - June 9, 2020

The first time Oakland's famous sibling group The Pointer Sisters performed "Yes We Can Can" on Don Cornelius' hippiest trip in America, two minutes...

Culture

We’re Still Here: Queer orgs and icons put on online pre-Pride shebang

Marke B. - June 9, 2020

Thanks to COVID, Pride has been scooped up online this year, boooo. But while that may mean you'll be proudly dancing alone in your...

Beyond ‘Suavecito’: A tribute journey through Jorge Santana’s Chicano rock

John-Paul Shiver - June 8, 2020

Guillermo "Jorge" Santana, the musician, guitarist, and younger brother of Carlos Santana—who passed on May 14 of natural causes at the age of 68...

The Golden Gate Bridge is singing. Here’s a matching playlist

Daniel Bromfield - June 8, 2020

As many who participated in Saturday's massive George Floyd demonstration across the Golden Gate Bridge noted, the sound of high winds passing through the...

Bandcamp Day picks: Support these great California artists directly

John-Paul Shiver - June 3, 2020

Music fans spent $7.1 million dollars the last time Bandcamp waived its 15% sales fee, on Friday, May 1st That's a new daily record...

News + Politics

For Pride, all queer people must stand up for Black lives

Marke B. - June 2, 2020

Black queer people exist. Stonewall was a riot against police. The fight for Gay Liberation was lead by queer and trans women of color....

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Into ‘The Vast of Night’—and beyond

Dennis Harvey - May 30, 2020

A couple restored minor classics, plus new features about recording-industry sexism, Islamic fundamentalism and UFO invasion, make this another wide-ranging week in the streaming...

COVID

How Cuba is succeeding in the fight against COVID

Reese Erlich - May 28, 2020

One morning along a street with cracked sidewalks and houses with fading paint, Dr. Liz Caballero and two medical students stopped at every door...

New Music: DJ Josey Rebelle tells a rarely celebrated story

John-Paul Shiver - May 27, 2020

DJ Josey Rebelle, a Black woman born in the North London neighborhood of Tottenham where she still lives today, uses her records to speak...

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