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Tagged with: Music

Onstage

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...
Culture

Stern Grove Festival changes family hands—but not its free music mission

Emily Wilson -
When Dr. Douglas Goldman went to the Stern Grove Festival as a child, he remembers cherry trees in the concert meadow with tables arranged...

Queercore legends Team Dresch return to swing the bat of love

Johnny Ray Huston -
ALL EARS He’s a kid. He likes wearing wigs. “What he’s looking for/He won’t find in school,” Jody Bleyle sings, her strong, declarative voice...
Movies

Hopes, fears, dreams, and ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’

Joshua Rotter -
Two African American dreamers, Jimmie (first-time actor Jimmie Fails) and Mont (Jonathan Majors) are struggling to survive in the unforgiving reality of the City...

Pride time: 6 quick picks at the National Queer Arts Festival

Matt Sussman -
Despite the tea on Twitter, Pride month isn’t just about the continued corporate cashing-in on on-normative identity disguised as celebratory hedonism. Case in point:...
Campaign Trail

The Democrats come to town: Convention preview

Tim Redmond -
For weekend convention coverage, follow 48 Hills on Twitter: www.twitter.com/48hills and Facebook: www.facebook.com/48hills The California Democratic Party convention will take over Moscone Center this weekend – and...
Culture

Call the ‘Please Force’: Wavy Gravy revisits Woodstock in new doc

Joshua Rotter -
Plagued by site issues, limited construction time, a surplus of attendees, heavy traffic delays, inclement weather conditions, a scarcity of food and medical supplies,...
Onstage

Kronos Festival celebrates Bayview women, Malian griot, Howard Zinn

Emily Wilson -
The four members of storied SF  Kronos Quartet are in their studio in the Inner Sunset, struggling to perfect the piece they’re playing. Should...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Going big, from Woodstock to Godzilla

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Bigger is presumably better this week, with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (the third Hollywood film about the critter who’s starred in...
Arts + Culture

I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

Dennis Harvey -
Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...
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