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Tagged with: Music

Onstage

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ as a holiday opera, bumbling angel and all

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer have not shied away from big topics,  San Francisco Opera dramaturg Kip Cranna, pointed out. Heggie worked...
Onstage

Holcombe Waller’s timely queer ‘Requiem’ for persecuted LGBTQs

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE Holcombe Waller does "total theater." The Portland artist-composer approaches music in terms of ritual, history, art, movement, and conceptual ideas, creating a spectacle...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The French Had a Name For It …

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Importation of foreign language films has reportedly been on the decline for many years because US audiences are growing more resistant to reading...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Festival mania fills local cinemas!

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS There is surely nowhere in the world with more film festivals per capita than San Francisco. While the bigger annual events are...
Culture

For tech pioneer, preserving SF’s classic vinyl culture is a ‘Family Affair’

Marke B. -
What would possess one of the designers of the iPhone, a celebrated tech pioneer, to launch an art gallery in Lower Haight, focused on...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Absolutely Fabulous Live, Punk-Metal Flea Market, Crime 1978

Marke B. -
ARTS FORECAST Hey, hey! Maybe you have heard that we released a little thing called Best of the Bay last week, with a whole section...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Dia de los Muertos, Diwali, Blackalicious …

Marke B. -
ARTS FORECAST "In San Francisco, Day of the Dead has been celebrated in the Mission district sincethe early 70’s. The Marigold Project was created in...
Movies

Rami Malek, the man who would be Queen, on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Joshua Rotter -
When Rami Malek was originally cast to play Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," (opening Friday), he knew little about the lead singer...
Onstage

Sisters tell stories of undocumented Filipina caregivers in ‘Chasing Papeles’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE For her masters’ thesis in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, Aureen Almario wrote about the stories of undocumented people. Telling those...
Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2018: Arts & Entertainment Winners

Staff -
48 Hills is proud to host the 43rd SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay Readers' Poll. For other categories including Food & Drink, Shopping,...
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