National Queer Arts Festival Archives

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: No big parade, but Pride season’s already busting out the wigs and rainbows

Marke B. - May 27, 2021

Giant pink triangle, Oaklash, gay ballet, drag dance, Queer Women of Color Film Fest, more add abundant sparkle

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

Party Radar

Party Radar: ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2019

Marke B. - June 23, 2019

PRIDE Heeeeeeey, Happy GIANT PRODE, everybody! Party Radar's been on a wee hiatus while I finish this crazy book, sorry. I miss getting nuts...

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

Matt Sussman - June 3, 2019

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:...

Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2018: Arts & Entertainment Winners

Staff - October 30, 2018

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

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Fresh Meat, North Beach Festival, Corgi Con…

Marke B. - June 12, 2018

ARTS FORECAST Pride is looming in the distance like a monstrous, rainbow-bedecked Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man—look for my guide to drop soon—but alongside the parades and...

Music

Resistance Party! Ultimate Pride Guide 2017

Marke B. - June 18, 2017

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2017 Pride started as a celebration of a protest, how cool is that? And watching SF Pride (Sun/25) progress from its raucous roots,...

Arts + Culture

2016: Some very bright spots

Caitlin Donohue - December 26, 2016

Good lord, 2016 -- the year the music died, the year the Internet got too real, the year America got majorly oranged. When the...

Arts + Culture

‘Type/Caste’ is a curtain call for theater stereotypes

Caitlin Donohue - September 7, 2016

ONSTAGE I’ve been close to Bay Area actor Rotimi Agbabiaka for years, during which we have spent many moments laughing. There was the time...

Music

Ultimate Pride Guide 2016

Marke B. - June 21, 2016

PARTY RADAR The night of the Orlando shootings, I was at the African American Arts and Culture Complex surrounded by friends I've shared hundreds...

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