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Last call at beloved live music mainstay Amnesia

John-Paul Shiver - March 2, 2020

People were hastily rushing into 853 Valencia early Saturday evening, Leap Day, seeking refuge from the hostile winds blowing down the corridor. Change was...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance, part 3: Crossed borders and different lives

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 27, 2020

Culling through the forty features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

Onstage

In ‘The Children,’ nuclear disaster, strange twists, and surprising humor

Emily Wilson - February 3, 2020

Barbara Damashek, Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University and three-time Tony nominee (for the score, lyrics and direction of 1985’s Quilters), looks for...

Onstage

Reviews: Laurie Anderson and Gina LaDivina, two very different storytellers

Marke B. - January 28, 2020

With her shock of hair and electric violin, Laurie Anderson is an instantly recognized avatar of '80s cool, although of course her pioneering electronics-based...

News + Politics

DA Chesa Boudin sworn in with promises of dramatic reform

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2020

A reformer who has promised to shake up the broken criminal justice system was sworn into office Thursday, with a promise to end cash...

Onstage

Review: Toot toot! Beep beep! It’s the Donna Summer musical

Marke B. - December 7, 2019

On paper, "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical" (through December 29 at Golden Gate Theater) doesn't have much going for it: another jukebox musical in...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: And here’s the real kicker…

Marke B. - November 13, 2019

ARTS FORECAST The Stomp tour stomped into town for a very brief visit at ACT last weekend (why, when it could stay so much longer?)—and the...

The lo-fi psych-pop joys of Still Woozy

Joshua Rotter - November 11, 2019

Still Woozy (playing Wed/13 through Friday/15 at The New Parish) was hanging out backstage at Lollapalooza at Chicago’s Grant Park, last summer. He had...

Culture

‘Women aren’t funny’? Tell that to Cirque clown Kelsey Custard

Joshua Rotter - October 29, 2019

When Kelsey Custard was studying at San Francisco’s Clown Conservatory school a decade ago, she and some of her female colleagues were advised by...

Onstage

Lesbian history finally takes center stage in ‘The Daughters’

Emily Wilson - October 23, 2019

The first act of The Daughters, a comedy by Patricia Cotter (at the San Francisco Playhouse through November 2), imagines the Daughters of Bilitis’ first meeting...

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