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Mill Valley Film Fest brings wide-screen drama, intimate star power

Dennis Harvey - October 6, 2020

This year's fest blows up with 80 features, dazzling tributes, a drive-in, and the addition of Doclands.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: More, More, More! (and more)

Marke B. - September 17, 2020

Autumn Moon Festival, Litquake lineup, Cal Performances at Home... and a special retrospective from a queen of SF drag.

Music

The genius of Chadwick Boseman’s James Brown

John-Paul Shiver - September 7, 2020

In the James Brown bio-pic Get On Up from 2014, actor Chadwick Boseman presented the American composer and bandleader in the same manner life presented...

Music

All Ears: 9 classic concerts to cue when you’re missing the stage

John-Paul Shiver - August 21, 2020

In June, Outside Lands canceled its 2020 edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the festival has released details on its new Inside Lands...

Music

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2020

Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations...

Music

All Ears: Denise Young takes the helm of the SFJAZZ board of trustees

John-Paul Shiver - August 4, 2020

As the world grapples with how to stabilize itself this summer, SFJAZZ has announced a change that should catapult the esteemed institution; effective September...

Out of the Crate: Revolutionary records to spin you into summer

John-Paul Shiver - July 6, 2020

With this past weekend, summer's officially here—and while that may not mean dancing in the streets, you can certainly use some new protest and...

New Music: Yazmin Lacey’s ‘Morning Matters’ keeps a high vibration

John-Paul Shiver - April 9, 2020

It is unfortunate that everything we read, do, and check, as in Right Now, gets processed through a ʻcrisisʻ prism. As much as I...

Culture

Leading drag and performance venue closes indefinitely

Garrett Leahy - March 25, 2020

Since its opening in 2015, the cabaret/theater/nightclub Oasis, on 11thSt. in Soma, has been a “lighthouse” for queer creative culture, in the words of...

50 years of Jimi Hendrix’s radical, redefining ‘Band of Gypsys’

John-Paul Shiver - March 25, 2020

By the time Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys—released on Capitol Records March 25, 1970—came together for their two-night performance at the Fillmore East on New Years 1970, with...

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Mill Valley Film Fest brings wide-screen drama, intimate star power

Arts Forecast: More, More, More! (and more)

The genius of Chadwick Boseman’s James Brown

All Ears: 9 classic concerts to cue when you’re missing the stage

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

All Ears: Denise Young takes the helm of the SFJAZZ board of trustees

Out of the Crate: Revolutionary records to spin you into summer

New Music: Yazmin Lacey’s ‘Morning Matters’ keeps a high vibration

Leading drag and performance venue closes indefinitely

50 years of Jimi Hendrix’s radical, redefining ‘Band of Gypsys’

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