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Screen Grabs: All weekend long, the Roxie celebrates French noir

SCREEN GRABS If you’re not busy this week with CAAM (see our preview here), there’s a competing mini-festival of sorts which overlaps with it just...

‘We Have Iré’ celebrates the Afro-Cuban immigrant experience—and challenge

ONSTAGE Paul Flores grew up in Chula Vista, California, near the Mexican border. His single mom worked a lot, and his grandmother was a central...

Dancing to a different Russian in ‘Shostakovich Trilogy’

ONSTAGE Dmitri Shostakovich’s music isn’t typical for a ballet. That’s because of shifts in the tone and tempo, says Sasha De Sola, a principle dancer...

Life is a ‘Vanity Fair,’ old chum

ONSTAGE If you disregard the period setting, squint at the pastel backdrops and blur out the sumptuous jewel-toned dresses, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Vanity...

A live cinema event to ‘Remember Los Siete’ in the Mission

On May 1,1969, a pair of cops stopped a group of Latino activists on the Mission District's Alvarado Street. In the ensuring altercation, one...

Please Do Not Fight reunion collects a scattered scene

ALL EARS Pursuing music often begins with a simple realization: that it could be you up on that stage. And before he started the Redwood...

SFFILM Fest opens with stars and ‘Tales’

Opening night of the SFFilm Festival filled the Castro Theatre with basically anyone you could imagine on Wednesday evening, as Netflix premiered the first...

Reviews: News of the real world in ‘The Jungle’ and ‘N—aroo’

ONSTAGE  "Theater brings news," an old saw goes. That can be interpreted any number of ways, but The Jungle (through May 19 at the Curran) brings...

Review: Wild highs and lows in ‘Falsettos’

ONSTAGE The first act of revered musical Falsettos—the touring 2016 Broadway revival stops at Golden Gate Theatre through April 14—is a fascinating study in nostalgia....

Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’

ONSTAGE Black Eagles (through March 31 at Marines' Memorial Theatre), now being staged by the African-American Shakespeare Company and directed by L. Peter Callender, illuminates...