Stories about Performance
Screen Grabs: French noir to vintage punk, a week of retro gems
A little sci-fi, a little fetish comedy, and more to take you back in cinemas.
Arts Forecast: Day of the Dead in the City of Souls
Swervedriver, Dead Ghosts, Kathy Griffin, Convoy 31000, Clark Price, Noctuary, and more upcoming events
Screen Grabs: A feast of docs and dancing
Doc Stories and Dance Film Fest open, plus Grass is Greener, Downtown 81, Always in Season, Satantango, more in cinemas
Party Radar: A monster mash of Halloween bashes
ESG, Doja Cat, The Magician, The Cockettes, Space Cowboys, Paul Oakenfold all make a witches' brew of real party howlers.
Review: A fiery intellect bound by exoticism in ‘The Chinese Lady’
Rinabeth Apostol's captivating performance anchors this searing look at one of American history's shameful chapters.
Can a museum exhibit capture Burning Man?
Surreal, lysergic ingredients are there, but Oakland Museum's 'No Spectators' show misses the essence of the thing in the desert.
Monsters of our moment lurk in this ‘Othello’
African American Shakespeare Company’s production features a volcanic Moor caught in a vise of racism, misogyny, and jealousy.
Nature takes astounding flight in ‘Viva MOMIX!’
Founder Moses Pendleton on 40 years of ecological attunement, garden inspiration, and bioluminescent orange.
‘Disasterama!’ chronicles SF’s wild, lost queer underground
Alvin Orloff's new memoir documents crazy nights, retro-camp glamor, and punk sensibility in the face of the AIDS crisis.
The problem with the Blue Angels
Local news media celebrate a dangerous, expensive, military PR event without raising a single question or issue.