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Pianist Holly Mead echoes quarantine angst on new album ‘Solitary Animals’

Joanna Ladd - July 15, 2020

Pianist and composer Holly Mead picked the title Solitary Animals for her fourth album months before COVID-19 spun us all into cocoons of solitude....

Onstage

In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display

Emily Wilson - July 14, 2020

In The Niceties, playing online from Shotgun Theater, a Black student, Zoe (Regina Monique) at an unnamed elite Northeast university (clearly Yale given it’s...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

Dennis Harvey - July 9, 2020

The demand for streaming movies has increased such during recent months that many films are getting taken off the shelf where they’ve laid neglected...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey - July 3, 2020

New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....

Culture

Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising

Marke B. - July 1, 2020

The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ’90s UK rave scene springs back to life in ‘Beats’

Dennis Harvey - June 26, 2020

The SF International Film Festival that wasn’t a couple months ago—one of COVID-19’s earliest cultural casualties—would have included a 20th-anniversary screening of Greg Harrison’s...

Movies

Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

Johnny Ray Huston - June 24, 2020

As titles go, Ask Any Buddy is evocative. On its surface, it brings up the idea of acquiring knowledge or answers through communication with...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Frameline’s Pride Showcase cruises onto your laptop

Dennis Harvey - June 22, 2020

Frameline without the audience is a funny prospect—imagine the dismay among those patrons whom COVID has denied their annual chance to conspicuously stand near...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Trans films to the front for Pride

Dennis Harvey - June 21, 2020

Normally, the Frameline International LGBTQ Film Festival would already be open, though this year COVID-19 has pushed the festival into a smaller online edition running this...

Culture

Score new music on Juneteenth—and support NAACP Legal Fund

John-Paul Shiver - June 17, 2020

Once again leaping to action when leaders, politicians, and other music platforms continually remain tone-deaf and tardy in response, Bandcamp will be donating 100...

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Pianist Holly Mead echoes quarantine angst on new album ‘Solitary Animals’

In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display

Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising

Screen Grabs: ’90s UK rave scene springs back to life in ‘Beats’

Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

Screen Grabs: Frameline’s Pride Showcase cruises onto your laptop

Screen Grabs: Trans films to the front for Pride

Score new music on Juneteenth—and support NAACP Legal Fund

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