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Tagged with: Performance

Arts + Culture

Rediscovering the fantastic music of Akiko Yano

Johnny Ray Huston -
Few forms of exhilaration quite match that of discovering a vital artist who is in fact deep within their story, having created a rich...

Streaming for Shorter: Epic all-star benefit for jazz great comes online

John-Paul Shiver -
In the 25-year stretch from 1977-2002, saxophonist Wayne Shorter—described by The New York Times as “probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer and a contender...

His marathon rap for COVID relief broke the Guinness World Record

Daniel Bromfield -
When George Watsky turned 33, his roommate looked him in the eye and told him it would be the best year of his life....
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

Dennis Harvey -
Many everyday things have been notable for their absence during the shutdown, so something that stood out was construction—because it never seemed to stop,...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two of SF’s biggest acting exports light up screens again

Dennis Harvey -
One of the first cultural casualties of the pandemic was, of course, live theater, with many local productions stopped mid-run, others’ openings canceled, and...

Noise Pop to Vinyl Dreams: 6 local can’t-miss music streams

John-Paul Shiver -
From Kim Gordon viewing Instagram as a performative space and Kenya Barris using Netflix as a platform to distill the messy politics of honestly critiquing Black art, to...
Culture

Screen Grabs: Great new docs, from global inequality to SF thrash metal

Dennis Harvey -
Though the impulse for many during times of stress is to escape into fictional entertainment—or something “stranger than fiction,” like Tiger King—nonfiction can prove...

New Music: DJ Amir unearths jazz-fusion communiqué ‘The Jupiter Effect’

John-Paul Shiver -
Long before the Berlin-based DJ and producer Amir Abdullah became an esteemed music archivist, flying around the globe on the lecture circuit, discussing with...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The lyin’ preacher, the witch-tree, and The Whistlers

Dennis Harvey -
Escapism may be one of the few commodities experiencing a boom during lockdown, but not all escapes are lighthearted—the new releases highlighted below offer...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: More marathon movies to help sustain you

Dennis Harvey -
Part 2 in our survey of really, really long films for your sequestrian pleasure casts its big net over films from around the globe,...
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