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Screen Grabs: A devil in Tasmania, Tel Aviv on fire…

Dennis Harvey - August 6, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque has been doing all too many posthumous tribute programs of late, as major figures of experimental film and video...

The joy of big bamboo—and lots of it

Emily Wilson - August 5, 2019

ART LOOKS Tanabe Chikuunsai IV has been surrounded by bamboo since he was born. A fourth generation Japanese bamboo artist, he studied at sculpture at...

Culture

Review: Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity

Winston Mann - July 31, 2019

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. —Dante, The Inferno. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. —Camus, The Myth of...

Onstage

Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

Karen Macklin - July 17, 2019

ONSTAGE Bay Area writer-performer Dan Hoyle, with his smart and poignant brand of journalistic theater, is at it again with his latest solo show, Border...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A Japanese master of ‘The Human Condition’ gets his due

Dennis Harvey - July 16, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Considered by some one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers of a brilliant period (the Fifties and Sixties), the late Masaki Kobayashi nevertheless never...

Onstage

“What does it mean to be a good person?”

Elaine Elinson - July 11, 2019

ONSTAGE Isn’t trampling other people exhausting work? The vein on your forehead bulges from the strain of being greedy. This is the question that Shen Te, a...

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Screen Grabs: A wave of women behind the camera

Dennis Harvey - July 10, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Though some aspects of filmmaking have been edging slowly towards gender equity for a while, there’s no question that the #MeToo movement...

Onstage

Bring it on, Bob the Drag Queen

Joshua Rotter - July 8, 2019

ONSTAGE Coming in at number eight on “New York Magazine”’s “The Most Powerful Drag Queens in America” list meant next to nothing to Bob the...

Onstage

Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

Elaine Elinson - July 6, 2019

ONSTAGE Probably most of us can remember the first time we saw Cabaret (at SF Playhouse through September 14). For many it would have been the...

Review: Anderson .Paak’s rap showmanship lights up Bill Graham

Daniel Bromfield - July 2, 2019

MUSIC REVIEW More than four decades into rap’s existence, the genre still struggles with how to present itself live. The bulk of rap shows...

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Screen Grabs: A devil in Tasmania, Tel Aviv on fire…

The joy of big bamboo—and lots of it

Review: Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity

Dan Hoyle’s border-crossing art of empathy

Screen Grabs: A Japanese master of ‘The Human Condition’ gets his due

“What does it mean to be a good person?”

Screen Grabs: A wave of women behind the camera

Bring it on, Bob the Drag Queen

Wilkommen to the ever-relevant ‘Cabaret’

Review: Anderson .Paak’s rap showmanship lights up Bill Graham

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