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Homeless people — in cages

Tiny - March 23, 2019

Here lies the unhoused soldier Killed in the undeclared war on the poor Just tryin to survive outside -- to hide on a bus bench, away from your...

Onstage

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

Elaine Elinson - March 20, 2019

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...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….

Marke B. - March 5, 2019

ARTS FORECAST For decades, if you had a question about sex, any question at all, you would "Ask Isadora." The goddess of alternative weekly...

Solate finds lush, soulful music in intimate connections

Joanna Ladd - February 11, 2019

ALL EARS I’ve lived in California for 11 years, and feel pretty well-adapted, but the Golden State still springs the occasional culture shock on...

Arts + Culture

‘Take back our lives:’ The words of poverty scholars

Tony Robles - February 6, 2019

May 2 marks the 10-year anniversary of the passing of poet Al Robles. Al Robles was conferred much respect as a poverty scholar of...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Fighting for survival in ‘Arctic’ and courting death in Norwegian black metal

Dennis Harvey - February 6, 2019

Yors truly is just back from the Sundance Film Festival, and the only thing you really need to know about that is that quite...

Slain SF club kid Bubbles’ legacy lives on in ‘Bohemian Berlin Disco’

Marke B. - February 4, 2019

"Defender of androgyny and living life at the top of your lungs!" Anyone who came into the chaotic, inspiring, often obnoxious but ultimately priceless orbit...

Arts + Culture

Among the flourishes of ‘Volver’, a lesson of flamenco’s past and present

Emily Wilson - January 17, 2019

Kerensa DeMars first saw flamenco dance in 1995. The next year, she went to Spain with “high school- level Spanish,” intending to stay for...

Somi sings of Harlem immigrants (and gentrification’s effects) on ‘Petite Afrique’

Joanna Ladd - January 4, 2019

ALL EARS The sound of Harlem during its jazz heyday is so indelible that it jumps to mind instantly, almost a century later. For...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Xmas Weekend flicks galore

Dennis Harvey - December 18, 2018

SCEEN GRABS This week brings two major new films about “divisive” American political figures—not exactly what the general public usually wants for Xmas, but...

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