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

"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...

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

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’

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: Xmas Weekend flicks galore

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...

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Animal Collective, Dear Evan Hansen…

ARTS FORECAST What was your first introduction to "nice" restaurants? Not nice as in fancy, but nice as in somewhere warm and interesting, somewhere that...

Screen Grabs: The French Had a Name For It …

SCREEN GRABS Importation of foreign language films has reportedly been on the decline for many years because US audiences are growing more resistant to reading...

Arts Forecast: Behold, the mighty Litquake!

ARTS FORECAST It's Litquake time again (October 11-20), when the enormous literary festival takes over the city's venues—and, for Litcrawl on October 20, basically any...

Arts Forecast: Green Thursday, Autumn Moon Fest, Comedy Day

ARTS FORECAST One of the great things about the tsunami of environmentalism hitting San Francisco this week is Green Thursday (Thu/13), during which a number of...

Screen Grabs: Soviet Hippies, Green Film Fest, John McEnroe

SCREEN GRABS It’s a week unusually full of documentaries, including the Roxie’s single showing next Wed/5 of Soviet Hippies—a look at countercultural resistance behind...

The sheer audacity of ‘Angels in America’

ONSTAGE "Why is Angels in America still the most prominent story being told about AIDS?" asked a wonderfully provocative essay about the epic early '90s...