SCREEN GRABSÂ There are no less than four solid, serious dramas opening at local theaters this week, signaling that the silly season (which these days...
ALL EARS If you’re not nostalgic for Chinatown nightlife circa 1970, it’s probably because you don’t know about it. Despite the passing of civil rights...
ONSTAGE  The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...
ARTS FORECAST The biennial Soundwave festival (Sat/8-October 26) is one of those incredible Bay Area experiences that really connects music and performance with the feeling...
PRIDE "One of the reasons vogue is coming into vogue again," legendary practitioner of the venerated black, queer dance form Luis Extravaganza tells me over...