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Movies

SFFILM fest spotlights Rita Moreno, Muppets, ‘Lost Landscapes of Oakland’

Dennis Harvey - April 4, 2021

2021 installment of the super-fest beams from drive-in and laptop, with plenty of star power.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A trek through world cinema to scratch your travel itch

Dennis Harvey - January 21, 2021

New Brazilian Cinema series, The White Tiger, Mandabi, and films from rural Mexico to Poland, India, and Sudan

Music

For Puerto Rican freedom, MaJo Montijo summons a bomba ‘Huracán’

Joanna Ladd - October 27, 2020

Oakland musician fights "continuous colonial disaster," including Hurricane María aftermath, with gale-force release.

Exclusive

The biased coverage and real story around Lowell High and school renaming

Tim Redmond - October 25, 2020

Attention Chronicle: A lottery for the 'elite' school is neither new nor a radical idea -- and neither is discussing changing the names of schools celebrating racists and colonialists.

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

Onstage

In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

Emily Wilson - March 11, 2020

When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away. “First...

Lit

Aya De León’s ‘Side Chick Nation’ explores post-Maria Puerto Rico

James Tracy - August 19, 2019

LIT Aya De León is a writer, activist, educator, spoken word poet and author of the award-winning Justice Hustlers series, including latest installment Side Chick Nation. The...

Revolution music: What’s soundtracking protests around the globe?

Marke B. - July 26, 2019

ALL EARS "If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution," the old anarchist-feminist saying goes. And it's true, every uprising needs a good soundtrack,...

Arts + Culture

Psychic Eye Records’ new compilation shows darkwave support for TGI Justice Project

Caitlin Donohue - January 21, 2019

For those who would like to wrap themselves up in a Bay Area darkwave shroud to beat the winter chill; Psychic Eye Records just...

News + Politics

A people’s climate summit

Martha Hawthorne, Michael Eisenscher, Lorraine Thiebaud, and Jonathan Kocher - August 29, 2018

This September, community, political, and business leaders from around the globe will be meeting in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit to discuss...

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