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Movies

Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

Dennis Harvey - August 28, 2020

One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of...

Music

On experimental duo Matmos’ latest, 99 is the magic number (and collaboration is key)

Daniel Bromfield - August 27, 2020

M.C. Schmidt of Matmos waves a limp assemblage of taped-together scraps of paper in front of his computer camera. “This is the third hour,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

Dennis Harvey - July 17, 2020

This weekend’s new streaming releases are dominated by two major literary adaptations, both of which would have looked great on the big screen ......

Culture

Screen Grabs: Two movies so bad they’re (almost) good

Dennis Harvey - June 16, 2020

This last Sunday marked our POTUS’ birthday—he’s now 74, never mind that he frequently plays the “too old” card on people just a couple...

Culture

Remembering the Pulse massacre, as Trump strips LGBTQ rights

Marke B. - June 14, 2020

The mass shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub four years ago took 49 lives and still leaves a deep scar on the LGBTQ and Latino...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

Marke B. - April 30, 2020

As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...

Recombinant Festival’s audio-visual spectacle summons ‘Clouds of Confoundment’

Marke B. - March 2, 2020

Smart electronic music and tech-art fans are always excited for the annual Recombinant Festival (Fri/6-Sat/7 at Gray Area, SF), the "360-degree surround cinema" feast...

New Music: Transcendental dancing with Eris Drew’s ‘Fluids of Emotion’

John-Paul Shiver - February 12, 2020

The first nanoseconds of an Eris Drew song or mixtape resemble the work of a maestro dramaturge. Everything—sound scratches, cutting in vocals, record manipulations...

Movies

Ficks’ Picks: The best flicks of 2019

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - January 15, 2020

48 Hills festival movie critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks travels the continent for us checking out the biggest film events. He also hosts the invaluable...

News + Politics

Supes poised to create 12 new districts where vacancy tax can be assessed

Tim Redmond - January 13, 2020

The Board of Supes is moving to create a dozen new neighborhood commercial districts – a move that will bring more of the city...

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