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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...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Escape your family at the movies

Dennis Harvey - November 24, 2019

Apparently obeying the logic that audiences will be sufficiently occupied with such recent popular entries as Frozen 2 or Ford v Ferrari—if they aren’t simply...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: She raised hell!

Dennis Harvey - September 16, 2019

You can experience complete schizophrenia at the movies by attending all three of this weekend’s new big releases: There’s the uber-manly Rambo: Last Blood,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A Japanese master of ‘The Human Condition’ gets his due

Dennis Harvey - July 16, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Considered by some one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers of a brilliant period (the Fifties and Sixties), the late Masaki Kobayashi nevertheless never...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Open up your world with the SF International Arts Festival

Caitlin Donohue - May 22, 2019

ARTS FORECAST Sure you're broke — so let the artists from Hong Kong, Ireland, and the Czech Republic come to you? Such is the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

Dennis Harvey - April 30, 2019

SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...

“Buildings demolished on your cellphone”: Ratskin Records’ experimental resilience

Daniel Bromfield - December 4, 2018

ALL EARS Michael Daddona never thought he’d own a dog. “What’s a dog even gonna do at a noise show?” he asks. “Or sit around while...

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