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Tagged with: Racism

People in cages, Earth under attack in occupied colonial land

"I’m not sure where they are taking us, but I am praying it is safe.” Marta sat in the back of the Greyhound bus near...

Tracing how Silicon Valley treats women in ‘The Fit’

ONSTAGE Carey Perloff started off as a playwright. Then she was named artistic director of the Classic Stage Company in New York, before coming to...

Eight ‘Big Ideas’ at MoveOn Forum

On Saturday afternoon, eight Democratic presidential hopefuls appeared for MoveOn’s “Big Ideas Forum” in San Francisco. Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Cory Booker, Congressman Beto O’Rourke,...

I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...

Queering Psychedelics conference aims to expand definitions, minds

Psychedelics are having a moment that's turning into a movement. Shrooms are being decriminalized. MDMA is being (re)approved for post-traumatic stress therapy. Ketamine is...

Fab 5 Freddy sheds musical light on racist cannabis laws

In the early ‘80s, Fab 5 Freddy helped popularize graffiti art by taking it from the sides of New York subway cars to the...

‘The Wait Room’ expresses the physical effects of a loved one’s incarceration

“When my husband was first sentenced, people would cross the street to avoid me,” remembers choreographer Jo Kreiter, writing to 48 Hills before her...

Reviews: News of the real world in ‘The Jungle’ and ‘N—aroo’

ONSTAGE  "Theater brings news," an old saw goes. That can be interpreted any number of ways, but The Jungle (through May 19 at the Curran) brings...

Review: Tuskegee Airmen take flight again in ‘Black Eagles’

ONSTAGE Black Eagles (through March 31 at Marines' Memorial Theatre), now being staged by the African-American Shakespeare Company and directed by L. Peter Callender, illuminates...

Screen Grabs: The terror that is ‘Us’

SCREEN GRABS For many, the movie of 2017 was Get Out, the first directorial feature for Jordan Peele of the comedy duo Key &...