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Dance

Review: Volcanic ‘Mrs. Robinson’ heads up Helgi Tómasson’s final SF Ballet season

Rita Felciano - February 5, 2022

Longtime artistic director exits with flag firmly planted in 21st century, but who can resist Balanchine's 'Symphony in C'?

Labor

Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Tim Paulson - September 19, 2021

Ten years later, remembering the movement that gave us "We are the 99 percent" and put economic inequality on the national agenda.

Homelessness

Homelessness—and failed solutions— in Salt Lake City and Denver

Tiny - August 8, 2021

Sweeps and attacks on the unhoused are not just happening in the Bay Area; it's a national problem.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Kenny Scharf doc explores irrepressible art star’s colorful ride

Dennis Harvey - June 24, 2021

Plus: A Macedonian-Belgian-Slovenian-Croatian-French women's empowerment tale, the farcical howls of 'Werewolves Within,' more

The Agenda

Plans for a public bank could take a big step forward this week

Tim Redmond - May 30, 2021

Plus: More taxpayer money going to settle police misconduct cases. That's The Agenda for May 31 to June 6.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: San Francisco is the devil’s playground. Thank goodness!

Dennis Harvey - April 26, 2021

A new doc captures Satanist Anton LaVey, “the coolest grandpa ever.” Plus: Werewolves on Wheels, Bad Witch, more

Art

Review: Black Madonnas, fashion photos, semaphore, and song in ‘Future Histories’

Genevieve Quick - April 7, 2021

At SFMOMA, Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith draw on the African American archive to point a way forward.

Homelessness

The bad narrative of ‘bad choices’

Tiny - February 25, 2021

It's an easy way to look away and blame homelessness on poor people.

Movies

Screen Grabs: A fantastical hybrid from Ivory Coast in ‘Night of the Kings,’ more

Dennis Harvey - February 25, 2021

While the increased demand for streaming content hasn’t greatly diversified the mainstream—Amazon Prime Video just announced a severe curtailing in its documentary acquisitions, a...

Music

New Music: Behold the curious power of ’80s Japanese mutant pop

John-Paul Shiver - February 11, 2021

'Somewhere Between' comp highlights moment when minimal electronic gestures seemed like big experiments.

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