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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….

Marke B. - October 10, 2019

ARTS FORECAST File under: more of this please! According to the Bay Area Reporter, the buildings housing legendary Latinx queer bar El Rio have...

Arts + Culture

‘Free For All’: Not your great-great-grandmother’s Miss Julie

Emily Wilson - October 9, 2019

While Megan Cohen was attending Stanford University, she considered a career in acting. But performing scenes from August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, where Julie, an aristocrat...

Campaign Trail

Breed’s popularity dropping rapidly

Tim Redmond - October 8, 2019

Mayor London Breed is running essentially unopposed – but that doesn’t mean she’s popular with the electorate. A series of recent, reliable polls obtained...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest

Dennis Harvey - October 8, 2019

Who knows if we’ll ever see the day when the Arab Film Film Festival does not seem of urgent political relevance. But this year’s...

Onstage

Navigating gender’s fluidity in a sea of apps with ‘#femMASCULINE’

Peter-Astrid Kane - October 8, 2019

When San Francisco artist Kevin Seaman walked into the Lone Star or other similar LGBTQ spaces dressed as his outspoken and cartoonishly hyperfeminine drag...

The Onyx spirals upward, beaming ‘Black Girl Magic’

Joanna Ladd - October 7, 2019

It’s a Thursday night at The Uptown in Oakland, and people are filtering in for the opening set. Six black women take the stage,...

Culture

Celebrating 50 groundbreaking years of Ethnic Studies with ‘Solidarity’

Emily Wilson - October 7, 2019

When he was 13, PJ Gubatina Policarpio moved from the Philippines to San Francisco’s Excelsior District. As a student at Balboa High School, he...

Lit

At Litquake, the infamous Literary Death Match hits 500

Peter-Astrid Kane - October 7, 2019

The field of literature is often criticized for its focus on dead writers, but you can’t blame Literary Death Match for adding to the...

News + Politics

DA deal? D5 money … and will an 11-year EIR ever die?

Tim Redmond - October 6, 2019

There are really only two questions for George Gascon at this point: Did he cut a deal with the mayor (and everyone knows Gascon...

Campaign Trail

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

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