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Pianist Holly Mead echoes quarantine angst on new album ‘Solitary Animals’

Joanna Ladd - July 15, 2020

Pianist and composer Holly Mead picked the title Solitary Animals for her fourth album months before COVID-19 spun us all into cocoons of solitude....

Lit

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Emily Wilson - June 30, 2020

Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter....

Movies

All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

Joshua Rotter - June 23, 2020

When Jacki Weaver was asked to star in director Thom Fitzgerald’s latest film, Stage Mother, the Academy Award-nominated Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Into ‘The Vast of Night’—and beyond

Dennis Harvey - May 30, 2020

A couple restored minor classics, plus new features about recording-industry sexism, Islamic fundamentalism and UFO invasion, make this another wide-ranging week in the streaming...

Lit

Tori Amos: ‘Artists will be the second round of responders’

Joshua Rotter - May 6, 2020

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos is quick to applaud the first responders—the doctors, nurses, and EMTs—who are currently risking their lives to save others during the...

News + Politics

Phyllis Lyon, lesbian rights icon, passes at 95

Marke B. - April 9, 2020

It's impossible to imagine the queer rights movement without Phyllis Lyon, who passed away today at the age of 95 of natural causes. Along...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Forget those Oscars, let’s go to Berlin & beyond

Dennis Harvey - February 4, 2020

The Oscars are this Sunday, which ceremony will provide its annual mercy-killing service of putting a stop to the endless “awards season” talk—at least...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Bombshells, Cats, and Star Wars—must be holiday time

Dennis Harvey - December 17, 2019

As we are now single-digit shopping days from Xmas, the really big multiplex presents are arriving, whether they were on your wish list or...

Arts + Culture

At Zinn Fair, Peter Cole explores SF’s unique history of labor and race

James Tracy - December 3, 2019

In Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in South Africa and the San Francisco Bay Area, labor historian Peter Cole uncovers the undocumented history of waterfront...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A feast of docs and dancing

Dennis Harvey - October 29, 2019

It’s a big week for non-fiction cinema, the main event being SFFilm’s fifth annual Doc Stories, which brings together several of the year’s most...

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