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Peaches Christ will scare your pants off with ‘Terror Vault’

Anything from the darkly hilarious mind of our very own drag Mistress of the Twisted, Peaches Christ, is worth a peek at—preferably through your...

Party Radar: El Rio’s 40th, Bardot-A-Go-Go, Juliana Huxtable …

PARTY RADAR Welp, it took me two weeks to recover from Folsom Street Fair, so that means we've got a lot to catch up on!...

Arts Forecast: Behold, the mighty Litquake!

ARTS FORECAST It's Litquake time again (October 11-20), when the enormous literary festival takes over the city's venues—and, for Litcrawl on October 20, basically any...

Chekhov, with some curveballs, in Cutting Ball’s ‘Uncle Vanya’

ONSTAGE George Saulnier plays the title role in Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which opens the Cutting Ball Theater’s 20th anniversary season (through October 21). Saulnier...

Screen Grabs: Free Solo, Arab Film Fest, Studio 54…

SCREEN GRABS Two of the major releases are major disappointments from hitherto reliable directors. Scenarist Drew Goddard’s first directorial feature since ingenious horror deconstruction...

ACT’s ‘Sweat’ asks: When does class solidarity end and racism begin?

ONSTAGE  The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...

25 cheers for the Kinsey Sicks!

ONSTAGE Creamy voices, sharp tongues, bright dresses, and a whole lot of hairspray have been the calling cards of "dragapella" performance quartet the Kinsey Sicks...

Power, corruption, and lust: A timely ‘Tosca’ at SF Opera

Shawna Lucey has strong feeling about Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, which she directs for the San Francisco Opera October 3-30.  “It’s the perfect opera,” she said. “It’s...

Ficks’ Picks at TIFF: Midnight movie madness

Our critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks caught this year’s Toronto International Film festival. Read more of his coverage here.  TIFF The most difficult ticket to get at...

Making noise and empowering girls: 15 years of Women’s Audio Mission

ALL EARS For 15 years, the sound engineers at SoMa neighborhood-based Women’s Audio Mission have been applying their skills to one of the field’s trickiest...