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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The French Had a Name For It …

Dennis Harvey - November 12, 2018

SCREEN GRABS Importation of foreign language films has reportedly been on the decline for many years because US audiences are growing more resistant to reading...

Onstage

No men, no boats, no problem: ACT’s ‘Men on Boats’ is wild ride

Elaine Elinson - November 8, 2018

ONSTAGE The first thing you notice about Men on Boats at A.C.T.’s Strand Theater (through December 16) is that there are no men and there are...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Festival mania fills local cinemas!

Dennis Harvey - November 6, 2018

SCREEN GRABS There is surely nowhere in the world with more film festivals per capita than San Francisco. While the bigger annual events are...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Absolutely Fabulous Live, Punk-Metal Flea Market, Crime 1978

Marke B. - November 4, 2018

ARTS FORECAST Hey, hey! Maybe you have heard that we released a little thing called Best of the Bay last week, with a whole section...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Dia de los Muertos, Diwali, Blackalicious …

Marke B. - October 31, 2018

ARTS FORECAST "In San Francisco, Day of the Dead has been celebrated in the Mission district sincethe early 70’s. The Marigold Project was created in...

Movies

Rami Malek, the man who would be Queen, on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Joshua Rotter - October 31, 2018

When Rami Malek was originally cast to play Freddie Mercury in Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody," (opening Friday), he knew little about the lead singer...

Movies

Reconstituting Orson Welles, in ‘Wind’ and in ‘Love’

Dennis Harvey - October 29, 2018

When Orson Welles died in 1985 at age 70—hardly “prematurely,” since given his prodigious appetites (esp. culinary) it was already a miracle he’d survived...

Onstage

A timely, unrelenting family drama unfolds at Magic Theatre

Elaine Elinson - October 25, 2018

ONSTAGE When Annie (Martha Brigham) opens the front door of her family home at the beginning of Magic Theatre's "The Resting Place" (through November 4),...

Dance

Post-human radical inclusivity, center-stage in ‘Beyond Gravity’

Emily Wilson - October 24, 2018

DANCE Choreographer Jess Curtis grew up in Chico and studied dance and English at Cal State there. Then he came to San Francisco, which changed...

Arts + Culture

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

Marke B. - October 21, 2018

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...

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