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News + Politics

‘She Represents’ teaches teens the good, bad, and infuriating of women in politics

Caitlin Donohue - July 16, 2020

Large, wild quantities of joy and a smattering of acute frustration were involved in writing my first book, the YA title She Represents: 44...

COVID

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

Calvin Welch - March 31, 2020

"There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now. NYC must develop an...

Foreign Correspondent

What’s really going on in Hong Kong

Reese Erlich - July 12, 2019

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT For more than three months, people in Hong Kong massed in the streets to protest a proposed extradition law. Critics say it would...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: She’s the Official Coolest Person Ever

Dennis Harvey - June 11, 2019

SCREEN GRABS Here’s something you don’t normally see mid-summer at the multiplex: Simultaneous openings of two movies with Emma Thompson. Neither are exactly Howard’s...

Movies

Watching at CROSSROADS 2019: Avant-garde film festival returns

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - June 3, 2019

San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual experimental film festival CROSSROADS is celebrating its 10th year at the SFMOMA, Fri/7-Sun/9. With 62 works of film, video, and...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A kung fu classic, an unsung war epic …

Dennis Harvey - March 28, 2018

SCREEN GRABS A few tasty revivals, one new documentary of unusually up-to-the-moment political relevance, and an avant-garde ode to retro 3-D highlight this week,...

Arts + Culture

Taiwan’s jubilant Pride celebration rivals SF’s

Ali Wunderman - November 6, 2017

Taiwan has a lot to be proud of this year. In 2017 the island nation became the first country in Asia to ban the...

Arts + Culture

Look out

Dennis Harvey - June 9, 2017

SCREEN GRABS After the long-fought but still remarkable gains of recent years under the most gay-friendly POTUS in American history, the LGBTQ community has...

Arts + Culture

Ficks’ Picks: The best films of 2015 (spoiler-free!)

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - December 21, 2015

SCREEN GRABS Our esteemed film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, who ranged from horror classics to the Toronto International Film Festival this year, picks the cream...

Arts + Culture

Even more Ficks’ Picks from the Toronto International Film Festival

Marke B. - September 25, 2015

Bucolic witches, splendid cemeteries, awkward Chinese futures, little sisters, swell lobsters, and more from TIFF 40. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. By...

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