the resistance Archives

Arts + Culture

Anteloper’s ‘Pink Dolphins’ grasps the tone of a country in disarray, via jazz energy

John-Paul Shiver - June 29, 2022

Trumpeter jaimie branch's horn screams over the kind of unpredictable rhythms with which we're all learning to live.

Art

The revolutionary realism of Alice Neel

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - June 17, 2022

The painter's extraordinary work, now at the DeYoung, proves that socially engaged art is anything but boring and irrelevant.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Video game-inspired ‘Detention’ spins Taiwanese fascism into psychological horror

Dennis Harvey - October 6, 2021

Plus: The rundown on the new 007 film, the Roxie's giallo fest, and other new releases to launch your Halloween season

Movies

Indigenous cinema triumphs at Toronto International Film Festival

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - October 5, 2021

Legendary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin finally gets her due with a 19-movie tribute—plus 'Angakusajaujuq' and 'Night Raiders' make Fick's Picks

Movies

New doc ‘Bring Your Own Brigade’ asks why wildfires just keep growing

Joshua Rotter - July 29, 2021

Filmmaker Lucy Walker examines the tragic, recent damage—and finds there's more to blame than climate change

Lit

Black Freighter Press sails in, boosting writers of color and radical imagination

Alan Chazaro - April 14, 2021

The revolution will be published, with the help of SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and Alie Jones' new outlet.

Performance

Screen star Colman Domingo revisits Bay Area roots for Mime Troupe celebration

Joshua Rotter - March 9, 2021

The very hot actor on Chadwick Boseman, 'Nash Bridges,' and his powerful work with the Troupe's Youth Theatre Project

Culture

San Francisco Mime Troupe: Best of the Bay 2020 Editors’ Pick

48 Hills - December 22, 2020

Pivoting to online 'radio plays,' the 51-year-old favorite brought us vibrant 'Tales of the Resistance' and a timely 'Red Carol'

Best of the Bay

BEST OF THE BAY 2020 EDITORS’ PICKS

48 Hills - December 1, 2020

We're highlighting some of the tremendous people, places, and things that made the Bay Area shine during one heck of a year

Music

For Puerto Rican freedom, MaJo Montijo summons a bomba ‘Huracán’

Joanna Ladd - October 27, 2020

Oakland musician fights "continuous colonial disaster," including Hurricane María aftermath, with gale-force release.

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