the resistance Archives

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.

Music

New Music: Big Joanie, Eki Shola, Osees, Clipping., more deliver fall-ready tunes

John-Paul Shiver - August 31, 2020

August may be fading into fall, but the music in 2020 keeps on a-coming. Here are some joints resonating with us. PSA: STOP MURDERING BLACK PEOPLE....

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Every day they write the book

Dennis Harvey - August 6, 2020

Writing and writers seem to be the dominant theme in this weekend’s new releases—something that is seldom a particularly exciting subject for movies, admittedly....

Onstage

Take that, 2020: The Mime Troupe pivots to web

Caitlin Donohue - July 20, 2020

It’s a rough time for live theater. As San Francisco arts organizations brainstorm ways to carry their message into the COVID era, some of...

News + Politics

A brief history of replacing Trump with kittens

Caitlin Donohue - July 7, 2020

Picture in your mind’s eye a bug-eyed, enigma-faced kitten at peace, chilling in its home, it’s cheek tufts spreading wantonly. I hate to do...

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