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DJ Spooky spins the Web in YBCA’s ‘Quantopia’

ALL EARS For many, the Internet has come to seem ominous in recent years: It now represents, among other things, gentrification, invasion, surveillance, weird...

Ficks’ Picks: Best Movies of 2018

FICKS' PICKS Jesse Hawthorne Ficks picks his favorite films of 2018 and presents them in a double bill format. Save this spoiler-free list for...

Screen Grabs: Our favorite movies of the year (and what’s on now)

SCREEN GRABS As 2018 comes to a close, we can pause and reflect that as so often is the case, what was a pretty...

Doormat Division: A huge upset …

MASSIVE UPSET: 49ERS 26, SEAHAGS 23 (OT) A monkey got off everybody's back in Santa Clara yesterday. The 49ers, against all expectations, finally beat the...

Screen Grabs: Robin Hood, Spider-Verse, The Quake …

SCREEN GRABS There’s a rather large number of films we didn’t get (and/or want) to see in advance opening this week, including Once Upon...

Austen, downstairs, in ‘The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly’

ONSTAGE When asked if he read novels, the philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, “Oh yes. All six, every year.” Ryle was talking about the work of Jane...

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Animal Collective, Dear Evan Hansen…

ARTS FORECAST What was your first introduction to "nice" restaurants? Not nice as in fancy, but nice as in somewhere warm and interesting, somewhere that...

As a queer POC, El Beh finds joy in playing ‘Mary Poppins’

ONSTAGE El Beh, who plays the title role in San Francisco Playhouse’s Mary Poppins (through January 12), never would have thought to play the no-nonsense nanny...

Arts Forecast: Mezzanine closing, Taylor Mac, Laurie Anderson, Angela Davis…

ARTS FORECAST Right before Thanksgiving came the infuriating news that, after 16 years, SF's largest woman-owned independent music venue, Mezzanine, was planning to close next...

A rush of that ol’ razzle dazzle in ‘Crazy For You’

ONSTAGE Remember “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I Got Rhythm,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” and “Embraceable You”? Can you hear these Gershwin tunes...