Tag: Theatre
Arts Forecast: More, More, More! (and more)
Autumn Moon Festival, Litquake lineup, Cal Performances at Home... and a special retrospective from a queen of SF drag.
Raising the wage for tipped workers
'Waging Change' by Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg tracks the fight for better service industry pay, from 9/11 to #MeToo.
A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave
Artist Vida Kuang grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The anti-Asian racism that ramped up at the beginning of the year followed by the lockdown due to the COVID-19...
New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn
Imagine, if you will, a time before carefully categorized and context-free snippets and vignettes on PornHub—a time before 10,000 slangy, jokey descriptors turned sex into a comedy routine-meets-consumer transaction....
Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival
For years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival was a July event, and this summer would have marked its 25th anniversary—but due to you-know-what, that big Castro Theatre shebang...
Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’
As titles go, Ask Any Buddy is evocative. On its surface, it brings up the idea of acquiring knowledge or answers through communication with friends. But there’s another element...
All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’
When Jacki Weaver was asked to star in director Thom Fitzgerald’s latest film, Stage Mother, the Academy Award-nominated Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook actress didn’t hesitate for a...
‘Ahead of the Curve’ flips through legendary lesbian magazine’s impact
For many in the lesbian and queer community, Curve magazine (originally Deneuve), launched in 1990, has been a source of community connection. For filmmaker and philanthropist Jen Rainin, the...
Juneteenth week treats support Black food businesses
There’s more awareness this year about Juneteenth, June 19, which commemorates the 1865 day slaves in Texas learned they were free, and aside from buying food at Black-owned restaurants...
10 years later, H.P. Mendoza’s ‘Fruit Fly’ plays a very changed San Francisco
What Fruit Fly writer/director H.P. Mendoza originally had in mind for the film's 10th anniversary screening at this year's CAAMFest was a replay of its 2010 debut at the...
