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[UPDATED] Arts festival sues city in push for safe live performances—before rain comes

Marke B. - October 20, 2020

City revokes SF International Arts Festival permit for weekend program as arts languish amid reopenings

Lit

‘Because Horror’! Read an exclusive excerpt from new fright flick anthology

Johnny Ray Huston - October 17, 2020

Here, slide into 1979's surreal, bloody 'Tourist Trap' in all its Panavision powers and doomed nostalgia

Performance

‘It Can’t Happen Here’ returns, right before election

Emily Wilson - October 5, 2020

A collaborative radio drama from Berkeley Rep revives the Sinclair Lewis classic, which won raves four years ago

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: More, More, More! (and more)

Marke B. - September 17, 2020

Autumn Moon Festival, Litquake lineup, Cal Performances at Home... and a special retrospective from a queen of SF drag.

Movies

Raising the wage for tipped workers

Emily Wilson - September 8, 2020

'Waging Change' by Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg tracks the fight for better service industry pay, from 9/11 to #MeToo.

Arts + Culture

A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave

Emily Wilson - July 30, 2020

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...

Movies

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Johnny Ray Huston - July 17, 2020

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...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Dennis Harvey - July 7, 2020

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,...

Movies

Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

Johnny Ray Huston - June 24, 2020

As titles go, Ask Any Buddy is evocative. On its surface, it brings up the idea of acquiring knowledge or answers through communication with...

Movies

All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

Joshua Rotter - June 23, 2020

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...

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[UPDATED] Arts festival sues city in push for safe live performances—before rain comes

‘Because Horror’! Read an exclusive excerpt from new fright flick anthology

‘It Can’t Happen Here’ returns, right before election

Arts Forecast: More, More, More! (and more)

Raising the wage for tipped workers

A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

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