Tijuana Archives - 48 hills

Movies

Screen Grabs: Dance Film Fest leaps onto screen—and out of prison yards

Dennis Harvey - September 18, 2023

Plus: Carlos Santana's story, Cambodian cinema showcase, 'North by Northwest' in 35mm, and campy hell on wheels

Drug policy

The myth of drug cartels is a cover for state-sanctioned violence

Caitlin Donohue - August 11, 2023

Author Oswaldo Zavala says the way we think about Mexican narcos is all wrong

Music

Banda brilliance: Tijuana DJ Xolo brings Mexican roots to St. Mary’s Pub

Caitlin Donohue - July 9, 2023

Selector locates resistance in the 'music and culture of the paleteros, people who sell at the swapmeet, and day laborers.'

Movies

Screen Grabs: Workin’ for a livin’ (and documentin’ it, too)

Dennis Harvey - June 20, 2022

From aspirational cowhands and Mexican dancehall girls to Chernobyl workers and Syrian artists, these docs get their hands dirty.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Walk gently into reopening with Kronos Festival and Pop-Up Mag

Marke B. - June 9, 2021

SOUNDWALK and 'The Sidewalk Issue' get you outside. Plus: Performing Diaspora, Flor Y Canto fest, Out of Site, more

Art

Review: In ‘Uncanny Valley,’ disturbing ripples from artificial intelligence

Genevieve Quick - April 29, 2021

Excellent De Young show reveals technology's ties to oppressive tactics—and art's to the arms trade

Art

WPA, but make it COVID: Artists document pandemic for city time capsule

Caitlin Donohue - February 22, 2021

At COVID-19 Command Center, four artists-in-residence record SF's response for future generations.

Music

10 artists centering Latinidad in the sound of the Bay today

Richard Villegas - July 28, 2020

For over 50 years, the Bay Area has been a crucial intersection of global music. Everything from psych rock to funk, hip hop, and...

Beyond ‘Suavecito’: A tribute journey through Jorge Santana’s Chicano rock

John-Paul Shiver - June 8, 2020

Guillermo "Jorge" Santana, the musician, guitarist, and younger brother of Carlos Santana—who passed on May 14 of natural causes at the age of 68...

News + Politics

Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 2

Fabian Fernandez, Levi Vonk, Seth M. Holmes. - December 7, 2018

Read part 1 of our coverage here. Three days ago, anthropologists Seth M. Holmes, Fabian Fernandez, and Levi Vonk returned to UC Berkeley after meeting...

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