Sunday, May 5, 2024

Tagged with: Violence

Homeless people — in cages

Here lies the unhoused soldier  Killed in the undeclared war on the poor Just tryin to survive outside --  to hide on a bus bench,  away from your...

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

  No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

Screen Grabs: Dynamation Celebration, African Film Fest, and even more cats!

SCREEN GRABS It’s a busy week for arthouse openings and other film events of interest, though we couldn’t see everything in advance. Among the...

Cross-bay institution Black Choreographers Festival celebrates its first 15 years

“A courageous/ambitious idea,” is how co-founder Laura Ellis characterizes the birth of her and fellow choreographer Kendra Barnes’ enduring yearly event, the Black Choreographers...

Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

Nine hundred ninety-eight. That’s how many people were shot and killed by police in the US in 2018. And 115 of those were in...

What we saw at Sundance, Part 1

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2019 With more than 14,000 submissions from more than 150 countries, the Sundance Film Festival (which celebrated its 35th Anniversary) narrowed down...

Screen Grabs: British Film Fest, Holiday, Tongues Untied….

SCREEN GRABS As we mourn the abrupt loss of the AMC Van Ness 14—it closed on short notice last week—and hope the same fate...

Arts Forecast: Son Jarocho Festival, J Dilla shots, and queer gamers unite!

ARTS FORECAST In the years that have passed since the 2006 death of Detroit producer, J. Dilla’s import has only come into sharper focus....

ACLU sues after Sacramento sheriff blocks Black Lives Matter on Facebook

  The First Amendment protects freedom of expression, but how does that law, written hundreds of years before smartphones were even imagined, apply to today’s...

Slain SF club kid Bubbles’ legacy lives on in ‘Bohemian Berlin Disco’

"Defender of androgyny and living life at the top of your lungs!"  Anyone who came into the chaotic, inspiring, often obnoxious but ultimately priceless orbit...