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Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Tiny - December 17, 2018

“This (conservatorship law) sounds like slavery to me,” Memphis, houseless poverty skola reporter for POOR Magazine’s RoofLESS radio, reported after a terrifying town hall on...

Onstage

Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is a musical triumph, hashtags and all

Marke B. - December 16, 2018

ONSTAGE I admit I raced to see Dear Evan Hansen (through December 30 at the Curran) out of spite. Not to mock the smash-hit Grammy/Tony-winning...

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...

News + Politics

Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 1

Fabian Fernandez, Levi Vonk, Seth M. Holmes. - December 5, 2018

Three days ago, anthropologists Seth M. Holmes, Fabian Fernandez, and Levi Vonk returned to UC Berkeley after meeting the migrant caravan in Tijuana. During...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Holiday zombies, wild Youtubers, Japanese classics…

Dennis Harvey - December 4, 2018

SCREEN GRABS There was so much happening last week, we didn’t have room to mention two major series now already in-progress at Berkeley’s Pacific...

Movies

Viggo Mortensen on ‘Green Book,’ personal growth, and racism in America

Joshua Rotter - November 28, 2018

Actor Viggo Mortensen said he’s grown a lot since filming Green Book and hitting the road for the movie’s promo tour. “If I hadn’t done it,...

Arts Forecast

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

Marke B. - November 25, 2018

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...

Onstage

Holcombe Waller’s timely queer ‘Requiem’ for persecuted LGBTQs

Marke B. - November 13, 2018

ONSTAGE Holcombe Waller does "total theater." The Portland artist-composer approaches music in terms of ritual, history, art, movement, and conceptual ideas, creating a spectacle...

News + Politics

On Veterans Day, let’s also remember those who fought for the right to dissent

Elaine Elinson - November 11, 2018

When Robert Simmons, an African American man from Savannah, Georgia, was brought to the foggy, windswept island of Alcatraz in the winter of 1918,...

Opinion

Solidarity after the massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh

Rabbi Michael Lerner - October 29, 2018

Rabbi Michael Lerner, who leads the Beyt Tikkun Synagogue-Without-Walls in Berkeley and is the editor of Tikkun magazine, sent this out to his community in the...

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Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is a musical triumph, hashtags and all

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

Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 1

Screen Grabs: Holiday zombies, wild Youtubers, Japanese classics…

Viggo Mortensen on ‘Green Book,’ personal growth, and racism in America

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

Holcombe Waller’s timely queer ‘Requiem’ for persecuted LGBTQs

On Veterans Day, let’s also remember those who fought for the right to dissent

Solidarity after the massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh

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