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BIG WEEK: Dahlia Sale, Shipyard Open Studios, Foglifter, GUSH fest, 'Broadway Baby'. ..
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (62+ words) 'Mere Mortals,' Black Gold Sun, SFFILM Fest, 'The Celluloid Closet,' Paranoid London, more to do this week! GENERAL ARTSMarke B. is on it (mostly). MUSICHit up John-Paul Shiver's'Under the Stars'column for great tunes and shows every week. STAGECharles Lewis III checks…...
Alleluia Panis traces a notorious racist miscarriage of justice through dance
17+ hour, 2+ min ago (426+ words) In 1975, two Pilipina nurses were wrongly jailed for murder; choreographer's immersive 'Burden of Proof' imagines their story. Read Charles Lewis III's review of Burden of Proof here. KULARTS recently inaugurated a new home in SF's SOMA Pilipinas neighborhood, which it…...
Drama Masks: From another time of terror, 'Burden of Proof' urges to fight and fear not
23+ hour, 42+ min ago (342+ words) Alleluia Panis' latest dance follows a Pilipina nurse snatched off the streets and wrongly incarcerated. This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I talk venue…...
Lurie wants to undermine mandate for big institutions to tell neighborhoods what they are doing
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (504+ words) Colleges and universities would no longer file Institutional Master Plans in many parts of town For half a century, San Francisco has required large institutions, primarily hospitals and universities, to file every ten years a master plan for growth and…...
Drama Masks: Keeping the monsters of the world at bay
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (111+ words) Perk yourself up with 'Lost in Yonkers' or 'Compton's' riot. Meanwhile, Berkeley Rep's 'The Monsters' tells a sadly familiar tale. This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in…...
Rich people are lying to seniors about the billionaire tax; does the news media care?
1+ week, 3+ day ago (549+ words) Plus: Protecting civilian control of the cops, and is SF 'a liberal oligarchy?' That's The Agenda for April 12-19 I just got a message from some of the richest people in California telling me my (modest) 401(k) plan is at risk. It's…...
Why is the City Attorney's Office 'investigating' a leaked document? It's unprecedented and alarming
2+ week, 53+ min ago (807+ words) It's hard to see the focus on Sup. Fielder's Office as anything except a political vendetta, and the Chron should be ashamed to be part of it. Politicians leak confidential information to the news media all the time. It's how…...
Screen Grabs: Balboa Theater hits 100and honors a costuming legend
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (213+ words) Plus: 'Return to Oz,' a new Camus, Doris Day's cult lesbian moment, Paleolithic Herzog, 'Faces of Death,' more On Sat/18 Rodgers will accept her award in person as well as introduce'Graffiti'and'Body Snatchers. The evening will also include unveiling of a…...
How to catch a crab
2+ week, 8+ hour ago (1538+ words) Reeling in a delicious catch'and finding a friendly community'at Pacifica Pier and beyond. National Crab Meat Day was a month ago'but don't worry if you, like me, missed it. International Crab Day is right around the corner on April 26. We're…...
Under the Stars: Stoked for Stern Grove and SF Bay Popfest lineups, 'lesbian doom folk"
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (741+ words) Ulrika Spacek, Slake, Little Hill Lounge, Mortified, Vinyl Williams, Etc. Wine Bar'so much great stuff in here. We are still Under The Stars, a quasi-weekly SF music column, still staying on message with strong-ass opinions, presenting new music releases, upcoming…...