This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask.

Plus: Thee Oh Sees veer fabulously 'Off Course,' DUM1 spawns a diamond under drastic circumstances, more music ...

But I’m wondering if instead of spending so much of that money on consultants, canvassers, mass media advertising and a ton ...

Political ambition can change people, fast. Matt Haney was part of the city’s left until he decided that being a moderate ...

Have you ever felt a twinge of dread passing through a dead mall, a parking garage, a half-empty arcade? Harry Nordlinger has, and the San Francisco artist’s comics, etchings and paintings have played ...

A City Charter amendment that could lead to the creation of a public bank cleared the Board of Supes today—with to members ...

Fraenkel Film Fest links visual arts. Plus: sexy-synthy 'Onda Nova,' poet Mary Oliver doc, Turkish mystery 'Burning Days,' ...

In just a few years, this city has moved from a leader in surveillance guardrails to a place where we are spied on everywhere ...

Provocatively melding hard and soft materials into oddball polymorphs, the Oakland artist hopes to spark 'the ability to ...

Plus: A key voter on public power at a diminished Planning Commission, and a dramatic change to 'housing first' policy ...

Scott Wiener’s claims that city Nimbyism is the major culprit in California’s housing crisis, and that his legislation has ...

Continuing our Division 7 streak with first place nods in Fine Arts Writing and Video Journalism, plus Health Reporting, ...