‘Allo, lovers of music and culture. We are Under the Stars, a quasi-weekly column that stays on message with strong-ass opinions, presenting new music releases and upcoming shows. There’s something ...

Time and Water, Sara Dosa’s new documentary opening in Bay Area theaters Fri/5, was inspired when when she read a 2019 essay in the Guardian entitled, “How do you say goodbye to a glacier?” Andri Snær ...

As we predicted, the local polls were not trustworthy: Saikat Chakrabarti spent more than $8 million on his Congressional campaign and so far has 16,000 votes. Sup. Connie Chan has 28 percent of the ...

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 safety and dramatic substance, or the lack thereof. As I ...

On June 5, The Human League returns to The Warfield—where it played its first San Francisco gig back in 1982—alongside Soft Cell and Alison Moyet for the “Generations Tour,” a lineup that feels less ...

Miami-based metalcore outfit Poison the Well wound up their tour for first album in 17 years Peace in Place at Regency Ballroom, May 17, and a thirsty crowd drank it all down. Besides new tracks like ...

As a social documentarian working in analog photography, Norma I. Quintana is deeply interested in the way memory inhabits the body, faces, and places of a community. Her formal studies are reflective ...

At some point in our lives, we all begin to grapple with the death of loved ones. For San Francisco contemporary dancer and choreographer Marina Fukushima, the loss of her father a year and a half ago ...

There was a time when Abram Jackson didn’t know a position like his current job as director of interpretation for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco existed. But it does—and now, he works with ...

Frameline Film Fest—the world’s first and largest continually running LGBTQ+ movie festival—is celebrating 50 years, June 17-27, and we have 20 free tickets to give away, good for the fest’s dozens of ...

There is a scenario in which someone other than state Sen. Scott Wiener represents San Francisco in Congress. Wiener will come in first in Tuesday’s primary, but he won’t get a majority; more than ...

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