Arts & Culture

Tanya Tucker's time: new documentary on Country musician

Tanya Tucker's time: new documentary on Country musician

  • MUSIC
  • by Gregg Shapiro
  • Nov 15, 2022

Combining studio footage, along with numerous vintage visual and audio clips, "The Return of Tanya Tucker: featuring Brandi Carlile" paints a compelling portrait of Texas-born and Arizona-raised Tucker as an influential country music artist.

'Blood-Red Ox' - superb performances, senseless script

'Blood-Red Ox' - superb performances, senseless script

  • MOVIES
  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Nov 15, 2022

Rodrigo Bellott's 'Blood-Red Ox' is a strange film. It features extraordinary performances from a superb cast, but the script makes little sense.

Arab Film Festival's diverse LGBTQ stories

Arab Film Festival's diverse LGBTQ stories

  • MOVIES
  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Nov 11, 2022

The 26th edition of the Arab Film Festival will run November 11-20 in-person at the Castro Theatre, Roxie Theater, and Oakland's New Parkway Theater, and online.

Going Out, Homing's In, Nov. 10-18, 2022

Going Out, Homing's In, Nov. 10-18, 2022

  • MUSIC
  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Nov 10, 2022

Get your tickets for the cavalcade of talent headed our way, on stage, in nightclubs and other venues.

Dr. Patricia Grayhall's 'Making the Rounds'

Dr. Patricia Grayhall's 'Making the Rounds'

  • BOOKS
  • by Laura Moreno
  • Nov 8, 2022

Beginning with her earliest memories of trying to fit in, 'Making the Rounds: Defying Norms In Love & Medicine' is an interesting memoir and Grayhall's first book.

Amy Ray on Indigo Girls and her seventh solo album

Amy Ray on Indigo Girls and her seventh solo album

  • MUSIC
  • by Gregg Shapiro
  • Nov 8, 2022

Whether out singer-songwriter Amy Ray is performing with longtime musical partner Emily Saliers as one half of the Indigo Girls —as she has since the mid-1980s— or going solo as she did with her solo debut "Stag" in 2001, you can recognize her instantly.

Classical music's culture alley & underworlds

Classical music's culture alley & underworlds

  • MUSIC
  • by Philip Campbell
  • Nov 8, 2022

The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center or "culture alley" on Van Ness Ave., is ablaze with activity this month. The Opera House, Davies Symphony Hall, and Herbst Theatre are presenting festive and diverse musical events.

'My Policeman' - drab historical film's forbidden affair

'My Policeman' - drab historical film's forbidden affair

  • MOVIES
  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Nov 8, 2022

The first word that comes to mind when we recall watching "My Policeman," the British drama, now available on Amazon Prime Video, is dreary. And by dreary we are referring not only to its execution, but the context that forms the film.

'The Lost Art of Dreaming' - Sean Dorsey Dance at Z Space

'The Lost Art of Dreaming' - Sean Dorsey Dance at Z Space

  • DANCE
  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Nov 8, 2022

Sean Dorsey Dance will commence their 18th season when their new concert, "The Lost Art of Dreaming" premieres at Z Space for a three-day run. The show is the culmination of Dorsey's 20-year commitment to giving trans and queer dancers a platform.

SF Trans Film Festival's 25th

SF Trans Film Festival's 25th

  • MOVIES
  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Nov 8, 2022

It's been 25 years since the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival first came into being. Over the years the festival has grown to become one of the most respected and best-known events in the trans community.

Semiotext(e)'s new and recent translated books

Semiotext(e)'s new and recent translated books

  • BOOKS
  • by Mark William Norby
  • Nov 8, 2022

You can build a compact, power-packed little library of books translated for the first time into English and released by Semiotext(e) this fall or in recent years. Each work seems to touch the vast cosmos of French arts and letters.

'Breaking Myths' - Brazilian political documentary's queer edge

'Breaking Myths' - Brazilian political documentary's queer edge

  • MOVIES
  • by Laura Moreno
  • Nov 8, 2022

Queer filmmaker Fernando Grostein Andrade's new film "Breaking Myths: the Fragile and Catastrophic Masculinity of Jair Bolsonaro" is a deep dive into the topic of what politics in Brazil has become since Jair Bolsonaro came to power.

Going Out, Homing's In, Nov. 3-11, 2022

Going Out, Homing's In, Nov. 3-11, 2022

  • CULTURE
  • by Jim Provenzano
  • Nov 3, 2022

There may be a chill in the air, but we've got plenty of arts and nightlife events to warm you up.

Boys interrupted: Nick Malakhow's stirring professional debut

Boys interrupted: Nick Malakhow's stirring professional debut

  • THEATER
  • by Jim Gladstone
  • Nov 1, 2022

After attending the world-premiere production of "A Picture of Two Boys," now on stage at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, audience members will have much to discuss.