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Outside the box

by Irene Hsiao If there's one thing that characterizes a LEVYdance performance, it is the company's desire to challenge the gaze of the proscenium stage, whether it means putting dance in the alleyway...

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Original Anime

by Silke Tudor Long before Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata founded Studio Ghibli – the production company behind My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Monoke, and Spirited Away among others – they created...

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Taking Flight

by Emilie Mutert Comic Arj Barker is originally from the Bay Area, and he's probably most famous at this point for his role as confident, self-professed ladies' man Dave on Flight of the Conchords....

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Gathered Together

by Laura Jaye Cramer Years ago, queer porn icon Courtney Trouble decided to throw a rager in her backyard, complete with DJs, dancing, Jello shots, and a baby pool full of glitter. When El Rio caught...

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Word Orgy

by Evan Karp Paul Corman-Roberts is known to many as Zeus of Oakland. This is in large part due to the epic, often mytho-metaphysical aspects of his poetry, which he usually recites in a singular...

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Moves Like Summer

by Irene Hsiao San Francisco Conservatory of Dance launches its fifth annual Summer Dance Series with a studio performance by Stephanie Salts and Monica Gonzalez, both dancers with New Jersey's Lustig...

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Wowie Woo Wow

by Ginger Murray Hang onto yourself, Ziggy Stardust is coming to Sweetwater Music Hall to celebrate the Fourth of July with all you young Americans. The actual David Bowie has long since put away his...

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Gentrification's Ripples

by Laura Jaye Cramer It sounds like the start of an old joke — what happens when an aging commie, an immigrant-turned-patriot, and a new-money techie are stuck together in a boat? The punchline is...

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Solo Soul

by Irene Hsiao Snakes coil, vines spiral, the earth revolves, the planets orbit, and on our spinning planet whirl all the cells, adding and subtracting to the massive torque of the universe. Dance...

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The Living Room Readings

by Evan Karp Last year, a group of East Bay poets organized a weekend-long festival of free house readings by poets visiting from across the country, raising a modest sum to help pay traveling costs...

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Rebels' Renaissance

by Evan Karp Small arts organization Queer Rebels has been providing a place for art and performance by queer people of color since 2008. With a mission that looks to the past experiences of its...

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Pickle Tradition

by Laura Jaye Cramer In the early '70s, a small group of jugglers and clowns started The Pickle Family Circus with a simple premise: All performers were paid equally, everyone had to put in the same...

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Our History

by Laura Jaye Cramer Ten years goes by quickly. Since 2004 we've seen iPhone generations 1-5s, a nudity ban, the Giants' World Series wins, and even the legalization of same-sex marriage.…[ Read more...

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Cartooning for Change

by Samuel Sattin The polar ice caps are melting, water levels are rising, and it's getting hotter and hotter every year. That's why you should drop in on Yoram Bauman's Climate Cartoons event.…[ Read...

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Apocalypse

by Neha Talreja How do you make a film about a man as famously elusive as Bill Callahan? Filmmaker (and future Mrs. Callahan) Hanly Banks certainly didn't expect him to explain the lyrical labyrinths...

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Joy and Memory

by Irene Hsiao Happiness is volatile: Its nature elusive, its pursuit interminable. To acquire it is to assume the affliction of its loss, yet its possibility fuels the sacrifices we make for love.…[...

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Squealer and Snowball

by Evan Karp It's hilarious to take characters from classic novels and put them in a pornographic version of the present, but when those characters are animals... it's probably even more hilarious....

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Poppy Poems

by Silke Tudor The patron saint of Red Poppy Art House is Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, a "materialist, who never believed / in any promised heaven in the sky" but always believed in the profound power...

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Preview: The Crystal Method DJ Set

by Derek Opperman Long before the current EDM boom, there was another similar moment in U.S. dance music history in the 1990s. The Crystal Method was a big part of this.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to...

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Encore, Encore!

by Irene Hsiao No other art feels mortality the way dance does, with its medium only the frail, ephemeral flesh. The San Francisco dance community comes together to raise funds for choreographer...

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