Book Review: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong’s first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, is written as a letter from Vietnamese-American boy to his mother, Rose. Vuong was born outside […]
Category: ARTS & CULTURE
2019 Wrapped: Ryan Dugan Picks his Top Five Movies of the Year
The movie business forecast for 2019 was dreary. However, the forecasters had called it all wrong. The industry had one of its most successful years […]
Music Spotlight: Bay Area Beat Goes on with La Misa Negra, Sam Johnson
When the band La Misa Negra and singer Sam Johnson started their music careers, they had no idea that they would be part of a […]
Review: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Sitting submerged in movie theatre darkness at the iconic Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia, I await the screening of one of the newest cultural […]
China Live Updates SF’s Perspective on Chinese Cuisine
In the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown is the twenty million dollar, 30,000-square-foot China Live Marketplace. Owned by world-renowned chef and restaurateur George Chen, the […]
Alfonso Curaon’s Roma Amplifies the Voices of Domestic Workers Fighting for Equal Rights
Autobiographical film Roma follows the story of Cleo, a live-in maid, in 1970’s Mexico City. The success of this nationally-praised film, released in early November, […]
Notes on Fashion: The Met Gala in Review
Ah! The Met Gala: the first Monday night in May when Hollywood’s gilded elite gather at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City to flaunt […]
Avengers: Endgame Brings Fitting Conclusion
Marvel Studios delivered a monumental conclusion to their Avengers franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) longest and most star-studded movie made waves across the […]
SF Film Festival Features Up-and-Coming Female Directors
The San Francisco Film Festival celebrated its 62nd festival on April 10th to April 29th, honoring new and emerging filmmakers, and this year, highlighting the […]
Retelling an Ancient Tale: Lick Puts on Beauty and the Beast for Spring Play
This spring the Lick-Wilmerding Theater department is putting on the musical Beauty and the Beast, a classic written by Linda Woolverton, composed by Alan Menken […]
