.Arts & Culture

Oct 31, 2024

Retrospective showcases revolutionary Soviet filmmaker

Sergei Parajanov is a filmmaking superstar most of today’s moviegoers have never heard of. And yet the late director (1924-1990) is hailed by fellow cineastes, critics and historians as one of the greatest film artists who ever lived.  Joseph Stalin and the other 20th century Soviet apparatchiks made it their...
Social Eyes: Week of Oct. 31 - Nov. 5
Oct 29, 2024

Social Eyes: Week of Oct. 31 – Nov. 5

THURSDAY HALLOWEEN DEATH AND TAXES Fangs dripping blood and maniacs with knives are so . . . well, dead. The Death and Taxes Swing Band offers a livelier way to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve as they kick it up at...
Cannabis voters have a clear choice
Oct 29, 2024

Cannabis voters have a clear choice

It might seem incongruous, to say the least, but some people in the cannabis community are at least open to Donald Trump and JD Vance taking back the White House. Others seem to genuinely believe it doesn’t...
Free Will Astrology: Week of Oct. 30
Oct 29, 2024

Free Will Astrology: Week of Oct. 30

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many people believe in the existence of ghosts. If you’re not yet one of them, you may be soon. The spirit world is more open than usual to your curiosity and explorations. Keep...
Attaboy's 'Portal' into nothing and everything
Oct 22, 2024

Attaboy’s ‘Portal’ into nothing and everything

Richmond-based artist Daniel “Attaboy” Seifert is fascinated by transition and transience. Both of these fascinations are expressed in his solo show, “Portal,” on view at San Francisco’s 111 Minna Gallery through December. “If you look up at the...
Cumbia saves Chuck Prophet
Oct 22, 2024

Cumbia saves Chuck Prophet

The songs on Chuck Prophet’s new release, Wake the Dead, underwent a long gestation period. He was getting ready to tour behind his last album, 2020’s The Land That Time Forgot, when he was told he had...
Psyched! Fest returns to the Bay Area
Oct 22, 2024

Psyched! Fest returns to the Bay Area

With Autumn days shortening and a chill hitting as the sun goes down, our summer music festivals have come to an end. No more long, hot days outdoors spent watching a live mixtape of all the new...
Social Eyes: Week of Oct. 24-30
Oct 22, 2024

Social Eyes: Week of Oct. 24-30

THURSDAY CLASSIC ROCK STEELY DEAD Steely Dead is exactly what it sounds like: A unique tribute band fusing Steely Dan’s polished precision and complexity with the improvisational jam-band spirit of the Grateful Dead. It’s a kind of musical mad scientist’s...
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