The Drumbeat of Home: How Loco Bloco Keeps One Family Tethered to the Mission

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/24 11:24A Gabe Meline

Editor’s note : This story is part of KQED’s Youth Takeover . Throughout the week of April 22-26, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area. The booming sounds can be...

SFMOMA Workers Urge the Museum to Support Palestinians in an Open Letter

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/24 8:33A Nastia Voynovskaya

On Wednesday morning, a group of workers at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) published an open letter to museum leadership, urging them to take a public stance in solidarity with Palestinians and join a boycott of Israeli...

The Rainin Foundation Announces Its 2024 Fellows, Receiving $100,000 Each

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/24 8:08A Pendarvis Harshaw

The Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced its 2024 class of fellows on Wednesday, giving unrestricted grants of $100,000 each to three individual artists and one trio of creatives. The list includes...

SF Symphony helped me enjoy ‘Lord of the Rings’

The Bold Italic San Francisco 4/24 6:43A Saul Sugarman

From film to stage Set against live music, the high-fantasy aspects of a wildly successful franchise are finally palatable for this cynic. Unpopular opinion: I’m not a Lord of the Rings fan. This is a film franchise that’s grossed about $3...

Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealism Invites Us to Sit With Uncertainty

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/24 5:00A KQED Arts

“Please don’t ask me to explain them,” Dorothea Tanning once said of her paintings. “I just don’t think it’s possible.” Tanning, who died in 2012 at the age of 101, had a career in the arts that spanned several movements, but Surrealism was...

Lumumba Lives! Alongside Max, Abbey, Dizzy and Duke in ‘Soundtrack for a Coup d’Etat’

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/23 11:55A Michael Fox

In the hands of Johan Grimonprez, archival footage carries a 200-volt charge. That dusty patina and musty aroma that envelops most period documentaries? Not a whiff in Grimonprez’s work, which crackles, buzzes and stings like a live wire hitched...

Amy Tan’s Bird Obsession Led to a New Book — and Keeping Mealworms in Her Fridge

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/23 9:17A KQED Arts

If you know author Amy Tan for The Joy Luck Club — a novel about Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco — her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles , might seem like a deviation. That s because Tan didn t set out to write a book when she...

Larry June to Headline Stanford’s Free Blackfest

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/23 8:38A Pendarvis Harshaw

San Francisco rapper Larry June will headline Stanford University s Blackfest , a completely free annual event organized by students and open to the general public, on May 4 at the university s Frost...

A Young Director’s Dreamlike Portrait of Asian American Artists at SF Film

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/22 6:00A KQED Arts

Editor’s note: This story is part of KQED’s Youth Takeover . Throughout the week of April 22-26, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area. Walking into Agelio Batle...

420 was definitely not canceled in San Francisco

The Bold Italic San Francisco 4/21 8:18A The Bold Italic

Smoke out Hippie Hill was still thick with the smoke of countless joints despite organizers snuffing out the official festivities. Photo by Denise Cottin for The Bold Italic. Reported by Denise Cottin with words by Saul Sugarman. Photos by Darryl...

‘Mere Mortals’ changed how I see and experience ballet

The Bold Italic San Francisco 4/19 10:28A Saul Sugarman

Modern dance Part nightclub show, part contortion act. The provocative spectacle by San Francisco Ballet puts both feet firmly in the modern era. San Francisco Ballet in Aszure Barton and Sam Shepherd’s Mere Mortals. Photo by Chris Hardy. I...

2,000-Year-Old Meat Cauldrons Star in the Asian Art Museum’s Newest Exhibit

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/19 9:49A Olivia Cruz Mayeda

A wine cooler, a five-pound gold cup and a whole lot of cauldrons are a few of the ancient items you can find at the Asian Art Museum’s new Phoenix Kingdoms exhibit, which is open to the public from April 19 to July 22. “At the beginning of the...

Best Bets for the 2024 Healdsburg Jazz Festival

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/19 8:38A Gabe Meline

Samara Joy will headline an opening weekend concert for the Healdsburg Jazz Festival on June 16 at Kendall-Jackson winery. (Gabriele Bifolchi) As a Sonoma County resident and jazz fan, I ve gone to the Healdsburg Jazz Festival nearly every year...

Your Phone is Haunted

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/19 6:42A Sarah Hotchkiss

Distance doesn’t really make the heart grow fonder. It makes it colder and harder. We can calculate that distance by our waning attention on events in faraway places, or our lack of curiosity about...

A Lowrider Cruise in Honor of Selena, the Queen of Tejano, in San Francisco

KQED.org (Arts & Culture) 4/18 8:40A Gabe Meline

It s been almost 30 years since Selena, the undisputed Queen of Tejano Music, was tragically murdered — but a group of lowriders are ensuring her memory isn t forgotten. On Saturday, April 20, a lowrider cruise in San Francisco s Mission District...