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2 weeks ago | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter |SF Weekly
The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a powerful piece of immersive theater, returns to the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District on Fri/11.
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2 weeks ago | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter |SF Weekly
Sean Dorsey Dance’s namesake founder needs no introduction. But after two decades of groundbreaking work as a transgender, disabled, and queer dancer, choreographer, writer, educator, and activist, his upcoming milestone is simply too monumental to skip the lead-in. And so: as the first widely recognized transgender modern-dance choreographer in the US, Dorsey has transformed the landscape of contemporary dance.
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3 weeks ago | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter |SF Weekly
A roller derby match and a congressional meeting have more in common than one might expect. Think mayhem, smackdowns, and a lot of people going in circles. One striking difference, which is particularly apparent in Bay Area Derby (BAD) and many of its sister leagues, is their respective approaches to trans athletes. On the roller rink, trans athletes competing in women’s sports is a non-issue.
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2 months ago | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter |SF Weekly
After 55 years, Bay Area songbird Jeannie Piersol is ready to soar. What’s more the far-out singer is taking flight without even leaving The Nest. The Nest is Piersol’s first-ever career-spanning 12-track collection of ‘60s-era studio outtakes, demos, live performances, and sought-after solo singles, originally released via Chess Records’ psychedelic Cadet Concept subsidiary.
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2 months ago | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter |SF Weekly
Could there be a better place for images of rock royalty than Punk Majesty? Opening Sat/1 at Alisha Amnesia’s eco-conscious, DIY store, Leee Black Childers: ‘70s Punk & Glam(runs through March 15) will feature prints from the Warhol protege’s original negatives, created in collaboration with British musician Smutty Smith and Childers’ estate. The show is the first US exhibition of the photographer’s work in the decade since his passing.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter
Amid a difficult dozen days in 2022, San Francisco singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet came face to face with the idea of his own death. Following the discovery of a mass in his intestine, he was poking around his online medical records when he caught the dreaded C-word. Worse yet, the disease had spread. “I didn’t have a relationship with mortality,” says Prophet, who performs with his new band, His Cumbia Shoes, on Sat/28 at The Chapel. “It seemed so far in the distance.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter
Arrested Development takes great pride in its artistic legacy. That’s why cofounder and frontman, Speech, is stumped by Rolling Stone magazine’s exclusion of the acclaimed rap group’s breakthrough LP from its 200 Greatest Hip-hop Albums of All Time list. “Rollingstone owes y’all somе answers/ In 93 they called us band of thе year/ But look it here in 2022/ They abandon us,” Speech raps on “Hip Hop Saves Lives,” off the group’s latest full-length, Bullets In The Chamber.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter
Rooted in light, laughter, and lobbying, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show (Wed/18-Thu/19, the Warfield, SF.) is continuing to branch out after seven years. Reaching 40-plus American cities in 2024—including, for the first time, the South—the seasonal spectacular gifting audiences with all new material year after year persists in its mission of spreading unity and reclamation amid record-breaking anti-drag and anti-trans legislation.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter |SF Weekly
Latrice Royale and Lady Camden are going for gaiety this holiday season. The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alums—appearing as part of SF Symphony’s annual “Holiday Gaiety” variety show, co-emceed by conductor Edwin Outwater and drag sensation Peaches Christ—are choosing cheer over fear in troubling times as they prepare to take the stage on Fri/13.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
48hills.org | Joshua Rotter |SF Weekly
Latrice Royale and Lady Camden are going for gaiety this holiday season. The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alums—appearing as part of SF Symphony’s annual “Holiday Gaiety” variety show, co-emceed by conductor Edwin Outwater and drag sensation Peaches Christ—are choosing cheer over fear in troubling times as they prepare to take the stage on Fri/13.
