Jungle by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor It’s Tash Sultana week for me! I try to never miss a chance to see them live… it’s been almost a year since the last show. If you’ve never seen Tash live, do yourself a favor and go! They’re a multi-instrumentalist who builds

This past weekend Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) unveiled a new exhibit: the world’s largest collection of African American quilts is now on display. This remarkable assembly reveals deeply personal narratives stitched into every fabric, blending historical memory with contemporary meaning which leaves you touched and inspired.

Bored Stiff, a pioneering San Francisco hip-hop collective, was celebrated at the Roxie Theater with the premiere of Sounds Like My Life, a documentary about the group’s history and influence on the Bay Area’s hip-hop scene.

San Francisco has long taken a socially open-minded attitude toward homosexuality. Its earliest settlers were mostly men who migrated west to make their fortune prospecting for gold, resulting in a disproportionately high ratio of men to women. Over the decades however, tensions arose between the gay community and the City’s

The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive is celebrating Robert Altman’s 100th birthday with a film series featuring his classics, while also offering a documentary about Vivien Hillgrove, a Swedish Cinema Project, and a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s “Smiles Of A Summer Night”.

Giacomo Puccini’s limerent love story La Bohème opened the San Francisco Opera’s season with all the emotional pull we’ve come to expect from this frequently staged and deeply cherished work. Few operas draw us so swiftly into the heart of the drama.

Eight years have passed since Sasha Velour won RuPaul’s Drag Race with a stunning rose petal-stuffed number that gave us one big outfit reveal after another. Since then, the quiet kid spouting theory and jargon has transformed into an artist who elevates drag by combining it with performance art. Her latest show, The