Malcolm X

Shabazz Palaces Lets Its Hip-Hop Do the Talking

Romare Bearden Retrospective: Once-Neglected Artist Gets His Due

Radical Remembrance

Bouncer: At the Lone Palm, mulling Prop. 8 and dead German tourists

He What?

Works by Manson Family pal Bobby BeauSoleil’s Orkustra compiled on double album

Diz and the Gang

In Vogue

You Can Too

Also Playing

Our critics weigh in on local theater

White Fright

Exploration of self-hating white guy is alternately dope and wack.

Art House

Exploration of self-hating white guy is alternately dope and wack.

Music Is (Still) the Weapon

Femi Kuti makes Afrobeat for today's world

Last Night: Sage Francis

Femi Kuti makes Afrobeat for today's world

Off the Wall

One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

Boomtastrophe

Baby Boomers hoped to die before they got old. They lied. And now they’re dragging the whole country down.

The Revolution Will Be Digitized

TV on the Radio keeps a social conscience

Moky's Life 101

Moky Huynh, self-help jackhammer, is inspiring, abrasive, and one of a kind

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

The misunderstood adventures of the Bishop of Hip Hop

Origin of Innocence

The New World boldly reclaims the Pocahontas tale from Disney

Pucker Up

What is a Buttpucker Moment? And why is Bouncer having one at the Uptown?

Simply Divine

A surfer-dude Purgatorio, reimagined in S.F., does Dante proud

BeatBox

Radio celeb DJ Revolution drops hip hop of every stripe; the Poor Righteous Teachers bring their vaunted conscious beats

AfroSolo Arts Festival

The peanut gallery weighs in on the annual performance fest's mixed bag

Yes, Mr. President

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti made a hell of a lot of noise in his lifetime

House of Tudor

The godfather of hip hop graces S.F. with his presence, as do some Filthy Thieving Bastards

Queen of Pain

Julie Taymor and Salma Hayek paint a spectacular portrait of Frida Kahlo

Southern Discomfort

Travis Somerville's paintings have been called provocative, brilliant - and racist

Out of Africa

Lumumba delivers a thrilling, if necessarily simplified, history lesson

Running on Empty

Detroit automakers have spent millions attempting to unplug California's effort to put electric cars on the road. And so far, Detroit's succeeding.

Next of KIN

Robert Moses' troupe fuses community and privacy, society and solitude

Proof Positive

Brooklyn's Antibalas resurrects Fela Kuti's Afrobeat sound -- as well as his revolutionary politics

Rockin' Dixie

Two Southern-fried artists bring politics and religion to light, while Grace Slick checks her pulse

The Negro Problem

Spike Lee's new racial satire starts out strong, but ends up wasting ammunition

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

That Summer of '77

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Hear This

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Stage

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Stage

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Mulch

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Night+Day

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Night+Day

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Night+Day

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Recordings

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

A Family That Stays Together

From director Gregory Nava comes a modern classic about generations, history and survival

Dog Bites

From director Gregory Nava comes a modern classic about generations, history and survival