A trio of solo performances shows the degree to which performers can hit — or miss
Rootlessness rules the 38th S.F. International Film Festival
The poetic power of Ntozake Shange's colored girls; Sweeny seduces with pageantry; Bob Davis' Banjo
“Before the Rain” bears witness to the cost of civil war; “Federal Hill” stumbles on the wrong side of the tracks
The life and times of Preacher Boy and the Natural Blues
Film She's best known for Coal Miner's Granddaughter, an off-kilter, coming-of-age sex comedy that was a hit in the 1991 S.F. International Lesbian &…