The Arts

1985 Written & directed by Yen Tan MuseLessMime Productions/Cranium Entertainment Reviewed by John Francis Leonard 1985 is a film about secrets—the secrets we think we’re hiding, but are...

‘Tis the season… actually, it’s always the season for a good read! We here at A&U have reviewed several books this year that will...

Tough as Nails For Singer/Pianist Russell Deason, Surviving is a Cabaret by Hank Trout Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Michael Kerner When Russell Deason was growing up in...

Marching On Founded by Jon Reed Sims, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band Celebrates Forty Years of Making a Joyous Gay Noise by Hank Trout Photography by...

Reversed: HIV+ A TV Show Addresses Testing & Treatment by Justin B Terry-Smith The first series of Discovery Life’s Reversed was geared toward changing views on diabetes,...

After 82 In a new documentary, Steve Keeble and Ben Lord tell the story of AIDS in the UK by Hank Trout Five years in the making,...

For many years, audiences across the country and from around the world have heard the story of Fiddler on the Roof. Some might recall...

Today we live in “a potential radicalizing moment,” artist and activist Avram Finkelstein said in a recent interview, . We find ourselves at “a...

Survivors of the Crisis Filmmaker Carla Simón takes viewers back to Summer 1993 by Ren Jender "Why aren’t you crying,” another child asks Frida (Laia Artigas), the...

Last Men Standing the heart-wrenching documentary film by Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin at the San Francisco Chronicle, premiered on April 8, 2016,...