Alex Jiménez
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Weekender | Social distancing after I ended my social isolation
But I think it’s okay to be uncomfortable with having to adapt. It has to be okay that it will take a moment or several to adapt. → Read More
A chocolate box assortment of queer hidden gems, throwback cinema
For your quarantine viewing consideration, I’ve assembled a list of films that I think are worth watching. → Read More
Weekender | Don’t read into this: A personal essay
And before the end product, when I’m writing my own fiction, I fear having my writing being read into too much. → Read More
Revolution Books celebrates 40 years of fighting for radical change in Berkeley
The urgency of Redmonde’s words was echoed by everything each speaker had to say, their presentations centering around both the personal and broader significance behind a bookstore that also has an active political presence in Berkeley and elsewhere. → Read More
‘And Then We Danced’ is gorgeous slow dance of desire, self-acceptance
But despite the film’s authenticity about the oppression that Merab faces, it does not permeate the narrative. → Read More
Don’t expect much from ‘The Thing About Harry’
The emotional logic in “The Thing About Harry” is just wildly incoherent, even by romantic comedy standards. → Read More
In ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ the queer female gaze reigns supreme
This is what happens when queer women are allowed to tell their own stories: It’s breathtaking, utterly so, and makes for a much more emotionally satisfying experience than when a straight man tries his hand at depicting queer women. → Read More
2nd queer Oscars honor, uplift best LGBTQ+ films of 2019
To make up for their snubs, we’re once again doing our part to recognize the best LGBTQ+ films released last year. → Read More
‘A Beautiful Crime’ is Christopher Bollen’s love letter to queer thriller fans
One of the most tremendous accomplishments of Bollen’s fourth novel is the depth of its characters. → Read More
‘The world is richly weird and inspiring’: An interview with author Nicolette Polek
“I have a lot of anxiety around speaking, so working in the short form allows me to empower language with very little,” Polek said. → Read More
The National: Easy to find, not easy to listen to — ranking the band’s albums
Maybe it’s just my unwitting obsession with sad men singing about sad things, but maybe it’s something more than that. → Read More
On ‘I Am Easy to Find,’ The National (mostly) stays in its mold — but it pays off
If you haven’t heard of or listened to The National, its eighth album I Am Easy to Find probably isn’t a good place to start. → Read More
A communion of interiorities: At Bay Area Book Festival, readers and writers make personal, social discourses heard
The Bay Area Book Festival embodies the communal aspect of literature — its potential to bridge differences and highlight commonalities. → Read More
‘September Mourning’ is marriage of gothic, superhero aesthetic
Yet, for all of its narrative failures and restrictions, “September Mourning” still maintains an impressive amount of charm. The humor is always on-beat, meshing incredibly well with the overall aesthetic of the story. → Read More
The Antlers get nostalgic, revive old vibe at sold-out Great American Music Hall show
There was nothing new about what the Antlers showcased at the Great American Music Hall on Friday night. Of course, that’s exactly what the band was going for. → Read More
Satirical college novel “Sourpuss” doesn’t quite live up to its promise
Even though there isn’t anyone to truly root for, the novel at least succeeds in ensuring that everyone, while perhaps not always developed enough to have clear motivations, at least has a clear purpose within the almost 300 pages that is “Sourpuss.” → Read More
‘In Our Bones’ reimagines Gertrude Stein’s legacy, flaws and all
This is precisely one of the questions the play grapples with: how did Stein and Toklas, a pair of Jewish lesbians, survive in World War II France while so many did not? → Read More
Work in Progress: All art is quite useful
When I think about the timeline of my writing career, I draw blanks instead of all the memories that should have cemented in my mind the fact that I am a writer. And yet, I still don’t feel like a writer. But I’m always writing. I’m writing right now. Doesn’t that make me a writer? → Read More
Work in Progress: Music to my years
I get nervous when people ask me what music I listen to. How do you say, “Literally anything,” without sounding like you’re just a casual listener, especially when I’m anything but casual when it comes to music? → Read More
Grey Davies dazzles Revolution Cafe with one-woman electronic show
Grey Davies, a campus junior and rising musician, performed a set of songs off her first album as part of Balanced BreakFEST 2018 in San Francisco, a three-day music festival in the Mission District. → Read More