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Chronicle Staff March 10, 2021Updated: March 15, 2021, 8:15 am
Sign of encouragement on Castro Theatre marquee in San Francisco on March 15, 2020. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle
When attending the arts is a cornerstone of your life, what do you do without showtimes to schedule your weeks around?
Over the past year, Bay Area arts super fans those marathon concertgoers, cinephiles and Shakespeare stans have made major adjustments as in-person performances halted and the art world began experimenting with digital services and outdoor stopgap measures.
Now that we’re coming up on the anniversary of shelter-in-place, The Chronicle caught up with some of the art community’s biggest fans about how they’ve subsisted in the meantime. What they all had in common: hope for a safe return, nostalgia for the camaraderie of live audiences filled with friends and a longing for that thrill when the house lights go down and the show starts.
In the streaming series
Bazzooka, which premiered last night on YouTube, a Seattle police state imposes a curfew at 6pm, courtesy a mayor whoâs married to a local tech CEO (âthe zillionaire who invented hands-free, auto, online shoppingâ). So a contingent of Black-led punks is taking to the streets and resisting. But everything here is a cognate: The mayor, played by Andrea Hays (Heidi from
Twin Peaks), is not Jenny Durkan. The corporation is Tundra, not Amazon or Microsoft. And the yearâif we still want to annually demarcate this temporal slurryâis 2022.
There are a couple reasons for this alternate world, says Danny Denial, who wrote and directed the show (you may know Denial as the musician behind last yearâs album