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Arts + Culture

Viz Valley DIY joint Bric-A-Brac blends peculiar creations with punk attitude

Now a year old, the arts space hosts underground bands, esoteric films, synth workshops, and 'a bunch of bullshit thrown together.'
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Under the Stars: Sour Widows are back—and ‘crafted to curve’

Plus: Bad Brains bassist goes jazz, Space Ghost coasts the cosmos, Doohickey Cubicle get downtown, more you must hear
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VOTE NOW in our 2026 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

From Best Burrito to Best Drag Show: Tell us what you love, in our 52nd annual celebration of the Best Place on Earth.
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Was this 40-year clutch of shaggy queer tracks the real album of the summer?

Move over, Madonna: Scaling the critical hype around Nirosta Steel's sprawling, droll 'My Skyscraper'
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Movies

Screen Grabs: The making of a spectacular Hollywood horror disaster

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: A feast of cinematic demonics, from 'Creature from the Black Lagoon" (in 3D!) to endlessly crying babies and fuzzy orange unicorns.
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Music Review

Herbie Hancock, live at 86: The legend still has the Lion’s dialogue

John-Paul Shiver -
At Davies Symphony Hall, one of the 20th Century's last living jazz masters grooved full-tilt with an all-star band.
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Music

‘We’re gonna smash!’ Multi-sensory videogame tournament + live band pushed all the buttons

Jess Oledan -
Lower Haight community hub The Faight leveled up with a jazzy 'Super Smash Bros.' extravaganza.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: My McDonald’s-free decade started with a local special

Tamara Palmer -
Beyond the ethical morass and public nuisance complaints, messing with a sacred treat was the Golden Arches' final straw.
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Art

Maren Hassinger’s evocative BAMPFA retrospective reaches up, up, up

Lou Fancher -
From coiled hemp rope to wall of eye-popping pink plastic, the artist's community, colors, and contrasts are a buoying force.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: A drag disaster to die for

Charles Lewis III -
Farewell, Dolly Parton. And hello 'Disastrous!'—D'Arcy Drollinger's latest uproarious sendup of '70s genre flicks.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Tori Amos, Scumdance Film Fest, ‘Hairspray,’ Black House Radio, Dick Day…

Marke B. -
Annual Freight Fiddle Summit, Greyboy Allstars, Egg Pals, Down Dirty Drinks, Connie, more to do!
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Meep meep! ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ finally crashes into theaters

Dennis Harvey -
Refreshingly old-fashioned but mixed-bag 'The Deb,' hard-hitting 'American Doctor,' hilarious 'Idiots,' Nippon sex cinema returns, more
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Music

Live Shots: Salt Lake’s Krooked Kings find indie adoration

D.A. Mission -
At The Independent, the five-piece communed with fans on 'In Another Life' tour.
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Remembrance

RIP, Dolly: Read our 2011 interview about drag queens, dance floors, honky tonk preaching

Marke B. -
“I couldn’t really get much gaudier—unless maybe I walked out with a beaver on my head!” We'll miss you, Country Queen.
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Music

Under the Stars: Jeff Parker & co. stepped into Berkeley with spectral, slippery riffs

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Plus: Alice Coltrane tapes—once heard only by ashram members—to take flight, and producer Carré serves dubby late-summer heat.
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Movies

‘American Doctor’: Racing against death and dehumanization in Gaza

Pam Grady -
Poh Si Teng's doc follows three medics—Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian—and the threats they face during Israel's bombardment.
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Live Shots

Live Shots: Prestidigitation, ichthyomancy, and more legerdemain at ‘Secret Magic’

Jon Bauer and Patty Riek -
Yes, there was even a fortune-telling fish at this intimate lollapalooza of sorcery at Palace Theater.
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Lit

Deep lessons from art and life in Dave Eggers’ ‘Contrapposto’

Lou Fancher -
Local literary hero and trained artist's latest novel dives into a wide-ranging love story that shows a more mature side.
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Art

Reshaping Yelamu: ‘Indigenize SF’ makes visible Native past, present, future

Herbert F. Mintz II -
American Indian Cultural District's unveiled orbs bring the Raven and the Medicine Wheel to 16th Street BART Plaza.
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