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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective

Group's guerrilla seating makes solid statement about accessibility and humane public infrastructure.
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Under the Stars: Superlative locals Umbrellas, Fake Fruit, Now take the SFMOMA roof

Plus: Upcoming gigs from Nirvana's favorite Shonen Knife, Devo and the B-52s, and The Saxophones' blue-lit beats.
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Drama Masks: Latest Neo-Futurists’ sandy pastiche performance invites all to dig in

'HOLE' sees your angst—and counsels excavation.
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Litquake 2025’s lineup is here, and it’s stacked like the Bodleian

Sprawling literary fest takes over the city with spicy readings and events in October—here are some of our first round picks.
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Music

Abba Zabba to Kamasi Washington: 11 superior fall shows

John-Paul Shiver -
We got Portola Fest. We got Hardly Strictly. We got Autechre. We got Secret Emchy Society. Get in here!
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Lou Fancher -
Napa institution made major moves with opening of free-entry Incorrect Museum—plus creative strategy to brave era's financial woes.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Witness the incendiary birth of nunsploitation in ‘The Devils’

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: 'The Long Walk' misses a timely chance to diss totalitarianism, and re-release of 'Commune' dives into a back-to-land Californian tale.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Corgi Con

Nicole Gluckstern -
The beloved celebration of the sturdy little spuds waddles into a blessedly bigger venue this year.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: 540 Bar

John-Paul Shiver -
This retro Inner Richmond watering hole attracts gleeful happy hour goers and tight-knit creative community.
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Fancy a beer with Tim Redmond?

Marke B. -
We're looking for sponsors for our October 22 Gala—and sweetening the pot with a personal bull session with our editor.
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Lit

City Lights poetry editor revisits the lion of Surrealism, André Breton

Nicole Gluckstern -
Interview with Garrett Caples on reissuing Philip Lamantia—and how Breton contributed to the fall of the Haitian government.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

Charles Lewis III -
The city thought it would never see itself done right onstage after 'Beach Blanket Babylon.' Then this long-running show came along.
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Music

GLŌM FEST’s polyglot nocturnal liturgy draws dark artists from around the globe

Joshua Rotter -
Deathrock, darkwave, goth purveyors fly from the bat cave as DNA Lounge transforms into a mausoleum of sound.
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Art

Racial amnesia probed in ‘The Axe: a long line of broken white people’

Aimée Ts'ao -
Alley Wilde's latest performance explores European Indigeneity, violence, paganism at Counterpulse.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Kina Kantor

Charles Lewis III -
Extolling the virtues of an in-demand theater talent, from turns in Berkeley Rep's 'Uncle Vanya' to Bindlestiff's 'The Love Edition.'
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Culture

SF’s most gallant ‘gator celebrates 30 years since his hatch day

Emily Wilson -
... and California Academy of Sciences is giving you an entire month to applaud Claude.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Bones Bagels

Dorothy O'Donnell -
Connoisseurs of the chewy and circular flock to this Noe Valley bakery's streamlined and seasonal sourdough offerings.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Boardroom’s Tequila Trivia Tuesdays

Dorothy O'Donnell -
Forget the pop-quiz conglomerates—this North Beach bar and host Oliver 'The Baron' Chang double down on trivial tradition.
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Arts + Culture

BIG WEEK: CeCe Peniston headlines Oakland Pride, Bizerkeley Food Fest, Other Cinema, Sweater Funk

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Plus: 'The Day the Sky Turned Orange', Hump! Fest, Orquesta Akokán, so much more to get into.
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