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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Z Space

A blessedly versatile former can factory has become a well-established gem of a stage complex—and party place.
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Music

Iconoclastic as ever, Hunx and His Punx mix the apocalyptic with the cheery

Long-awaited new LP 'Walk Out On This World' came through tragedy to deliver sweet garage punk goods.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Blasting off with Jordan Belson’s mind-expanding cinema

Plus: 'Cannes for dirtbags' Scumdance Fest, Emma Thompson on thin ice, and a Texas Chainsaw Massacre love letter.
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Contest

Win tickets to Folsom Street Fair’s official (and very naughty) parties!

Grab a fun friend and hit up Freak Curious, Magnitude, and/or Deviants: Here's how to enter
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Music

Rock legend Andy Summers takes aim with a different instrument

New multimedia tour is 'nothing like what I did in the Police at all,' says guitarist and photographer.
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Culture

5 Folsom Street Fair experiences to whip up your fun

Drag terror, live punk, Mother DJ, bondage art, and pink lemonade top our list of 'special excitements' at this year's Sun/28 event.
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Art

Maya Fuji’s luminous paintings conjure ‘uncanny coexistence’ with spiritual realm

'I like to show how cultures can sometimes overlap, like decorative nail art,' says Japanese American artist.
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Music

Under the Stars: Debut from Richmond’s Pateka calls on Bay Area experimental legacy

Plus: The Fillmore sticks it to a storied history, bastiengoat's prime genre-shifting, and an ode to 'Alien: Earth.'
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Double Cross Trail

A 14-plus-mile trek from Fort Funston to Pier 23 provides a chance to 'get away'—while reveling in hometown beauty.
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Lit

Writer Michael Luo is ready for the happy ending

'Strangers in the Land' author shares what his deeply researched book on Chinese immigration history has in common with 'KPop Demon Hunters.'
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Culture

Folsom 2025 brings Twisted Windows, joyful gates, a continually expanding Playground

Four of the kinky fair's players take us behind the juicy scenes (and history) of this year's fetish fest.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Portola Music Fest promises a Pokémon bowl, dirrty drinks—and no lines

Quaffable highlights for this weekend's bayside blowout, including the debut of beloved Saigon Sandwich
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Culture

Puff: Sampling the best of blooms at a streamlined Hall of Flowers

Pros know the preeminent NorCal cannabis expo is the spot for sampling the year's hot buds.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: At Z Space, a flashback to the day that was much too much

'The Day the Sky Turned Orange,' plus 'The Reservoir''s ensemble work, and femmes rise in 'Indecent.'
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Artists against Project 2025, Flower Piano, Low Rider Parade, Shakira Tribute Dinner…

...Portola Fest, Ron Carter, Kim Anh, Pauly D, Pino Palladino, Cheryl Dunye's favorite flicks and more to do!
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Psychedelic bro love swirls in ‘Lemurian Candidate’

Plus: Studio 8 Film Festival celebrates work from dearly departed Art Institute, Cheryl Dunye at BAMPFA, more releases.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Dani Offline

No wonder she's been featured at Noise Pop—this nouveau hip-hop vibe merchant isn't faking a thing.
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Art

Mel Odom’s kaleidoscopic queer eye drew stunning art through AIDS

New short film aims to capture turbulent milieu and indelible imagery of New York artist and dollmaker.
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Contest

Win a pair of tickets to Portola Night Show: Prospa

Deep EDM groove duo take over the Midway for Portola satellite show Fri/19—here's how to get in.
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Art

After 51 years of welcoming visitors in, SF Open Studios is gazing outwards

Executive director Shamsher Virk continues to be 'incredibly impressed' by artists in a boom-and-bust creative city.
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Culture

Scrub your face with Peaches Christ

Horror drag icon's new Madame Peaches soaps may not wash away your sins, but you'll still feel fresh as Rosemary's baby.
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Music

After 28 albums, Sparks still can’t resist a flourish—thankfully

Synth pop duo's 'MAD!' enlists ennui haze, light banter, schoolkids' backpacks in its theater of ideas.
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Art

Painter Luis Felipe Chávez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within

On the eve of Mexican Independence Day, Jalisco-raised artist presents binational views of freedom.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Studio Fallout

A quiet North Beach alley leads down to the basement retail lair of a punk-surrealist stalwart and his talented friends.
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Dance

World Arts West Dance Festival delivered communal joy, despite brutal NEA cuts

Trump's generational assault on the arts unsuccessful in dropping curtain on 40-year Bay tradition.
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Arts + Culture

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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Music

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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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Latest Neo-Futurists’ sandy pastiche performance invites all to dig in

'HOLE' sees your angst—and counsels excavation.
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Lit

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

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

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’

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

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

This retro Inner Richmond watering hole attracts gleeful happy hour goers and tight-knit creative community.
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Featured

Fancy a beer with Tim Redmond?

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

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

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

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’

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

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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