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Drama Masks: Staged in a senior community center, this tale left a lasting sting

'Lay My Burden Down' took up urgent concerns, with puppets. Plus: Alicia Keys' angelic 'Hell's Kitchen' hits familiar heights.
Stage Review Charles Lewis III -
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Yerba Buena Gardens Festival opened with a salsa bang

Tasty Taiwanese American Fest and fantastically ravey OM records 30th were also on the sunny Saturday menu.
Festival Marke B. -
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Flock keeps spying on us all, and state and local officials aren’t protecting us

The cameras are everywhere. The regulations are mostly missing.
News + Politics Ian Firstenberg -
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Cole Swensen’s ‘Veer’ swerves towards the limits of language

Poems that dare to go into the minds of crows, up tree trunks, or daringly close to the sun.
Arts + Culture Lou Fancher -
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Music

50 years in, electronic pioneers Cabaret Voltaire sound prophetic as ever

Joshua Rotter -
'Our reasons for being paranoid were only partly paranoid' say proto-industrial UK group, now on grand farewell tour.
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Win tickets to Wavy Gravy’s 90th birthday party!

Marke B. -
We've got three pairs of tickets to give away to the all-star celebration on Sat/16.
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Nightlife

The freaky little Fotomat that’s changing SF nightlife

John-Paul Shiver -
Party crew program audio have transformed a tiny kiosk near the top of Haight Street into a brilliant online radio station.
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Music

Wavy Gravy is turning 90. Of course there’s a wild party.

Joshua Rotter -
Maria Muldaur, Harper Simon, Cat Power, Rickie Lee Jones, Steve Earle, more to celebrate SF's 'saint in a clown suit.'
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Looking for trustworthy health info? Here are six sites that cut through the noise

Healthcare Bruce Mirken -
Mass media, caught in a tsunami of cutbacks and misinformation, is dropping the ball on accurate reporting.
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San Francisco could tax the rich—locally—and avoid brutal cuts to city services. Here’s how

The Agenda Tim Redmond -
Plus: Will the supes call for public power, now? Why are we bailing out the privatized zoo? That's The Agenda for May 10-17
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The complete failure of Lurie’s tax cuts for developers on full display at hearing

Housing Tim Redmond -
Cutting fees won't bring more affordable housing; it just makes the budget problem even worse
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Allen Ginsberg ‘Howl’s again at all-star centennial celebration

Lit Joshua Rotter -
Kronos Quartet, Kim Stanley Robinson, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, Andy Cabic, morę mark 100 years of poet-iconoclast.
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Big Week: Hamburger Eyes, Yerba Buena Gardens Fest, Mother of Collaboration…

Big Week Marke B. -
Plus: OM Records 30-Year Blast, Miss Grits, Beat Freaks, Broad Street Oyster Co, 'Mean Girls,' 'Blue Heron,' more to do
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Under the Stars: JWords is getting there, and ‘the path feels wondrous’

Music John-Paul Shiver -
Plus: Old Skool Cafe still kicks, bliss abyss channels The Cure, Neal Francis dives into house, Lyra Pramuk's 'Hymnal' gets resung.
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Screen Grabs: CAAMFest eye-openers include ‘the Godfather of Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia’

Movies Dennis Harvey -
Plus: Odes to impresarios Robert Wilson and Craig Baldwin, risky 'Blue Heron' and foodie-feminist 'Mistura.' New movies!
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‘Real Bay Shit’: Nonprofit hardcore shows are planting the seeds of change

Music Bianca Sieraski -
Bay Area bookers organize benefit concerts to uplift communities in need, opening gateways to activism.
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Drama Masks: Get in, loser, we’re going to the theater

Stage Review Charles Lewis III -
Changes are afoot on local stages—and 'Mean Girls' run amok at Ray of Light. Plus: 'Orpheus' retold, via storefront psychic
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Cutting fees for developers has not encouraged much new housing

Housing Tim Redmond -
New report suggests Yimby approach of Lurie, Mahmood to reduce affordable housing fees is hurting, not helping, the crisis
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Lara Downes gathers friends to reflect on musical resilience of ‘This Land’

Music Lou Fancher -
As country's 250th birthday approaches, acclaimed pianist is joined by Judy Collins, more for genre-spanning, resonant concert.
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New looks now: Academy of Art fashion students bloom into view

Fashion Joshua Rotter -
19 graduating designers send their theses down the runway at two special shows and a Halston-inspired Union Square showcase.
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