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Cannabis cafes are coming to SF—and it’s about damn time

A bill finally passed by the city last month allows cannabis retailers to serve food and beverages. Will SF become a new Amsterdam?
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Lit

Subversive spirit matches Victorian romantic intrigue in Ayelet Waldman’s latest

Berkeley author knocked off from award-winning TV work to finish 'a failed novel I tried to write a decade ago.'
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Music

Under the Stars: Midsummer music notables, from gallant rock to Jilly from Philly

Plus: Black Marble plucks college radio strings, Twin Bloom bronzes out, The Koreatown Oddity raps it all up, more great listens
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Sports

Live Shots: Valkyries flew high in return to Ballhalla

WNBA home team filled Chase Center with wild community spirit and plenty of winning shots.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘The Piano’ plays again

Sam Neill (RIP) in major key. Plus: Futile love in 'White Nights,' Hector Babenco tribute, whimsical 'Drunken Noodles,' sour "Ice Cream Man'
Dennis Harvey -
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Labor

As wider layoffs hit, videogame workers’ union launches hardship fund

UVW-CWA aid initiative and innovative Necrosoft bundle aim to support affected workers from indie orgs and big corps.
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Music

Charli XCX is the future of rock, in fact

The genre will be saved by outsiders—even highbrow-nodding hyperpop ones who know how to slay big festivals like Outside Lands.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Forget AI, you’re in ‘Urinetown’ now

Ray of Light's latest triumph is awash with talent. Plus: 'In a Memory Palace' at Z Space used Noh to haunting effect.
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Music

Experimental sounds ring out from Adobe Books, for an eager community in the know

Promoter Tonko's unassuming series platforms local musicians with a genre-blurring bent.
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Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 52 voting starts in September!

Vote for what you love and celebrate the Bay Area! We're going back to our roots for the 52nd edition.
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Dance

Aerial Arts Fest flies high on a shoestring and a dream

Losing NEA funding and artists' reluctance to visit the US can't keep Zaccho's vertical dance celebration down.
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Lit

‘The Last Human Bear’ came to Jack Kerouac Alley

Author and Native American tribal chairman Greg Sarris discussed his first novel in 30 years, immersed in 1930s Pomo history.
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Sports

An uncommon Warrior: Yaxel Lendeborg comes to the Bay

An ode to the Puerto Rico-born Dominican American player who bounced up from community college.
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Art

Enjoy your trip inside M. Mark Bauer’s labyrinthine paintings

His works are eye-popping, but contain deep 'flow of consciousness' messages about the environment and society.
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Music

Under the Stars: SF supergroup The Odyssey Cult lets it rip

Plus: Hardly Strictly lineup, Womack Sisters and Dark Star Orchestra at the Greek, summer stoner flick 'The Wrong Girls,' more.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Pouring out love for Hojicha

Move over, matcha. Can it, coffee. We’re all-in on roasted green tea drinks and treats this summer.
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Movie Reviews

Screen Grabs: From farmworker to ‘the Shakespeare of Chicano theater’

Luis Valdez gets his due. Plus: Robert Townsend tribute, 'Glitter' revival, 'Sheep in a Box,' and Fantasy Studios fest.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Olivia Bratko is here to let you know that you’re not crazy

Performer's latest solo show at the Rhino throws everything you can imagine into a wild and funny hour of catharsis.
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Stage Review

Moving through a nine-year dream in Iris Company’s ‘The Still Point’

Choreographer Sophia Stoller inventively immersed watchers in liminal moods and dramatic gestures at SOMArts.
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Contest

See a free show at The Lost Church in August

Folk, Flamenco, Latin, Balkan, indie and more are going down in North Beach. Act fast to claim a pair of tickets!
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Movies

A ‘sensual labyrinth’ blooms at Blush erotic film fest

Long-running celebration of local adult film has a new name, but all the explicit expression. We talk to two exciting featured directors.
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Lit

Devouring the indomitable spirit of Bambi Lake

Posthumous poetry collection from often abrasive, endlessly creative trans punk icon celebrates a life led 'too soon.'
Brendan McHugh -
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Movies

To the bipper go the spoils? Cannabis impresario Berner on his debut crime thriller

'Splash City' filmmaker and rapper aims to bring a side of San Francisco the world rarely sees to life.
Joshua Rotter -
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Music

E pluribus ants: At Cabrillo Music Fest, Sarah Hennies’ work buzzes with communal activity

Under expansive theme of US's 250th, composer's 'Grain House' considers the lowly but mighty insect.
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Movies

Gregg Araki: ‘Why doesn’t Gen Z have sex anymore?’

Iconoclastic queer director's hot new 'I Want Your Sex' was transformed by #MeToo, and wants to spark spicy conversations.
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Dance

ODC Summer Sampler’s ‘Notes of Disquiet’ fueled by invisible burdens, Armenian poetry

Mia J. Chong's latest work explores 'that feeling of having to hold in your response to someone else's insensitivity.'
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Art

‘Jerry farts and burps’: Grateful Dead live on in spirited retrospectives

Haight Street Art Center puts on two huge shows that keep the band's colorful legacy and community ticking.
Joshua Rotter -
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Mark your calendar for ‘pay what you can’ restaurant day

Mexico City-rooted initiative gets local participation from Al Pastor Papi, Reem's, Merkado, Understory, more
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Sports

At San Jose’s ‘Forbidden Door,’ international AEW stars knocked out xenophobia

Looking for earthshaking pro fights far from the White House lawn? This league's got you.
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Promotion

Join us this weekend for wild, weird, and wonderful SFJFF films (with a discount!)

See the other side of the Jewish Film Fest—immersive music, webs of seduction, violent betrayal—with 48 Hills.
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Art

Mildred Howard writes her own history book

At Oakland Museum of California, the longtime artist's first major retrospective attacks Black erasure.
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Music

Under the Stars: A harmonious system of influences (Whitesnake included)

Plus: Brandee Younger, 'The Ecstatic,' Diagonal Lines, atmos bloom, The Chutes 'Widow's Bay'—we're slipping it all in
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: SF Art Book Fair, Up Your Alley, Ballet22, Alameda Rock & Roll Flea Market

... naughty Dore parties, Marcos Valle, Jandii scones, 'Sketch on Speed,' disability rights film celebration, more to do!
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Dance

Live Shots: Farm-to-table, just add ballet, at Petaluma’s panoramic ‘LUNAE’

Nestled between golden hills and gathering dusk, gourmet dining pairs with sublime movement.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: A revered documentarian faces the ultimate loss in ‘Remake’

Plus: Celebrating disability rights, 'First Looks' at Oscar's shorts candidates, Nicolas Winding Refn's hell, the Dardennes' mothers.
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Movies

$5, a genealogy test, The Beach Boys, and ‘My Grandfather Charles Manson’

Sophia Maddox's doc asks, How do you reconcile your identity with a just-discovered legacy of unimaginable violence?
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Drag haven Oasis reopens with a bang—and some questions

Plus: 'Beauty and the Beast' is a tale as old as time, and 'The Prince, Part 1' sets wily classic in motion.
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Performance

Live Shots: Circus Bella’s free park romp stokes ‘AH HA!’ moments

Wee ones enraptured by local troupe mused whether their futures lie under the Big Top.
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Art

Flushing things out with artist Blake Cedric

'Leave AI to the heteros!' says high camp hand-painter, whose work adorns toilet stalls from SoMa to Detroit.
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Contest

Win a pair of free tickets to a Jewish Film Fest feature this Saturday!

48 Hills is presenting 'mdbr mdbr' and 'Only Good Feelings'—and we want you to come. Here's how to enter.
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