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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, 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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Arts + Culture

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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Arts + Culture

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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Arts + Culture

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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Arts + Culture

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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Arts + Culture

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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Arts + Culture

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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Culture

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

... 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

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

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

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

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: 450 Architects

Designs for a more regenerative, uplifting built environment, from SF Waldorf School to Russian Hill's Francisco Park.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Wendy Reid and Lulu

A woman and bird who make sweet, symphonic music, perfect for creekside listening in your favorite park.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Killing My Lobster takes a bow with one last (for now) nerdy number

The company may be folding, but not without sending a reminder of why it's been so beloved with 'Legends & Laughter.'
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Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Terror Vault

We come for the jump scares, but stay for the world-building—and vampire cocktails—at the annual SF Mint fright fest.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Sisterita

Downtown French fare with a Thai twist and bookish ambiance, the perfect sustenance for your brunch bunch.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Kitchen Table’s fabulous food and urgent politics

Events and workshops in newly opened Valencia Street venue honor connection between what we eat and how we live.
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Best of the Bay

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

Our 51st installment of the Bay Area classic is 'new and improved' for 2025—and still full of local love.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema beckons cinephile families and al fresco film freaks

Plus: 'Pools' aims for 'Breakfast Club' during a heatwave, Cocteau and Andersson classics take BAMPFA.
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Art

Bodega Bay quietude, a solitary thrush: Kanna Aoki’s contemplative Bay scenes

Organic and intuitive painter traces inspiration back to childhood fabric store trips with her mother.
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Music

Under the Stars: Getting live in September with Sextile, KXSF’s seven-year bash, more

Plus: Rochelle Jordan's swaggeringly perfect '90s soul comeback and Makaya McCraven at GAMH.
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Onstage

For dark times, comedian Nori Reed believes in the joy of jokes

Bay Area stand-up wrote the Disney Channel's first live-action trans character, rejects reductive approaches to identity.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Free Shakespeare in the Park, Hiero Day, ‘Groove,’ Black Pride…

...SBTRKT, Artists United for Palestine, VHS Horror Marathon, Gumby's Junk, Crash an Indian Wedding, more to do
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Music

Live Shots: Clipse return to SF after 15 years, still grindin’

Virginia Beach hip-hop duo dug deep into the repertoire and performed off reunion album 'Let God Sort 'Em Out.'
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