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Movies

Screen Grabs: O say can you see? Frederick Wiseman and ‘The Encampments’ turn gaze to U.S. injustice

Plus: Documentaries on teen folk star Janis Ian, funk history, and songwriter Allee Willis sound off.
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Sports

Bay Area Derby skates into new season—and all are welcome to the jam

Transphobia is about as popular in this high-octane women's sport as rink rash.
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Art

Queer American Songbook to Ukrainian trans theater, SF International Arts Festival won’t play it straight

Venerable fest doubles down at unlikely, if urgent moment for convening global LGBTQ+ creatives.
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LGBTQ

Poem: ‘Trans Power and Unity’

For Trans Day of Visibility, a meditation on the electric manifestations of trans power.
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Sponsored

Join us at Acterra’s ‘Promise to the Planet 2025’ celebration

The 55-year-old environmental action nonprofit's May 17 event will be truly special. Save $100 in early bird tickets!
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Dreamlike delivery of prim-and-proper trans history in ‘I Am My Own Wife’

Plus: SF Ballet's 'Frankenstein' was a Gothic, if not great, delight and Killing My Lobster's new 'fun run' rips and roars.
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Music

Under the Stars: 30 years of ‘Pulp Fiction’, or how a video store clerk changed the sound of cinema

Plus: Local legends come correct, from son of SF rave gawd Cahl Sel's ravetime to Reds, Pinks and Purples' sadcore savant.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Regency glow up, march for Heklina, Union Square pastry explosion…

Bioneers Conference, 'Wild With Happy,' Vinyl Sundays at Mars Bar, CubaCaribe Dance Fest, more to do this week
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Gaming

Lo-fi, free-form, and plant-based: Game Developers Conference’s indie offerings

Video game creators on the pleasures and pitfalls of pushing boundaries.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: The marvelous matching power of food banks

Plus: See how far each dollar you donate goes to feeding people in Northern California.
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Dance

‘A Bridge to Now’ evokes generational complexities of Peruvian Chinese communities

Choreography unfurls against tapestry of modern-day oral testimonies, visual projections—and 400 pounds of rice.
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Gaming

At Game Developers Conference, video game workers look to level up through unionization

Amid an industry downturn, the labor movement is racking up major points.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Family cries? New releases offer complex kin across cultures

Plus: There's no forgetting the perils of Nazism past or present at this year's Berlin & Beyond festival.
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Lit

Enigmatic Parisian art led L. John Harris into ‘Portrait in Red’ obsession

Berkeley author's seven-year search for a painting's origins becomes a mental travelogue of sight and taste.
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Culture

Puff: SF weed industry to blast off with Space Walk, a week of 420 celebrations

The nearest big city to the Emerald Triangle—that's us!—is setting the standard for stoners with beats, treats, and community.
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Housing

Crowd packs theater for new doc on gentrification

Mario Riveira and Abraham Woodliff's 'City of Sensitive Frauds' looks at the root causes of displacement
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Gaming

Gaming the system: Immigration, incarceration explored during indie developers’ summit

Can video games help to educate and empathize?
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Dance

Resurrecting ‘Frankenstein,’ after its creator’s tragic death

Liam Scarlett's intricate gothic epic returns to SF Ballet, with principals determined to preserve its 'warmth and heart.'
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Art

A Bay Area Figurative Movement resurrection paints the Bay in hopeful hues

Might we find connection via David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, and Elmer Bischoff's ethereal intimacy?
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Promotion

Win a pair of tickets to ‘March Madness’ at the Chan Center!

Go see punk diva Nikola Printz's operatic, acrobatic, dragalicious extravaganza this Friday or Saturday.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Fear not the fan

Coleman Domingo's 'Wild With Happy' blends Black Baptist sensibility with Disneymania, 'Nobody Loves You' finds no quarrel here.
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Music

Former Warriors star Baron Davis releases surprise rap album—and it’s actually good

Get a bowl of the beloved jumpman's post-league reincarnation as Bart Oatmeal.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Frankenstein, Bulb Day, Horse Meat Disco, Oakland Samba Revue, more to do

Our new weekly feature taps our experts for where to go, what to see, what to eat, and where to get down.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Drop into a city-wide croissant crawl

Follow the flaky crumbs to some of SF's very best butter bois.
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Onstage

‘March Madness’: Punking up opera with Nikola Printz

Mezzo-soprano channels diva chaos, mosh pits, classic cabaret, aerial acrobatics into sensational spectacle at Chan Center.
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Music

Under the Stars: Virtuoso Nubya Garcia’s ornate arrangements will leave you plucked at The Chapel

Plus: New releases from Raven, Lunchbox, and Tune-Yards bring rose-colored romps, three-year-old vocal stylings.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: BAMPFA raises curtain on poetic Ukrainian cinema, once subject to brutal censorship

Plus: A satisfying slow pitch from 'Eephus,' 'Magazine Dreams' proves nearly as troubled as its star's backstory, more.
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Lit

The magical little Grotto where writers boost up

Storied scribe support center The Writers Grotto in the Mission celebrates 30 years of collaborative wordsmithery.
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Opinion

What’s on next at the Trump Center for the Performing Arts (besides more booing)?

Buckle up for wrestling matches, rare earth mineral mining, and an extrajudicial spin on 'Mack the Knife'
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Music

DJ FLOW’s Saturday night sets spin Bay Area hip-hop mixshow tradition

102.1 Jams' new radio star has serious talent—and local influences starting with 1980s Filipino mobile crews.
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Art

‘Emotions expand and figures distort’ in Robert Hightower’s unapologetic works

Richmond father and artist articulates police brutality and his own bipolar disorder through graphic motif.
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Music

Combo Tezeta’s interstellar psychedelic cumbia keeps rising

From surf rock to Tiny Desk: Catching up with Oakland's polyrhythmic crew after a breakthrough year.
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Art Review

Marc D’Estout’s absurdist ‘domestic objects’ are haikus to the uncanny

Welded and hammered steel forms at Triton Museum dare to avoid anthromorphic—and pandemic—interpretation.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Drawing the line

Opera Parallèle's 'The Pigeon Keeper' took on the costs of xenophobia, while Central Works' 'Push/Pull' tackles toxic masculinity.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Time to save some legacy food and drink classics

Legendary SF spots like New Delhi and Da Flora are in danger. Our Legacy Business challenge will have you eating well, staying local.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Let’s run away to Greece

Greek Film Fest brings new visions. Plus: Cinequest, Robert Townsend, 'Mickey 17,' Gunvor Nelson, Karel Doing, more movies
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Art

Two lovers who bloomed in the Bay Area Figurative Movement come together again

At Cañada College, Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner's nudes, still-lifes, and landscapes wow art history buffs.
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Art

What lies beneath: Erena Shimoda’s aquatic photography promotes healing

Amputees, cancer survivors, and others who face challenges find their flow through artist's underwater lens.
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Music

Noise Pop wrap-up: Crispy Tater Tots, Nosferatu rap, and more local love

Final thoughts on the giant 32nd fest, which brought out 20,000 indie music-lovers and served up tasty treats.
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Performance

Drama Masks: When illness derails the performance

As flu and COVID cases rise (many of them deadly), how will the local theater scene adjust its communal experience?
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