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Lit

Allen Ginsberg ‘Howl’s again at all-star centennial celebration

Kronos Quartet, Kim Stanley Robinson, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, Andy Cabic, morę mark 100 years of poet-iconoclast.
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Big Week

Big Week: Hamburger Eyes, Yerba Buena Gardens Fest, Mother of Collaboration…

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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Music

Under the Stars: JWords is getting there, and ‘the path feels wondrous’

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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Movies

Screen Grabs: CAAMFest eye-openers include ‘the Godfather of Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia’

Plus: Odes to impresarios Robert Wilson and Craig Baldwin, risky 'Blue Heron' and foodie-feminist 'Mistura.' New movies!
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Music

‘Real Bay Shit’: Nonprofit hardcore shows are planting the seeds of change

Bay Area bookers organize benefit concerts to uplift communities in need, opening gateways to activism.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Get in, loser, we’re going to the theater

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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Music

Lara Downes gathers friends to reflect on musical resilience of ‘This Land’

As country's 250th birthday approaches, acclaimed pianist is joined by Judy Collins, more for genre-spanning, resonant concert.
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Fashion

New looks now: Academy of Art fashion students bloom into view

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

Behind ‘Angel Island Project,’ a powerhouse ensemble and dark history

Oakland Ballet Company enlists seven choreographers, 'Monkey King' composer to relate tales of Asian immigrant imprisonment.
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News + Politics

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Exclusive City Hall and election news and analysis that you won't find on the site!
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Silent Film Fest returns to its ancestral home

Back to the Castro with plenty of rarities and gems. Plus: Tap into Ovid for a wacky 1974 Lithuanian rock opera and more.
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Remembrance

The Pope of San Francisco has died

RIP to striking Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence icon Pope Dementia the Last, who has passed away at 91 but partied til the end.
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Art

Blending archeology and translation, Paola de la Calle’s art digs deep

An encounter with Mission political art inspired the Colombian American to examine how history is told and preserved.
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Promotion

50% off tickets to the Stardella party! Join us Saturday on the dance floor

Come together at the Great Northern club for a great night of smiles and grooves.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Selena de Mayo, Phenomenal Ball, Stardella, Gilman Jazz Fest, Bliss Abyss…

Coco & Breezy, Catchlight Live, 20 years of 'Donuts,' Chotto Matte x Festus Feasts, 'Bloodline,' more to do!
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Movie Reviews

Screen Grabs: Everyone is lying to you for money and no one cares about crazy people

Searing docs by the truckload, from DocLands fest to two Barbara Kopple classics. Plus: Charlie XCX goes Polish, more movies
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Promotion

See a show for free at Lost Church in North Beach in May

Flamenco, comedy, folk-punk, Latin jazz, Americana—score a pair of tickets, but act fast!
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Contest

Win tickets to Snail Mail, Chet Faker, Enno Cheng

See a killer show at a great local venue on us.
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Music

Under the Stars: Juju Rogers drops some psych-funk ‘Voodoo’

Plus: Very catchy Otoliths, Bel Cobain's Brownswood reign, Georgie Sweet swears again. And what's up with the Hall of Fame?
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: ‘Hamnet’ is gorgeous, but how was Shakespeare’s sausage made?

Plus: 'Bloodlines' promises resistance, and SF Ballet's techno AI blockbuster 'Mere Mortals' returns, trailing cultural import.
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Promotion

Save 20% on SF International Arts Festival tickets!

Here's the code to get you into the boundary-crossing blast, Wed/29-May 10, at a discount.
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Movies

Michael Jackson and Prince deserve better

Sanitized blockbuster 'Michael' and estate-quashed Prince doc rob us of nuanced, imaginative, and true portraits of the pop giants.
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Dance

Beyond Butoh: inkBoat’s ‘Clouds from a Crumbling Giant’ reaches past genres

At SF International Arts Fest, storied local dance company takes collaborative approach to crossing borders of life.
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Onstage

The world is large! 8 must-sees at SF International Arts Fest

Korean tango, Canadian food prep cirque, improv hip-hop, deconstructed drag, a 'Lesbitarian Church,' more from border-erasing event.
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Music

RIP, MTT: Read our 2012 review of the Maestro making a fruit smoothie onstage

SF Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas passed last week, but left a legacy of avant-garde 'American Maverick' treasures.
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Stage Review

Joffrey Ballet plunged into bizarre and wondrous ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’

Gags, puns, allusions, and bodies flew as storied company literally made hay with beloved fantasia.
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Music Review

At ‘Passing the Torch,’ KCSM literally schooled the crowd in jazz

Storied station's Jazz Appreciation Month tribute showcased refreshingly human high school, college, and pro talent.
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Music

Under the Stars: OM Records announces 30-year Embarcadero blast

Plus: Shabazz Palaces hit the parsecs, Hollie Cook wows in dub, Jeff Parker bounces back, Altın Gün pays tribute, more music
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Movies

Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest hits 69. Nice.

11 days of global visions, including Boots Riley's latest, a Kid Koala cartoon, and 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Plus: 'I Swear,' 'The Blue Trail,' more
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Dahlia Sale, Shipyard Open Studios, Foglifter, GUSH fest, ‘Broadway Baby’…

'Mere Mortals,' Black Gold Sun, SFFILM Fest, 'The Celluloid Closet,' Paranoid London, more to do this week!
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Dance

Alleluia Panis traces a notoriously racist miscarriage of justice through dance

In 1975, two Pilipina nurses were wrongly jailed for murder; choreographer's immersive 'Burden of Proof' imagines their story.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: From another time of terror, ‘Burden of Proof’ urges to fight and fear not

Alleluia Panis' latest dance follows a Pilipina nurse snatched off the streets and wrongly incarcerated.
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Dance

Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: ‘When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other’

His legendary dance company's 22nd annual home season offers 'a balm for this moment in America.'
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Music

At the Warfield, Baroque pop avatar Oklou emerged a star

Classically trained French multi-instrumentalist carves her own path with polyphonic, Internet-fluent allure.
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Dance

Bay Area Dance Week celebrates leaps and bounds of local scene

'Let’s just have fun and enjoy being in our bodies in a joyful space,' says co-director Dudley Flores, whose 'One Dance' kicks things off.
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Art

Karyn Gabriel’s ceramic sculptures ask, ‘Is beauty important?’

Drawn to the mantra of repetition and the stillness of nature, the Marin artist lets each work 'percolate on its own timeline.'
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Music

How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist's intense memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' peels back rock icon mythos
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Music

Under the Stars: Irreversible Entanglements channel peace vibrations

Plus: DJ Platurn goes shopping, Earth Tongue jams and slithers, another winner from Bar Part Time, more music
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Music

Live Shots: Lamb of God took the Masonic ‘Into Oblivion’

Virginia heavy metal legends' full-throttle show transformed venue onto vortex of cathartic aggression.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Of tyrannical kings and dancing kilts

SF Ballet's 'La Sylphyde' goads us to run to the woods; NCTC's 'how to make an American son' picks at the myth of meritocracy
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