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Comedy

SF Sketchfest recs for every taste and persuasion

Tim Curry, the Groundlings, Found Footage Fest, Tight & Nerdy: As always, the spiraling comedy fest delivers.
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Music

The Grammys actually get some things right (and show the Bay a little love)

The often-derided corporate-friendly awards are seeing things a little differently, in the light of a 'New Blue Sun.'
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Surround yourself with family, of whatever kind you choose

Our new stage column reviews 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding,' 'Lettere d'Amore,' and Left Coast Theatre Co.'s 'Found Family'
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Music

Listening in 4-D: Ingenious ‘Polytempo Music’ spirals through virtual reality

Alameda composer Brian Baumbusch trained himself to code for interactive composition, which immerses listeners in his musical world.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Complex tales of women from around the world

Striking films from India, Guatemala, Iran, Argentina, and the UK address the status of women in a time of rising authoritarianism.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: When the whole world feels ‘Akimbo’

Our new theater column: 'Kimberly Akimbo' at the Curran and '180 Days. To Die. To Live' at the Marsh-Berkeley take on death, and life.
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LGBTQ

‘Standing united in our humanity’: Transgender Immigrants Day kicks off Trans Awareness Week

A community facing attacks on two fronts from Trump resolves to keep SF a sanctuary that 'transcends borders.'
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Environment

The beautiful, transit-friendly Great Highway park: I should live so long

There's no money for improvements or maintenance. What Prop. K got us is a closed road and maybe a few chairs.
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Music

Live Shots: Vince Staples hit the Warfield at a very poignant moment

The Long Beach rapper brought his 'Black in America' tour to SF a couple days after the election.
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Music

Under the Stars: Jock Homo Soccer Mommy—Noise Pop, Mosswood Meltdown drop 2025 lineups

Phase ones revealed. Plus: Night Tapes' truffle mushroom vibes, Naked Roommate for New Year's Eve Eve, more music news.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Bay Area holiday cooking advice classics

'Just put the f*cking turkey in the oven': time-honored techniques and local tutorials for festive meal planning.
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Stage Review

Drama Mask: ‘Matchbox Magic Flute’ is a mini-Mozart marvel

Our new theatre column reviews Mary Zimmerman's gateway opera, Sara Porkalob's wild 'Dragon Lady,' and a bewildering 'Ghost Quartet.'
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Movies

Screen Grabs: A small oasis of empathy and compassion

Jesse Eisenberg's 'A Real Pain' shines, Andrea Arnold's 'Bird' takes flight. Plus: dismantling the US press and poisoning Flint's water.
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Music

Under the Stars: Mulatu Astatke returns, with ‘Ethio-jazz on turbochargers’

The vibraphone legend has Hoodna Orchestra in tow. Plus: Erykah Freaking Badu at Bill Graham, Volunteer Hazing at BOTH.
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Music

Sarah Davachi fills the Lab with magisterial drone

In 'Music for a Bellowing Room' the Mills College grad teams up with filmmaker Dicky Bahto for three hours of unbroken reverie.
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Art

John Waters’ art show? ‘A hit parade of hell’

'As soon as I saw contemporary art and how mad it made people, I was hooked,' says the Pope of Trash, now showing at Rena Bransten Gallery.
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Art Review

The ‘Queen of Art Deco’ finally gets her due

In first major US retrospective, de Young's 'Tamara de Lempicka' reveals stunning portraits of Russian aristocrats and lesbian sex workers.
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Arts + Culture

Can’t they stay this way forever? Only if they bridge ‘The Gulf’

At New Conservatory, a toxic Southern-fried lesbian relationship tries to stay afloat through a Bayou fishing trip.
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Music

Walking in space with Quincy Jones: 4 LPs pointing up his cosmic genius

The entertainment impresario and musical mastermind possessed a singular talent for stellar collaborations.
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Stage Review

Two mighty giants of art go wall-to-wall in ‘The Contest’

Leonardo da Vinci vs. Michelangelo (with assists from Machiavelli) in Gary Graves' compelling drama at Berkeley City Club.
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Music

Gogol Bordello takes a war-torn turn with ‘Scream of My Blood’

New movie-tour from folk-punk bandleader Eugene Hütz is a rallying cry for Ukrainian resistance—and a return home.
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Music

Poetry, Conspiracies, and much great music at SF Leonard Cohen Festival

Fifth annual gathering explored the great Canadian singer and writer's motifs of love and brokenness after very hard week.
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Lit

At Chinatown’s first zine festival, DIY gems brought neighborhood together

Chinese Culture Center converted Ross Alley into a buzzing independent publisher's showcase full of local marvels.
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Movies

Transgender Film Fest offers community in a time of great threat

'I believe in the power of creative expression to uplift and fight for a more positive future," says vital event's Shawna Virago.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Escaping to the Eastern Himalayas sounds great right now

... or Venice, or Outer Space, or even highly fictionalized Long Island and Oklahoma. Fly with us through this week's new movies.
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Music

Music Book Club debuts IRL with MF DOOM tome!

Join us at Green Apple Books on the Park with S.H. Fernando Jr. to discuss his page-turning book about the late rap icon.
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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Seeking community? Art makes a path

Sound Healing Symphony, SF Coffee Fest, Rose Pistola, White Crate, Leonard Cohen Fest, Legion of Honor 100, more to connect you.
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Art

US history of white supremacy peers through the present in Stephen Mangum’s latest work

'Illusions of My Childhood' series reflects both the painter's youth during 1960s racial oppression and continuing injustice today.
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Music

Under the Stars: Naked Roommate’s got a finger on your problems

Plus: Mark de Clive-Lowe wears more hats than foreheads, Yoshiko Sai's 1975 Japanese Laurel Canyon breezeway, MF Doom eats.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: What a time to be a ‘Heretic’

Hugh Grant plays a holy terror. Plus: Cillian Murphy's Catholic scandal 'Small Things Like These' and a giddy cinematic hybrid con.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: SF Restaurant Week’s best deals

Warm sugar donuts, giant cheeseburgers, chili crabs: We scoured hundreds of multicourse meals from $10 to $90 for you.
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Onstage

Bow before the Canadian drag power of Queen Priyanka

'Fighting for your space can only happen if you embrace yourself, and do not take no for an answer,' says regal singer-actor-artist.
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Art Review

In ‘Fictions of Presence,’ a View-Master and declassified 9/11 interrogation docs

Exploring how humans, machines, and humans aided by machines read differently—poetically and politically—at / (Slash)
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Dance

‘They come across oceans’: SF International Hip Hop DanceFest keeps leaping ahead

26 years in, mastermind Micaya speaks on the wildly popular showcase's ever-growing global community.
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Music

The The’s Matt Johnson guides us through searing new album ‘Ensoulment’

Channeling William Blake in dystopian times, recovering his voice after risky surgery—plus a very tender SF piercing tale.
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Culture

5 fab, free things to do instead of freaking out on Election Day

Smell gorgeous flowers, hear sweet music, hang with the Queen of Art Deco, play some Galaga—we're here for you.
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Stage Review

Top-notch cast and perfect timing bring cascades of laughter in ‘Fallen Angels’

Noël Coward's classic is reanimated at Aurora Theatre in grand style—and dials up the himbo-factor.
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Music

The wild spirit of Phil Lesh ripples in unexpected directions

The Grateful Dead bassist leaves a spry legacy of unconventional technique, heard in these recent acts.
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Art Review

Turbulence of recent past thrums though ‘Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions’

KADIST show takes on poignant personal effects of racism, fentanyl, queerphobia—but leaves out pandemic elephant in the room.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Soviet hard labor camps couldn’t stanch this brilliant director’s vision

Sergei Parajanov's work seems more vital than ever. Plus: 'Wandering Paths' walks around France, 'Don't Move' thrills, more new movies
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