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Nightlife

1015 owner, SF nightlife pioneer Ira Sandler has passed away

At the helm of one of our biggest clubs for more than four decades, he helped make the city into a dance party Mecca.
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Music

Under the Stars: Gorgeous Guild Theatre hits 100 with stacked season

Plus: Drum and bass revival keeps rolling, DJ Koco cuts up classic Cuban 45s, Devon Parker's star ascends, more music
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Fêting a visionary film noir genius

Cinematographer John Alton was all over the genre. Plus: three by Agnes Varda, a slew of French noirs, and Brendan Fraser gets miscast.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Margaret Cho, Bay Area Book Fest, Porch Fest, Brewfest, New Sam Wo…

Fou Fou Ha!, Aja Monet, Lea Delaria, 'The Barber of Seville,' Agnes Varda, Shigeto, DVS1, DocFest... what to do!
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Music

Ladytron resurfaces, with the cool synth pleasures of ‘Paradises’

'Without electroclash, there’s no Lady Gaga,' says band that embodied and transcended that scene, returning to SF.
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Gaming

The brilliant new puzzler made by a Davis student partly out of spite

Lucas Immanuel's 'The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time' turns retro mystery role-play inside out and sideways.
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Featured

How many ‘l’s are in ‘Google’?

As local newsrooms embrace AI, 48 Hills remains 100% human. But our matching $50K fundraiser deadline looms.
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Onstage

Drama Masks: Living beyond the shadow of a ‘Doubt’

Anticipating Opera Parallèle’s latest—as the Pope rails against AI. Plus: SF Opera's upcoming streams, and a new SF Symphony leader.
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Art Review

In a different light: How Venice fixed Monet

From canals to water lilies, de Young pays homage to two months in 'La Serenissima' that rejuvenated virtuoso's career.
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Contest

Win free tickets to acclaimed Deadhead doc opening DocFest!

This Thursday, 'ride shotgun with the swirling world of Deadheads as Dead & Company embarks on its final tour.'
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Music

Shoegaze dreamers Chapterhouse leap back into ‘Whirlpool,’ 35 years on

'Incredible pop tunes hidden in all that noise': UK outfit's landmark LP swam in scene's deep end—and still grows in influence.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: 25th DocFest brings high-heeled anarchy, Amazing Sea Monkeys, rock star wangs

Oakland tent evictions, queer rights in Cuba, a Palestinian comedy club, NOFX and Grateful Dead jams also on menu.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Soapy ‘Diamonds’ may just be the Italian ‘Steel Magnolias’

Plus: Hitchcock Fest hits the Balboa, while Alamo Drafthouse celebrates Brian De Palma's Hitchcockian breakthroughs.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Taking an inch… and finishing the hat

'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' at NCTC cranks things up and down. Plus: The colorful drama of SFMOMA's 'Woman in a hat'
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Music

Under the Stars: Sweet summer sounds heat up, from Yerba Buena to SFJAZZ

Dub Mission, Dirtybird Campout, Total Accord Fest, more roll in with the fog. But why is DJ Shadow dissing SF?
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Carnaval, World Goth Night, American Football, secret Hologram burger…

Primitive Ring, Foodieland, Laraaji, Hitchcock Fest, 'Songs from a Sinking Ship,' Terry Riley at 90, more to do!
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Music

Composer Tyler Taylor’s ‘secret’ mission: sneak some sax back into the symphony

Emerging Black Composers Project-winner brings 'Embers' to Davies Hall, pushing a marginalized horn to center stage.
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Nightlife

A tale of two raves

What did big, shiny Club Darc and homegrown massive Parameter Fest have to say about the state of the city? Plenty, it turns out.
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Movies

Boots Riley is here to boost you

Oakland icon pulls no punches talking about new movie 'I Love Boosters' and the power of collective organizing.
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Music Review

Miles Davis, still at 100 percent after 100 years

All-star tribute 'Unlimited Miles' at Presidio Theatre voyaged through five decades of the jazz giant's astonishments.
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Comedy

Comedy pioneers BATS Improv turn 40, with more wild flights of storytelling

'The excitement of improvisation was palpable, and the joy of being onstage together was addictive,' co-founder says of early years.
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Music

Live Shots: La Doña returned in triumph at UC Theater

The hometown hero brought songs from new album 'Corrientes,' advancing her feminist-forward preservation of traditional sounds.
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News + Politics

Richmond Review, Sunset Beacon publisher enters hospice

Michael Durand has announced he has terminal cancer. His neighborhood papers' coverage has been essential.
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Lit

Reproductive injustice in 1960s San Francisco exposed in Kate Schatz’s debut novel

Horrendous recent Supreme Court decision and a very personal connection spurred tale of teenager facing pregnancy.
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Art

Like her mother, sculptor Maryam Yousif is inspired by a Mesopotamian warrior queen

Iraqi artist's multitudinous clay explorations are powered by ancient myths, Arabian pop art, anonymous bloggers.
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Arts + Culture

Through the looking glass at the National Queer Arts Festival

28th iteration dives into a 'Magic Mirror' of community reflection and ancestral resonance, with sound baths, Black astrology, more.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Forbidden, foreboding ‘Hitler, A Film From Germany’ returns

Plus: Jude Law as Putin in 'Wizard of the Kremlin,' 500 years of ginkgo in 'Silent Friend,' and a masterpiece of non-sectarian mysticism
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Music

Sonic encounters with civil rights giants on ‘Glorious Mahalia’

New Kronos Quartet LP connects younger composers and an activist legend for timely revival of gospel icon.
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Music

Under the Stars: Martin Luther McCoy’s first solo flight in 14 years exudes Bay ease

Plus: Sleater-Kinney and Liz Phair's long-awaited tour, TsuShiMaMiRe brings Japanese noise punk to BOTH, 37 Houses' poly rippers.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Outside Lands is pushing pastry carts and collaborations

Korean cornflake corndogs, lobster lumpia, more crazy treats coming to music fest’s Taste of the Bay Area. Save our slate of snacks!
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Oaklash Fest, Roxie Mixtape, Parameter, La Doña, World Goth Day…

Remembering Joe Kukura, CCA Graduate Exhibition, Kukje Bakery, DJ Said, BAVC's 50th, Fogo Na Roupa, 'Silent Friend,' more to do!
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Staged in a senior community center, this tale left a lasting sting

'Lay My Burden Down' took up urgent concerns, with puppets. Plus: Alicia Keys' angelic 'Hell's Kitchen' hits familiar heights.
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Festival

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival kicked off with a salsa bang

Tasty Taiwanese American Fest and fantastically ravey OM records 30th were also on the sunny Saturday menu.
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Arts + Culture

Cole Swensen’s ‘Veer’ swerves towards the limits of language

Poems that dare to go into the minds of crows, up tree trunks, or daringly close to the sun.
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Music

50 years in, electronic pioneers Cabaret Voltaire sound prophetic as ever

'Our reasons for being paranoid were only partly paranoid' say proto-industrial UK group, now on grand farewell tour.
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Contest

Win tickets to Wavy Gravy’s 90th birthday party!

We've got three pairs of tickets to give away to the all-star celebration on Sat/16.
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Nightlife

The freaky little Fotomat that’s changing SF nightlife

Party crew program audio have transformed a tiny kiosk near the top of Haight Street into a brilliant online radio station.
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Music

Wavy Gravy is turning 90. Of course there’s a wild party.

Maria Muldaur, Harper Simon, Cat Power, Rickie Lee Jones, Steve Earle, more to celebrate SF's 'saint in a clown suit.'
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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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