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We love you, Mamie Van Doren

95-year-old Hollywood legend's new memoir 'You Thought I Was Dead' gushes with celebrities, sex, champagne—and survival.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: The spice must flow

Emeryville’s regional Indian restaurant fires up a spicy collab with Mediterranean San Francisco sister.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Juneteenth, $5 Book Fair, Dolly Parton Pride, Golden Gate Park Band Fest…

BIOMETRICKS, The Dish, Messthetics, Sunset Night Market, Township Rebellion, Lil Sweet Treat, more to do!
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Lit

An Oakland union researcher wrote a book. Her characters brought class into it

New novel 'Muñeca' by Cynthia Gómez delivers Gothic fiction suffused with queerness and rebellion.
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Movies

The wild inside story of San Francisco’s first gay film festival

50 years ago, a ragtag bunch of local geniuses got together to show their scrappy Super 8s—and a movement was born.
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Festival

Ciao bella! Pasta, puppets, parade drew revelers to Festa Italiana in North Beach

Two days of feasting, dancing, and live music—plus plenty of strong coffee and wine—celebrated Italian culture.
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Featured

Free 48 Hills keychain for our next 100 monthly donors!

We're rolling out more perks for our recurring monthly donors, including free newsletter upgrades and Gala tickets.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre tiptoes back onstage after closure

... but another East Bay institution bids adieu. Plus: SF Opera's 'The Barber of Seville' lands the slapstick, needs more 'Figaro.'
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Culture

Kitfo to kickflips: How the Bay’s oldest Ethiopian restaurant supports Addis Ababa skaters

Oakland's Cafe Colucci collabs with Ethiopia Skate to boost burgeoning scene halfway across the world.
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Music

Under the Stars: ‘Happy Today’ brings wizardly space and grace to longform jazz jams

Plus: Digital Underground's 'Sex Packets' at 35, Black Gold Sun's poignant punk, Space Ghost's remixed freedom, more music
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Movies

Surely, they must still be joking: ‘Airplane! Live’ lands classic 1980 movie’s gags

'The more serious we were, the more the comedy worked,' says star Robert Hays, coming to SF with co-star Julie Hagerty.
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Onstage

Live Shots: Fou Fou Ha!’s erotic clownery reminded us that pleasure is resistance

With 'The Nectar' at Palace Theater, the longtime sexy burlesque troupe offered a voluptuous answer to oppression.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest

Plus: Summer with Monica Vitti, Nicholas Meyer's SF sci-fi, a daring 'Devil Queen,' A Complete Stanley Kubrick, more movies on tap
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Nightlife

As SF nightclubs struggle to hold on, local DJs are being squeezed out

Venues turn to big-name touring acts and social media metrics to fill rooms, rather than risk success on up-and-comers.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Things are looking grim. Time for a trip to Bleak Week

Plus: 'Trainspotting' slams back into cinemas, 'Carolina Caroline' rides the grift, a straightforward (ahem) 'Rocky Horror' doc, more movies
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Festa Italiana, Juneteenth on the Waterfront, Rocky Horror, The Klezmatics…

Plus: Persia does Pride, Free Techno in Union Square, Union Street Fest, Marbled Eye, Juniper, Satya, more to do!
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Diving deep into Crustacean’s ‘secret’ kitchen for a family treasure

Chef Helene An's garlic noodles are an iconic SF dish, now served at her restaurant's new FiDi location (and her granddaughter's school).
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Music

Under the Stars: Wealthy Women are here to lay down heavy truths

Plus: AMC launches in-theater concert shows, Trinity Ace gives Richmond realness, Brooklyn Funk Essentials take us back, more music
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Movies

Iceland’s glaciers melt away like memory in ‘Time and Water’

Sara Dosa's adventurous doc weaves climate change alarm, family history, and love story into an elegy for our disappearing world.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Berkeley Rep’s ‘The Lunchbox’ is a delicious charmer

Plus: 'Phantom of the Opera' descends on a new haunt, and 'Becoming a Man' faces transition head on.
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Music

San Francisco does, indeed, want The Human League

Monster '80s hitmakers return to city where they feel at home, this time with Soft Cell and Alison Moyet in tow.
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Music

Live Shots: Poison the Well slayed Regency with three-decade metalcore onslaught

With first album in 17 years 'Peace in Place' under their belts, Florida legends shook Ballroom.
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Art

Memories of us: Puerto Rican diasporic photography inspires Norma I. Quintana

At Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, silver gelatin prints conjure the sanctuary of connection—and a sociology of shared imagery.
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Dance

‘Memento Forest’ trembles with communal healing after deep loss

Choreographer Marina Fukushima brings ritual, talismans that bore her up after father's death to Theatre of Yugen.
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Culture

De Young celebrates lowrider culture—right on its front lawn

Community pulls up Saturday for Rose B. Simpson's 'LEXICON' exhibit, which features classic rides with indigenous motifs.
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Movies

Sign up for our newsletter to win FREE Frameline Fest movie tickets

Subscribe by Wednesday to find out how to enter to win a ticket to the world's first LGBTQ film fest.
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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 Parkin'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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