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Arts
Santana mural in the Mission vandalized: “a blatant act of hate”
White paint splashed on mural sometime on Friday: Community organizer says "When people come out with hate, we’re coming out with love."
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Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs: Jewish Film Fest, Eighth Grade, Blindspotting …
The Cakemaker, a double feature of classic French films starring Andrew Clement, Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, and more in cinemas this week.
Culture
A night market bursting with flavor at Asian Art Museum
Chef Tu David Phu's fundraising Hawker Centre festival on Thu/19, offers hand-held treats from Bún Nhâm Hà Tiên to toasted rice soft serve.
Movies
‘Black Powers: Reframing Hollywood’ at SFMOMA celebrates plucky cinematic classics
From 'Body and Soul' to 'Do the Right Thing,' the three-week series brings African American directors to the fore.
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Arts
Fake news and viral lies: de Young show and panel examine propaganda
"Rumors, Retweets, and Reason" panel and "Weapons of Mass Seduction" exhibit look at the power and prevention of misinformation.
Arts
Pioneering machine artist Kal Spelletich is being evicted: Help save his robots!
The teacher and inventor who brought robots and flamethrowers to Burning Man must leave his home and studio of 25 years.
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Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs: Yellow Submarine, Sleaze Apocalypse, Star Wars with the Symphony …
Godmonster of Indian Flats, Ava, a day of home movies from the San Francisco Italian-American community, and more in cinemas this week
Arts
Arts
Santana mural in the Mission vandalized: “a blatant act of hate”
White paint splashed on mural sometime on Friday: Community organizer says "When people come out with hate, we’re coming out with love."
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Arts
Fake news and viral lies: de Young show and panel examine propaganda
"Rumors, Retweets, and Reason" panel and "Weapons of Mass Seduction" exhibit look at the power and prevention of misinformation.
Arts
Pioneering machine artist Kal Spelletich is being evicted: Help save his robots!
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The teacher and inventor who brought robots and flamethrowers to Burning Man must leave his home and studio of 25 years.
Arts
Very live, from the Bay Area: Pop-Up Magazine returns with fresh new stories
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We talk with the theatrical phenomenon's senior producer about the importance of storytelling in an age of information inundation.
Arts
A ‘Timon’ for our times? Cutting Ball Theatre transfers Shakespeare to SF
Director Rob Melrose's Timon, "the hottest CEO this side of Market Street," is transported to the Tenderloin in timely production.
Culture
Culture
A night market bursting with flavor at Asian Art Museum
Chef Tu David Phu's fundraising Hawker Centre festival on Thu/19, offers hand-held treats from Bún Nhâm Hà Tiên to toasted rice soft serve.
Onstage
Onstage
An Asian American twist on the bourgeoisie, white wine included
Leah Nanako Winkler's new play 'Two Mile Hollow' at Potrero Stage fills familiar 'white people by the water' roles with different faces.
Onstage
The sheer audacity of ‘Angels in America’
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Berkeley Rep's brilliant revival is both homecoming and reckoning for Tony Kushner's 25-year-old 'Gay Fantasia on National Themes"
Onstage
Comedian Gina Yashere rides the ‘up’ elevator to stardom
From Otis repair engineer to Trevor Noah Show regular, the British sensation brings her act to Freight and Salvage.
Onstage
Seeing Red: SF Mime Troupe is making it a socialist summer
57-year-old agit-prop institution's latest takes us back in time to when it seemed America was on the brink of something bigger
Onstage
Hattie McDaniel’s pioneering, tumultuous life—in song
Vickilyn Reynolds's latest musical production about the first African American Oscar winner had humor, pizzazz, and poignancy.
Puff
Puff
Giving your pet some CBD love
Treating your furry friend's anxiety or pain with cannabinoids is becoming more popular: Here are a couple recommendations.
Puff
Puff: A little dab will do ya
Concentrates are all the rage in the cannabis world: Here's an introduction to the sticky trend.
Puff
Puff: More joys of microdosing
Get slightly juiced—and even survive a hangover—with small-dose products like Somatik's chocolate-covered goji berries or a shot of Kwik Ease.
Puff
Puff: In Mendocino, Flow Cannabis Institute dreams big (and artisanal)
Flow Kana's new 80-acre complex sets out to help small farmers, showcase sustainable farming, and raise the cannabis recreation bar.
Puff
Puff: Grow your own at home? You’ll need pot(s)
Local cannabis insta-grow kit A Pot For Pot helps out green thumbs, even if they're rusty.
Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs: Jewish Film Fest, Eighth Grade, Blindspotting …
The Cakemaker, a double feature of classic French films starring Andrew Clement, Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, and more in cinemas this week.
Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs: Yellow Submarine, Sleaze Apocalypse, Star Wars with the Symphony …
Godmonster of Indian Flats, Ava, a day of home movies from the San Francisco Italian-American community, and more in cinemas this week
Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs: Sorry To Bother You, Whitney, The King…
Three Identical Strangers, "Black Powers: Reframing Hollywood," The Films of Aki Kaurismaki, That Summer, more in cinemas this week.
Onstage
Screen Grabs: Jaws, RGB, Leave No Trace …
"Black Panthers in '68," Damsel, Breath, and more in cinemas this week. Plus, details on how you can help save Opera Plaza Cinemas.
Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs: Lair of the White Worm, Westwood, Mrs Hyde….
En El Séptima DÃa, Daisies, Cielo, and more in cinemas this week. Plus: Opera Plaza Cinemas are in trouble, here's how to help.
Art Looks
Art Looks
Blackface betrayal and ‘Black Lies’ in Edgar Arceneaux’s new YBCA installation
The LA artist takes on Ben Vereens' infamously truncated performance at Ronald Reagan's 1981 inaugural gala, and more.
Art Looks
SFMOMA’s immersive ‘Sublime Seas’ mixes ‘Blue Planet’ beauty with unfathomable brutality
A legendary British painting and a contemporary Ghanaian artist's video work combine for a visceral new show.
Art Looks
Architecturally sound neon Pomeranians: Our top 5 from Mexico City Art Week
As the art world flocked to CDMX for the latest, we downed medicated chocolates and took in some great work—on and off the beaten path.
Art Looks
200 years of poetic art vibes in BAMPFA’s ‘Way Bay’
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An expansive, exhilarating, somewhat loopy show that's full of individual wonders
Arts + Culture
‘The Third Muslim’ highlights queer faith, art, resilience
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New show at SOMArts focuses on artists whose identities have 'pushed them to the margins of the margins.'
Party Radar
Arts + Culture
Party Radar: ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2018
Crystal Waters, Horse Meat Disco, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Yaeji, Kehlani, TS Madison, Hot Pants, Stud Puppy, and tons more for your rainbow journey.
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Arts + Culture
Party Radar: Are you ready for the Cleveland techno invasion?
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In Training and Heaven is in You DJs come to SF. Plus: Derrick Carter, Dâm Funk, Non Stop Bhangra, Peggy Gou, Sunset Boat Party, more wiiiiild parties.
Party Radar
Party Radar: Fortnight of Fun—Love Glove Edition
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She Bends, John Cameron Mitchell, Head Over Heels, Doc Martin, The Juan Maclean, Asmara, Carl Craig, Rebolledo... two weeks of party madness!
Party Radar
Party Radar: Sapphic pleasures, Lynchian delights, an indie Hotline …
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... Juana, Nickodemus, KlangKeuntsler, J.Phlip, Rave Against the Machine, Daddy Issues, and more hot parties this week.
Party Radar
Party Radar: The way, way, Wayback Machine
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Rifling through the kooky Super Ego archives. Plus: Escort, Ssion, Stacey Pullen, Harder SF, Greg Wilson, Jus-Ed, Sunset Season Opener, more
Examined Life
Examined Life
Examined Life: Far to fall
Bourdain, Spade, and Stone: If we want our heroes to thrive, we have to stop expecting them to be heroic.
Examined Life
Examined Life: Don’t just sit there—listen
It’s not easy to communicate mindfully, but it might save the world. (And it will definitely save your relationships.)
Examined Life
Examined Life: Love and the lost art of friendship
This Valentine’s Day, consider renewing vows… with your pals.
Examined Life
Examined Life: New Year’s resolutions … good practice or delusion?
Money, romance, health. Your life is never going to be perfect. Once you truly understand that, you can finally start enjoying it.
Examined Life
Examined Life: Reclaiming sacred spaces in the Digital Age
Smart phone addiction is hijacking not only our sanity, but the places we once went to reclaim it. Here's what we can do.
Arts Forecast
Arts Forecast
Arts Forecast: Gray Area Festival lineup, Laborfest, Fillmore Jazz Fest…
Pink Flamingos, Stereo Argento, The Go-Go's, All Day I Dream, and more this week—plus a protest against family separations at the border.
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Arts Forecast
Arts Forecast: Fresh Meat, North Beach Festival, Corgi Con…
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Fantastic Negrito, Fatima Yamaha, Boris Godunov, Seinfeld Trivia Night (with Seinfeld-themed menu!) and more on tap this week.
Arts Forecast
Arts Forecast: A Princely debut, the Science of Rhythm, Haight Street Fair, more …
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Lydia Lunch, Speedy Ortiz, Meat Beat Manifesto, A History of Violence, the Art of Romanowski, and more on tap this week.
Arts Forecast
Arts Forecast: Trog, Mercury Soul, Bay Area Book Festival …
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Fog City Swing, Kronos Quartet Festival, Japandroids, Eric B & Rakim, more upcoming arts events and news.
Arts Forecast
Arts Forecast: An Ethio-jazz marvel, a Tenderloin snapper, The Residents …
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A trans superhero rock opera, a celebration of Oddball Films, a colorful camp classic movie at the Symphony, and more great arts events.
Lit
Lit
Leticia del Toro grounds her ‘Cafe Colima’ in the lives of ‘everyday Latinas’
Short fiction award-winner speaks about growing up under Reagan in Crocket, Ca., and the pressing need for diversity in literature
Lit
Author Amanda Huron on housing and the power of urban ‘commoning’
New book explores DC's equity housing cooperatives—and may offers some lessons for SF.
Lit
Read something new! California Book Award finalists announced
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Plus the Northern California Book Award winners are here, too? Lots of great lit to dive into this spring.
Lit
Ananda Esteva’s border-crossing, jazz-driven Califaztlan tale
New novel 'The Wanderings of Chela CoatlÃcue: Touring Califaztlan' from the Chilean author is a feminist, 'choose your own adventure'-type quest.
Lit
‘Knucklehead’ author Adam Smyer takes on the turbulent ’90s
A new novel gives a tour of the dystopian Clinton years from a black protagonist's point of view, with a wicked sense of humor.
All Ears
All Ears
A hot-button ‘Ring’ at SF Opera? You bet your Brünnhilde
#MeToo, environmentalism, and deeply personal stories—director Francesca Zambello brings out the contemporary side of Wagner's epic.
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All Ears
Homegrown soul sensation Con Brio is back
With a new album and tour (including a stop at the Fillmore Sat/5), the beloved band still uses music as a weapon of love.
All Ears
Funky old Iceland? DJ Platurn dives into Reykjavik’s rare grooves
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Local turntablist took 12 painstaking years to find and combine 65+ records from the 1960s-'80s into awesome 'Breaking the Ice' mix.
All Ears
21st Romani Music Festival lights up with electrifying horns, cultural openness
Balkan powerhouse Džambo Aguševi Orchestra headlines Voice of Roma's annual gathering, happening Fri/9 in Oakland.
All Ears
Rapping the ‘Housing Crisis’
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Local hip-hop artist SCS takes on skyrocketing inequality and political corruption in incendiary new video.
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News + Politics
Central Soma Plan shows the problem with large-scale EIRs
Decisions made in 2013 are determining the amount of housing the city can allow five years later, when the situation has radically changed.
Arts
Santana mural in the Mission vandalized: “a blatant act of hate”
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White paint splashed on mural sometime on Friday: Community organizer says "When people come out with hate, we’re coming out with love."
The Agenda
Too many jobs, too little housing in Soma
Plus: Taxing Uber, Lyft -- and cannabis. That's The Agenda for July 16-22
Screen Grabs
Screen Grabs: Jewish Film Fest, Eighth Grade, Blindspotting …
The Cakemaker, a double feature of classic French films starring Andrew Clement, Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, and more in cinemas this week.
Culture
A night market bursting with flavor at Asian Art Museum
Chef Tu David Phu's fundraising Hawker Centre festival on Thu/19, offers hand-held treats from Bún Nhâm Hà Tiên to toasted rice soft serve.
News + Politics
Breed talks about bringing the city together — but shows sharp political edges
Inaugural program disses opponents, has little talk of working with the progressive majority on the board
Arts
Fake news and viral lies: de Young show and panel examine propaganda
"Rumors, Retweets, and Reason" panel and "Weapons of Mass Seduction" exhibit look at the power and prevention of misinformation.
News + Politics
Five myths about the homeless problem in San Francisco
Most of what the politicians and the media are telling you isn't true. Here's why.
Best of the Bay Winners
Arts + Culture
BAY GUARDIAN BEST OF THE BAY 2017: WELCOME!
Our 42nd edition of the Bay Area original! Thousands voted in dozens of categories -- here are the results.
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BEST OF THE BAY 2017: SHOPPING WINNERS
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Our readers' picks for Best Bookstore, Best Flower Shop, Best Shoe Store, Best Sporting Goods, Best Record Store, and more
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BEST OF THE BAY 2017: ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT WINNERS
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Our readers' picks for Best Music Festival, Best DJ, Best Drag Queen, Best Dance Party, Best Literary Night, and more.
Arts + Culture
BEST OF THE BAY 2017: CITY LIVING WINNERS
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Our readers' picks for Best Street Fair, Best Bike Repair, Best Tailor, Best Gym, Best Pet Groomers, Best Plumber, and more
Arts + Culture
BEST OF THE BAY 2017: FOOD AND DRINK WINNERS
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Our readers' picks for Best Burrito, Best Sushi, Best Cafe, Best Cocktails, Best Romantic Restaurant, Best Sports Bar, and more