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Screen Grabs: Black Film Festival lifts off—and other stratospheric releases

The best of the new, from the surveilling of surveillance in 'All Light, Everywhere' to 'Les Norte' and its discomfiting coming-of-age twists
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Music

Juneteenth sings: 5 new releases to help you hear the melody

Oakland artist Stoney Creation gives self preservation sounds, while Bandcamp doubles up on ways to give back.
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Art

Review: In Root Division’s ‘A Joy Unexpected,’ release in myriad forms

Curator Tavarus Blackmon presents a stunning show that delves into the palpability of relief after trauma
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Party Radar

Party Radar: Now with actual parties (and vax cards?)

Even the goth clubs are rising from the nightlife apocalypse—but things are still in flux, so keep your head.
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Arts + Culture

Queer film hero Jenni Olson honored with top ‘Teddy’ award

The invaluable filmmaker, critic, curator, archivist, historian, and connection-maker is awarded at the Berlinale
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Japan Center comes alive, Al Pastor Papi’s Benihana burrito tribute

Plus: Outer Sunset farmer’s market expands, catch a free Juneteenth food party at the Ferry Building, more
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Music

Star-packed David Bowie tribute album is a thought-provoking ride

'Modern Love' is an homage to the oftentimes surprising connections between the Thin White Duke and Black music.
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News + Politics

Fierce environmental champions: Meet the 2021 Goldman Prize winners

Six real-life heroes who have pushed back against global disaster, from Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' to Malawi's plastics crisis.
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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: The show goes on!

Juneteenth in-person and online, plus 'Manifesto,' the Symphony returns, 'Genderation,' Queer Visions, more. Breathe in!
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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A creaky gay ‘Sublet’ and a heady lesbian ‘Curve’

Plus: 'Holler' shines through strong performances; 'In the Crosswinds' too pretty for tragedy
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Performance

Fresh Meat Fest celebrates two decades of queer/trans art—mariachis and all

Artistic Director Sean Dorsey speaks about the groundbreaking event's continued impact
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Arts + Culture

Porchlight, Bawdy Storytelling take stage at newly Mint-ed al fresco series

Courtyard Cabaret was the result of COVID downtime—but an outdoor drink and show sounds smashing for summer.
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Onstage

Comedian, nerd hero Brian Posehn returns with ‘a pandemic’s worth’ of new jokes

The Redwood City-born favorite talks 'Grandpa Metal,' Mary Jane, and performing live shows at Cobb's again
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Movies

Enter to win a code to stream ‘The Sparks Brothers’

See director Edgar Wright's acclaimed documentary about musical innovators Sparks
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Culture

PHOTOS: Pride season launches with original Rainbow Flag, AIDS Quilt, more

Photographer Gooch captured a full week of events that marked history and celebrated LGBTQ love.
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Music

Jazz star Jaimie Branch’s ‘FLY or DIE LIVE’ a timely reminder of resistance

Klezmer upswings, bluesy testimonials, and bombastic electronic warmth define the firebrand's latest album.
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Music

Stern Grove’s just-released lineup shines (but you’ll have to be on the ball)

A San Francisco tradition, a brilliant spectrum of artists—and it's still all free, though you'll need a reservation.
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Movies

Enter to win a Frameline movie streaming code

Tell us your fantasy drag name for a chance to catch a free film at the 45th LGBTQ film fest
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Art

Review: Miguel Arzabe’s ingenious hybridizations summon mythic forces

At Johansson Projects, the Oakland artist weaves a space where Western abstract painting meets indigenous craft
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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Walk gently into reopening with Kronos Festival and Pop-Up Mag

SOUNDWALK and 'The Sidewalk Issue' get you outside. Plus: Performing Diaspora, Flor Y Canto fest, Out of Site, more
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Miss Subi pops up, Cafe Ohlone plots reopening…

Plus: BART reviews restaurants, Humphry Slocombe debuts rosé sorbet and BiteUnite hosts rooftop cooking classes
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Movies

Frameline Fest puts Pride onscreen, from laptop to Jumbotron

Senior lesbian rockers, baby drag queens, and Bay Area transgender heroes shine in 45th LGBTQ film showcase
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Art

A new gallery uplifts contemporary Asian art to counter misconceptions

Curator Abby Chen on how the Asian Art Museum's Hambrecht Contemporary Gallery connects antiquities to urgent current concerns.
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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A lost Romero gem portrays elder abuse horrors

Plus more scary situations in Caveat, Censor, The Retreat, and Skull: The Mask
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Music

Under the Stars: Pursuit Grooves opens the portal (plus more new tunes)

Fresh sounds, from a Nick Andre and Zion I skate soundtrack to Moor Mother's latest future vision
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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Pride accelerates with trans student athletes in ‘Changing the Game’ doc

Plus: Trans opera, Moomin creator bio-pic, and a questionable reboot of British empire adventure film.
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Art

Review: Vibrant varieties of artistic experience in ‘Ambiguities of Blackness’

At Minnesota Street Projects, a provocative show challenges the 'Black monolith' myth.
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Lit

Through hardship, a pastor encounters good people in ‘United States of Grace’

Lenny Duncan's 'Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope" isn't the usual redemption story.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Get your own Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence dish, Senegalese spaghetti sandwiches, more

Plus: Ferry Plaza Farmers Market starts delivery, International Smoke returns, and even more terrible ghost kitchen names
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Music

Now Watch This: Great new videos from Pachyman, Alycia Bella, more

Don't miss Sonny & the Sunsets' ciubbhyhole-rousting 'Ring My Bell' and Georgia Anne Muldrew's multiversal G-fonk.
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Art

From refuse, artist Kloe Chan creates emotional refuge

Physical space and community play an important role in hand-crafted works like 'I Will Knit Us a Sanctuary'
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Movies

Docfest 2021 provides colorful human stories in a year that needs them

Heroic women wrestlers, legendary soul singers, Sparks, and the Space Lady all feature in this year's festival.
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Music

SF Jazz Fest lifts off with guiding spirit Thelonious Monk

Online 38th annual cornucopia of sounds features rarely seen 1985 documentary of the master, who's been having a moment
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Movies

Screen Grabs: An unlikely hero stands up to massive redevelopment in ‘Dead Pigs’

Plus: Thrilling sequel 'A Quiet Place 2,' a lost Black intellectual classic from 1982, and a trans romance gem.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Stalin’s funeral, New Deal art, and a harrowing Mexican fable of unrest

Three new movies seem like history repeating. Plus, an invigorating Legacy Film Festival On Aging
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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: No big parade, but Pride season’s already busting out the wigs and rainbows

Giant pink triangle, Oaklash, gay ballet, drag dance, Queer Women of Color Film Fest, more add abundant sparkle
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Art

Stephanie Syjuco: Diving into the American archives—and implicating everyone—with the Bay Area artist

'As a person of color, I don’t believe that more love and empathy is going to get us actual policy change.'
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Art

Review: ‘Nam June Paik’ presents a playful prophet of the Electronic Superhighway

Exhilarating SFMOMA retrospective showcases Korean artist's groundbreaking video work (and human connections)
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Music

New Music: Róisín Murphy’s ‘Crooked Machine’ redeems the remix album

With this soaring rework, collaborator DJ Crooked Man reaches back to show the young ones how disco's done
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: How to skip the line at this smokin’ hot Oakland BBQ joint, more

Plus: Eat Real Fest postpones, Fantastic Negrito’s street food fair returns, SF gets new po’ boys from Boug Cali and Vegan Mob
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