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Lit

Beyond books: Gifts for lit lovers 2024

Looking for something novel to give your book-fiend friend? Step out of the covers with unique treats, from chocolates to live readings.
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Onstage

‘Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show’ keeps it fresh for Christmas

Riotous annual blast brings all-new material: 'We don't shy away from light—or dark!' say beloved queens.
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Promotion

Get $10 off “Golden Girls Live!” tickets, and wig out for Christmas

We've got a discount code for the Thu/19 and Fri/20 shows at Curran Theatre—CHEESECAKE2024
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Music

The 10 essential Bay Area rap albums of 2024

What a year: LaRussell glowed up alongside Hit-Boy, Nimsins scooped the newscasters, and Kamaiyah kept it player—but vulnerable.
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Stage Review

‘Golden Girls Live!’ goes big—but still wants to be your friend

The "Christmas Episodes" drag tradition expands to the Curran Theatre, but still keeps that comfy, campy charm.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Animated delights from Daft Punk and Wallace and Gromit

From the far-flung stars to cozy Lancashire. Plus: Fish out of water in the 'The Black Sea,' pugilist nostalgia in 'Day of the Fight'
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Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2024 Editors’ Pick: Shawna Virago

The groundbreaking 'fairy godmother' of trans country music is an outspoken voice for queer rights and local independent arts.
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Music

Sun glints, flowers slide by in ML Buch’s uncanny musical world

The Danish guitarist's melodic and welcoming, Bosch-like landscapes belie early influences like Metallica's 'S&M.'
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Art

New SF arts collective 465 introduces itself

Located in the legacy South Van Ness space that once hosted Femina Potens, the group aims to spark much-needed change.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Amid topical twists, SF Ballet delivers another gorgeous ‘Nutcracker’

The annual fairy frolic enchanted an audience all-too-ready to embrace an epic battle against the evil Mouse King.
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Music

Under the Stars: TV on the Radio returns, Yacht Rock gets its shine

Drew Daniel's fever dream genre 'hit 'em' sparks a gonzo comp, 37 Houses light up BOTH, more great music
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Puff

Puff: Mix it up for a Happy Dankmas and Marijuanukkah

Yummy Fizz-tinis, infused chocolate turtles, simply stoned sugar cookies, and more cannabis treats to make your Yuletide high.
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Music

50 years ago, the industry discarded him. Now jazz-funk legend Saracho is back

Thanks to an SF fan, the Apache-Mexican pianist returns—with a lifetime's worth of new musical tales to tell.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: An Iranian family explodes under authoritarian pressure

Mohammad Rasoulof's secret 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig.' Plus: 'The Bibi Files' indicts Netanyahu, 'Dahomey' liberates seized artifacts.
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Onstage

Stuck in a seasonal funk? Go for the ‘Holiday Gaiety’

For SF Symphony show stars Latrice Royale and Lady Camden, this is the year to 'get up, get sickening, and make them eat it.'
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COVID

Long Covid: The search for answers inches forward

Is the tide finally turning on research into the chronic illness—and funding at the federal level for prevention and a cure?
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Movies

When Tamagotchis attack! Kyle Mooney on raucous horror-comedy ‘Y2K’

Period-perfect New Millennium details shine in tale of technology gone haywire. Just don't forget the Herbal Essence.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: It’s ‘Queer,’ it’s here, it’s… definitely Guadagnino

Daniel Craig is besotted, Jude Law is determined, Ralph Fiennes is Odysseus, and Marco Pigossi is hot. New movies!
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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Are we not Recombinant?

Plus: Peter Pan panto, Atsushi Kaga's bunnies, Velveteen Rabbit, 40 years of Lab, DJ Louie Vega, East Bay Zine Fest, more awesome stuff to do.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Forget those Founding Fathers, the women save this ‘Hamilton’

The ultimate liberal comfort food musical retains its relentless hummability, even as we enter another Trump term.
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Music

Under the Stars: AJ Lee and Blue Summit channel Jackson Browne’s Cali folk

Plus: Kush Arora returns to the jungle, Steven Julien's New Jack mix, James Branden Lewis cores an apple, more new music
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Art

420 Polaroids, one fierce explosion of underground queer love

Party superstar Devon Devine has documented his queer club family for two decades. At Right Window Gallery, his photos finally see the light.
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Comedy

Sandra Bernhard: ‘I don’t think we’ll see a woman president in my lifetime’

In terrible times, the wild comedian's 'Easy Listening' tour foregrounds womens' voices that give her strength, from Tina to Lana.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Local gifts for the food-obsessed

Spread some delicious cheer with spices, jams, shared feasts, cookbooks, festive holiday markets, and more.
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Featured

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Music

50 Super Nintendos meet Frank Zappa on Xay Cole’s ’21st Century Wrist’

The SF musician's cacophonously compelling new album was re-faced from 30 minimal electronic tracks into something rockier.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘Nightbitch’ could use sharper feminist fangs

Plus: Driving 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat,' Bay Area legend Barbara Dane's '9 Lives,' animal climate survival in 'Flow,' more movies
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Contest

Win free tickets to the Lost Church’s awesome December shows!

We've got two pairs of tickets to give away to each of the intimate, independent North Beach venue's final shows of 2024.
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Culture

Live Shots: Loads of cheer (and hot spiced mead) at the Great Dickens Fair

Victorian holiday spirit and other seasonal shenanigans fill Cow Palace for the return of this only in SF extravaganza.
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Music

This gift guide goes out to all the music lovers

Tasty Creem Magazine bundles, Green Apple Books x Fillmore collection, Dub Mission coozies, indie recipes, more for the mavens
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Bizet’s score still blazes in SF Opera’s ‘Carmen’

Conductor Benjamin Manis barely lets up. Plus: Shotgun Players' 'Thirty-Six' drags young dating scene into spotlight, apps and all.
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Dance

Pilobolus brings 50+ years of light, heat, and the joy of connection to Berkeley

'We work more like a lantern than a laser beam,' says artistic director Matt Kent of the welcoming company.
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Music

Late legend DJ Blackstone’s record collection being sold to boost local talent

Vinyl Dreams store's 'Blackstone Friday' kicks off fundraiser for DJ Blackstone Grant, which helps DJs build their careers.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Au revoir, French noir—hello, Hole in the Head

A flurry of femmes fatales bids adieu to 'The French Had a Name for It,' while horror Hole fest sees many more buckets of blood.
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Nightlife

Kick off your Turkey Day with a Booty Call

Juanita More's infamous Wednesday hoedown returns for one night, with Granny in the back and all the trimmings.
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Art

In spare strokes, Sandra Wong Orloff takes on big subjects like climate change, gun violence

The Redwood Heights artist dreams of a day when her drawings aren't relevant.
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Art

Asian Art Museum summons K-pop nation with fangirl curator and BLACKPINK looks

'Hallyu! The Korean Wave' examines country's massive cultural footprint, from 'Parasite' to 'Gangham Style.'
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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 sprawling 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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