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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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Arts + Culture

Under the Stars: Mae Powell’s doozy of a contact high

Plus: Cindy Blackman Santana bangs the skins, a free Valkyries watch party with great tunes, new Kaytranada, more music
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Sponsor our 12th Annual 48 Hills Community Gala (or just come and bring all your friends)!

Help us keep independent media alive for another year with music, cocktails, food, community, and lots of local love.
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Screen Grabs: Are we not doc’ed? We are Devo!

Plus: A harrowing bulletin from Sudan, Ron Howard's missed 'Eden,' Tsui Hark's slapstick Hong Kong caper, more movies
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Join us Wed/20 for a discussion on overdose prevention in queer nightlife

LGBTQ+ nightlife community activists and health experts come together to help make partying safer.
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Culture

‘Indigenize SF’ maps well-known street names and statues paying homage to genocide

Herbert F. Mintz II -
At SFMOMA, an exhibit documents local monuments connected to historic violence against American Indians.
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Music

Iridescent melodies and a violin’s metallic textures burnish sachi’s mirror

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Juicebumps bassist Shaina Pan's solo project is rooted in her classical background, applying unconventional twists.
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Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2025 voting begins September 2!

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It's a new era: Our 51st annual Readers Poll returns with a new look and plenty of Bay Area love
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Dance

Joe Goode Performance Group wants to know: ‘Are You Okay?’

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Mainstay Bay Area troupe wields dance to explore coping with a world twisting under our feet.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Buttons On!, Mohanad Elshieky, Pizza Bagel & Beer Fest, Horsegirl…

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DJ Stingray, Taj Mahal, Mid-Week Mercado, Acid August, bye-bye Shuggie's Trash Pies, more great things to do
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Education

Behind the attacks on ethnic studies at SFUSD

Tim Redmond -
One far-right group treated as credible by the Chron—and a whole lot of misinformation—fuels backlash against very successful class.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: A New Taiwanese Cinema giant comes to the Bay

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Plus: BLUSH PornFilmFest, Robert Reich's 'Last Class,' danger at a Ukrainian zoo, quirky 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' more movies.
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Music

Under the Stars: Derya Yıldırım’s Anatolian exuberance blazed at The Chapel

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Plus: Teen breakouts Horsegirl's upcoming GAMH gig shows what they've learned, Z-Trip's golden hour summer steeze, more.
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Contest

Win a pair of tickets to see 3l3d3p, daine, Yächtley Crëw, and Leftover Salmon

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We're teaming up with some of SF's best music venues to get you to some shows. Here's how to enter.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: A ping-ponging in the mind—and a tennis match of wits

Charles Lewis III -
Candace Johnson's 'Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD' and Golden Thread's 'The Return,' reviewed.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Rainbow Grocery celebrates 50 years of co-op love with a huge block party

Tamara Palmer -
Delicious treats and beats mark a half-century of feeding the community together on Sun/17.
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Music

Watch: Who we loved (and what we ate) at Outside Lands 2025

Marke B. -
Our online reporters and food & drink crew were out in full force to capture the tasty musical spectacle.
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Movies

Score a free pass to see new movie ‘Honey Don’t!’

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We've got 20 passes to give away to a preview screening of Ethan Coen's saucy new movie—but act fast!
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Art

Queer desire, teen crushes push the needle of this quilter

Mary Corbin -
Greg Climer's intimate, pixelated textiles tap into the "quiet devotion" in history of art dedicated to the male form.
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Music Review

Sun Ra Arkestra traversed magnificent orbits at SFJAZZ

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As Deadheads grasped for past glory across town, this 19-member orchestra kept blazing into the Afrofuture.
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