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Arts + Culture

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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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.'
Stage Review Charles Lewis III -
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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

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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

Joshua Rotter -
'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

Jon Bauer and Patty Riek -
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

Dennis Harvey -
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

Jess Oledan -
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

Dennis Harvey -
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…

Marke B. -
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

Tamara Palmer -
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

John-Paul Shiver -
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’

Pam Grady -
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

Charles Lewis III -
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

Joshua Rotter -
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

D.A. Mission -
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

Mary Corbin -
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

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