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Culture

Comedy pioneers BATS Improv turn 40, with more wild flights of storytelling

'The excitement of improvisation was palpable, and the joy of being onstage together was addictive,' co-founder says of early years.
Comedy Joshua Rotter -
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Live Shots: La Doña returned in triumph at UC Theater

The hometown hero brought songs from new album 'Corrientes,' advancing her feminist-forward preservation of traditional sounds.
Music D.A. Mission -
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Richmond Review, Sunset Beacon publisher enters hospice

Michael Durand has announced he has terminal cancer. His neighborhood papers' coverage has been essential.
News + Politics Marke B. -
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Reproductive injustice in 1960s San Francisco exposed in Kate Schatz’s debut novel

Horrendous recent Supreme Court decision and a very personal connection spurred tale of teenager facing pregnancy.
Lit Lou Fancher -
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Art

Like her mother, sculptor Maryam Yousif is inspired by a Mesopotamian warrior queen

Mary Corbin -
Iraqi artist's multitudinous clay explorations are powered by ancient myths, Arabian pop art, anonymous bloggers.
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Arts + Culture

Through the looking glass at the National Queer Arts Festival

Marke B. -
28th iteration dives into a 'Magic Mirror' of community reflection and ancestral resonance, with sound baths, Black astrology, more.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Forbidden, foreboding ‘Hitler, A Film From Germany’ returns

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: Jude Law as Putin in 'Wizard of the Kremlin,' 500 years of ginkgo in 'Silent Friend,' and a masterpiece of non-sectarian mysticism
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Music

Sonic encounters with civil rights giants on ‘Glorious Mahalia’

Marke B. -
New Kronos Quartet LP connects younger composers and an activist legend for timely revival of gospel icon.
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Music

Under the Stars: Martin Luther McCoy’s first solo flight in 14 years exudes Bay ease

John-Paul Shiver -
Plus: Sleater-Kinney and Liz Phair's long-awaited tour, TsuShiMaMiRe brings Japanese noise punk to BOTH, 37 Houses' poly rippers.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Outside Lands is pushing pastry carts and collaborations

Tamara Palmer -
Korean cornflake corndogs, lobster lumpia, more crazy treats coming to music fest’s Taste of the Bay Area. Save our slate of snacks!
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Oaklash Fest, Roxie Mixtape, Parameter, La Doña, World Goth Day…

Marke B. -
Remembering Joe Kukura, CCA Graduate Exhibition, Kukje Bakery, DJ Said, BAVC's 50th, Fogo Na Roupa, 'Silent Friend,' more to do!
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Staged in a senior community center, this tale left a lasting sting

Charles Lewis III -
'Lay My Burden Down' took up urgent concerns, with puppets. Plus: Alicia Keys' angelic 'Hell's Kitchen' hits familiar heights.
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Festival

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival kicked off with a salsa bang

Marke B. -
Tasty Taiwanese American Fest and fantastically ravey OM records 30th were also on the sunny Saturday menu.
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Arts + Culture

Cole Swensen’s ‘Veer’ swerves towards the limits of language

Lou Fancher -
Poems that dare to go into the minds of crows, up tree trunks, or daringly close to the sun.
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Music

50 years in, electronic pioneers Cabaret Voltaire sound prophetic as ever

Joshua Rotter -
'Our reasons for being paranoid were only partly paranoid' say proto-industrial UK group, now on grand farewell tour.
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Contest

Win tickets to Wavy Gravy’s 90th birthday party!

Marke B. -
We've got three pairs of tickets to give away to the all-star celebration on Sat/16.
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Nightlife

The freaky little Fotomat that’s changing SF nightlife

John-Paul Shiver -
Party crew program audio have transformed a tiny kiosk near the top of Haight Street into a brilliant online radio station.
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Music

Wavy Gravy is turning 90. Of course there’s a wild party.

Joshua Rotter -
Maria Muldaur, Harper Simon, Cat Power, Rickie Lee Jones, Steve Earle, more to celebrate SF's 'saint in a clown suit.'
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Lit

Allen Ginsberg ‘Howl’s again at all-star centennial celebration

Joshua Rotter -
Kronos Quartet, Kim Stanley Robinson, Merrill Garbus, Brontez Purnell, Andy Cabic, morę mark 100 years of poet-iconoclast.
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