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Festival

Live Shots: Dickens Fair 2025 takes the plum cake—just watch for the squirrel

Vast annual Christmas extravaganza at Cow Palace recreates Victorian London, and comes with a furry friend.
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Turn that anger into action at this year’s Howard Zinn Book Fair

The annual social justice bonanza celebrates the history and possibilities of engagement in an era of despair.
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Screen Grabs: Let’s get weird for the holidays at Another Hole in the Head

Blood-sucking landlords, hilarious hoagies, deadly influencers, bad haircuts: 'Tis the season for the 22nd freak film fest
Movies Dennis Harvey -
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What we saw at the NY Film Fest: Ficks’ Picks of experimental gems

A very meta Romanian 'Dracula', Sharon Lockhart's breathtaking grace, melancholic Georgian questing, more.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: East LA guerrilla artists fire up SF Latino Film Fest

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Plus: Green Film Fest dives into rainforest resistance, melting memories, brown bear kerfuffles, train dreams, more
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Movies

Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest reaches ‘Beyond Bollywood’ for thrills

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Plus: Mexican terror in 'Noche Oscura,' bittersweet SF nostalgia in 'Fairyland,' dark fantasy 'Ice Tower,' Orwell on the line, more movies
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Lit

Join 48 Hills’ Marke B and author Sarah Schulman at Litquake!

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Join us Sun/12 at Counterpulse for a free Tenderloin workshop on 'The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.'
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Movies

Screen Grabs: The Big Kahuna of local fall film fests arrives

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: J. Hoberman haunts Beat paths, classic Westerns on the big screen, a queer Japanese epic, new releases, more
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Culture

Live Shots: Folsom Street Fair 2025 was big, slutty, and beautiful

Jon Bauer -
42nd installment of kink and fetish festival expanded for a more chill vibe—without sacrificing the naughtiness.
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Nightlife

Party Radar: Quick ‘n dirty guide to Folsom Street Fair fiestas

Marke B. -
Disco Daddy, Hard Reset, Soft Play, Power Snatch, Bears in Space, Horse Meat Disco, Grunt, Squish, Ew!, Chunk, more freaky affairs
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Fashion

Leather, lace, and hardware: All the looks you need at Folsom Street Fair

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From Five and Diamond to Love Lorn Lingerie—a tour through some of the fine fetish fashions on offer at the festival.
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Music

Portola’s party daze triumphed. But will it return in 2026?

Tamara Palmer -
Two days spent eating to the beat of raver nostalgia (and Xtina's Grindr bleeps) on Pier 80, wondering if it ever has to end.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Blasting off with Jordan Belson’s mind-expanding cinema

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Plus: 'Cannes for dirtbags' Scumdance Fest, Emma Thompson on thin ice, and a 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' love letter.
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Culture

Folsom 2025 brings Twisted Windows, joyful gates, a continually expanding Playground

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Four of the kinky fair's players take us behind the juicy scenes (and history) of this year's fetish fest.
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Lit

Litquake 2025’s lineup is here, and it’s stacked like the Bodleian

Marke B. -
Sprawling literary fest takes over the city with spicy readings and events in October—here are some of our first round picks.
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Best of the Bay

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

Marke B. -
Our 51st installment of the Bay Area classic is 'new and improved' for 2025—and still full of local love.
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Movies

Ficks’ Picks: Diving into CROSSROADS Fest’s river of experimental celluloid

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SF Cinematheque showcases Japanese classics, Day-Glo rock formations, Inuit lichen-based developers.
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Pistahan Parade, SF Fringe Fest, Chinatown Night Market, Outside Lands…

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Wayne Thiebaud, Femi Kuti, Black Coffee, Thundercat, Bay Day at the Exploratorium, a crab rangoon atlas, more to do this week!
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Music

23 years in, still grateful for free Jerry Day celebration

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Founder Tom Murphy looks back at the annual Jerry Garcia tribute concert in McLaren Park, and how it's grown over the decades.
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