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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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Arts + Culture

After 51 years of welcoming visitors in, Open Studios is gazing outwards

Executive director Shamsher Virk continues to be 'incredibly impressed' by artists in a boom-and-bust creative city.
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Scrub your face with Peaches Christ

Horror drag icon's new Madame Peaches soaps may not wash away your sins, but you'll still feel fresh as Rosemary's baby.
Culture Marke B. -
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After 28 albums, Sparks still can’t resist a flourish—thankfully

Synth pop duo's 'MAD!' enlists ennui haze, light banter, schoolkids' backpacks in its theater of ideas.
Music Joshua Rotter -
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Painter Luis Felipe Chávez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within

On the eve of Mexican Independence Day, Jalisco-raised artist presents binational views of freedom.
Art Emily Wilson -
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Studio Fallout

Dorothy O'Donnell -
A quiet North Beach alley leads down to the basement retail lair of a punk-surrealist stalwart and his talented friends.
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Dance

World Arts West Dance Festival delivered communal joy, despite brutal NEA cuts

Tom Molanphy -
Trump's generational assault on the arts unsuccessful in dropping curtain on 40-year Bay tradition.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective

Nicole Gluckstern -
Group's guerrilla seating makes solid statement about accessibility and humane public infrastructure.
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Music

Under the Stars: Superlative locals Umbrellas, Fake Fruit, Now take the SFMOMA roof

John-Paul Shiver -
Plus: Upcoming gigs from Nirvana's favorite Shonen Knife, Devo and the B-52s, and The Saxophones' blue-lit beats.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Latest Neo-Futurists’ sandy pastiche performance invites all to dig in

Charles Lewis III -
'HOLE' sees your angst—and counsels excavation.
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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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Music

Abba Zabba to Kamasi Washington: 11 superior fall shows

John-Paul Shiver -
We got Portola Fest. We got Hardly Strictly. We got Autechre. We got Secret Emchy Society. Get in here!
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Lou Fancher -
Napa institution made major moves with opening of free-entry Incorrect Museum—plus creative strategy to brave era's financial woes.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: Witness the incendiary birth of nunsploitation in ‘The Devils’

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: 'The Long Walk' misses a timely chance to diss totalitarianism, and re-release of 'Commune' dives into a back-to-land Californian tale.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Corgi Con

Nicole Gluckstern -
The beloved celebration of the sturdy little spuds waddles into a blessedly bigger venue this year.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: 540 Bar

John-Paul Shiver -
This retro Inner Richmond watering hole attracts gleeful happy hour goers and tight-knit creative community.
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Featured

Fancy a beer with Tim Redmond?

Marke B. -
We're looking for sponsors for our October 22 Gala—and sweetening the pot with a personal bull session with our editor.
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Lit

City Lights poetry editor revisits the lion of Surrealism, André Breton

Nicole Gluckstern -
Interview with Garrett Caples on reissuing Philip Lamantia—and how Breton contributed to the fall of the Haitian government.
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

Charles Lewis III -
The city thought it would never see itself done right onstage after 'Beach Blanket Babylon.' Then this long-running show came along.
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Music

GLŌM FEST’s polyglot nocturnal liturgy draws dark artists from around the globe

Joshua Rotter -
Deathrock, darkwave, goth purveyors fly from the bat cave as DNA Lounge transforms into a mausoleum of sound.
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