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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.

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.

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.

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.

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Studio Fallout

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

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

Trump's generational assault on the arts unsuccessful in dropping curtain on 40-year Bay tradition.

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

Group's guerrilla seating makes solid statement about accessibility and humane public infrastructure.

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

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

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

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

Abba Zabba to Kamasi Washington: 11 superior fall shows

We got Portola Fest. We got Hardly Strictly. We got Autechre. We got Secret Emchy Society. Get in here!

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

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

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

Plus: 'The Long Walk' misses a timely chance to diss totalitarianism, and re-release of 'Commune' dives into a back-to-land Californian tale.

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Corgi Con

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

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

Fancy a beer with Tim Redmond?

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

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

Interview with Garrett Caples on reissuing Philip Lamantia—and how Breton contributed to the fall of the Haitian government.

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

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

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

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

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