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Arts + Culture

Sonic encounters with civil rights giants on ‘Glorious Mahalia’

New Kronos Quartet LP connects younger composers and an activist legend for timely revival of gospel icon.
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Under the Stars: Martin Luther McCoy’s first solo flight in 14 years exudes Bay ease

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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Good Taste: Outside Lands is pushing pastry carts and collaborations

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

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

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'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

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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

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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

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'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!

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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

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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

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

Big Week: Hamburger Eyes, Yerba Buena Gardens Fest, Mother of Collaboration…

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Plus: OM Records 30-Year Blast, Miss Grits, Beat Freaks, Broad Street Oyster Co, 'Mean Girls,' 'Blue Heron,' more to do
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Music

Under the Stars: JWords is getting there, and ‘the path feels wondrous’

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Plus: Old Skool Cafe still kicks, bliss abyss channels The Cure, Neal Francis dives into house, Lyra Pramuk's 'Hymnal' gets resung.
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Movies

Screen Grabs: CAAMFest eye-openers include ‘the Godfather of Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia’

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Plus: Odes to impresarios Robert Wilson and Craig Baldwin, risky 'Blue Heron' and foodie-feminist 'Mistura.' New movies!
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Music

‘Real Bay Shit’: Nonprofit hardcore shows are planting the seeds of change

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Bay Area bookers organize benefit concerts to uplift communities in need, opening gateways to activism.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: Get in, loser, we’re going to the theater

Charles Lewis III -
Changes are afoot on local stages—and 'Mean Girls' run amok at Ray of Light. Plus: 'Orpheus' retold, via storefront psychic
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Music

Lara Downes gathers friends to reflect on musical resilience of ‘This Land’

Lou Fancher -
As country's 250th birthday approaches, acclaimed pianist is joined by Judy Collins, more for genre-spanning, resonant concert.
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Fashion

New looks now: Academy of Art fashion students bloom into view

Joshua Rotter -
19 graduating designers send their theses down the runway at two special shows and a Halston-inspired Union Square showcase.
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