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BIG WEEK: CeCe Peniston headlines Oakland Pride, Bizerkeley Food Fest, Other Cinema, Sweater Funk

Plus: 'The Day the Sky Turned Orange', Hump! Fest, Orquesta Akokán, so much more to get into.
Arts + Culture Caitlin Donohue -
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: 450 Architects

Designs for a more regenerative, uplifting built environment, from SF Waldorf School to Russian Hill's Francisco Park.
Arts + Culture Lou Fancher -
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Wendy Reid and Lulu

A woman and bird who make sweet, symphonic music, perfect for creekside listening in your favorite park.
Arts + Culture Lou Fancher -
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Drama Masks: Killing My Lobster takes a bow with one last (for now) nerdy number

The company may be folding, but not without sending a reminder of why it's been so beloved with 'Legends & Laughter.'
Stage Review Charles Lewis III -
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Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Sisterita

Dorothy O'Donnell -
Downtown French fare with a Thai twist and bookish ambiance, the perfect sustenance for your brunch bunch.
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Transportation

Muni riders, bus drivers, bikers, people who walk beg SFMTA Commission to do its job

Tim Redmond -
Panel allows mayor to open mid-Market to Lyft, Uber, Waymo, defying existing policy—and won't even vote on it
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Kitchen Table’s fabulous food and urgent politics

Tamara Palmer -
Events and workshops in newly opened Valencia Street venue honor connection between what we eat and how we live.
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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

Screen Grabs: Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema beckons cinephile families and al fresco film freaks

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: 'Pools' aims for 'Breakfast Club' during a heatwave, Cocteau and Andersson classics take BAMPFA.
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News + Politics

Huge labor rally takes on the billionaires

Tim Redmond -
Will that message trickle down into local politics, where oligarchs control City Hall—and the local Democratic Party?
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Opinion

Lurie is damaging transit, the environment—and democracy—on Market Street

Susan Vaughan -
The mayor is undoing the will of the voters and opening the street to Uber, Lyft, Waymo—and others are sure to follow
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Art

Bodega Bay quietude, a solitary thrush: Kanna Aoki’s contemplative Bay scenes

Mary Corbin -
Organic and intuitive painter traces inspiration back to childhood fabric store trips with her mother.
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Music

Under the Stars: Getting live in September with Sextile, KXSF’s seven-year bash, more

John-Paul Shiver -
Plus: Rochelle Jordan's swaggeringly perfect '90s soul comeback and Makaya McCraven at GAMH.
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Onstage

For dark times, comedian Nori Reed believes in the joy of jokes

Joshua Rotter -
Bay Area stand-up wrote the Disney Channel's first live-action trans character, rejects reductive approaches to identity.
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The Agenda

The middle class is getting priced out of fun

Tim Redmond -
Plus: A big labor day rally, a tax cut for telecoms, and gearing up for a major fight over West Side upzoning ... That's The Agenda for AUG. 31 to Sept. 6
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News + Politics

How the Engardio recall has scrambled local politics

Tim Redmond -
The billionaire-backed DCCC slate won with West Side Chinese voters—who want to get rid of Engardio. The big money seems willing to throw him under the bus
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Opinion

Silence equals death—and that applies to AIDS and to antisemitism and to Palestine

Sasha Cuttler -
Wars have no winners; we can end them, and we can end the AIDS pandemic
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Big Week

BIG WEEK: Free Shakespeare in the Park, Hiero Day, ‘Groove,’ Black Pride…

Marke B. -
...SBTRKT, Artists United for Palestine, VHS Horror Marathon, Gumby's Junk, Crash an Indian Wedding, more to do
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Homelessness

The unfairness of the RV eviction process

Charlie Fisch -
The SFMTA can make life a lot easier for RV dwellers—but so far, the agency refuses
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