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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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Under the Stars: Feel the sweet lo-fi buzz of Late Aster

Plus: Stereolab blows into Cloud City, Dave Aju's still dancing', Orchestra Gold goes for it, OSEES let it rip, more music

Task Force moving to eliminate community oversight of many departments

Why make a very strong mayor even stronger? It's all part of the oligarch agenda

Starry ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ sinks fangs into deep subjects

Director Bill Condon and star Toniatiuh on the onscreen musical's entanglement with gender and incarceration.

Rachmaninoff rocks… pop? You bet your sweet ‘A’ Train

Firebrand pianist Conrad Tao traces the Russian composer's influence on classics from Strayhorn and Sinatra to Dylan and Celine Dion.

Dean Preston and Cat Brooks to speak at 48 Hills Community Gala, Oct. 22!

Join us for community spirit, live music, drinks, bites, and the Best of the Bay—and support independent media

Trans trailblazer Miss Major has passed: Read our 2023 interview with the Stonewall veteran

'The best trait an organizer can have is to listen, and to listen closely to what the people want,' she told us.

News media coverage about Lurie’s upzoning plan misses the most important player

The ugly choices the city faces are largely the result of one person: Scott Wiener

Inside SF’s private surveillance state

The privatization of public safety (and spy cameras) is a costly threat to all of us

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Enterprise Brewery

Local beer vets Jesse Hayter and Cameron MacDonald's SoMa taproom is a welcome neighborhood watering hole.

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Scottish songbird Sheena Easton: ‘I always like to make every performance feel intimate.’

Revered for '80s hits which took her from Bond to Prince, she brings her inimitable strut to Yoshi's and Symphony Hall.

A political attack on supportive housing

Plus: Protecting legacy businesses—and is there a real search for a new police chief? That's The Agenda for Oct. 12-19

OPINION: The serious problems with Dorsey’s sober-housing legislation

It bans all supportive housing that isn't 'drug free.' This will make the situation on the streets worse.

Dear Marc Benioff: Are you a socialist?

You seem to want the government to pay for your private security. Is a wealth tax next?

Win tickets to Buckethead, Beta Band, Erika De Casier

Go see a banging live show at one of SF's top venues, on us.

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At the de Young, a vibrant refresher of Indigenous art

New four-gallery "Rooted in Place" displays gorgeous diversity of Native California peoples.

Blues musician Mike Henderson enjoys the ride, right on through to solo art show

At Haines Gallery, Cabin Fever bandmember's multimedia expressions of Black life crackle with humor and insight.

First-ever Robert Crumb biography zaps with iconoclast’s free speech and wild pen

Author Dan Nadel gained intimate access to living legend and comic book peers for 'A Cartoonist's Life.'

Berkeley’s city planning ‘cancel culture’

Small shops and the public cut out of the process of upzoning three neighborhoods

Welcome to Best of the Bay 2025!

Our 51st annual Readers' Poll celebrates everything that's Best about the Bay Area—chosen by the people who live here.

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