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Culture

Ride the shroom boom (and expand your mind) at the 51st SF Fungus Fair

Lou Fancher - December 10, 2023

Heads up for hands-on experience and deepening knowledge of all things mycological—plus the latest research.

Music

Live Shots: With glittering skull, Depeche Mode urged Chase Center to ‘Enjoy the Silence’

Jon Bauer and Patty Riek - December 7, 2023

For their Momento Mori tour, the synth-rock legends returned with death (and dancing) not far from their minds.

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Hot donut summer, Cliff House redo—tuck into our 2024 dining preview

Tamara Palmer - December 7, 2023

Mark up your calendar for these highly anticipated Bay Area debuts and reopenings.

Housing

Does Scott Wiener understand the basics of the housing market?

Zelda Bronstein - December 5, 2023

Based in his recent comments, apparently not.

Music

Bay Area proves fertile ground for Maria BC’s rough-and-tumble ambient

Daniel Bromfield - December 5, 2023

Secluded Berkeley Hills set scene for prescient warnings, louder drums of their album 'Spike Field.'

Movies

Screen Grabs: Emma Stone’s happy refusal to soften jagged edges of ‘Poor Things’

Dennis Harvey - December 4, 2023

Plus: Anne Hathaway gives good unstable juvenile hall psychologist in 'Eileen' and likewise, 'Fast Charlie' is not what it appears.

Stage Review

Big Brotherly love? Finally, a Bay Area premiere for Michael Gene Sullivan’s ‘1984’

Charles Lewis III - December 3, 2023

(Un)fortunately, this adaptation of Orville's famed surveillance story is evergreen.

Art

Tintype photographer Jenny Sampson captures women on wheels, roundness of meals

Mary Corbin - December 1, 2023

Collage, her work in professional kitchens, skate culture inspire Sampson's images.

Performance

Việt Lê embodies the divine of ‘MOTHER | GODDESS’ with Southeast Asian ‘spiritual drag’

Joshua Rotter - November 30, 2023

Drawing on ceremony practiced in one of the oldest Indigenous Vietnamese religions, event looks to support audience's own intuition.

Movies

Ruffled muppet slaughterhouse? Another Hole in the Head still stocks the campiest of gore

Dennis Harvey - November 29, 2023

Film festival's 20th edition features 1920 classic 'Dr. Caligari,' ice mummies—and even Freddy Krueger as waterbed.

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