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Movies

8 warped and haunting flicks from the video-verse of Crossroads Film Festival

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - August 24, 2022

Looking for a watch on the wild side?

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: EXIT Theatre is closing its doors, but it’s far from defeated

Caitlin Donohue - August 24, 2022

Plus: Spend your September outdoors, psychedelic circus—and many more arts and culture events for your week.

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Bodega SF’s soul is all in the family

Tamara Palmer - August 23, 2022

A new Vietnamese restaurant keeps old traditions alive and in the mix.

Culture

Before you Burn, start giving back to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe

Levi Maxwell - August 23, 2022

There's no Burning Man without the caretakers of the Playa. Comfort & Joy's food bank fundraiser provides a take-off point for gratitude.

Stage Review

‘My Parents Came to America’ mines first-generation frustrations for welcome laughs

Charles Lewis III - August 22, 2022

Killing My Lobster's new show navigates the people who know how to pronounce 'Schwarzenegger'—but not their friend's name.

Music

Under the Stars: 20th Street Block Party lineup drops, Jazz is Dead funks it up

John-Paul Shiver - August 22, 2022

Plus: New Danger Mouse and Black Thought album is the stuff of God, and Tomu DJ's 'Half Moon Bay' brings future-hymns.

Housing

Are yimbys the new progressives? Only in a bizarre Wonderland

Calvin Welch - August 21, 2022

The supporters of the 'build-at-all-costs' position ignore a half-century of history and the realities of the modern housing market

News + Politics

The Laguna Honda crisis never should have happened

Tim Redmond - August 18, 2022

If Gavin Newsom had shown some leadership, the terror that patients face could have been avoided.

Movies

“This is an essential American story”: director Julie Ha of ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ speaks

Pam Grady - August 18, 2022

How a documentary that preserves a key moment in Bay Area history came to be.

Arts + Culture

Artist Emmy Lou Packard shines in overdue expo—but she never left SF walls

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - August 17, 2022

She apprenticed with Diego Rivera, and mentored the Mission's mural movement.