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Arts Forecast: A whole weekend with Laurie Anderson and more
Edwardian Ball, Movement Arts Festival, Lyrics Born, Mercury Soul, Pink Mammoth, and so much to do this weekend
All Ears: 17 music releases to look forward to in 2020
Future funk, post-grunge, global Creole, surf rock, avant pop, and more on the musical menu for the new year.
Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables
Plus: an incredible tale of 70,000 VHS tapes, the Village People's disco disaster, and more in cinemas this week.
Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing
European cities show how more than half the housing stock can be taken out of the private market -- and it works.
Examined Life: A year to love for no reason
Looking back at the life of a great spiritual teacher opens the door to deeper meaning in the new year.
Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Burning Man: The Musical, more
Heiroglyphics, Krampus Pageant, Paranoid London, Sophie, Go Bang!, a couple great art walks, and more this week.
Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop (Dance Fest) hurray! + more
Agent Orange, Dolly Night, Bay Area Record Fest, Mr. Brightside Indie Ball, Frankie Night, Lil Louie Vega, and lots else to do.
Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…
Three diverse festivals open up. Plus: Soviets and Surrealists, Synonyms, Collisions, more in cinemas this week.
‘Disasterama!’ chronicles SF’s wild, lost queer underground
Alvin Orloff's new memoir documents crazy nights, retro-camp glamor, and punk sensibility in the face of the AIDS crisis.
Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….
Dolly Parton Hoot, Riceboy Sleeps, Duet + Marrow, a percussion work about climate change, Othello, and more