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‘Anora’ Disguises Its Moral Center in a Swirl of Exuberance and Mayhem
Like almost every film about a sex worker, Sean Baker’s Cannes-winning romp is a fable of power and freedom.
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Tom Hardy’s Double Act Can’t Save ‘Venom: The Last Dance’
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El Garage Returns to Its Pop-Up Roots
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With a New Space, MarinMOCA Brings North Bay Art Front and Center
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‘Tristan and Isolde’ at SF Opera: An Epic of Love, Death and Yearning
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Marlon Mullen, Longtime NIAD Artist, Lands a MoMA Solo Show
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Rightnowish’s Grand Finale: Words of Wisdom from Timothy B.
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Building a Native Arts and Culture Space From the Ground Up
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Artist and curator Marcel Pardo Ariza poses for a photo at the archives of San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
‘All The Nights We Got to Dance’ is a Tribute to Queer Nightlife in SF
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Reintroducing Tamara de Lempicka, the High Priestess of Art Deco
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Local Chefs Aren’t Surprised to See Oakland Named America’s Top Food City
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A white man in a black suit holds up and stares at a monstrous mask.

Tom Hardy’s Double Act Can’t Save ‘Venom: The Last Dance’

A typical comic book-style doomsday plot is the last thing a ‘Venom’ movie needs — but that’s what this one gets.
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in crowded scene, young woman sits on lap of young man in dark shades

‘Anora’ Disguises Its Moral Center in a Swirl of Exuberance and Mayhem

Like almost every film about a sex worker, Sean Baker’s Cannes-winning romp is a fable of power and freedom.
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Two tacos topped with beef birria and melted cheese, with sliced cucumbers and radishes on the side.

El Garage Returns to Its Pop-Up Roots

The quesabirria sensation’s Richmond brick-and-mortar just never really took off.
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With a New Space, MarinMOCA Brings North Bay Art Front and Center

The intergenerational group show ‘Opening the Mountain’ sets the stage for a permanent move to San Rafael.
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‘Tristan and Isolde’ at SF Opera: An Epic of Love, Death and Yearning

A bare-bones set focuses attention on Wagner’s endless ruminations of passion and yearning.
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A painting with an abstract colorful rendering of an 'Artforum' magazine cover.

Marlon Mullen, Longtime NIAD Artist, Lands a MoMA Solo Show

His colorful paintings will go on view in the New York City museum’s free Projects gallery in December.
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It’s All Politics at the Vatican in ‘Conclave’

Featuring a cast of actors showing a world of experience, doubt and regret in every glance.
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