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A Monumental Mural by Ranu Mukherjee Opens a New SF Ballet Program

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100 Cultural Moments That’ve Shaped the Bay Area This Century (So Far)

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YBCA Announces a New CEO After a Year of Protests and Staff Departures

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Andrea Bergen’s Art Hands the World Over to Its Scrappiest Scavengers

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Women Make ‘Their Mark’ in Elegant BAMPFA Show

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Amy Sherald Gathers ‘Sublime’ American Portraits at SFMOMA

A baby blue movie theater with gold adornments pictured at night, with a marquee advertising 'kill bill' and 'the great muppet caper'

‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The Parkway in Oakland

A line forms outside a movie theater box office at night, with a thai restauramt next door and a marquee advertising 'spike and mike's festival of animation.'

‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The UC Theatre in Berkeley

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What’s the Use of ‘Political Art’ in 2024?

A movie theater called the Pussycat, with a protruding marquee advertising "Saddle Tramp" and "Scoundrels of Sin," and with three scantily-clad girls in neon clothes smoking out front.

‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The Pussycat Theater in Oakland

An illustration of a movie theater exterior, with young girl looking up at a poster for 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' in a display frame.

‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: United Artists in Berkeley

A movie theater marquee with the word "California" in cursive, advertising the movies Pulp Fiction and Airheads

‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The California Theater in Berkeley

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