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Your Guide to the Bay Area’s Biggest Art Month
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Manic ‘Marty Supreme’ Smashes the American Dream
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Meet Jerry Nagano, One of the Bay Area’s Last Great Theater Organists
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A Mission District Dance Party Wants to ‘Melt the ICE’
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Warriors Celebrate Muslim Heritage With a Night of Indo-Texan Halal Barbecue
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This Gas Station Food Truck Serves Amazing Kyrgyz Street Food in Santa Clara
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Music and All That Jazz at This Year’s Noir City Film Festival
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Your Guide to MLK Day Events Around the Bay Area
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The Indian American Essayist Who Championed Social Justice and Feminism
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The Jewish ‘Red Angel’ Who Withstood Incarceration for Workers’ Rights
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The Palestinian Therapist, Teacher and Music Lover Who Built Cultural Bridges
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The Bay Showed Love to Messy Marv in 2025
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Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture
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Spice 1 Talks Growing Up in Hayward, Running From Cops and Breakin’ at the Mall
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San Francisco’s CounterPulse In Turmoil After Layoffs, Labor Dispute

The performing arts space doesn't have an executive director and has put most programming on pause.
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Crowd mingling on a bar's outdoor patio. A pink sign in the back reads, "El Rio."

A Mission District Dance Party Wants to ‘Melt the ICE’

Proceeds from the Jan. 18 fundraiser at El Rio will support Bay Area families affected by ICE.
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A slendar Black man sings into a microphone, flanked by a bassist and trombonist, while holding a cornet in a black and white image.

Music and All That Jazz at This Year’s Noir City Film Festival

This year's festival of betrayal and grit may stretch your conception of film noir at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre.
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‘Starfleet Academy’ Interrogates the Values at the Center of ‘Star Trek’

The show presents the Academy as a starship that gets waylaid while traveling home to San Francisco.
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Your Guide to MLK Day Events Around the Bay Area

Musical performances, film screenings, marches, tributes, poetry slams and more honor the civil rights leader.
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Mosswood Lineup Announced: Iggy Pop, Bikini Kill, Dead Milkmen, Otoboke Beaver, More

Along with a Pavement ‘pre-party,’ this year's Mosswood Meltdown is the biggest and most impressive yet.
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What We Will Lose When California College of the Arts Closes

After the closures of the San Francisco Art Institute and Mills College, the announced end of CCA hits triply hard.
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