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How Palestinian Rapper MC Abdul Rose from Gaza’s Refugee Camps to the World Stage
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Honoring the Black Panther Party on Its 60th Anniversary
As Other Minds Festival Turns 30, an Experimental Music Giant Takes a Bow
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Food
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A Bay Area Cheesecake Sensation Finds a New Home — in Taipei
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A Ritzy New Japanese Barbecue Spot Revels in All-You-Can-Eat Beef and Sushi
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A Beloved Filipino Bakery Is Now Brewing One of the Bay Area’s Rarest Coffees
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In Vallejo, a Benefit Concert Raises Funds for the Missing Sister of an SF Rapper
Karla Knight Tunes In to the Great Unknown
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‘Being Heumann’ Tells a Disability Rights Story Packed With Real-Life Drama
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Rebel Girls From Bay Area History
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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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That’s My Word
In New Memoir, Lil Jon Salutes The Bay Area
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Tone Capone, Producer of ‘I Got 5 On It,’ Dies at 59
Mac Dre Will Get a Vallejo Street Named in His Honor
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Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, called Harrison a "a genuinely original thinker, a genre-defying writer who takes ideas seriously."

Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Novel ‘The End of Everything’ Wins This Year’s Booker Prize

M. John Harrison’s slim novel is the first Booker Prize winner that’s “emerged from the bona fide [sci-fi] world.”
A fork cutting into an extra-creamy, burnt-topped slice of cheesecake.

A Bay Area Cheesecake Sensation Finds a New Home — in Taipei

The founder of Basuku Cheesecakes has opened a ‘Northern California–style’ restaurant serving beet salad and Hangtown fry.

‘Wild Horse Nine’ Is a Formulaic Spy Comedy Starring John Malkovich

Martin McDonagh's new film centers a couple of bickering CIA agents on a trip to Easter Island in 1973.

In Vallejo, a Benefit Concert Raises Funds for the Missing Sister of an SF Rapper

Local hip-hop stars show up for Kevin Robinson as he searches for his missing sister, Chantel Brooks.

Karla Knight Tunes In to the Great Unknown

The Connecticut-based artist makes compelling use of invented language in her show at Gallery Wendi Norris.
Illustration: Man devours barbecue meats while a server cooks the food on the grill.

A Ritzy New Japanese Barbecue Spot Revels in All-You-Can-Eat Beef and Sushi

Sea Wagyu House is Milpitas’ new palace of grill-it-yourself gluttony.
Valkyries players cheer as confetti rains down from the ceiling at the Chase Center.

Valkyries Players Celebrated Their Championship Win With These Songs

Music is a huge part of the hype at Ballhalla. Here are the tracks the Valkyries played after their historic victory.
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