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At BAMPFA, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Eloquent Art Lives On
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A New South Bay Restaurant Specializes in Decadent Japanese Seafood Bowls
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While ICE Raids Loom, ‘No Llegamos Aquí Solos’ Is for Immigrants, by Immigrants
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San Francisco Gets a Brand New Gallery — With a Focus on African Artists
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For Valentine’s, a Thai Fantasy About a Ghost in a (Vacuum) Machine
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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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While ICE Raids Loom, ‘No Llegamos Aquí Solos’ Is for Immigrants, by Immigrants

Yosimar Reyes’ new play, set in East San José, shows the close ties of people under the threat of deportation.
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Remembering Anthony Ant, Trumpeter and Indefatigable Scene-Builder

At the Starry Plough, loved ones praised Ant's dedication to uplifting and supporting fellow musicians.
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Book covers of: Autobiography of Cotton, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney; Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race, from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson, by Andrew S. Curran; A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, by Michael Pollan; I Give You My Silence, by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West; Kin, by Tayari Jones; Brawler, by Lauren Groff.

February May Be Short on Days — But It Boasts a Long List of New Books

The shortest month of the year is packed with highly anticipated new releases.
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‘Temporary’ Public Art Seeks Another Six-Month Extension From SF

The Big Art Loop organizers propose to keep ‘R-Evolution’ at Embarcadero Plaza until October 2026.
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San Francisco Gets a Brand New Gallery — With a Focus on African Artists

Art of Contemporary Africa opens with a group show in one of Minnesota Street Project’s recently vacated galleries.
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For Valentine’s, a Thai Fantasy About a Ghost in a (Vacuum) Machine

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s omnisexual comedy of conscience hides deep weirdness under a manicured surface.
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Fungi Fest Brings Mushroom Foraging, Food and Forest Science to Sonoma County

Guerneville’s inaugural festival is for mushroom lovers and those ‘who are just curious about nature.’
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