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Friday, August 15, 2025

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BIG WEEK: Buttons On!, Mohanad Elshieky, Pizza Bagel & Beer Fest, Horsegirl…

DJ Stingray, Taj Mahal, Mid-Week Mercado, Acid August, bye-bye Shuggie's Trash Pies, more great things to do
Big Week Marke B. -
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Behind the attacks on ethnic studies at SFUSD

One far-right group treated as credible by the Chron—and a whole lot of misinformation—fuels backlash against very successful class.
Education Tim Redmond -
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Joe Goode Performance Group wants to know: ‘Are You Okay?’

Mainstay Bay Area troupe wields dance to explore coping with a world twisting under our feet.
Dance Aimée Ts'ao -
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Screen Grabs: A New Taiwanese Cinema giant comes to the Bay

Plus: BLUSH PornFilmFest, Robert Reich's 'Last Class,' danger at a Ukrainian zoo, quirky 'Boys Go to Jupiter,' more movies.
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Music

Under the Stars: Derya Yıldırım’s Anatolian exuberance blazed at The Chapel

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Plus: Teen breakouts Horsegirl's upcoming GAMH gig shows what they've learned, Z-Trip's golden hour summer steeze, more.
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Contest

Win a pair of tickets to see 3l3d3p, daine, Yächtley Crëw, and Leftover Salmon

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We're teaming up with some of SF's best music venues to get you to some shows. Here's how to enter.
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Stage Review

Drama Masks: A ping-ponging in the mind—and a tennis match of wits

Charles Lewis III -
Candace Johnson's 'Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD' and Golden Thread's 'The Return,' reviewed.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Rainbow Grocery celebrates 50 years of co-op love with a huge block party

Tamara Palmer -
Delicious treats and beats mark a half-century of feeding the community together on Sun/17.
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Watch: Who we loved (and what we ate) at Outside Lands 2025

Music Marke B. -
Our online reporters and food & drink crew were out in full force to capture the tasty musical spectacle.
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In the context of a banana republic, Trump’s homeless policy makes perfect sense

Opinion Paul Boden -
It's all about moving money to the ruling class—and getting the rest of us out of the way
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Score a free pass to see new movie ‘Honey Don’t!’

Movies Marke B. -
We've got 20 passes to give away to a preview screening of Ethan Coen's saucy new movie—but act fast!
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Queer desire, teen crushes push the needle of this quilter

Art Mary Corbin -
Greg Climer's intimate, pixelated textiles tap into the "quiet devotion" in history of art dedicated to the male form.
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Why isn’t Haney in more political trouble?

News + Politics Tim Redmond -
Plus: The cost (to taxpayers) of market-rate housing, and the DCCC weighs in on the Engardio recall. That's The Agenda for Aug. 10-17
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The state Legislature just made it easier for Trump to deport immigrants

Immigration megan hobza -
In the bogus name of fighting 'sex trafficking,' a bill would allow cops to arrest people who could face deportation for the crime of 'loitering.'
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Sun Ra Arkestra traversed magnificent orbits at SFJAZZ

Music Review John-Paul Shiver -
As Deadheads grasped for past glory across town, this 19-member orchestra kept blazing into the Afrofuture.
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Drama Masks: Chasing ghosts of SF past in ‘Night Driver’

Stage Review Charles Lewis III -
At The Marsh-SF, Pearl Ong recalls leaving Hong Kong in the 1970s, driving a cab, and discovering her lesbian self.
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When a minor parole violation becomes another life sentence

Crime Timothy Peoples -
State law now limits "one-year-to-life" sentences. But many are still stuck in prison for very small violations
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SF is sending out upzoning notices; here’s how to find out what’s really going on

Development Tim Redmond -
The official letters don't mention demolitions or displacement—but there are other sources of information that do
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Under the Stars: Deep-cut Californians Slope114 bring big, booming house love

Music John-Paul Shiver -
Plus: DJ Yuka Yu talks her film school past, Ashkenaz needs help, No Bias celebrates five years at Underground, more.
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BIG WEEK: Pistahan Parade, SF Fringe Fest, Chinatown Night Market, Outside Lands…

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Wayne Thiebaud, Femi Kuti, Black Coffee, Thundercat, Bay Day at the Exploratorium, a crab rangoon atlas, more to do this week!
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