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Brian Wilson, Visionary Leader of the Beach Boys,...

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2025/06/11

Wilson was celebrated for his beautiful music and agonizing perfectionism and pitied for the demons that plagued him.

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Thomas Mallon’s Diaries Get to the ‘Very Heart’ of...

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2025/06/11

Mallon has been keeping diaries for most of his life. His new book begins in 1983, shortly after he first came out.

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The 19th-Century Trans Man Who Worked As a Reporter...

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2025/06/11

Born in 1869, Jack Bee Garland dedicated his life to community service.

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The Bay Area’s First Women’s Sports Bar Is Open for...

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2025/06/11

Rikki’s boasts scratch-made food and cocktails, along with 14 TV screens dedicated to women’s sports.

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Videos at Asian Art Museum Capture the Anxiety and...

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2025/06/10

In Taiwanese artist Yuan Goang-Ming’s video work, an eruption of violence is always just a frame away.

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It’s a Bay Area Film Night, For Real For Real

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2025/06/10

Two short films screen at the Grand Lake in a celebration of local talent on both sides of the camera.

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Veteran Journalist Explores Impact of Private Equity...

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2025/06/10

Megan Greenwell’s ‘Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream’ briskly explores a disturbing industry.

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For Trans and Queer Divas in the Mission, HIV...

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2025/06/10

In the ’90s, Las AtreDivas and Teresita La Campesina helped break stigmas around discussing safe sex in the Latinx community.

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There’s a Black and White Tegu on the Loose in Santa...

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2025/06/09

Tegus are giant, egg-gobbling lizards who have no business roaming Silicon Valley willy-nilly.

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Sly Stone, Visionary Funk Frontman of the Family...

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2025/06/09

The musical visionary led a multiracial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

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How the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Supercharged San...

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2025/06/09

San Francisco’s trans community faced off against abusive police, three years before Stonewall.

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Trans People Have Always Existed and Always Will

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2025/06/09

KQED Arts’ new ‘Trans Bay’ series spotlights transgender artists and activists from the 1890s to today.

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At the Opera House, Summer’s Here and the Time Is...

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2025/06/09

The timeless and popular tale of Mimì and Rodolfo is in good hands at San Francisco Opera.

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Netflix’s ‘The Eternaut’ Makes a Haunting Series of a...

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2025/06/09

The dystopian ‘El Eternauta’ has acquired near-mythic status in Argentina since it was first published in 1957.

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The Great Quiet-Quitting of DEI in Bay Area Arts

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2025/06/09

Positions eliminated. Statements deleted. Programs ended. Is it fear of Trump or just good ol’ reversion to the status quo?

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Tony Awards 2025: The Complete List of Winners

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2025/06/09

Sunday's star-studded ceremony was hosted by ‘Wicked’ star Cynthia Erivo.

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An Opera About Harvey Milk, Newly ‘Reimagined,’...

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2025/06/06

‘Harvey Milk Reimagined’ offers a streamlined, inspiring depiction of the gay rights icon's incredible life.

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At Fort Point, An Ode to ‘Black Gold,’ Then and Now

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2025/06/06

The exhibition at San Francisco's historic Fort Point connects today’s top artists with historical Black genius.

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This British Pub in San Mateo Is a Riot of Late-Night...

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2025/06/06

The Swingin’ Door might be the most fun dive bar on the Peninsula.

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A New Book by Maria Foscarinis Makes the Case for...

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2025/06/06

‘And Housing for All’ is an impressive examination of homelessness by the founding director of the National Homelessness Law Center.

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