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Award-winning Chinese acrobatics meet traditional dance, theater and a blend of ancient and contemporary music...

ARTS Pick: Stevie Wonder

Few musicians have been as profound in touching the lives of multiple generations and cultures in the way that Stevie...

ARTS Pick

Back by popular demand, the United Nations of Comedy Tour once again boasts a rising star lineup of talented...

The light fantastic

Gilded beams of light break through dark clouds as an octopus wraps its tentacles around the curved tusks of two...

The big picture

In the parable of the blind men and the elephant, each man takes his hands and feels a part of the elephant—a tusk, a...

November First Fridays Guide

In her non-traditional photography, local artist Cary Oliva manipulates instant film (namely Polaroid) formats to...

Let’s go to the movies

Original print: Leonard Maltin preaches the gospel of classic film Beyond all the glitz and glam and celebrity...

Screen scene

There’s a film festival coming to town, but it’s not the one you’re thinking of. Beginning on October 30, the...

Perfect landing

In 1965, amid the notorious counter-cultural hub of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, began what would prove...

Hipster 1.0

Ann Gordon recognized that it was pretty sketchy downtown after hours. Her children later came to call it “wino...