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NEW YORK CITY YOU NICE-ASS PLACE YOU

At SF Opera, ‘Parsifal’ Will Stop You Dead in Your Tracks | KQED The six-hour experience flies right by with impeccable casting, sensory delights and solemn themes.

Hard to sum up the impact of this performance. Whether you're a diehard Wagnerite or casual operagoer, don't miss it.

YouTube video by Young Bleed Young Bleed - The Day They Made Me Boss - My Balls And My Word

A champ. RIP.

BURN IN HELL DODGERS

I Tried to Find the Juke Joint From ‘Sinners,’ and I Don't Recommend It | KQED Enormous insects, swampy terrain and 90-degree heat: If you're lucky, you'll make it out alive.

Here is the story of an ill-advised quest I took up last month: visiting the filming location of the juke joint in ‘Sinners,’ among huge swampland, giant insects and menacing Louisiana heat.

KQED Transit Editor Hits the Road: Dan Brekke Retires After 50 Years in Journalism | KQED Longtime KQED reporter, editor and transportation nerd is hanging up his AP stylebook after a career that spanned from Chicago to the Bay Area.

DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN DAN

Pullman Porters
Festival at the Lake
Slim Jenkins' Place
Hyphy
The Black Resurgents
Geoffrey's Inner Circle
Lake Merritt
The Mau Mau Rhythm Collective
Anti-Cruising Ordinances
Sweet Jimmie's
Esther's Orbit Room
The War on Drugs
Too Short
Eastmont Mall

...lots & lots & lots in these 374 pages

New Book ‘On Loop’ Details Oakland’s Crackdowns on Black Sonic Expression | KQED Author Alex Werth’s deeply researched book shows the ways Oakland has silenced its Black youth.

A notice for 'On Loop,' a new book detailing Oakland's history of suppressing the sounds and movements of young Black expression, its most valuable resource.

In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?

Read @emmaruthless.bsky.social on the Waymo that killed her neighborhood cat and the ways we delude ourselves into accepting evil forces, somehow, in our cities.

A San Francisco Museum Is Going ‘Nomadic’ A year after it moved into ‘The Cube’ rent-free, the ICA SF will now shift from location to location for shows.

🎭 ACT II 🎭
With the space now "activated," Trump's property managers lease the space to Trump's alma mater Wharton, and the museum, largely funded by Silicon Valley, is sent packing, having done its job.

[CURTAIN]

www.kqed.org/arts/1398301...

San Francisco Art Museum to Move Into Building Co-Owned by Trump | KQED The ICA San Francisco will move into a new, rent-free space at 345 Montgomery St. in the Financial District.

🎭 ACT I 🎭
Museum moves into empty Trump-owned building lured by free rent, claims they don't share Trump's values, while touting the benefits that art brings to a property and neighborhood.

www.kqed.org/arts/1396349...

@sfopera.bsky.social Maybe you need an ad telling people Parsifal is shorter than a World Series game.

YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO ROSALÍA - Berghain (Official Video) feat. Björk & Yves Tumor

IT'S ROSALÍA'S WORLD WE JUST FAINT INTO IT

www.youtube.com/watch?v=htQB...

Watching DeJohnette drum could be life-affirming, thrilling, a little confusing, incredibly fun, somewhat nail-biting, always very, very memorable.

Once saw him solo on just *one ride cymbal* for five minutes straight, and it was utterly captivating.

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Ghost of Tom Joad > Nebraska

In Small-Town Healdsburg, Residents Welcome a Brand New Movie Theater | KQED Amid an epidemic of movie theater closures, the nonprofit True West Film Center in Healdsburg has faith.

When was the last time you heard about a brand new movie theater being built?

In Healdsburg, somehow, they’re making it work — with a little help from the former director of Sundance.

Margaret Tedesco, Artist and Curator, Was the ‘Spirit of San Francisco’ The widely loved curator and connector of people in the Bay Area art scene died on Oct. 18, 2025.

So many people have written wonderfully about Margaret and her incredible influence on the Bay Area art scene. She was a true connector and a generous supporter. As DL Alvarez says, it would take a small committee to fill her shoes.

www.kqed.org/arts/1398269...

THE CURE: IN ORANGE with Q&A and Book Signing from Lol Tolhurst (plus LIVE MUSIC from r. image) ~ 7:30 PM — CINEMASF Dark Entries presents: THE CURE: IN ORANGE with Q&A and Book Signing from Lol Tolhurst (plus Live Music from r. image ) Lol Tolhurst is best known as the co-founder of The Cure , o...

Last-minute heads up that The Cure live concert film 'The Cure: In Orange' screens tonight at the 4-Star Theater, with a Q&A with Cure member Lol Tolhurst afterward; not sold out yet:

D’Angelo Dead At 51 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer Neo-soul legend D’Angelo has died after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. Read Baller Alert’s exclusive report celebrating his life, music, and impact.

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D'Angelo has died, according to both DJ Premier and Marc Lamont Hill

Who Has a Say In the Flood of Public Art Coming to San Francisco? The Sijbrandij Foundation’s plan to install 100 pieces of large-scale art around the city needs public oversight.

Here's my commentary piece on the Big Art Loop, and what it means to hand our public space over to a billionaire and his choice of 100 pieces of existing, large-scale art.

And for god's sake: Send your opinions to the agencies/nonprofit/org involved, not to me!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398217...

Tune on in! 9am.

Was my exact first thought too

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‘Kim’s Convenience’ at ACT: A Funny, Touching Story of an Immigrant Family Business | KQED Ins Choi stars in his own play about family and forgiveness, set inside a Korean-owned corner store.

I very much enjoyed this play.

Review: ‘Dead Man Walking’ Returns, With No Chance of Meeting a New National Moment The central contradiction of ‘Dead Man Walking,’ at San Francisco Opera, seems utterly quaint today.

Very discombobulating to wrestle with the death penalty again when we have much bigger problems to face. Review of the still-good-just-a-little-out-of-time ‘Dead Man Walking’ at @sfopera.bsky.social:

I am required to also shout out 'The Candidate,' part of which was filmed at Howarth Park in Santa Rosa 🎉