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The Art of Release
Late Nite Art uses wine, food, and music to free your inner artist.
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Mills College Funds Community Writing Workshops
A new graduate teaching assistantship takes poetry and fiction workshops outside the classroom and into the community.
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Far From Heaven
Authenticity is in short supply in Aurora Theatre's
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Confused Cuckold
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, Jan 30, 2013
Beth Yarnelle Edwards' Radical Pictures of Suburbia
The second installation in the Oakland Museum of California's California Photography series captures the middle-class, Silicon Valley psyche.
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Moving Beyond Words
World-renowned dance companies LINES Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago join forces for a world premiere.
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Not Addicted, Just Kinky
Plus a porn incident and a Mexican tryst.
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She'd be the first to hail from San Francisco.
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Adam Mansbach's Rage Never Left
Two years after a joke propelled him to the bestseller list, the Berkeley author proves he belongs there with his excellent new "Great American Graffiti Novel".
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Just for Kids
The Bay Area International Children's Film Festival celebrates its fifth year.
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The Return of SF Sketchfest
The 12th annual comedy festival reinvents the bad, tributes the good, and invents the original.
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, Jan 23, 2013
Search and Discover Art at Krowswork
Visitors explore by flashlight to uncover women's objects redolent of another era
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Double-Crossed
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, Jan 16, 2013
Berkeley Rep's 'Troublemaker' Bridges Comic Absurdism and Theatrical Realism
A rebel tween superhero wannabe pummels the bad guys. But not for long.
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Sketching the Extra-Ordinary
A Bay Area sketching group finds the beauty in everyday urban details.
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Today's Future Sound Promotes Therapy Through Beat-Making
Elliot Gann teaches kids in West Oakland how to make beats — and cope with trauma in the process.
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Pete Hickok's Baroque Kitsch
The products of the artist's six-month residency suggest a yearning to harness visual pleasure and lurid stimulation of many sorts
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Staving Off a Midlife Crisis With the Ghost of Marc Chagall
That, plus fending off foreclosure and recovering stolen art in Jill Koenigsdorf's
Phoebe and the Ghost of Chagall
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Work Your Way Up to the Fucksaw
Advice on sex-toy shopping for beginners.
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Fiery Fashion at The Crucible
The industrial-arts facility celebrates its fourteenth anniversary with "hot" couture.
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