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Today's headlines:

BIG WEEK: Great Pumpkin edition—all you need to Halloween (and Día, too)

By 48 Hills Arts Team
Kronos Quartet, Ben Klock, Sama' Abdulhadi, Substance Fest, Día de los Muertos concerts, much more light up the city.

Natalie Gee, community organizer, enters race for D4 supervisor

By Tim Redmond
Candidate offers a platform of opening the Great Highway, opposing Lurie's upzoning—and taxing the rich.

Feeling steamy? Coatshek’s ambient poppers tribute dips you in a ‘Sound Bath’

By Daniel Bromfield
SF producer attempts to 'create the arc of a lovemaking session'—and a brilliant listen comes forth.

Screen Grabs: Halloweek brings the scares, killer clowns and all

By Dennis Harvey
Plus: Spike & Mike's Animation Fest returns, a vivid look at Artsakh, stranger-than-fiction 'Mistress Dispeller,' more movies

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