🎬 Berlin & Beyond Fest still shines at 30
Plus: Supes balk at Lurie plan to streamline commissions, Lucrecia Dalt sings the language of love, Gogol Bordello rock
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SUPERFAIR BRINGS ART AND SO MUCH MORE TO FORT MASON, MARCH 19-22
Curiosity encouraged. Superfair fills Fort Mason with 180 independent artists, playful installations, and live art all weekend long - inviting visitors to wander, discover something new, and maybe take home a favorite piece. Tickets 30% off w/ code SUPER30.
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Don’t miss the newest piece from Eisa Davis (creator of Bulrusher; Warriors with Lin-Manuel Miranda). In this new play with music, four young performers at a music program in Berkeley reckon with friend drama, family trauma, and natural disasters in their effort to make art that is true. Tickets here.
Today's headlines:
Screen Grabs: At 30, Berlin & Beyond still goes above and beyond
By Dennis Harvey
Hot jazz, thrash metal, Udo Kier on tap. Plus: Clara Bow still has 'It,' Rose Byrnes gets a 'Tow,' '1000 Women in Horror,' more
Plan to ‘streamline’ commissions faces widespread opposition at supes hearing
By Tim Redmond
Eliminate Police Commission oversight? Wipe out commissions on the arts, women, homeless oversight? Activists are not happy.
Lucrecia Dalt: ‘How lucky are we to land at the core of this vibration?’
By Josh Rotter
Colombian sound artist's new 'A Danger to Ourselves' limns the miracle of love, with help from a New Wave legend.
Live Shots: Gogol Bordello showed the Warfield ‘We Mean It, Man!’
By D.A. Mission
Folk-punk legends returned to SF with new album and plenty of their classic frenzied energy.
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EXPLORE THE 30TH ANNUAL BERLIN & BEYOND FESTIVAL, MARCH 19-23
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