Live Aid music legends look back 40 years on

Plus: Lurie and the housing money, Tamera Avery's surreal paintings, full-voice 'Les Blancs'

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‘The most euphoric feeling’: Live Aid music legends look back 40 years on

Bob Geldof, David Bowie, Freddie Murcury, and other Live Aid musicians onstage

By Joshua Rotter
As TV docuseries relives epic charitable concert, performers dish about wild moments before 2 billion fans—and backstage.

Opinion: Preserve the housing money—and stop the mayor’s power grab

By Whit Guerrero
The supes need to reject Lurie's plan to gut affordable housing money from Prop. C

In ‘Les Blancs,’ a once-silent character finds full voice through eight women players

By Lou Fancher
Actor Jeunée Simon on OTP's powerful version of Lorraine Hansberry's 1970 play, in which a Black man returns to Africa.

Merging real and absurd, Tamera Avery’s paintings grapple with the world’s decay

By Mary Corbin
Large canvases, bold colors, and youth culture's hopeful influence reflect 'the right and wrongness of today.'

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