Supes approve billionaire budget, 10-1
Julia LaChica's journey, 'Les Blancs' triumph, soul legend Omar's desert island discs
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Supes approve billionaire budget, 10-1

By Tim Redmond
Fielder was lone 'no' vote: This is not 'shared sacrifice.' Plus: the mayor gets control over Prop. C housing money
With mixed-media vibrancy, Julia LaChica conjures the collective journey

By Mary Corbin
'The artists here are not just creating for galleries. They’re creating for movements, for healing, for resistance.'
Drama Masks: ‘Les Blancs’ is one of the best shows of the year

By Charles Lewis III
Oakland Theater Project brings the heat. Plus: Queer dinosaurs run amok with the double entendres in 'Jurassiq Parq.'
‘An everlasting effect’: UK soul legend Omar on the 5 LPs he can’t live without

By John-Paul Shiver
Latest album 'Brighter the Days' displays the innovator's versatility—as do favorite selections from Stevie to YMO.
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