What freedom looks like—on both sides of the border🎨🇲🇽
Plus: Sparks' 28th album flourish; World Arts West still dancing after NEA cuts; Studio Fallout takes home the BOB
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CHEERS! TRUMER BREWERY OKTOBERFEST IS SEPTEMBER 27
Join the Trumer Brewery for a festive celebration of all things Oktoberfest! Get ready for a day filled with live music from Polkageist, traditional Bavarian food, and of course, plenty of award-winning beer to go around. Grab your lederhosen and dirndls, and get ready to raise a stein with us at Trumer Brewery Oktoberfest!
POLLS ARE NOW OPEN FOR BEST OF THE BAY 2025!
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Today's headlines:
Painter Luis Felipe Chávez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within
By Emily Wilson
On the eve of Mexican Independence Day, Jalisco-raised artist presents binational views of freedom.
After 28 albums, Sparks still can’t resist a flourish—thankfully
By Joshua Rotter
Synth pop duo's 'MAD!' purposes ennui haze, light banter, school kids' backpacks for its theater of ideas.
Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Studio Fallout
By Dorothy O'Donnell
A quiet North Beach alley leads down to the basement retail lair of a punk-surrealist stalwart and his talented friends.
World Arts West Dance Festival delivered communal joy, despite brutal NEA cuts
By Tom Molanphy
Trump's generational assault on the arts unsuccessful in dropping curtain on 40-year Bay tradition.
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FOLSOM STREET FAIR RETURNS SEPTEMBER 28 TO WHIP UP COMMUNITY JOY
48 Hills is proud to be the official SF media partner of the 42nd Annual Folsom Street Fair! Parties and community events galore celebrate SF's thriving subversive spirit and diverse fetish/kink communities.
SCUMDANCE 2025 OOZES ONTO THE BIG SCREEN
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