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Urban Life is a Beacon of Opportunity in Tender ‘All We Imagine as Light’
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Has a Waltz Written by Frederic Chopin Been Discovered in an NYC Museum?
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‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Resurrects a Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer
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This Oakland Restaurant Is Giving Away Free Phở
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‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The UC Theatre in Berkeley
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A baby blue movie theater with gold adornments pictured at night, with a marquee advertising 'kill bill' and 'the great muppet caper'

‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The Parkway in Oakland

Briana Loewinsohn illustrates the Parkway's closure, and the new life that followed — in more ways than one.
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two south asian women look into a rice cooker

Urban Life is a Beacon of Opportunity in Tender ‘All We Imagine as Light’

Payal Kapadia’s intoxicating Cannes-awarded debut follows three working women in the megacity of Mumbai.
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A piece of sheet music.

Has a Waltz Written by Frederic Chopin Been Discovered in an NYC Museum?

A previously unknown work of music penned by the European master appears to have been found at the Morgan Library & Museum.
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A close up of a young Black man wearing a beret.

‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Resurrects a Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer

Raoul Peck’s new documentary profiles one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa.
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A mother and son pose for a portrait inside their restaurant kitchen.

This Oakland Restaurant Is Giving Away Free Phở

Monster Pho’s annual ‘Pho for the People’ event is on Monday, Nov. 25.
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‘Movie Theaters We Have Lost’: The UC Theatre in Berkeley

Now a live music venue, the UC Theatre showed a robust schedule of movies, illustrated by Briana Loewinsohn.
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