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A Shakespeare Story in Need of Brushing Up

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A black-and-white portrait of a female artist with a shaved head and glasses draped in a shawl.

A Conversation About Black Feminist Art Takes off at SFO

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Bay Area Restaurants Will Allow Customers to ‘Pay What They Can’ — For One Day, Anyway

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What Is ‘Trans New Weird’? An Emerging Film Genre Screens at YBCA

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The Deep Roots of Puerto Rican Culture Come to the Bayview Opera House

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In ‘Mother Mary,’ a Pop Star’s Costume Crisis Turns Existential

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Raise the Woof! Win Prizes for Looking Like Your Pet at This SPCA Party

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San José Soccer Star Naomi Girma Returns Home

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At San José Museum of Art, Technology Is Women’s Work

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Rare Films by Maya Angelou and Black Women Directors to Screen at Stanford

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