The best the Bay Area has to offer, from the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture.

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Eclectic, Newly Unearthed Films to Be Screened for the First Time in Decades

A Selena Look-Alike Contest in the Mission Pays Homage to the Tejano Queen

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‘Democracy Noir’ Depicts Hungary’s Dark Slide — and Foretells Ours

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Esteban Samayoa Paints the Art of Surviving

Two Bay Area Memelords Take on Gentrification in a New Doc

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‘All the Other Mothers Hate Me’ Is a Breezy Read from Sarah Harman

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Surreal, Riveting ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Centers on a Family Reckoning

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Bong Joon Ho Slips Us a ‘Mickey 17’

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Suhoor Fest Is the Bay Area’s Biggest Halal Food Festival 

Concert at Davies Symphony Hall to Benefit Musicians Affected by LA Wildfires