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Best Bay Area Events 7/15-8/4
Unstaged! Live Music, Live Art Making, Live Community. The Unstaged outdoor art party is back every 3rd Thursday in 2025! UNSTAGED is a FREE, interactive arts, music, and community experience for absolutely everyone. On July 17th, tap into creativity and explore visual arts with Market Street Arts in Mid-Market’s Entertainment
Silicon Valley and the Gentrification of Eugenics
Silicon Valley loves solving “problems.” Whether it’s self-driving cars or lab-grown meat, there’s always a startup or a billionaire trying to optimize something. Lately, a handful of tech elites have turned their attention to what they see as the next crisis: not enough babies. This movement, called pro-natalism, is picking
Lurie Backs Down On Homeless Shelter Pledge
Daniel Lurie has quietly done away with a cornerstone promise of his entire mayoral campaign. It’s partly what cinched the deal for voters desperate for some form of intervention in the city’s homelessness crisis. Lurie pledged 1,500 new shelter beds—within his first six months in office at that. Now Lurie’s
Essential Life Skill: Recognizing Copaganda
Copaganda is a form of propaganda that reinforces positive views of cops, lulling the community into complacency and perpetuating three myths: cops are nice, they are part of the community, and they are there to help.
The Clowns Have Come to Save us from AI! Interview with Sara Toby Moore
The Mechanix, a new production from Thrillride Mechanics, is a soulful and magical realism show that explores the theme of identity and enchantment.
Breaking the Mold of the Jukebox Musical: ‘& Juliet’ at the Orpheum
Oops, they did it again. The latest jukebox musical, & Juliet arrived at the Orpheum Theater on July 3rd… The show posits the question: ‘What if Juliet didn’t stab herself after discovering her dead Romeo?’ The character named ‘Anne Hathaway’ played by the talented Teal Wicks is the wife of William Shakespeare
The Mexican Crime Drama MAGA Fans Will Hate Is on Netflix
This month’s Netflix releases include a Mexican crime series about an immortal mercenaries unit, a Korean dating show about singles, an anime adaptation of Scott Westerfield’s alt-World War One novel, a documentary about the rise of evangelical Christianity in Brazil, a docuseries about the 2005 London bombings, a new season of the popular “Lord of the Flies”-like thriller, and a new season of the popular “Yellowjackets” show.