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Cape & Cowl Con showcases Bay Area comics and community
Everyone knows a kid who spends her entire weekly allowance on comic books, or a child constantly scolded for “doodling” instead of doing homework. Then, there’s the immigrant family in America in which the parents speak only...
Stay Out turns ‘Broken Homes’ into a DIY East Bay punk debut
Stay Out came together when the band’s singers, Grant Pack and Mason McGeorge, met at a party. “We had a lot in common.” McGeorge said. “I’d been searching for my musical partner. We started jamming Green Day...
Social Eyes: Week of Aug. 27-Sept. 2
This week's calendar picks feature the Freight's Annual Fiddle Summit, Cosmik Debris, the Hogan Brothers, the Holdup, Bill Callahan, Tori Amos, Brad Mehldau, Mike Monford, Cape & Cowl Con, and Avery Wilson.
Free Will Astrology: Week of Aug. 26
Will you answer the call to adventure, Virgo? How will you reduce your karmic debt, Taurus? In what way could a seismic shift heal your landscape, Aquarius?
Oakland’s Kevin Moan turns experimentation into fuzzed-out rock
After a lifetime of playing instruments, bouncing between bands and experimenting with new musical techniques, Oakland’s Kevin Moan had a simple idea. Alone in his rehearsal studio during the pandemic, he decided to plug his guitar amp...
Amy Miller brings punk ethics to her first comedy special
Two things guide the work of comedian Amy Miller: holding to one’s ethics and fighting to protect one’s community—values the Bay Area native learned in part from the punk scene at 924 Gilman. Now she brings her...
‘Tony’ reimagines Anthony Bourdain’s rebellious coming-of-age years
Matt Johnson’s biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, Tony, is a ghost story. Moviegoers watch the movie armed with the knowledge that the hero will ultimately take his own life. Unlike the writings of Sylvia Plath or...
