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Arts & Entertainment
What do basketball, ballet and parties have in common? Live-event industries are in trouble
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As pandemic shutdowns intensify, more than a third of jobs in three California industries that rely on events — sports, performing arts and catering — have already disappeared.Arts & Entertainment
Pass the Remote: Top 2020 documentaries with Bay Area connections
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Some of the year's standout feature films and documentaries had Bay Area connections. Here's a rundown of some top documentary picks.Arts & Entertainment
Best Bets: Music of the season and Scrooge with puppets
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Entertainment for the end of 2020 and the start of the New Year includes "A Chanticleer Christmas," a piano virtuoso, Scrooge + puppets, and country-rock star Lucinda Williams.Arts & Entertainment
Embrace the dysfunction of the season with Taylor Mac’s ‘Holiday Sauce … Pandemic!’
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Holiday classics meet burlesque and vaudeville in celebrated artist and performer's paean to holiday dysfunction.Arts & Entertainment
Keak da Sneak’s ‘Gorilla’ taps into nostalgia for hyphy, reflects on recent trauma
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East Oakland hip-hop artist's newest album layers range and introspection onto his classic sound.around town
Children’s choir kicks off winter concert series
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The Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir presents two virtual winter choral concerts this weekend.Books
The perfect, pandemic-proof gift for the woman in your life
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Bay Area Book Festival's Women Lit subscription offers a year of online community, connecting readers and writers.Arts & Entertainment
Black women’s voices ring out in ‘The Black Woman is God’
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Exhibition showcases Black women artists in a year marked by paradoxes.Arts & Entertainment
