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around town
Piedmont’s Flix Fest aims for laughs on Jan. 8 with ‘Blazing Saddles’
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The free film series, sponsored by the Rec Department, is open to anyone over age 18.Arts & Entertainment
January 2025 author events in the Bay Area
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Including Dorothy Lazard, the former head librarian of Oakland Public Library’s history center and author of “What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World.”Arts & Entertainment
Best Bets: Berkeley Community Chorus, Pacific Mambo Orchestra at Yoshi’s, ‘Nosferatu,’ Aida Rodriguez
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Freebie of the week: BCCO presents three concerts of music by Fauré, Beethoven and Haydn Jan. 3-5 in Hertz Hall at Berkeley.Arts & Entertainment
Amy Sherald’s ‘American Sublime’ portraits light up SFMOMA
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Exhibit continues through March 9 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Arts & Entertainment
Pass the Remote: Three notable docs stream on PBS in January
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Also: check out the surge in conservative-focused documentaries.Arts & Entertainment
South Bay’s Mount Umunhum offers great regional views, interesting Cold War history
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At 3,486 feet, Mount Umunhum is among the highest peaks in the Bay Area.Arts & Entertainment
Hooked on Books: Lincoln will be singing in the Bardo onstage at the Met
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Plus: New Yorker anthologies, cult cinema classics, and National Book Critics Circle awardsArts & Entertainment
Best Bets: SF Chamber Orchestra, SF Ballet, SF Mime Troupe, SJ Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Teng
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Jory Fankuchen leads the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra in free year-end Main Stage concerts in San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto.Arts & Entertainment
