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Arts & Entertainment
Best Bets: An edgy ‘Oklahoma!,’ Verdi’s glorious Requiem and Rita Rudner’s saucy stand-up
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The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here.Arts & Entertainment
Pass the Remote: Silicon Valley’s in-person Cinequest festival has films for every mood
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The festival runs now through Aug. 29.Arts & Entertainment
Litquake returns in October with fully in-person schedule
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Highlights include “Kidquake” on Oct. 7 with kidlit author presentations and workshops for K-5 students and teachers.Arts & Entertainment
Pass the Remote: ‘League’ on TV, ‘Paper Girls,’ plus Cinequest’s return to San Jose
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Cinequest returns, after a pandemic hiatus, with 220 films -- 130 of which are world or national premieres.Arts & Entertainment
Review: Devi S. Laskar’s challenging novel ‘Circa’ captures the ’70s-’80s Indian American immigrant experience
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“Circa” narrates the family life of Heera Sanyal, an Indian American teen living in Raleigh, North Carolina, who only sees how different she is from everyone else.Arts & Entertainment
Best Bets: San Jose Jazz Fest, Herb Alpert, and Sondheim’s ‘Follies’
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Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here.Arts & Entertainment
‘Young, Gifted and Black’ traveling exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum
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The exhibition features 51 pieces of art by emerging artists of African descent that deal with identity, politics, and art history.Arts & Entertainment
Hooked on Books: Blurbs are everywhere you look
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Plus, Colson Whitehead in conversation with Adam Serwer, and Jesmyn Ward wins another fiction prize.Around Town
