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How does the NBA Cup work? Format, groups and schedule for the 2026 tournament

Who will win the fourth edition of the Emirates NBA Cup? Introduced in the 2023-24 campaign as an in-season tournament, the NBA Cup offers teams and players an extra shot to lift a trophy, along with cash bonuses based on performance. The Los Angeles Lakers won the first ever edition of the event,...

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What’s up this week: ‘The Addams Family,’ Dracula told through dance, The Psychedelic Furs, a virtual film festival and more

This week, a grownup Wednesday Addams brings home a "normal" boyfriend at Palo Alto Players and The Psychedelic Furs hit the heartbreak beat at The Guild. Plus an iconic vampire's tale told through dance; a New York State of Jazz and more. The post What’s up this week: ‘The Addams Family,’ Dracula...

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What’s up this week: ‘The Addams Family,’ Dracula told through dance, The Psychedelic Furs, a virtual film festival and more

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Oakland Ballet Company presents 'Luna Mexicana'

Oakland Ballet Company is marking the 10th anniversary of Luna Mexicana, a celebration of Día de los Muertos, October 30 and November 1, at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Oakland Ballet’s artistic director Graham Lustig, and Esteban Hernández, a principal dancer with the San Francisco Ballet, shares...

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Live Shots: Psyched! Fest blows minds with Peaches, Allah-Las, Provoker

Local music scored a win in 2021, when Guillermo Goyri—who a few years later, would become co-host of KEXP s seminal Latin music show El Sonido —founded Psyched! Radio. And then another stroke of luck: the following year, the station gave birth to Psyched! Fest (runs through November 6), whose...

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Berkeley arts groups will get $6M a year if voters approve new parcel tax

As many big performing arts groups close or flounder, Measure Y’s backers say the 12-year tax is the lifeline needed to keep the theater and arts scene afloat.

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Around Berkeley: Halloween and Día de los Muertos events and celebrations

Other events include a town hall on the midterm elections, a book talk on influential Bay Area women and art exhibitions by Cal students.

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Live Shots: Rise Against and Alkaline Trio set a fire for Masonic crowd

Did you feel it last Thursday night, that banging energy radiating out from The Masonic? Those inside at the October 22 San Francisco stop of Rise Against s Ricochet tour with Alkaline Trio sure did. Through shifting moshpit trends (critics classified the opening pit as more orderly, compared with...

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Alonzo King Lines Ballet joins forces with the SF Symphony for a uniquely stunning performance this November.

Of all the Russian composers, James Gaffigan likes Sergei Prokofiev best: The music makes him feel like he’s observing a painting.“It's all these different emotions and characters that you can relate to, but somehow you're on the outside of it, looking in,” Gaffigan explains. “I love the way he...

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