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Jessica Zack May 6, 2021Updated: May 6, 2021, 6:48 pm Wangechi Mutu stands amid her sculptures and Rodin’s “Thinker” in the courtyard of the Legion of Honor. Photo: Randy Dodson, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco When curators talk about contemporary art existing “in dialogue” — with another artist’s work, with history or with broader political issues — the idea can sound like vague, abstract art world jargon. Isn’t art always meant to spark a dialogue with its surroundings and with the viewer? This idea of prompting conversations between new and old modes of e...

Today, Sam Calagione tells New Times, he's especially thankful to be launching his latest endeavor with the opening of the Miami brewpub after more than a year since the globally recognized brand announced it would be taking over the Concrete Beach Brewing space in the heart of Wynwood. "We began brainstorming our brewing and menu concepts and the area's potential for local partnerships back in 2020," Calagione says. "We did our best to roll with the punches through the pandemic and make lemonade — or beer — out of the lemons — or starfruit — thrown our way." Calagione's lemons-to-...

Fort Worth Weekly The Paper Tigers (PG-13) This martial-arts comedy is about three middle-aged former kung fu prodigies (Alain Uy, Ron Yuan, and Mykel Shannon Jenkins) who are forced to revive their talents to solve the murder of their master. Also with Yuji Okumoto, Jae Suh Park, Roger Yuan, Peter Adrian Sudarso, Yoshi Sudarso, and Matthew Page. (Opens Friday in Dallas) Image courtesy of YouTube.com OPENING   Above Suspicion (R) This thriller based on the first American conviction for the murder of a federal agent stars Jack Huston as an FBI man who has an illicit affair with hi...

Film Shorts // April 28-May 4, 2021 OPENING Cliff Walkers (NR) This Chinese spy thriller by Zhang Yimou ( Hero) is about a group of agents (Qin Hailu, Yu Hewei, Zhang Yi, and Zhu Yawen) who return to their Japanese-occupied country in the 1930s to find that they’ve been betrayed by persons unknown. Also with Liu Haocun, Li Naiwen, and Ni Dahong. (Opens Friday at AMC Grapevine Mills) Four Good Days (R) Rodrigo Garcia delivers yet another dull, earnest drama about white people living on the West Coast. Glenn Close stars as a mother who takes in her estranged, opioid-addicted daughter (Mila Ku...

Veranda, From George Mendes of Aldea, Opens in SoHo Reservations open for Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon, Manresa at Intersect by Lexus, and more restaurant news. The chef George Mendes at Veranda.Credit...Colin Clark for The New York Times Headliner Veranda George Mendes, the chef who enlivened menus at Aldea and Lupulo with Portuguese flavors, is back at the stove. He closed Lupulo more than three years ago and Aldea a little over a year ago after a 10-year run, because he felt that he needed a break. Now, he will be the chef and a partner at this new SoHo restaurant. He will be running it w...