Welcome to our calendar feature BIG WEEK. Each week, our expert Arts & Culture writers recommend the best things in Arts, Music, Food & Drink, Stage, Film, Nightlife, and more. Big news of the week: Beloved record shop owner Dick Vivian, 78, owner of 42-year-old Rooky Ricardo’s Records in the Lower Haight, is fighting stage 3 pancreatic cancer—receiving treatments while still opening his shop nearly every day. Friends and family have set up a GoFundMe to help with his expenses. Check it out here.

GENERAL ARTS Marke B. guides you right. There’s tons more to do and support right here.

THROUGH AUGUST 17: “WAYNE THIEBAUD: ART COMES FROM ART” This absolutely ravishing show—right down to its walls’ neon-trimmed baseboards—fabulously over-explains the revered local artist, who died at 101 in 20

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