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The Agenda

Supreme Court hears critical case on homeless policy (SF wants to legalize sweeps) …

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024

... Plus: Is the SF Zoo really capable of hosting pandas, and is the city ready to start letting developers off the hook for the impacts their projects create? That's The Agenda for April 24-31

Movies

Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest unleashes Dizzy Gillespie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, June Squibb

Dennis Harvey - April 21, 2024

Where else can you catch a 94-year-old action star, a jazz legend fighting for the Congo, and a requiem for activist Rob Peace?

Opinion

Breed’s Treasure Island developer bailout is a serious problem

Steve Stallone - April 22, 2024

Peskin, Chan amendments offer accountability—but where is the affordable housing, and why are details still secret?

Protest

Is protesting in traffic ‘false imprisonment?’

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024

Then what about Waymo blocking a highway entrance ramp?

Hot topics

Culture

‘Never too late’: Grannies of Grant Avenue Follies dance onto the airwaves

Dorothy Odonnell - April 20, 2024

PBS highlights the Chinatown-based cabaret troupe of 11 spirited grandmothers keeping local history alive.

Stage Review

Revisiting the violent time when drag was illegal in ‘The Pride of Lions’

Charles Lewis III - April 19, 2024

Risking it all in the 1920s to perform onstage and live authentically in Theatre Rhino's latest, by Roger Mason.

Music

Under the Stars: Gauging the Bay Area spring music hype

John-Paul Shiver - April 19, 2024

Free Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, SF Symphony at the Movies, Brijean's return help patch tragedies like the A's leaving

Business + Tech

New conservative DCCC members will face vote on critical labor issues

Tim Redmond - April 18, 2024

Will the 'moderate' majority elected with tech money support bills that regulate AI, robotaxis, and robotrucks?

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SF could get federal funding for 4,000 affordable housing units—maybe

Housing Savannah Dewberry - April 18, 2024

So far, the Breed Administration has not taken advantage of a program that will close in September.

Watch: Our Stud sneak peek parted the sequined curtains on new location

Nightlife 48 Hills - April 18, 2024

Drinks, drag, dancing and more at the legendary queer bar's new location ahead of the 4/20 grand opening.

SF once again fails women who report sexual assault

News + Politics Tim Redmond - April 17, 2024

Ronen asks: Why have the cops done nothing since 2021 on allegations by three women that they were assaulted by Jon Jacobo?

Master of samples Carl Stone returns, accompanied by car-long ‘Hurdy Grande’

Music Daniel Bromfield - April 17, 2024

The 71-year-old musical pioneer inaugurates the West Oakland Sound Series with experimental gusto.

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan opens up about candid new biopic ‘Girl You Know it’s True’

Music Joshua Rotter - April 17, 2024

'I can say proudly that love has healed me,' says star who weathered instant fame and disastrous downfall.

Good Taste: Local chefs serve kitchen game on social media

Food & Drink Tamara Palmer - April 16, 2024

Victoriano Lopez and Kathy Fang share go-to cooking techniques when they’re off the clock. Watch and learn!

Gaza protesters on Golden Gate Bridge jailed on felony charges

Protest Tim Redmond - April 16, 2024

Unusual CHP tactic guaranteed that 26 people spend at least one night behind bars.

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond &… Milli Vanilli?

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 16, 2024

The German-language film fest keeps broadening its borders. Plus: Ken Loach's finale 'Old Oak' and 'Dig! XX'

Federal official tells SF to fix ongoing problems at ‘uninhabitable’ Plaza East public housing

Housing Cydney Hayes - April 15, 2024

But despite successful organizing campaign, repairs haven't started.

Watch: Legendary DJ Paulette gives us juicy nightlife history on Music Book Club

Music Book Club Tamara Palmer - April 15, 2024

'Welcome to the Club' details more than 30 years of UK house music history and her own fascinating story.

Hilarious performances whisk you up a shaky ’39 Steps’

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 15, 2024

San Francisco Playhouse lampoons a ripe Hitchcock—but you may want to binge your noir beforehand.

For actor John-Andrew Morrison, ‘A Strange Loop’ is a brilliant, emotional rollercoaster

Onstage Lou Fancher - April 15, 2024

The Tony nominee returns to Michael R. Jackson's lauded play at ACT—and brings a deep connection to his mother.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest unleashes Dizzy Gillespie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, June Squibb

Where else can you catch a 94-year-old action star, a jazz legend fighting for the Congo, and a requiem for activist Rob Peace?

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 21, 2024

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond &… Milli Vanilli?

Screen Grabs: Strap yourself in for a harrowing ‘Civil War’

Among Silent Film Fest’s gems: A movie shown for the first time in 101 years

Music

Under the Stars: Gauging the Bay Area spring music hype

Free Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, SF Symphony at the Movies, Brijean's return help patch tragedies like the A's leaving

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 19, 2024

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan opens up about candid new biopic ‘Girl You Know it’s True’

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond &… Milli Vanilli?

Watch: Legendary DJ Paulette gives us juicy nightlife history on Music Book Club

Art

The Great Migration travels beyond South to North in ‘Movement in Every Direction’

A BAMPFA show expands how we think about one of the biggest mass movements in US history.

Art Lou Fancher - April 10, 2024

Life burbles with inside jokes in Rebecca Ness’s jumbo paintings

Sticking to it: The packing tape art of Pablo Manga

Shanti Charan jokes to fight recidivism for people in Bay Area jails

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Housing

SF could get federal funding for 4,000 affordable housing units—maybe

So far, the Breed Administration has not taken advantage of a program that will close in September.

Housing Savannah Dewberry - April 18, 2024

Citizens advisory committee presses Navy for answers on Hunters Point Shipyard

The Yimbys think they rule—but there are some serious signs to the contrary

SF prepares to evict people living in vehicles on Bernal Hill

Politics

Supreme Court hears critical case on homeless policy (SF wants to legalize sweeps) …

... Plus: Is the SF Zoo really capable of hosting pandas, and is the city ready to start letting developers off the hook for the impacts their projects create? That's The Agenda for April 24-31

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024