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At ‘Passing the Torch,’ KCSM literally schooled the crowd in jazz

Storied station's Jazz Appreciation Month tribute showcased refreshingly human high school, college, and pro talent.

Music Review Tom Molanphy - April 24, 2026

Under the Stars: OM Records announces 30-year Embarcadero blast

Plus: Shabazz Palaces hit the parsecs, Hollie Cook wows in dub, Jeff Parker bounces back, Altın Gün pays tribute, more music

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 24, 2026

Joffrey Ballet plunged into bizarre and wondrous ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’

Gags, puns, allusions, and bodies flew as storied company literally made hay with beloved fantasia.

Stage Review Lou Fancher - April 25, 2026

The brutal Lurie budget: Cuts for everyone except the cops and the very rich

Mayor's Office admits that its budget will harm vulnerable communities while pouring vast sums of money into law enforcement

City Hall Tim Redmond - April 23, 2026

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Humor

What if Tom Steyer wasn’t a billionaire any more?

Joel Schechter - April 23, 2026

If he gave away most of his fortune to good causes in the next few weeks, he could say he's not just a rich guy running for governor.

Movies

Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest hits 69. Nice.

Dennis Harvey - April 23, 2026

11 days of global visions, including Boots Riley's latest, a Kid Koala cartoon, and 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Plus: 'I Swear,' 'The Blue Trail,' more

Big Week

BIG WEEK: Dahlia Sale, Shipyard Open Studios, Foglifter, GUSH fest, ‘Broadway Baby’…

Marke B. - April 23, 2026

'Mere Mortals,' Black Gold Sun, SFFILM Fest, 'The Celluloid Closet,' Paranoid London, more to do this week!

Dance

Alleluia Panis traces a notoriously racist miscarriage of justice through dance

Marke B. - April 22, 2026

In 1975, two Pilipina nurses were wrongly jailed for murder; choreographer's immersive 'Burden of Proof' imagines their story.

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Drama Masks: From another time of terror, ‘Burden of Proof’ urges to fight and fear not

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 22, 2026

Alleluia Panis' latest dance follows a Pilipina nurse snatched off the streets and wrongly incarcerated.

Lurie wants to undermine mandate for big institutions to tell neighborhoods what they are doing

City Hall Tim Redmond - April 21, 2026

Colleges and universities would no longer file Institutional Master Plans in many parts of town

Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: ‘When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other’

Dance Joshua Rotter - April 21, 2026

His legendary dance company's 22nd annual home season offers 'a balm for this moment in America.'

At the Warfield, Baroque pop avatar Oklou emerged a star

Music Daniel Bromfield - April 21, 2026

Classically trained French multi-instrumentalist carves her own path with polyphonic, Internet-fluent allure.

Bay Area Dance Week celebrates leaps and bounds of local scene

Dance Mary Carbonara - April 20, 2026

'Let’s just have fun and enjoy being in our bodies in a joyful space,' says co-director Dudley Flores, whose 'One Dance' kicks things off.

SF backs away from harm reduction and Housing First

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 19, 2026

Plus: Fighting back against budget cuts to job training, affordability, and public health. That's The Agenda for April 19-26.

Karyn Gabriel’s ceramic sculptures ask, ‘Is beauty important?’

Art Mary Corbin - April 18, 2026

Drawn to the mantra of repetition and the stillness of nature, the Marin artist lets each work 'percolate on its own timeline.'

How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Music Joshua Rotter - April 18, 2026

Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist's intense memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' peels back rock icon mythos

Under the Stars: Irreversible Entanglements channel peace vibrations

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 17, 2026

Plus: DJ Platurn goes shopping, Earth Tongue jams and slithers, another winner from Bar Part Time, more music

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference

Housing Tim Redmond - April 16, 2026

Some rational discussion based on facts, and some Yimby presentations with no facts

Hundreds rally against health care cuts

Labor Serena Finney - April 16, 2026

Layoffs and service reductions will harm the city's most vulnerable residents

Live Shots: Lamb of God took the Masonic ‘Into Oblivion’

Music D.A. Mission - April 15, 2026

Virginia heavy metal legends' full-throttle show transformed venue onto vortex of cathartic aggression.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest hits 69. Nice.

11 days of global visions, including Boots Riley's latest, a Kid Koala cartoon, and 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Plus: 'I Swear,' 'The Blue Trail,' more

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 23, 2026

Screen Grabs: Balboa Theater hits 100—and honors a costuming legend

Grab a free pass to see new doc ‘Lorne’

Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company

Music

At ‘Passing the Torch,’ KCSM literally schooled the crowd in jazz

Storied station's Jazz Appreciation Month tribute showcased refreshingly human high school, college, and pro talent.

Music Review Tom Molanphy - April 24, 2026

At the Warfield, Baroque pop avatar Oklou emerged a star

How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Under the Stars: Irreversible Entanglements channel peace vibrations

Art

Karyn Gabriel’s ceramic sculptures ask, ‘Is beauty important?’

Drawn to the mantra of repetition and the stillness of nature, the Marin artist lets each work 'percolate on its own timeline.'

Art Mary Corbin - April 18, 2026

Rachel Simon Marino’s off-kilter Day-Glo world aims to overwhelm

Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine ‘Homocore’ blasts back into view

For Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi, ‘ornamentation becomes a form of resistance’

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Housing

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference

Some rational discussion based on facts, and some Yimby presentations with no facts

Housing Tim Redmond - April 16, 2026

In Oakland, a tiny-home community is forced back onto the streets

Is the tide finally turning on the ‘abundance agenda?’

Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue

Politics

The brutal Lurie budget: Cuts for everyone except the cops and the very rich

Mayor's Office admits that its budget will harm vulnerable communities while pouring vast sums of money into law enforcement

City Hall Tim Redmond - April 23, 2026

SF backs away from harm reduction and Housing First

Hundreds rally against health care cuts

What the new Chakrabarti poll really shows

Opinion

What if Tom Steyer wasn’t a billionaire any more?

If he gave away most of his fortune to good causes in the next few weeks, he could say he's not just a rich guy running for governor.

Humor Joel Schechter - April 23, 2026

‘Sex trafficking’ stings—or ICE deportation at the Super Bowl?

United Nations, won’t you come on home?

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

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Performance

Joffrey Ballet plunged into bizarre and wondrous ‘Midsummer’s Night Dream’

Gags, puns, allusions, and bodies flew as storied company literally made hay with beloved fantasia.

Stage Review Lou Fancher - April 25, 2026

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