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How to tax AI when companies replace human workers

Plus: Will the supes get serious about protecting rent-controlled housing from greedy speculators? That's The Agenda for March 8-15

The Agenda Tim Redmond - March 8, 2026

Airbnb, under pressure from labor, drops $120 million lawsuit against SF

After calls for boycott, giant company folds in a win for activists who fight corporate tax cuts

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - March 5, 2026

A Holocaust survivor in San Rafael finds his voice in ‘The Optimist’

Herbert Heller couldn't talk about his Auschwitz experience until his 70s; movie shows how he then inspired younger generation.

Movies Pam Grady - March 9, 2026

How close are Lurie and SFPD to ICE?

Disturbing comments by (former) head of homeland security and SFPOA suggest more cooperation than the Sanctuary City ordinance allows

Immigration Tim Redmond - March 5, 2026

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Art

The North Beach Carol Doda mural will rise again

Dorothy O'Donnell - March 5, 2026

After a tribute to the neighborhood's eternal topless queen is unceremoniously pulled off stage, its artist is set on a second act.

Dance

Born to the circus, Gypsy Snider brings acrobatic flair to ODC’s ‘Dance Downtown’

Aimée Ts'ao - March 5, 2026

At the meeting of two performance traditions, 'I came here to make bodies move in space'.

Music

Under the Stars: Goldie’s ‘Timeless’—and what it meant for 1990s Bay Area drum and bass

John-Paul Shiver - March 5, 2026

Plus: The time has come for local vibe merchants 37 Houses, Lolo Zouaï's Sunset sensibilities, more.

Music

The Audium thrums with Pamela Z’s factory-sampling ‘Arbeitsklang’

Marke B. - March 5, 2026

Composer weaves sounds from German worksites—Bayer plant, futon stitchery, Gutenberg press—for latest piece.

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Diamond Dave Whitaker, a San Francisco icon and legend, dies at 88

Remembrance Tim Redmond - March 4, 2026

He turned Bob Dylan onto pot and Woody Guthrie. He organized underground poetry and political protest. He was part of the city's radical soul, and we will miss him

Drama Masks: ‘Paranormal Activity’ and other things that go bump in the night

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 4, 2026

Plus: 'All My Sons' proves Arthur Miller's anti-establishment cred and 'Looking For Justice' finds a broken system.

Noise Pop Diary: Wrapping up a stellar fest, with Sun Ra Arkestra magic

Music Review John-Paul Shiver - March 4, 2026

By celebrating local talent and venues (with a sprinkling of cosmic legends), Noise Pop grew exponentially this year.

BIG WEEK: Women’s Day, Barbara Ramos street photography, Lunar New Year parade, John Malkovich

What To Do Caitlin Donohue - March 4, 2026

Plus: African Film Festival, BFF.FM Super Schmackdown, Indian Restaurant Week, 'Paranormal Activity'.

SF protests against war on Iran draw cries to “Send Barron’

Protest Joel Schechter - March 3, 2026

On Saturday and Monday, crowds gathered to demand an end to US intervention in the Middle East.

DA Brooke Jenkins attacks unions, says the city needs to be nicer to billionaires

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - March 3, 2026

At conference for democrats who want to crush the left, Jenkins says the city is at a "reckoning" with local labor

A Detroit techno visionary soundtracks a German sci-fi classic (again)

Music Marke B. - March 3, 2026

Jeff Mills performs his new, third score for Fritz Lang's dystopian 'Metropolis': 'I wish it weren't so relevant now'

Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment

Movies Dennis Harvey - March 3, 2026

Plus: New German cinema, African Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray’s 'Days and Nights in the Forest'.

Noise Pop Diary: Illuminati Hotties caped for BOTH, Orcutt Shelley Miller thrilled the dudes

Music Review John-Paul Shiver - March 3, 2026

Free show from tenderpunk faves erased the condos closing in; avant-rock trio took the beards on wild rides at GAMH.

Noise Pop Diary: Sideswiped by TikTok fame, Julie Doiron had many more tales to tell

Music Review Daniel Bromfield - March 2, 2026

30-year-old 'August 10' soundtracks today's teen Reels, but the Canadian stalwart transcends viral splash with guitar chops.

When you eat broccolini, remember the farmworkers who harvest it for you

Labor David Bacon - March 2, 2026

Fresh produce is a great benefit of living in the Bay Area—but the workers in the fields are the ones who make it happen

Noise Pop Diary: SML cooked at SFJAZZ—all sauce, no Butterss

Music John-Paul Shiver - March 1, 2026

One key player was missing, but the LA-based future jazz outfit heated up Joe Henderson Lab just fine.

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Movies

A Holocaust survivor in San Rafael finds his voice in ‘The Optimist’

Herbert Heller couldn't talk about his Auschwitz experience until his 70s; movie shows how he then inspired younger generation.

Movies Pam Grady - March 9, 2026

Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment

What we saw at Sundance 2026: 9 narrative features that found the plot

Screen Grabs: Back to back with Almodovar muse Carmen Maura

Music

Under the Stars: Goldie’s ‘Timeless’—and what it meant for 1990s Bay Area drum and bass

Plus: The time has come for local vibe merchants 37 Houses, Lolo Zouaï's Sunset sensibilities, more.

Music John-Paul Shiver - March 5, 2026

Noise Pop Diary: Wrapping up a stellar fest, with Sun Ra Arkestra magic

A Detroit techno visionary soundtracks a German sci-fi classic (again)

Noise Pop Diary: Illuminati Hotties caped for BOTH, Orcutt Shelley Miller thrilled the dudes

Art

The North Beach Carol Doda mural will rise again

After a tribute to the neighborhood's eternal topless queen is unceremoniously pulled off stage, its artist is set on a second act.

Art Dorothy O'Donnell - March 5, 2026

YBCA’s ‘Conjuring Power’ grounds hope for LGBTQ+ future in shared history

A zap of Latine abstraction in ‘Rebel Forms’

A visit with Alice the Anarchist to ‘Manet & Morisot’

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Housing

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

Two new studies show that the free market won't solve the housing crisis—and that Newsom, Lurie, and Wiener are wrong

Housing Tim Redmond - February 12, 2026

Finally, a media breakthrough of the pro-Yimby narrative that has dominated press and politics

New study shows that deregulation is not the answer to the affordable housing crisis

The Marina Safeway project is just a shiny bauble to distract us from real issues

Politics

How to tax AI when companies replace human workers

Plus: Will the supes get serious about protecting rent-controlled housing from greedy speculators? That's The Agenda for March 8-15

The Agenda Tim Redmond - March 8, 2026

When you eat broccolini, remember the farmworkers who harvest it for you

Why is Trump going to war with Iran?

And now, another big tax cut for the developers and speculators in SF

Opinion

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

The Super Bowl trafficking panic doesn’t reduce exploitation—it legitimizes policing that harms sex workers and immigrants

Opinion megan hobza - February 7, 2026

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

Optional vaccines? CDC chair’s bizarre views would turn US into deadly experiment

People do not need to ask permission to belong

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Performance

Born to the circus, Gypsy Snider brings acrobatic flair to ODC’s ‘Dance Downtown’

At the meeting of two performance traditions, 'I came here to make bodies move in space'.

Dance Aimée Ts'ao - March 5, 2026

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