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BIG WEEK: Juneteenth, $5 Book Fair, Dolly Parton Pride, Golden Gate Park Band Fest…

BIOMETRICKS, The Dish, Messthetics, Sunset Night Market, Township Rebellion, Lil Sweet Treat, more to do!

Big Week Marke B. - June 11, 2026

Some hard, factual truth about the needless brutality of the Lurie budget

It's not about waste. It's about bad priorities

News + Politics Tim Redmond - June 10, 2026

Good Taste: The spice must flow

Emeryville’s regional Indian restaurant fires up a spicy collab with Mediterranean San Francisco sister.

Food & Drink Tamara Palmer - June 11, 2026

An Oakland union researcher wrote a book. Her characters brought class into it

New novel 'Muñeca' by Cynthia Gómez delivers Gothic fiction suffused with queerness and rebellion.

Lit James Tracy - June 10, 2026

Movies

The wild inside story of San Francisco’s first gay film festival

Marc Huestis - June 10, 2026

50 years ago, a ragtag bunch of local geniuses got together to show their scrappy Super 8s—and a movement was born.

Festival

Ciao bella! Pasta, puppets, parade drew revelers to Festa Italiana in North Beach

Emma Garcia - June 10, 2026

Two days of feasting, dancing, and live music—plus plenty of strong coffee and wine—celebrated Italian culture.

Featured

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Marke B. - June 10, 2026

We're rolling out more perks for our recurring monthly donors, including free newsletter upgrades and Gala tickets.

Stage Review

Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre tiptoes back onstage after closure

Charles Lewis III - June 10, 2026

... but another East Bay institution bids adieu. Plus: SF Opera's 'The Barber of Seville' lands the slapstick, needs more 'Figaro.'

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Kitfo to kickflips: How the Bay’s oldest Ethiopian restaurant supports Addis Ababa skaters

Culture Alan Chazaro - June 9, 2026

Oakland's Cafe Colucci collabs with Ethiopia Skate to boost burgeoning scene halfway across the world.

Under the Stars: ‘Happy Today’ brings wizardly space and grace to longform jazz jams

Music John-Paul Shiver - June 9, 2026

Plus: Digital Underground's 'Sex Packets' at 35, Black Gold Sun's poignant punk, Space Ghost's remixed freedom, more music

Surely, they must still be joking: ‘Airplane! Live’ lands classic 1980 movie’s gags

Movies Joshua Rotter - June 9, 2026

'The more serious we were, the more the comedy worked,' says star Robert Hays, coming to SF with co-star Julie Hagerty.

Wiener claims right-wing dark money is out to prevent him from winning. Seriously?

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - June 8, 2026

It's bizarre: He's raising money talking about right-wing donors attacking him, but they aren't supporting his opponent; mostly, they support Wiener. Look at the names.

Live Shots: Fou Fou Ha!’s erotic clownery reminded us that pleasure is resistance

Onstage Jon Bauer and Patty Riek - June 8, 2026

With 'The Nectar' at Palace Theater, the longtime sexy burlesque troupe offered a voluptuous answer to oppression.

A profound new report on climate and economy ignored by most major news media

The Agenda Tim Redmond - June 7, 2026

Plus: Exposing SF's affordable housing failures—and the cops and DA can't get all the money when the rest of the justice system is starved. That's The Agenda for June 8-15

Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest

Movies Dennis Harvey - June 7, 2026

Plus: Summer with Monica Vitti, Nicholas Meyer's SF sci-fi, a daring 'Devil Queen,' A Complete Stanley Kubrick, more movies on tap

Should SF offer sanctuary for the Statue of Liberty?

Humor Joel Schechter - June 7, 2026

If Trump wants to bulldoze Lady Liberty, maybe we can make room in the Bay

As SF nightclubs struggle to hold on, local DJs are being squeezed out

Nightlife Jess Oledan - June 4, 2026

Venues turn to big-name touring acts and social media metrics to fill rooms, rather than risk success on up-and-comers.

Screen Grabs: Things are looking grim. Time for a trip to Bleak Week

Movies Dennis Harvey - June 4, 2026

Plus: 'Trainspotting' slams back into cinemas, 'Carolina Caroline' rides the grift, a straightforward (ahem) 'Rocky Horror' doc, more movies

BIG WEEK: Festa Italiana, Juneteenth on the Waterfront, Rocky Horror, The Klezmatics…

Big Week Marke B. - June 4, 2026

Plus: Persia does Pride, Free Techno in Union Square, Union Street Fest, Marbled Eye, Juniper, Satya, more to do!

Tech plutocrats won a lot in the SF election ….

Elections Tim Redmond - June 4, 2026

But I'm not so sure most voters buy into their not-so-hidden agenda. It's possible that Chan will be elected to Congress

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Movies

The wild inside story of San Francisco’s first gay film festival

50 years ago, a ragtag bunch of local geniuses got together to show their scrappy Super 8s—and a movement was born.

Movies Marc Huestis - June 10, 2026

Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest

Screen Grabs: Things are looking grim. Time for a trip to Bleak Week

Iceland’s glaciers melt away like memory in ‘Time and Water’

Music

Under the Stars: ‘Happy Today’ brings wizardly space and grace to longform jazz jams

Plus: Digital Underground's 'Sex Packets' at 35, Black Gold Sun's poignant punk, Space Ghost's remixed freedom, more music

Music John-Paul Shiver - June 9, 2026

As SF nightclubs struggle to hold on, local DJs are being squeezed out

Under the Stars: Wealthy Women are here to lay down heavy truths

San Francisco does, indeed, want The Human League

Art

Memories of us: Puerto Rican diasporic photography inspires Norma I. Quintana

At Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, silver gelatin prints conjure the sanctuary of connection—and a sociology of shared imagery.

Art Mary Corbin - June 2, 2026

In a different light: How Venice fixed Monet

Like her mother, sculptor Maryam Yousif is inspired by a Mesopotamian warrior queen

Blending archeology and translation, Paola de la Calle’s art digs deep

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Housing

New Melgar-Lurie plan for affordable housing is great; cutting other funding is not

Expanding the Housing Trust Fund could bring in $125 million a year. Repealing Prop. I could wipe out almost as much

Housing Tim Redmond - May 24, 2026

Cutting fees for developers has not encouraged much new housing

Tax on big business for housing has been a huge success

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

Politics

An Oakland union researcher wrote a book. Her characters brought class into it

New novel 'Muñeca' by Cynthia Gómez delivers Gothic fiction suffused with queerness and rebellion.

Lit James Tracy - June 10, 2026

A profound new report on climate and economy ignored by most major news media

Tech plutocrats won a lot in the SF election ….

Supporters of Chakrabarti are helping elect Wiener

Opinion

Should SF offer sanctuary for the Statue of Liberty?

If Trump wants to bulldoze Lady Liberty, maybe we can make room in the Bay

Humor Joel Schechter - June 7, 2026

Hey Elon: SF has lots more tech oligarchs you can go ahead and sue

Letter to the Editor: Lurie’s ‘Reset Center’ is a disaster waiting to happen

Progressives never push term limits

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Performance

Drama Masks: Aurora Theatre tiptoes back onstage after closure

... but another East Bay institution bids adieu. Plus: SF Opera's 'The Barber of Seville' lands the slapstick, needs more 'Figaro.'

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - June 10, 2026

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