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Opinion

Listen to the rank and file: Political lessons from something I missed 25 years ago

Tim Paulson - April 3, 2025

The Democratic leadership in Congress needs to learn from a big mistake I made as a union organizer.

Art

Andrea Bergen collages a post-apocalyptic world whose creatures feast on scraps

Mary Corbin - April 3, 2025

Will these electric raccoons and possums inherit our beleaguered Earth?

News + Politics

Finally, some talk about local taxes—but not in a progressive direction

Tim Redmond - April 3, 2025

Airbnb wants a tax refund. Wiener wants sales taxes. Oakland sales tax isn't polling well. But taxing the rich seems like a popular idea.

Music

Demora’s debut album ‘torpor’ evokes shoegaze’s decay (it’s a good thing)

Leah Isobel - April 3, 2025

SF band's textured grunge feels like a reconfiguration of '90s rock underpinnings.

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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Feeling Hyphy Burger

Tamara Palmer - April 3, 2025

Gas, brake, dip into this uplifting Oakland spot before the drive-thru opens.

Big Week

BIG WEEK: Night of Ideas, Spring Restaurant Week, Surf Bored, Tap Fest, Sungay Brunch…

Marke B. - April 2, 2025

Edward Gorey, horsegiirl, Jagalchi, 'The Encampments,' more: Our experts guide you through the weekend.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Is ‘hella wild’ retro caper ‘Freaky Tales’ worthy of The Town?

Dennis Harvey - April 2, 2025

Plus: Literary Naomi Watts is perfectly cast in 'The Friend,' 'A Nice Indian Boy' pulls formulaic gay heartstrings.

Music

Under the Stars: Peruvian cumbieros Los Mirlos may just be your fave band’s fave band

John-Paul Shiver - April 2, 2025

Plus: Free Southern surf rock, SFJAZZ takes over Hayes Valley, and a fond farewell to too many music legends.

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Drama Masks: Hypnotic maritime flamenco, messages in a bottle

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 1, 2025

Dance tells a yarn in 'Songs from a Sinking Ship.' Plus: How did the city's stages acknowledge Trans Day of Visibility?

Is the new Berkeley mayor really a conciliatory outsider?

News + Politics Zelda Bronstein - April 1, 2025

Her history as president of the League of Women Voters suggests otherwise

PHOTOS: Families march on Newsom’s house for trans rights

LGBTQ Marke B. - April 1, 2025

On Trans Day of Visibility, more than 100 parents and kids descended on the governor's Kentfield residence—and then danced to 'Pink Pony Club.'

A $50,000 Rolex faces deportation

Opinion Joel Schechter - April 1, 2025

The secret signal chat between Trump and Kristi Noem

$100,000 ice cream sundae? What MrBeast’s flamboyant sums say about our internet

Art Leah Isobel - April 1, 2025

A talk with video artist Morry Kolman, who forces viewers to gaze beyond the YouTuber's vapid philanthropism.

Live Shots: Teens In Trouble fulfill 7×7 dreams at Bottom of the Hill homecoming

Music D.A. Mission - March 31, 2025

A gratifyingly punk Women's History Month closer.

Screen Grabs: O say can you see? Frederick Wiseman and ‘The Encampments’ turn gaze to U.S. injustice

Movies Dennis Harvey - March 31, 2025

Plus: Documentaries on teen folk star Janis Ian, funk history, and songwriter Allee Willis sound off.

Workers, families face eviction as racetrack in Pleasanton closes abruptly

Homelessness Tiny - March 31, 2025

Alameda County Fairgrounds stops horse racing—so stable workers lose their jobs, and their homes

Note to Matt Dorsey: UCSF doctors support harm reduction

The Agenda Tim Redmond - March 30, 2025

Plus: SFPD still seems to have problems with illegal searches. That's The Agenda for March 31-April 6

When fundamentalist religious thought replaces science, we are in serious trouble

Healthcare Bruce Mirken - March 30, 2025

Under RFK Jr, researchers are looking for data that supports their political agenda, not data that seeks the truth.

Three bills that threaten the rights of sex workers—and civil rights in general

Opinion Maxine Doogan - March 30, 2025

Sacramento is again cracking down on sex work—in ways that will just further criminalize vulnerable people

Bay Area Derby skates into new season—and all are welcome to the jam

Sports Joshua Rotter - March 30, 2025

Transphobia is about as popular in this high-octane women's sport as rink rash.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Is ‘hella wild’ retro caper ‘Freaky Tales’ worthy of The Town?

Plus: Literary Naomi Watts is perfectly cast in 'The Friend,' 'A Nice Indian Boy' pulls formulaic gay heartstrings.

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 2, 2025

Screen Grabs: Family cries? New releases offer complex kin across cultures

Crowd packs theater for new doc on gentrification

Screen Grabs: BAMPFA raises curtain on poetic Ukrainian cinema, once subject to brutal censorship

Music

Demora’s debut album ‘torpor’ evokes shoegaze’s decay (it’s a good thing)

SF band's textured grunge feels like a reconfiguration of '90s rock underpinnings.

Music Leah Isobel - April 3, 2025

Live Shots: Teens In Trouble fulfill 7×7 dreams at Bottom of the Hill homecoming

Under the Stars: 30 years of ‘Pulp Fiction’, or how a video store clerk changed the sound of cinema

Former Warriors star Baron Davis releases surprise rap album—and it’s actually good

Art

Andrea Bergen collages a post-apocalyptic world whose creatures feast on scraps

Will these electric raccoons and possums inherit our beleaguered Earth?

Art Mary Corbin - April 3, 2025

Queer American Songbook to Ukrainian trans theater, SF International Arts Festival won’t play it straight

A Bay Area Figurative Movement resurrection paints the Bay in hopeful hues

‘Emotions expand and figures distort’ in Robert Hightower’s unapologetic works

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Housing

Workers, families face eviction as racetrack in Pleasanton closes abruptly

Alameda County Fairgrounds stops horse racing—so stable workers lose their jobs, and their homes

Homelessness Tiny - March 31, 2025

Planning Commission rejects landlord plan to convert SRO rooms to tourist hotel

Crowd packs theater for new doc on gentrification

The dramatic and profound politics of the Mosser Hotel

Politics

Listen to the rank and file: Political lessons from something I missed 25 years ago

The Democratic leadership in Congress needs to learn from a big mistake I made as a union organizer.

Opinion Tim Paulson - April 3, 2025

At Game Developers Conference, video game workers look to level up through unionization

SF takes another step toward public power

This is one disease I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about. Wrong.

Opinion

Listen to the rank and file: Political lessons from something I missed 25 years ago

The Democratic leadership in Congress needs to learn from a big mistake I made as a union organizer.

Opinion Tim Paulson - April 3, 2025

Three bills that threaten the rights of sex workers—and civil rights in general

OPINION: SF teachers fight to rebuild what Trump is tearing down

OPINION: Time for local Democrats to step up the resistance to Trump

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Performance

Drama Masks: Hypnotic maritime flamenco, messages in a bottle

Dance tells a yarn in 'Songs from a Sinking Ship.' Plus: How did the city's stages acknowledge Trans Day of Visibility?

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 1, 2025

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