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Live Shots: Rise Against and Alkaline Trio set a fire for Masonic crowd

Chicago's finest punks tore into Thursday night, heading into final stretch of their 'Ricochet' tour.

Music Danny Acosta - October 28, 2026

Jess Sabogal’s gleaming trans messages of the extraordinary

Social practice artist uses Muisca burial practices in creation of creatures who speak to the 'other.'

Art Mary Corbin - October 28, 2026

Screen Grabs: RSVP to William Greaves’ elbow-throwing Harlem Renaissance after-party

Plus: A six-hour documentary on Russian press freedom, John Turturro's weary pickpocket, 'Los Domingos,' more.

Music Dennis Harvey - October 28, 2026

Under the Stars: Jeremiah Chiu alchemizes SFJAZZ live set into ‘Edge Conditions’

Plus: Ethereal June McDoom, ecad's dancefloor disruption, Farsight's tuffness.

Music John-Paul Shiver - October 28, 2026

Contest

Halloween party giveaway! Win tix to Dusk to Dawn

Marke B. - October 27, 2026

Get those sexy alien Elizabeth Holmes/Nathan Fielder costumes ready, we've got the hookup to this weekend's giant rave.

Dance

SFDanceworks turns nine, still traversing brilliant visions

Aimée Ts'ao - October 27, 2026

Behind the scenes while company preps seminal Merce Cunningham works and new twist on Yue Yin two-man piece.

Nightlife

Whoo, sh*t! Sweet Pussy Pauline comes to slay Halloween

Marke B. - October 27, 2026

Scandalous house legend disappeared for decades—now she's back to scald your ears. Just hang on to that closet door.

News + Politics

The bewildering incoherence of Mayor Lurie’s billionaire agenda

Calvin Welch - October 26, 2026

It's going to deeply damage San Francisco. Here's how we can fight back

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‘Tis the season for big screams-on-screens action

Movies Dennis Harvey - October 26, 2026

Indonesian prison horror, animated 'Weird Kidz,' poodle breeding runs amok—but the biggest terror may be the early Xmas movies.

This school for clairvoyants knows just how to affirm your powers

Culture Joshua Rotter - October 26, 2026

'It's like Hogwarts, only better because it's real,' says director Rani August of the Berkeley Psychic Institute

At Fox, Geese were much more than the Cameron Winter show

Music Daniel Bromfield - October 26, 2026

Its lead singer may be an unwilling tabloid darling, but the band's dense indie foundation still shines through as a unit.

The mayor’s big lie on Prop. F

The Agenda Tim Redmond - October 25, 2026

Plus: Come to our 13th Annual Gala Tuesday at El Rio! That's The Agenda for Oct.. 25 to Nov. 1

The real story behind the latest Chan-Wiener poll

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - October 25, 2026

The voters hate tech companies. They think the local economy is getting worse. And they like socialism as much as capitalism. We dive into the cross-tabs

BIG WEEK: Sandcastle Classic, LitCrawl, Annie Sprinkle, 125 Years of Lawn Bowling….

Big Week Marke B. - October 23, 2026

'Roll Fog,' Chinatown After Dark, SF Dance Film Fest, SOMArts' Día de los Muertos, 'Wicker,' a Britney Spears musical, more to do!

Good Taste: Warriors score early wins with tasty new fare

Food & Drink Tamara Palmer - October 22, 2026

Delightful Dungeness sandwich, fire pozole, perfect vegan pancit are some of this season’s culinary highlights at Chase Center.

Under the Stars: Noise Pop’s phase one lineup drops—with a load of local love

Music John-Paul Shiver - October 22, 2026

Plus: Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain' reissue (again), Late Aster's constellations, hometown high-fives from Treasure, more

Juvenal knew: Seeing our current ‘orgy of greed’ through ancient eyes

Humor Joel Schechter - October 22, 2026

A 'No Kings' encounter put us in mind of a Roman poet's satirical—and unfortunately immortal—take on the kakistocracy.

Education funding, from France to San Francisco

News + Politics Tim Redmond - October 22, 2026

The issue isn't about a lack of money. It's about distribution. When will GrowSF even consider reality?

Dani Satin’s journey from deep grief to Outside Lands

Music Ankita Bhanot - October 22, 2026

Always Hallways' velvet-voiced Berkeley singer found new strength onstage through processing her father's loss.

‘Steve Reich at 90’ honors a minimalist master who still brings ‘continuous joy’

Music Marke B. - October 22, 2026

Conductor Brad Lubman leads an all-star tribute to the composer of 'some of the most transcendent music ever written'

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Movies

‘Tis the season for big screams-on-screens action

Indonesian prison horror, animated 'Weird Kidz,' poodle breeding runs amok—but the biggest terror may be the early Xmas movies.

Movies Dennis Harvey - October 26, 2026

Screen Grabs: SF Latino Film Fest finds a happy place in heavy times

Screen Grabs: ‘NAZA’ doc chillingly excoriates Israel’s killing machine

Screen Grabs: Green and UN film fests land at a raw moment for humanity

Music

Screen Grabs: RSVP to William Greaves’ elbow-throwing Harlem Renaissance after-party

Plus: A six-hour documentary on Russian press freedom, John Turturro's weary pickpocket, 'Los Domingos,' more.

Music Dennis Harvey - October 28, 2026

Under the Stars: Jeremiah Chiu alchemizes SFJAZZ live set into ‘Edge Conditions’

At Fox, Geese were much more than the Cameron Winter show

Under the Stars: Noise Pop’s phase one lineup drops—with a load of local love

Art

Jess Sabogal’s gleaming trans messages of the extraordinary

Social practice artist uses Muisca burial practices in creation of creatures who speak to the 'other.'

Art Mary Corbin - October 28, 2026

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Luis Felipe Chávez

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Creative Collective

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Far Out Gallery

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Housing

SF is about to run out of affordable housing money—unless Props. I and C pass

Ten years of bond money is spent. The next bond isn't until 2034. Thousands of units will stall if the voters don't approve annual funding

Housing Tim Redmond - September 17, 2026

Why is SF encouraging a notorious landlord to build luxury housing in Lower Haight?

How cities are going to lose all control over housing development, soon

The Chron discovers, sort of, that Wiener’s housing bills are a con

Politics

The mayor’s big lie on Prop. F

Plus: Come to our 13th Annual Gala Tuesday at El Rio! That's The Agenda for Oct.. 25 to Nov. 1

The Agenda Tim Redmond - October 25, 2026

State workers hold one-day strike

The city’s a mess. The supes don’t want to question the mayor

Another bad Congressional ‘debate’ reflects the failures of local media and US politics

Opinion

Juvenal knew: Seeing our current ‘orgy of greed’ through ancient eyes

A 'No Kings' encounter put us in mind of a Roman poet's satirical—and unfortunately immortal—take on the kakistocracy.

Humor Joel Schechter - October 22, 2026

Opinion: Why labor supports Connie Chan for Congress

OPINION: It’s all about male power

How Porter, Newsom, and so many others are wrong about Proposition 40

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Performance

SFDanceworks turns nine, still traversing brilliant visions

Behind the scenes while company preps seminal Merce Cunningham works and new twist on Yue Yin two-man piece.

Dance Aimée Ts'ao - October 27, 2026

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