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Drama Masks: A sensitive Julius Caesar, lost in the ’70s shuffle

Marin Shakes' bold, beautiful, but muddled adaptation humanizes an autocrat at the expense of message or meaning.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - August 19, 2026

Kiev, 1911: the Bund, revolution, and a sparkling work of historical fiction

'Radiant as the Stars' tells of a young woman who returns from the US to fight in the Russian Revolution—and it's based on a real story

Lit Tim Redmond - August 18, 2026

This year’s Bliss Fest was all about the sparkling ride

Elliott Peck's immersive jazz-folk, Combo Tezeta's energizing cumbia, Circus Bella's high clownery drove some Presidio heat.

Music John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2026

Al Green gilded Stern Grove’s season finale in golden soul

80-year-old legend brought R&B classics, funky arrangements, 'Love and Happiness' to adoring crowd.

Music Review Jess Oledan - August 18, 2026

Campaign Trail

Lurie attacks affordable housing plan—and undermines his own proposal

Tim Redmond - August 17, 2026

By saying housing money hurts the cops, he may be undermining support for his own Housing Trust Fund.

The Agenda

The Marina Safeway project has a serious toxics and sewage problem

Tim Redmond - August 16, 2026

And yet, thanks to Wiener, there's no EIR. Plus: Punk politics in the 1970s—and today. That's The Agenda for Aug. 16-23

Music

Toro y Moi’s sweeping show at Bottom of the Hill hurt so good

Ankita Bhanot - August 16, 2026

Chaz Bear's trip through artistic eras served as poignant reminder of why small rooms matter.

Onstage

Monét X Change: retired party girl, current comedy queen

Joshua Rotter - August 15, 2026

'Drag Race' and 'Traitors' star brings two nights of coming-of-age cracks to Cobb's.

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Musical genius runs in the family—but the Womack Sisters’ success didn’t come easy

Music Tamara Palmer - August 13, 2026

'We got it out the mud,' they say, as debut album soars.

From Telegraph tapes to Hip Hop Fairyland, Sunspot Jonz builds his own world

Music Morgan Garcia - August 13, 2026

Living Legends co-founder turns handmade cassettes, Xeroxed pages, and East Oakland parties into durable art philosophy.

Why IE campaign corruption matters

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - August 13, 2026

The contribution limit rules exist for a reason. If we allow the IEs to coordinate with campaigns, those rules become pointless

Sheila E. grew a career that the Bay—not the music industry—taught her was possible

Music Joshua Rotter - August 12, 2026

On the eve of her gig at Blue Note Napa, the Norcal icon talks Berkeley drum circles.

Under the Stars: The Womack Sisters’ debut album heralds arrival of a new soul generation

Music John-Paul Shiver - August 12, 2026

Plus: megiapa finds voice in Chicago's beat scene, golden hip-hop happening at Shoreline, Valerie June, more.

Screen Grabs: Is ‘Camp Miasma’ too meta—or is it a generational thing?

Movies Dennis Harvey - August 12, 2026

Plus: BAMPFA series highlights Bay Area lovers-auteurs, rural addiction in 'Union County', Matthew McConaughey, more.

BIG WEEK: Cat Video Fest, Deaf Dance Fest, DJ Dan Tribute, Oakland Pride…

Big Week Marke B. - August 12, 2026

Matmos, masc heroes, 'Otra Onda/Otra Vez,' Pizza, Bagel, and Beer Fest, 'Little Shop of Horrors,' more to do!

Drama Masks: A play every Silicon Valley acolyte should be forced to watch

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - August 11, 2026

La Lengua's shockingly current latest. Plus: Tennessee Williams' 'Orpheus Descending' gets a curious switch-up.

Sculptor Michelle Gregor gives the kiln the last word

Art Mary Corbin - August 11, 2026

'The way clay receives and holds color feels limitless in possibility,' says artist with deep history on the Sunset dunes.

‘Independent’ super PAC paying Wiener campaign staffers, records show

Campaign Trail Ian Firstenberg - August 11, 2026

It's illegal for IEs to coordinate with candidates; this is at the very least close to the line, experts say

What we saw at Outside Lands: Live shots of wild times, sunshine excluded

Music Andrew Brobst - August 11, 2026

Who needs light when you've got the heat of Baby Keem, The Strokes, Boys Noize, Silvana Estrada, and bazillions of cute fans.

What we ate at Outside Lands: Hot takes on Bay Area tastes

Food & Drink Tamara Palmer - August 11, 2026

Crab pastries, jollof plates, caviar corndogs, and super sundaes—the fest’s sexiest food hit all the high notes.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Is ‘Camp Miasma’ too meta—or is it a generational thing?

Plus: BAMPFA series highlights Bay Area lovers-auteurs, rural addiction in 'Union County', Matthew McConaughey, more.

Movies Dennis Harvey - August 12, 2026

Screen Grabs: ‘The Piano’ plays again

Screen Grabs: From farmworker to ‘the Shakespeare of Chicano theater’

A ‘sensual labyrinth’ blooms at Blush erotic film fest

Music

This year’s Bliss Fest was all about the sparkling ride

Elliott Peck's immersive jazz-folk, Combo Tezeta's energizing cumbia, Circus Bella's high clownery drove some Presidio heat.

Music John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2026

Toro y Moi’s sweeping show at Bottom of the Hill hurt so good

Musical genius runs in the family—but the Womack Sisters’ success didn’t come easy

From Telegraph tapes to Hip Hop Fairyland, Sunspot Jonz builds his own world

Art

Sculptor Michelle Gregor gives the kiln the last word

'The way clay receives and holds color feels limitless in possibility,' says artist with deep history on the Sunset dunes.

Art Mary Corbin - August 11, 2026

‘Jerry farts and burps’: Grateful Dead live on in spirited retrospectives

Mildred Howard writes her own history book

Flushing things out with artist Blake Cedric

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Housing

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

Finally, a story that mentions the real issue: Cities can't force developers to build

Housing Zelda Bronstein - July 6, 2026

Lurie and four supes move to cut affordable housing fees for luxury developers

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

The complete failure of Lurie’s tax cuts for developers on full display at hearing

Politics

Lurie attacks affordable housing plan—and undermines his own proposal

By saying housing money hurts the cops, he may be undermining support for his own Housing Trust Fund.

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - August 17, 2026

Why IE campaign corruption matters

‘Independent’ super PAC paying Wiener campaign staffers, records show

Wiener’s attacks on Chan backfire, badly

Opinion

Labor, Gordon Mar, and Connie Chan

OPINION: Labor and community coalitions have won in the past. Will that happen in November?

Opinion Tim Paulson - July 28, 2026

The other problem with police drones: They don’t work well in San Francisco

Why can’t all that campaign money go to public services?

In Cuba, blackouts and resilience

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Performance

Drama Masks: A sensitive Julius Caesar, lost in the ’70s shuffle

Marin Shakes' bold, beautiful, but muddled adaptation humanizes an autocrat at the expense of message or meaning.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - August 19, 2026

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