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Housing

Homelessness

On homelessness, no more about us, without us

People who have lived unhoused and in poverty need to be part of the official policy conversation.
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Elections

Elections

PHOTOS: Castro erupts in patriotic fervor as Biden named winner

On a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, SF's traditional party neighborhood was full of rainbow flags and champagne
Marke B. -
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COVID

COVID

COVID denial is a grim rerun of AIDS denialism

Two decades ago, a cult-like crowd believed that HIV was harmless and AIDS was a plot. Many of them ended up dead.
Bruce Mirken -
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Opinion

COVID

COVID denial is a grim rerun of AIDS denialism

Two decades ago, a cult-like crowd believed that HIV was harmless and AIDS was a plot. Many of them ended up dead.
Bruce Mirken -
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City Hall

News + Politics

Where will homeless people moved out of hotels go?

Plus: A continuing progressive majority on the board, protections for small businesses -- and who in SF is going to DC? That's The Agenda for Nov. 8-16
Tim Redmond -
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Movies

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Racist technology, rocky queer love, and an Oakland thriller

Plus: Berlin & Beyond's In Focus installment, Mank, The Outpost, and more movies to dive into this week.
Dennis Harvey -
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New music

Music

Now Watch This: 4 new music videos for nostalgic November feels

The Safdie brothers directed Oneohtrix Point Never's "Lost But Never Alone," and an Oakland creative turned Brijean's "Daydreaming" into an immersive psychedelic world.
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Local arts

Art

A local artist honors lost Black lives, portrait by portrait

Painter Radha Mehta's series commemorating lives lost to racially motivated murder and police brutality spreads to cities around the country.
Mary Corbin -
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Nightlife

Nightlife

Club mogul accused of vigilante homeless sweep says he did nothing wrong

Peter Glikshtern says he called private trash crew to encampment, insists he was justified by city inaction.
Marke B. -
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Cannabis

Puff

Puff: Let’s get fizzy with it

Tickle your nose with cannabis-infused sodas and seltzers that lift and calm.
Dan Karkoska -
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News + Politics

Supes approve police contract that many agree is a bad deal

Facing threats of layoffs and promises of POA remorse, board approves raises for cops with no guarantees they will stop blocking reforms.
Tim Redmond -
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Best of the Bay 2020

Best of the Bay 2020 Winners

Click here for the winners of our 45th annual Readers Poll
COVID

COVID denial is a grim rerun of AIDS denialism

Bruce Mirken -
Two decades ago, a cult-like crowd believed that HIV was harmless and AIDS was a plot. Many of them ended up dead.
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For Transgender Day of Remembrance, lighting candles and honoring those lost

Protest Marke B. -
Dozens gathered outside City Hall to mourn the loss of trans lives to violence—and continue the fight for equality.
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Screen Grabs: Racist technology, rocky queer love, and an Oakland thriller

Screen Grabs Dennis Harvey -
Plus: Berlin & Beyond's In Focus installment, Mank, The Outpost, and more movies to dive into this week.
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A local artist honors lost Black lives, portrait by portrait

Art Mary Corbin -
Painter Radha Mehta's series commemorating lives lost to racially motivated murder and police brutality spreads to cities around the country.
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Now Watch This: 4 new music videos for nostalgic November feels

Music John-Paul Shiver -
The Safdie brothers directed Oneohtrix Point Never's "Lost But Never Alone," and an Oakland creative turned Brijean's "Daydreaming" into an immersive psychedelic world.
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On homelessness, no more about us, without us

Homelessness Tiny -
People who have lived unhoused and in poverty need to be part of the official policy conversation.
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Housing advocates protest mayor’s plan to close hotels

Homelessness Garrett Leahy -
'Closures of the SIP hotels will put thousands of people at risk of returning to the streets and hundreds of essential workers being laid off.'
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Supes to vote on cops contract — as new records show history of blocking reform

Arts Forecast Tim Redmond -
Documents reveal a stunning pattern of the POA trying to prevent reforms -- but a deal to give the cops raises with no concessions is still pending approval.
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Celebrating Ruth Asawa’s recycling roots and legacy

Art Emily Wilson -
At a fundraiser for creative reuse center SCRAP, the beloved artist's children share stories and photos of her life
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Music, life, and racial justice at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival’s ‘Creative Voices’

Music John-Paul Shiver -
Samora Pinderhughes, Marcus Shelby, Ukulenny, the Curtis Family Cnotes, more featured in lively online series.
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Screen Grabs: A much-needed civic boost with ‘City Hall’

Screen Grabs Dennis Harvey -
Plus: tributes to women older and younger, a portrait of toxic friendship, religious ecstasy in Brazil
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Supes, service providers stunned at mayor’s plan to close homeless hotels

Housing Tim Redmond -
Hearing shows that there is no financial reason to kick people out of hotel rooms, and no place for them to go.
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Best of the Bay 2020 Readers’ Stories of Resilience and Inspiration

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We asked our readers for stories of Bay Area strength and celebration—your responses gave us hope for the new year.
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Housing

On homelessness, no more about us, without us

People who have lived unhoused and in poverty need to be part of the official policy conversation.
Homelessness Tiny -
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Homelessness

Housing advocates protest mayor’s plan to close hotels

Garrett Leahy -
'Closures of the SIP hotels will put thousands of people at risk of returning to the streets and hundreds of essential workers being laid off.'
Housing

Supes, service providers stunned at mayor’s plan to close homeless hotels

Tim Redmond -
Hearing shows that there is no financial reason to kick people out of hotel rooms, and no place for them to go.
Housing

More election sleaze: Fake tenant groups in District 1

Garrett Leahy -
Organizations that didn't exist a month ago are suddenly saying that tenants support Marjan Philhour.
Housing

The mystery of Newsom’s 3.5 million housing units shortage

Zelda Bronstein -
The data shows that the figure the governor still uses to justify his policies is just wrong.

Elections

PHOTOS: Castro erupts in patriotic fervor as Biden named winner

On a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, SF's traditional party neighborhood was full of rainbow flags and champagne
Elections Marke B. -
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Elections

A progressive wave in the East Bay

Bobbi Lopez -
Victories over big money in Oakland, Richmond, Berkeley, and Antioch shows the power of community organizing.
Campaign Trail

More votes in; D1 still a cliffhanger

Tim Redmond -
Just 87 votes between the mayor's candidate and the progressive in this key swing district.
Campaign Trail

A handful of votes were counted today

Tim Redmond -
Just 1,035 more ballots counted in SF -- but D1 race is closer. Expect a lot more results tomorrow.
Campaign Trail

Connie Chan now in tight race in D1

Tim Redmond -
Marjan Philhour takes 53-vote lead; next ballot count at 5pm.

City Hall

Where will homeless people moved out of hotels go?

Plus: A continuing progressive majority on the board, protections for small businesses -- and who in SF is going to DC? That's The Agenda for Nov. 8-16
News + Politics Tim Redmond -
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Elections

Finally, a state Senate debate

Tim Redmond -
Plus: The municipal corruption scandal and the state of the city's economy. That's The Agenda for Sept. 28-Oct. 4
Housing

The Agenda: The eviction tsunami begins

Tim Redmond -
Local courts will start to hear cases Monday; tenant groups plan protest.
Housing

The Agenda: State housing battle plays out before SF supes

Tim Redmond -
Mar wants ABAG to recognize that SF has already approved more luxury housing that it needs.
City Hall

Board committee approves budget deal that clashes with mayor’s proposal

Tim Redmond -
The Board of Supes is heading for a potential showdown with the mayor over more than $100 million in changes to her proposed two-year...

Opinion

COVID denial is a grim rerun of AIDS denialism

Two decades ago, a cult-like crowd believed that HIV was harmless and AIDS was a plot. Many of them ended up dead.
COVID Bruce Mirken -
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Homelessness

On homelessness, no more about us, without us

Tiny -
People who have lived unhoused and in poverty need to be part of the official policy conversation.
Opinion

Progressives are winning the Battle of San Francisco

John Elberling -
The powerful moderates -- and their financial supporters -- lost overwhelmingly in the Nov. 3 election.
Opinion

Opinion: All dressed up—and straight to the polls

Juanita More -
Take it from the city's top drag queen activists: Your vote should go toward making sure everyone is treated equally.
Opinion

SF’s economic recovery plan: Trumpism on the local level

Calvin Welch -
It's all about governmental deregulation and public subsidy of private profit -- while ignoring the manifest needs of everyday people.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Racist technology, rocky queer love, and an Oakland thriller

Plus: Berlin & Beyond's In Focus installment, Mank, The Outpost, and more movies to dive into this week.
Screen Grabs Dennis Harvey -
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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A much-needed civic boost with ‘City Hall’

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: tributes to women older and younger, a portrait of toxic friendship, religious ecstasy in Brazil
Movies

Swaggering legends, thrilling myths at Transgender Film Fest 2020

Peter Lawrence Kane -
History, heroism, and even horror meet in an all-digital compendium of seven original programs that tell a community's stories.
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Over the moon, but no time to rest

Dennis Harvey -
Now that the election's over, remember other countries? An Iranian thriller, South Korean mayhem, and a gay Irish pair hit screens
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Watching from the thick of it all

Dennis Harvey -
This week sees a gaggle of releases that seem appropriate for our anxiety-fraught moment. (Although we're hoping for good news)

Music

Now Watch This: 4 new music videos for nostalgic November feels

The Safdie brothers directed Oneohtrix Point Never's "Lost But Never Alone," and an Oakland creative turned Brijean's "Daydreaming" into an immersive psychedelic world.
Music John-Paul Shiver -
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Music

Music, life, and racial justice at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival’s ‘Creative Voices’

John-Paul Shiver -
Samora Pinderhughes, Marcus Shelby, Ukulenny, the Curtis Family Cnotes, more featured in lively online series.
Music

New Music: On ‘Ways,’ Xyla expands euphoric electronic visions

John-Paul Shiver -
Trippy yet somehow measured, the Sunset District artist's debut album counts influences from French horn to footwork.
Music

New Music: Nappy Nina, Lunchbox, Balkan Bump, more great artists to support

John-Paul Shiver -
Bandcamp Day picks: Peppy indie, scrappy rap, Turkish trumpet, experimental oboe... oh, and a side of Hi-NRG techno.
Music

Revel in the soul genius of Sharon Jones with new posthumous covers compilation

John-Paul Shiver -
Unforgettable takes on Woodie Guthrie, Shuggie Otis, and more with 'Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Rendition Was In'

Art

A local artist honors lost Black lives, portrait by portrait

Painter Radha Mehta's series commemorating lives lost to racially motivated murder and police brutality spreads to cities around the country.
Art Mary Corbin -
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Art

Celebrating Ruth Asawa’s recycling roots and legacy

Emily Wilson -
At a fundraiser for creative reuse center SCRAP, the beloved artist's children share stories and photos of her life
Art

Divine intervention: Reconfiguring monumental art project ‘The Black Woman is God’

Maddy Clifford -
My experience as part of the ongoing SOMArts exhibit, now entering a new phase, pushed me to return to what matters.
Art

Frida’s artful life on film—and in the galleries

Dennis Harvey -
Mexican icon's dramatic work and life are having a San Francisco moment, with de Young show and two screenings
Art

On being seen: Online MoAD exhibition showcases the work of San Quentin artists

Maddy Clifford -
In 'Meet Us Quickly,' artists incarcerated at the site of one of the nation's most deadly COVID-19 reframe their experience in the US prison-industrial complex.

Performance

Remembering Bambi Lake, a San Francisco underground icon

The transgender singer and trailblazer, who died last week, definitely lived a life out loud.
Performance Joshua Rotter -
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Arts + Culture

Internationally Black series ‘So Soul San Francisco’ opens up global arts discourse

Caitlin Donohue -
Creator Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe and co-host Rotimi Agbabiaka's monthly interview show surveys Black expression worldwide
Culture

Missed our 48 Hills Variety Gala? Watch here!

48 Hills -
Honey Mahogany and a cavalcade of local entertainers put it all out there to help save local media.
Onstage

This weekend, The Breath Project streams 24 nationwide theater works in honor of George Floyd

Emily Wilson -
"It’s another brick in the wall. Or rather, we’re taking the wall down, so it’s a brick out of the wall.”
Onstage

[UPDATED] Arts festival sues city in push for safe live performances—before rain comes

Marke B. -
City revokes SF International Arts Festival permit for weekend program as arts languish amid reopenings

Labor

Board committee approves budget deal that clashes with mayor’s proposal

The Board of Supes is heading for a potential showdown with the mayor over more than $100 million in changes to her proposed two-year...
City Hall Tim Redmond -
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Labor

Supes committee votes to slash police budget by $30 million

Tim Redmond -
The Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee has approved roughly $30 million in additional cuts to the police budget – less than some...
Labor

Drivers rally against Uber and Lyft extortion

Garrett Leahy -
About 70 drivers rallied outside Uber’s headquarters on Market Street on Thursday, decrying Uber and Lyft’s threat to cancel rideshare services in California in retaliation...
Labor

Giants workers fight back

Marc Norton -
The San Francisco Giants returned home on Friday, August 14 and found themselves being picketed by the workers who normally sell garlic fries and...
Labor

Judge orders Uber, Lyft to treat drivers as employees

Garrett Leahy -
San Francisco Superior Court judge Ethan Schulman issued a prohibitory injunction ruling Monday stating that Uber and Lyft must cease classifying employees as independent...

Business + Tech

Author of ‘Abolish Silicon Valley’ Wendy Liu says tech must change

"There’s this extreme power discrepancy that’s being magnified by Silicon Valley in ways that are not necessarily new, but they’ve improved upon the ways it already existed."
Culture Emily Wilson -
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Business + Tech

Big real estate escapes $360 million in annual SF taxes

Zachary James, Elissa Mann, and Tim Redmond -
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Owners of 55 local buildings (including Donald Trump) use Prop. 13 to save millions in taxes that could go to schools and city services.
Business + Tech

Why the Post Office matters

Tim Redmond -
When I arrived in San Francisco in 1981, the Post Office on Clayton street was my lifeline. We used to call Clayton “Post Office...
Opinion

Government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich

John Elberling -
 Editor's note: Plan Bay Area, a joint effort of the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, is creating a "blueprint"...
Campaign Trail

The money—and endorsements—in District Five

Tim Redmond -
One of the most interesting elements of the D5 supervisorial campaign is challenger Vallie Brown’s website. Check out the tab that says “endorsements.” Most people...

Nightlife

Club mogul accused of vigilante homeless sweep says he did nothing wrong

Peter Glikshtern says he called private trash crew to encampment, insists he was justified by city inaction.
Nightlife Marke B. -
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Nightlife

Bottoms up for spirits-lifting Oakland Cocktail Week (now a month)

Daniel Bromfield -
Support local bars and drink in good company, as the festival pivots to a vital fundraiser.
Nightlife

How did the Ocean Beach party happen—and can we prevent another incident?

Marke B. -
Why didn't the police shut things down earlier? Sup. Stefani wants criminal investigation; Sup. Mandelman worries about Halloween
Nightlife

[UPDATED] A Burning Man sound camp responds about Ocean Beach party that drew 100s

Marke B. -
BAAAHS says masks were distributed and social distancing enforced—but why didn't someone just turn off the music?
Nightlife

Grab that virtual wig, it’s all aboard for Oaklash!

Marke B. -
Weekend-long Oakland drag festival Oaklash (Fri/4-Sun/6 at www.twitch.tv/oaklash2020) has become such an integral part of the Bay Area queer performance scene that I was taken...

Cannabis

Puff: Let’s get fizzy with it

Tickle your nose with cannabis-infused sodas and seltzers that lift and calm.
Puff Dan Karkoska -
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Puff

PUFF: How I got my high back

Dan Karkoska -
After months of isolation, it may be time to adjust your habits—with flower by Lolo, prerolls from Jack Herer, and some Kwik Ease
Puff

Cannabis tax money goes to fund the cops

Mitchell Colbert -
One way to defund the police: take away the mandatory cut they get of the state's taxes on weed.
Culture

Cannabis has a racism problem. The Floret Coalition can help.

Caitlin Donohue -
On Thursday, hundreds of people who work in the marijuana industry gathered for a virtual event called “allyship + weed” convened by cannabis brand...
Puff

Puff: A day for dabs

Dan Karkoska -
As we push through a year like no other, we reach another cannabis milestone day, 710! What is 710? It is the high holy day...

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