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Win a pair of VIP tickets to Opulent Temple’s Sacred Dance ‘White Party’

The annual Burning Man camp tradition—this year on Sat/4 at Regency Ballroom—draws thousands of revelers.

Contest Marke B. - March 28, 2026

Win tickets to Wallice, skaiwater, HEALTH & Carpenter Brut

See a killer show at a great local venue, on us.

Contest Marke B. - March 28, 2026

Rachel Simon Marino’s off-kilter Day-Glo world aims to overwhelm

'Running on Air' at Berggruen Gallery inundates viewers with uneasy cliffhangers and bright 'Trojan Horse' colors.

Art Emily Wilson - March 28, 2026

Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine ‘Homocore’ blasts back into view

New anthology collects the DIY publication's precious few issues, which gave voice to anti-assimilationist sexual outlaws.

Lit Joshua Rotter - March 26, 2026

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Campaign Trail

The false narrative about SF’s real estate tax measure starts to emerge

Tim Redmond - March 26, 2026

Plus: Why Lurie's Charter reform would hurt tenants

Movie Reviews

Screen Grabs: Back to the USSR

Dennis Harvey - March 26, 2026

'Two Prosecutors' and 'Soviet Silver' take us there. Plus: A Dutch film Nazi, a Palestinian revolt, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' more

Big Week

BIG WEEK: Renegade Craft Fair, Señor Babyhead, SF Chocolate Fest, Radio Sofia…

Marke B. - March 26, 2026

20 years of Ratskin Records, 'A Body to Live In,' Mild Universe, Algorithmic Art Assembly, Beat Freaks, 'Assassins,' more to do!

Music

Femmes rock fiercely at Doll Fest

Joshua Rotter - March 25, 2026

With two dozen bands, Maria Chaos's weekend-long festival bucks men-only lineups and calls all girls to the front.

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Under the Stars: Welcome to the vibe edition

Music John-Paul Shiver - March 25, 2026

Buckle up for the je ne sais quoi, with GENA, Cuzco, Mild Universe, Octo Octa, Space Ghost, Outside Lands, more.

Judge sanctions public defender in case that raises critical issues about criminal justice

Crime Tim Redmond - March 24, 2026

Does a 'tough on crime' mayor have to fund the public defender as well as the cops and DA?

Drama Masks: A dance of secrets—and the music of chance

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 24, 2026

SF Ballet's beautiful 'Don Quixote' comes with questions, '||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||' sounds great. Plus: A pre-Giuliani 'Macbeth'?

‘Palestine 36’ director Annemarie Jacir: ‘Memory is a form of resistance’

Movies Claire Wu - March 24, 2026

Palestinian filmmaker completed acclaimed story of Arab revolts during British colonial rule in the midst of war and genocide.

On supergroup 1Umbrella’s debut, Bay Area hip-hop reigns

Music Joshua Rotter - March 24, 2026

Sonic fingerprints of Visitacion Valley, Oakland, and the Fillmore audible in album's hard trap and smooth R&B.

The US war economy and the ‘threat of peace’

Humor Joel Schechter - March 23, 2026

In 1957, I.F. Stone suggested that global peace would kill the military industrial complex. That's even more true today.

Win tickets to see Monaleo, Aries, The Maine, Carly Cosgrove

Contest Marke B. - March 23, 2026

See a killer show at a great local venue, on us.

So much to protest next weekend

The Agenda Tim Redmond - March 22, 2026

Plus: Wiener's tech lord pals pay for an early hit piece on Chakrabarti, and will the DCCC oppose taxes on the rich? That's The Agenda for March 22-29

After brutal tragedy, Lynn Breedlove made a luminous album of memory and men

Music Marke B. - March 22, 2026

Punk legend's new band Trust Me's 'Why I Like Dead Guys' came in the aftermath of the murder of his father and stepmother.

Immigration Buddhas and decolonizing play: Game devs still work to diversify industry

Gaming Leah Isobel - March 21, 2026

At GDC Festival of Gaming, diverse communities and gamers from other countries shared recent challenges.

Ficks’ Picks: Here are the real best movies of 2025

Movies Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - March 21, 2026

Now that the Oscar dust has settled, an underground movie maven dives into a wild year. 'Castration,' anyone?

CBS workers in SF walk off the job as Bari Weiss eliminates national news radio

Labor Ian Firstenberg - March 20, 2026

One-day strike sends a message at a network now owned and run by allies of Trump

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Back to the USSR

'Two Prosecutors' and 'Soviet Silver' take us there. Plus: A Dutch film Nazi, a Palestinian revolt, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' more

Movie Reviews Dennis Harvey - March 26, 2026

Ficks’ Picks: Here are the real best movies of 2025

Screen Grabs: At 30, Berlin & Beyond still goes above and beyond

Screen Grabs: It’s all Greek (and Irish and French) to us

Music

Win tickets to Wallice, skaiwater, HEALTH & Carpenter Brut

See a killer show at a great local venue, on us.

Contest Marke B. - March 28, 2026

Under the Stars: Welcome to the vibe edition

On supergroup 1Umbrella’s debut, Bay Area hip-hop reigns

Win tickets to see Monaleo, Aries, The Maine, Carly Cosgrove

Art

Rachel Simon Marino’s off-kilter Day-Glo world aims to overwhelm

'Running on Air' at Berggruen Gallery inundates viewers with uneasy cliffhangers and bright 'Trojan Horse' colors.

Art Emily Wilson - March 28, 2026

For Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi, ‘ornamentation becomes a form of resistance’

At Superfair, art is more than what’s on the walls

Drama Masks: Monsters in our midst, as Black and queer history looms

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Housing

Is the tide finally turning on the ‘abundance agenda?’

Two new studies show that the free market won't solve the housing crisis—and that Newsom, Lurie, and Wiener are wrong

Housing Tim Redmond - February 12, 2026

Finally, a media breakthrough of the pro-Yimby narrative that has dominated press and politics

New study shows that deregulation is not the answer to the affordable housing crisis

The Marina Safeway project is just a shiny bauble to distract us from real issues

Politics

The false narrative about SF’s real estate tax measure starts to emerge

Plus: Why Lurie's Charter reform would hurt tenants

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - March 26, 2026

CBS workers in SF walk off the job as Bari Weiss eliminates national news radio

Race for Congress takes shape—even as Wiener ducks community groups he doesn’t like

Plan to ‘streamline’ commissions faces widespread opposition at supes hearing

Opinion

The US war economy and the ‘threat of peace’

In 1957, I.F. Stone suggested that global peace would kill the military industrial complex. That's even more true today.

Humor Joel Schechter - March 23, 2026

United Nations, won’t you come on home?

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

Optional vaccines? CDC chair’s bizarre views would turn US into deadly experiment

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Performance

Drama Masks: A dance of secrets—and the music of chance

SF Ballet's beautiful 'Don Quixote' comes with questions, '||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||' sounds great. Plus: A pre-Giuliani 'Macbeth'?

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 24, 2026

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