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Movies

Screen Grabs: Wine, mystery, folk music, black comedy at Greek Film Fest

Plus: Psilocybic British horror 'In the Earth,' Scandinavian cancer drama 'Hope,' Tiny Dance Fest, more new movies
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Party Radar

How To Reopen Nightlife: Enough with the boys’ club, make room for women

Marke B. -
DJ femmelectric and promoter Alex McGeagh speak about equity, access, and safety for women and nonbinary folks.

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Labor

Radical right group is trying to attack public-sector labor in SF

Tim Redmond -
Anti-union mailers are going to workers home addresses -- but really, this group is looking pretty desperate.
Lit

Black Freighter Press sails in, boosting writers of color and radical imagination

Alan Chazaro -
The revolution will be published, with the help of SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and Alie Jones' new outlet.
Art

Review: Daily scenes reveal complex family identities in Gloria Wong’s ‘Three Tongues’

Genevieve Quick -
At Friends Indeed, the Chinese Canadian photographer portrays a tidy home full of subtle information.
Music

Tyler Holmes navigates trauma through softer sounds on ‘Nightmare in Paradise’

Marke B. -
The Oakland musician and performer's lush, emotive new album records the process of grappling with PTSD.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Wine, mystery, folk music, black comedy at Greek Film Fest

Plus: Psilocybic British horror 'In the Earth,' Scandinavian cancer drama 'Hope,' Tiny Dance Fest, more new movies
Movies
Movies

Screen Grabs: ’80s Italian exploitation hunk George Eastman rides again

Dennis Harvey -
From caveman to Blastfighter, he did it all. Plus: a bounty of horror movies including 'Honeydew' and 'Jakob's Wife'
Movies

Screen Grabs: Delving into the toxic bastions

Dennis Harvey -
Love—both endearing and abusive—finds its way into prison, army, and sports in these new movies
Movies

Bo McGuire’s lyrical queer family hybrid-doc ‘Socks on Fire’ comes to SFFILM

Pam Grady -
The director delves into a family inheritance rift between his homophobic aunt and his drag queen uncle
Movies

Screen Grabs: Women and power, from Tina Turner to Carole Lombard

Dennis Harvey -
Triumph, abuse, sex, horror, music, religion, comedy, and more in the latest round of new movies.

Music

Tyler Holmes navigates trauma through softer sounds on ‘Nightmare in Paradise’

The Oakland musician and performer's lush, emotive new album records the process of grappling with PTSD.
Music
Music

With live shows poised to return, musicians open up about opening up

John-Paul Shiver -
An indie star, a label owner, a DJ, and an electronic musician share their candid responses to this moment
Music

Que mujer, que cantante: Bay-Cuban singer Bobi CĂ©spedes celebrates 40 years onstage

Caitlin Donohue -
Missed the 2020 release of the Yoruba priestess' 'Mujer y Cantante' album? Here's your chance to right that wrong.
Music

Christina Chatfield’s ‘Sutro’: ambient, but not for the micro-dosing set

John-Paul Shiver -
Local electronic ace takes a turn for deep pastel textures and droney sound-worlds, absent trendy dread.
Music

Radical jazz legend meets electronic wizard. The results… are sleepy?

Daniel Bromfield -
Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points occasionally spark magic, but album 'Promises' ducks exhilarating risk

Art

Review: Daily scenes reveal complex family identities in Gloria Wong’s ‘Three Tongues’

At Friends Indeed, the Chinese Canadian photographer portrays a tidy home full of subtle information.
Art
Art

Sean Dorsey Dance premieres nine ‘gorgeous’ new films in AT-HOME season

Marke B. -
"We can't wait to connect with our audience again," says transgender dance trailblazer—now a director, too.
Art

Review: Black Madonnas, fashion photos, semaphore, and song in ‘Future Histories’

Genevieve Quick -
At SFMOMA, Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith draw on the African American archive to point a way forward.
Performance

Is art free speech under COVID? A local court case steams on

Marke B. -
Ongoing San Francisco International Arts Festival lawsuit demands that arts reopen in parity with worship and dining.
Art

Ideas can manifest as presences in Susan AdamĂ©’s light-filled paintings

Mary Corbin -
The artists beckons visions from the ethereal plane, drawing special cards and summoning intuitive inspiration.

Housing

Breed won’t promise to spend real-estate tax money on rent relief

The voters approved Prop. I last fall to support tenants and affordable housing, but the mayor says she will use the money for her own priorities.
Housing
Homelessness

Homeless people lack access to water

Garrett Leahy -
People on SF's streets can't even access the UN's minimum requirements for potable water, new report shows.
Homelessness

Inside the SIP hotels saga

Natalia Kresich -
How activists and some supes forced the city to put homeless people in hotel rooms.
Housing

Chiu, Wiener attack ‘left-right pincers’ on housing

Zelda Bronstein -
Legislators decry alliance between progressive housing activists and 'Nimby' homeowners.
Housing

Supes reject condos where seniors were evicted

Tim Redmond -
Crucial vote sends a message that a building cleared by the Ellis Act will never get a lucrative permit.

Politics

Radical right group is trying to attack public-sector labor in SF

Anti-union mailers are going to workers home addresses -- but really, this group is looking pretty desperate.
Labor
Labor

Giants and food vendor tried to get workers to waive COVID rights

Marc Norton -
Union squelches embarrassing move to make ballpark employees grant immunity to the big, rich organizations.
The Agenda

SF could have affordable Internet for everyone for $35 a resident

Tim Redmond -
Why isn't the Breed Administration moving for municipal broadband? That's The Agenda for April 11-18
Elections

A new move to get corporate money out of state political campaigns

Tim Redmond -
AB 20 would ban contributions from corporations to any candidate for state office in CA.
The Agenda

SF has a new tech plan — but it ignores the need for public broadband

Tim Redmond -
Plus: Confronting attacks on Asian seniors and a modest, but important, police reform ... That's The Agenda for April 4-11

Opinion

OPINION: Donald Trump, Sid Vicious, click-bait, and media imagination

Sometimes you need a president -- and a bass player -- who actually knows how to do the job, even if he doesn't make as good copy.
News + Politics
Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: ‘I have so many questions’ about nightlife after COVID

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SF culture took a massive hit pre-pandemic, a reader writes. Can we let history guide us to better times?
Opinion

SF has exploited, failed, and bankrupted its taxi drivers

Marcelo Fonseca -
Mayors Lee and Newsom sold pricey medallions to make money--then let Uber and Lyft make those investments worthless. The drivers deserve help.
Opinion

Women of color are not puzzled by the Atlanta killer’s motivation

Rebecca Young, Niki Solis and Jane Brown -
Racism? Misogyny? Easy access to guns? It’s not one or the other. It’s all of the above.
Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Weighing in on Garfield’s leftist cred

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Garfield has been transformed into a icon of the left—but what's his creator doing with Mike Pence?

Performance

Sean Dorsey Dance premieres nine ‘gorgeous’ new films in AT-HOME season

"We can't wait to connect with our audience again," says transgender dance trailblazer—now a director, too.
Art
Performance

Global artists tackle an epic year in ‘Hindsight 2020’

Emily Wilson -
A 'devised multimedia time capsule' addresses what we'll take with us from all of this.
Performance

Is art free speech under COVID? A local court case steams on

Marke B. -
Ongoing San Francisco International Arts Festival lawsuit demands that arts reopen in parity with worship and dining.
Onstage

The strange and wondrous story of the Sick & Twisted Players

Don Baird -
Thirty years ago, the troupe brought camp movie mashups, blazingly real talent, and guaranteed Splatterama to nightlife stages.
Performance

Review: ‘God of Vengeance’ still powerful 115 years later

Elaine Elinson -
Taboo-busting play about Jewish tradition and lesbian love shone online in Yiddish Theatre Ensemble production.

Nightlife

How To Reopen Nightlife: Enough with the boys’ club, make room for women

DJ femmelectric and promoter Alex McGeagh speak about equity, access, and safety for women and nonbinary folks.
Party Radar
Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: ‘I have so many questions’ about nightlife after COVID

48 Hills -
SF culture took a massive hit pre-pandemic, a reader writes. Can we let history guide us to better times?
Party Radar

How To Reopen Nightlife: Keeping it cute and safe for all on the dance floor

Marke B. -
What should we expect from venues and each other when clubs come back? The first in a series exploring issues left to face.
Nightlife

Get up and do your thing for local art at The Lab’s interactive Dance A Thon

John-Paul Shiver -
The experimental arts space hosts a fundraising, 12-hour virtual dance-fest full of local star-power
Nightlife

Major players fuel nightlife drive against anti-Asian hate—here’s how you can help

Marke B. -
DJ Marky "Proof" Enriquez and emcee Fran Boogie threw a 40-hour online fundraiser for the cause. Let's keep it going

Cannabis

Puff: Spark up a safe and comfy 420 celebration

No big party in the park this year, but plenty to do—and enjoy—in our annual guide to the stoner holiday.
Puff
Puff

Puff: Prerolling into spring

Dan Karkoska -
We go down the stoney road for you, sampling latest offerings from Jeeters, King Roll, more
Puff

Puff: New strains, all the gains

Dan Karkoska -
Our brave and bold weed critic shifts into cannabis overdrive to bring you the latest and greatest news on just-dropped flower variants.
Puff

Puff: A Valentine’s Day stoner survival guide

Dan Karkoska -
Love yourself into a cloud of bliss, with Lava flower, massage oil, churro chocolate bars, more
Puff

Puff your way through the holidays, and into 2021

Dan Karkoska -
Cannabis pop rocks, delicious scoops, fancy box sets, Grandaddy Purple gummies, and more treats and stocking stuffers