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Music

Red-and-gold needle drops for your 49ers NFC Championship tailgate playlist

Zack Ruskin - January 24, 2024

Saweetie, E-40, George Strait, even the Gay Men’s Chorus are bringing the anthems for Sunday’s kickoff.

Music

Remembering The Soft Moon

Marke B. - January 24, 2024

Former Bay Area musician Luis Vasquez had a huge impact on the scene, and his gorgeously dark sensibility will live on.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Danger in the Space Station! Danger in the Space Station!

Dennis Harvey - January 24, 2024

I.S.S. delivers stratospheric thrills. Plus: 'Sunrise' vampires in the PNW and strange desert doings in 'The Seeding'

Art

Shot from a car window, the Golden Gate Bridge spans multiple timelines in ‘No Delays’

DeWitt Chen - January 24, 2024

Nico Van Dongen's striking composite photographs capture the Bay sentinel's fourth-dimensional existence.

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Under the Stars: Unleash the musical Kraken of 2024!

John-Paul Shiver - January 23, 2024

RIP the great Les McCann, but welcome Sheer Mag, Torrey, Michael Shannon, Con Brio, and a Floating Points ballet

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Local pastry mashups score with wild innovation

Tamara Palmer - January 23, 2024

Mochissants, Monte Cristo kouign-amanns, baklava babka... A delicious search for the Bay Area’s cronut equivalent

Stage Review

In ‘Match Girrl,’ Dance Brigade lights up a world of inequality

Charles Lewis III - January 23, 2024

Taking off from Hans Christian Anderson's tale of poverty and abuse, while banging on the McMansion gates

Music

Sweet Dreams live: Dave Stewart brings ‘Eurythmics Songbook’ to the stage

Joshua Rotter - January 23, 2024

The iconic guitarist is having a ball reviving his synth-pop-rock duo's beloved catalogue and fiery energy.

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Breed ignores community, takes full credit for delay in Safeway closure

News + Politics Tim Redmond - January 22, 2024

Oh, and 40 years ago, Mayor Feinstein vetoed a bill the might have prevented Safeway from just abandoning the Western Addition.

San Jose hardcore legend Eugene Robinson is a Bay institution. A new memoir tells his tale

Lit Danny Acosta - January 22, 2024

The journalist and Oxbow singer refuses to hold back.

Screen Grabs: Two great social justice filmmakers return to the screen

Movies Dennis Harvey - January 22, 2024

Skip Norman's revolutionary '60s-'70s films and Glauber Rocha's daring 'Black God, White Devil' play BAMPFA.

For composer Gabriel Kahane, PIVOT Festival comes as a gift

Music Marke B. - January 22, 2024

'More and more I'm just interested in making music with people I love and want to spend time with," says 2024 curator.

Will all new housing development in SF be exempt from environmental review?

The Agenda Tim Redmond - January 21, 2024

Plus: Yimby leader calls for rents to go higher. That's The Agenda for Jan. 22-28.

In a globalized art world, why does SF need its own fairs? The answer lies in FOG

Art Emily Wilson - January 21, 2024

Smaller galleries like Jonathan Carver Moore, Schlomer Haus, CULT Aimee Friberg welcomed far-flung visitors to local excellence

How do you spell ‘Real Housewives’ trouble? Two T’s, please.

Arts + Culture Joshua Rotter - January 21, 2024

Fired Bravo stars Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge blaze again with a podcast, live show, and plenty of dish

Fielder, Chandler spar at D9 debate that draws sizable crowd

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - January 19, 2024

Chandler refuses to support cease-fire resolution and opposes district elections as differences between candidates become clear.

Screen Grabs: Savage, hallucinatory ‘Settlers’ confronts colonizer violence

Movies Dennis Harvey - January 18, 2024

Plus: Tripping through Paris time in 'Driving Madeleine,' deadpan romance in 'Fallen Leaves' heavy lessons in 'Origin'

‘Mini to monstrous,’ Lorene Anderson’s paintings surge with the Earth’s force

Art Mary Corbin - January 18, 2024

Seismic, self-organizing ripples echo the Oakland-based artist's call to chaos.

Drop the needle: More and more, we are spinning back to wax

Music John-Paul Shiver - January 18, 2024

Vinyl sales continue to skyrocket—and it's not just Taylor Swift and simple nostalgia driving the tables.

Why is a monumental Rivera mural slipping into darkness again?

Opinion Jeffrey Goldthorpe - January 18, 2024

While SFMOMA and CCSF sue each other, a precious artwork may disappear for years in a crisis that was totally foreseeable.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Danger in the Space Station! Danger in the Space Station!

I.S.S. delivers stratospheric thrills. Plus: 'Sunrise' vampires in the PNW and strange desert doings in 'The Seeding'

Movies Dennis Harvey - January 24, 2024

Screen Grabs: Savage, hallucinatory ‘Settlers’ confronts colonizer violence

Screen Grabs: Dance, music, sex, romance (and a little postwar German art)

‘The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill’ fly again on local screens

Music

Red-and-gold needle drops for your 49ers NFC Championship tailgate playlist

Saweetie, E-40, George Strait, even the Gay Men’s Chorus are bringing the anthems for Sunday’s kickoff.

Music Zack Ruskin - January 24, 2024

Under the Stars: Unleash the musical Kraken of 2024!

Sweet Dreams live: Dave Stewart brings ‘Eurythmics Songbook’ to the stage

San Jose hardcore legend Eugene Robinson is a Bay institution. A new memoir tells his tale

Art

Shot from a car window, the Golden Gate Bridge spans multiple timelines in ‘No Delays’

Nico Van Dongen's striking composite photographs capture the Bay sentinel's fourth-dimensional existence.

Art DeWitt Chen - January 24, 2024

‘Mini to monstrous,’ Lorene Anderson’s paintings surge with the Earth’s force

Why is a monumental Rivera mural slipping into darkness again?

With dazzling breadth, ‘Art is Art’ highlights 40 years of creation by artists with disabilities

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Housing

Event shows widespread political support for Prop. A, affordable housing bond

Lively kickoff focuses on unity; turnout will be key, and Breed's right-wing measures aren't helping.

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - January 16, 2024

Our top stories of 2023, from Dianne Feinstein to Japanese sandos

The Chron, voting rights, and district elections

The year in housing policy: State forced SF into a no-win situation (and Breed went along)

Politics

Will all new housing development in SF be exempt from environmental review?

Plus: Yimby leader calls for rents to go higher. That's The Agenda for Jan. 22-28.

The Agenda Tim Redmond - January 21, 2024

City workers rally against Breed’s budget cuts

Event shows widespread political support for Prop. A, affordable housing bond

It’s going to be a brutal budget year—unless you are rich and love the cops

Opinion

Why is a monumental Rivera mural slipping into darkness again?

While SFMOMA and CCSF sue each other, a precious artwork may disappear for years in a crisis that was totally foreseeable.

Opinion Jeffrey Goldthorpe - January 18, 2024

Letter to the editor: Yes, a taxpayer can sue over the state’s housing laws

Opinion: The Valencia Street center bike lane was a mistake and has to go

Dan Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ demonstrates the radical empathy we need right now

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