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

Two art shows at YBCA exhibit the drama of past and present, while NCTC's 'Gods & Monsters' attempts a fresh take.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 17, 2026

Live Shots: Gogol Bordello showed the Warfield ‘We Mean It, Man!’

Folk-punk legends returned to SF with new album and plenty of their classic frenzied energy.

Music D.A. Mission - March 17, 2026

Is AI gaming ready for primetime?

At 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming, one promising startup bases stories on handwritten plots, while another seems to throw its hands up.

Gaming Leah Isobel - March 18, 2026

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

Eliminate Police Commission oversight? Wipe out commissions on the arts, women, homeless oversight? Activists are not happy

City Hall Tim Redmond - March 17, 2026

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Movies

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

Dennis Harvey - March 17, 2026

Hot jazz, thrash metal, Udo Kier on tap. Plus: Clara Bow still has 'It,' Rose Byrnes gets a 'Tow,' '1000 Women in Horror,' more

Music

Lucrecia Dalt: ‘How lucky are we to land at the core of this vibration?’

Joshua Rotter - March 17, 2026

Colombian sound artist's new 'A Danger to Ourselves' limns the miracle of love, with help from a New Wave legend.

Gaming

At Game Developers Conference, game-workers keep unionization hopes alive

Leah Isobel - March 16, 2026

In an industry buffeted by layoffs, tariffs, and AI, United Videogame Workers organizers keep pushing for labor rights.

Labor

Writers and producers at local CBS news team prepare to strike

Ian Firstenberg - March 16, 2026

Walkout by News 24/7 workers would be the first labor action since right-winger Bari Weiss took the helm of the once-legendary news operation

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Seven rental units become a $32 million mansion; is this even remotely legal?

News + Politics Tim Redmond - March 16, 2026

Plus: One chance to weigh in on the mayor's plan to give himself a lot more power—and can we please press a number to get a human on the phone? That's The Agenda for March 15-22

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

Art Joshua Rotter - March 15, 2026

Lead curator Sharone Halevy on art extravaganza's highlights, including 'Disco Mermaid' and Frameline film collab.

Lurie plan uses regressive taxes to ‘save’ Muni, in the short term

Transportation Ian Firstenberg - March 12, 2026

Mayor's plan caps the levy on the biggest and richest landlords and only addresses a portion of the longterm budget crisis

Party Radar: Foghorns, ToonTown, tagging—celebrating SF house wizard DJ Buck

Nightlife Marke B. - March 12, 2026

Local legend brought 'The Bells of San Francisco" to global dance floors, and helped introduce the City to rave.

BIG WEEK: Full Queer Wrestling, Pi Day, Alysa Liu celebration, ‘Women Who Ride’…

Big Week Caitlin Donohue - March 11, 2026

Plus: Peaches Christ eats the rich, Duserock, Maria BC, Greek and Irish films, Renegade Orchestra, more to do!

Drama Masks: Kings in their castle—and a queen in her closet

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 11, 2026

'Spamalot' at Golden Gate Theatre rides on familiar laughs; 'The Ache' at Z Below brings music and drama to heel.

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

Movies Dennis Harvey - March 10, 2026

Euro-fests deliver in SF. Plus: South Bay's Cinequest heats up, 'My Father's Shadow,' Billy Preston biopic, more

Under the Stars: Thank you and goodbye, Sr. Willie Colón

Music John-Paul Shiver - March 10, 2026

Plus: March gigs from The Kitchenettes and Maria BC, Satya bids adieu, John Tejada's latest interlocking rhythms.

Lurie had a great year—if you’re in the top 20 percent

News + Politics Tim Redmond - March 9, 2026

For San Franciscans who are not rich, the city's numbers aren't looking anywhere near as good.

Can you keep up with The Living Earth Show?

Music Marke B. - March 9, 2026

With Roar Shack venue, multiple bands, new LP, and performances galore, contemporary duo continues to push boundaries.

A Go-Go’s-eye view of women making killer music, from punk to pop

Music Joshua Rotter - March 9, 2026

Drummer Gina Schock's personal archive show at Haight Street Art Center is like stepping into a lived memory of the band.

A Holocaust survivor in San Rafael finds his voice in ‘The Optimist’

Movies Pam Grady - March 9, 2026

Herbert Heller couldn't talk about his Auschwitz experience until his 70s; movie shows how he then inspired younger generation.

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Movies

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

Hot jazz, thrash metal, Udo Kier on tap. Plus: Clara Bow still has 'It,' Rose Byrnes gets a 'Tow,' '1000 Women in Horror,' more

Movies Dennis Harvey - March 17, 2026

A Holocaust survivor in San Rafael finds his voice in ‘The Optimist’

A Detroit techno visionary soundtracks a German sci-fi classic (again)

Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment

Music

Live Shots: Gogol Bordello showed the Warfield ‘We Mean It, Man!’

Folk-punk legends returned to SF with new album and plenty of their classic frenzied energy.

Music D.A. Mission - March 17, 2026

Party Radar: Foghorns, ToonTown, tagging—celebrating SF house wizard DJ Buck

Under the Stars: Thank you and goodbye, Sr. Willie Colón

Can you keep up with The Living Earth Show?

Art

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

Two art shows at YBCA exhibit the drama of past and present, while NCTC's 'Gods & Monsters' attempts a fresh take.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 17, 2026

A Go-Go’s-eye view of women making killer music, from punk to pop

The North Beach Carol Doda mural will rise again

Inspired by Youtube thumbnails, L. Song Wu captures the internet’s insatiability

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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

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

Eliminate Police Commission oversight? Wipe out commissions on the arts, women, homeless oversight? Activists are not happy

City Hall Tim Redmond - March 17, 2026

Writers and producers at local CBS news team prepare to strike

Seven rental units become a $32 million mansion; is this even remotely legal?

How to tax AI when companies replace human workers

Opinion

‘Sex trafficking’ stings—or ICE deportation at the Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl trafficking panic doesn’t reduce exploitation—it legitimizes policing that harms sex workers and immigrants

Opinion megan hobza - February 7, 2026

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

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

People do not need to ask permission to belong

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

Two art shows at YBCA exhibit the drama of past and present, while NCTC's 'Gods & Monsters' attempts a fresh take.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 17, 2026

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