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Labor-led coalition calls for Airbnb boycott

The company is trying to get out of $120 million in local taxes. Labor is fighting back

Labor JJ Lansing - October 8, 2025

Drama Masks: ‘Hot Wing King’ pours on subversive tang

Plus: At Terror Vault's 'Hexed,' search for the magic crystal to fight the Coven of Three in the Himalayas!

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - October 8, 2025

BIG WEEK: Techno-cyborgian Blackness, Rocky Horror, Litquake, BART Jazz Fest…

Party at Golden Gate Park Bandshell, Yvonne's Southern Sweets, Chinatown Night Market, Decembrists, John C. Reilly, more to do!

What To Do Caitlin Donohue - October 8, 2025

Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest reaches ‘Beyond Bollywood’ for thrills

Plus: Mexican terror in 'Noche Oscura,' bittersweet SF nostalgia in 'Fairyland,' dark fantasy 'Ice Tower,' Orwell on the line, more movies

Movies Dennis Harvey - October 8, 2025

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Drug policy

Dorsey wants to block city funding for supportive housing that isn’t drug-free

Tim Redmond - October 7, 2025

Bill is a direct challenge to years of data-driven policy that focuses on 'housing first' and harm reduction

Art

Julio César Morales’ tender work renders the pain of migration

Mary Corbin - October 7, 2025

The artist's latest show 'My America' utilizes painting, sculpture, immersive sound installation, and neon to tell 'the story.'

Homelessness

Catch a new film about the brutality of sweeps and attacks on the unhoused

Tiny - October 7, 2025

With no love from Hollywood, 'Crushing Wheelchairs' gets two Bay Area screenings

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Honey & Pearl sweetens up Emeryville

Tamara Palmer - October 7, 2025

Former South Bay pop-up bakery finds a permanent home—and the banana pudding is a must.

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Win tickets to TV on the Radio, Ty Segall, Shoreline Mafia

Contest Marke B. - October 7, 2025

Go see a banging live show at one of SF's top venues, on us.

New poll shows resounding support for public bank in San Francisco

City Hall Tim Redmond - October 6, 2025

Across demographic groups, 67 percent favor the concept

Dance music legend François K: ‘I can’t cry for DJs who feel challenged to play for two hours’

Party Radar Marke B. - October 6, 2025

Rare interview with 71-year-old trailblazer before SF appearance delves into past, present, and forward-looking sounds.

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Popscene

Arts + Culture Adrian Spinelli - October 6, 2025

30 years and an astonishing array or SF debuts later, the club night is still presenting the hottest-to-be live bands on the planet.

Two decades in, you still can’t break Broke-Ass Stuart

Lit Joshua Rotter - October 6, 2025

Beloved SF chronicler and bon vivant releases new book 'The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart: 20 Years of Love, Death & Dive Bars.'

Join 48 Hills’ Marke B and author Sarah Schulman at Litquake!

Lit Marke B. - October 6, 2025

Join us Sun/12 at Counterpulse for a free Tenderloin workshop on 'The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.'

A move to undermine SF’s law that controls police surveillance

The Agenda Tim Redmond - October 5, 2025

Plus: Rent control for luxury apartments instead of affordable housing ... and Sup. Joel Engardio is 12 days from losing his seat. That's The Agenda for Oct. 6-13

Live Shots: Polo & Pan’s whimsical Frost Amphitheater takeover

Music Andrew Brobst - October 5, 2025

Tropical-edged French house duo pulled pulled Palo Alto audience into dreamy space trips and unexpected rowdy blasts.

$20+ monthly members get a free ticket to our Gala! Join us

Arts + Culture Marke B. - October 3, 2025

Party with us on October 22 at El Rio—and help keep 48 Hills sustainable for another year.

Victoria Shen transduces quantum mechanics into Kronos Quartet universe

Music Lou Fancher - October 3, 2025

Her needle-tipped bows, laser-cut vinyl—even acrylic nails—create their own sonic physics with legendary players at Zellerbach Hall.

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: The Post Room

Arts + Culture Tamara Palmer - October 3, 2025

In the former Francis Drake Hotel (now Beacon Grand), a small tea room oasis keeps a lovely tradition alive.

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine madness will make America sick again

Healthcare Bruce Mirken - October 2, 2025

The Health and Human Services Secretary's rampage at the CDC this summer exposed the dangers of his ignorance.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest reaches ‘Beyond Bollywood’ for thrills

Plus: Mexican terror in 'Noche Oscura,' bittersweet SF nostalgia in 'Fairyland,' dark fantasy 'Ice Tower,' Orwell on the line, more movies

Movies Dennis Harvey - October 8, 2025

Screen Grabs: The Big Kahuna of local fall film fests arrives

Screen Grabs: ‘One Battle After Another’ tests our moment’s wild waters

Screen Grabs: Blasting off with Jordan Belson’s mind-expanding cinema

Music

Win tickets to TV on the Radio, Ty Segall, Shoreline Mafia

Go see a banging live show at one of SF's top venues, on us.

Contest Marke B. - October 7, 2025

Live Shots: Polo & Pan’s whimsical Frost Amphitheater takeover

Victoria Shen transduces quantum mechanics into Kronos Quartet universe

Under the Stars: Amelia Ray puts us under the right ‘Soulveillance’

Art

Julio César Morales’ tender work renders the pain of migration

The artist's latest show 'My America' utilizes painting, sculpture, immersive sound installation, and neon to tell 'the story.'

Art Mary Corbin - October 7, 2025

Maya Fuji’s luminous paintings conjure ‘uncanny coexistence’ with spiritual realm

Mel Odom’s kaleidoscopic queer eye drew stunning art through AIDS

After 51 years of welcoming visitors in, SF Open Studios is gazing outwards

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Housing

Dorsey wants to block city funding for supportive housing that isn’t drug-free

Bill is a direct challenge to years of data-driven policy that focuses on 'housing first' and harm reduction

Drug policy Tim Redmond - October 7, 2025

New study shows why Lurie’s zoning plan will never make housing affordable

Watch: 48 Hills’ Tim Redmond talks Engardio recall, ‘family zoning plan’ on Doomloop Dispatch

The bizarre incompetence of Wiener’s SB 79

Politics

Labor-led coalition calls for Airbnb boycott

The company is trying to get out of $120 million in local taxes. Labor is fighting back

Labor JJ Lansing - October 8, 2025

A move to undermine SF’s law that controls police surveillance

D8 supe race will create fascinating political battle

How Scott Wiener is undermining affordable housing

Opinion

Letters to the editor: The lack of fire safety on the West Side of town

Lurie wants more density in an area that has fallen behind in a key public safety area

Letters to the Editor Herbert F. Mintz II - September 28, 2025

The Engardio recall and the failure of conservative politics in SF

Lurie is damaging transit, the environment—and democracy—on Market Street

Silence equals death—and that applies to AIDS and to antisemitism and to Palestine

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