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This is one disease I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about. Wrong.

Tim Redmond - March 16, 2025

Plus: Is SF moving away from harm reduction and Housing First? That's The Agenda for March 17-24

Lit

The magical little Grotto where writers boost up

Marke B. - March 16, 2025

Storied scribe support center The Writers Grotto in the Mission celebrates 30 years of collaborative wordsmithery.

Editorial

The detention of Mahmoud Kahlil is a travesty of justice

48 Hills - March 17, 2025

The Trump Administration's arrest of the former Columbia student and protest leader is an unlawful breach of free speech rights.

Opinion

A tsunami of chaos and destruction, but there may be hope

Bruce Mirken - March 16, 2025

There's a car salesman in the White House and an evil billionaire in your Social Security file, yet cracks are starting to show.

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Opinion

What’s on next at the Trump Center for the Performing Arts (besides more booing)?

Joel Schechter - March 14, 2025

Buckle up for wrestling matches, rare earth mineral mining, and an extrajudicial spin on 'Mack the Knife'

Music

DJ FLOW’s Saturday night sets spin Bay Area hip-hop mixshow tradition

Alan Chazaro - March 14, 2025

102.1 Jams' new radio star has serious talent—and local influences starting with 1980s Filipino mobile crews.

Art

‘Emotions expand and figures distort’ in Robert Hightower’s unapologetic works

Mary Corbin - March 14, 2025

Richmond father and artist articulates police brutality and his own bipolar disorder through graphic motif.

Homelessness

Death by homeless sweep in Vallejo

Tiny - March 13, 2025

James Edward Oakley crushed by a city backhoe 'cleaning' a homeless camp

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Letters we answer: Pelosi, Newsom, trans athletes …

Letters We Answer Tim Redmond - March 12, 2025

... and are taxes really too high in San Francisco?

Combo Tezeta’s interstellar psychedelic cumbia keeps rising

Music John-Paul Shiver - March 12, 2025

From surf rock to Tiny Desk: Catching up with Oakland's polyrhythmic crew after a breakthrough year.

Marc D’Estout’s absurdist ‘domestic objects’ are haikus to the uncanny

Art Review DeWitt Cheng - March 12, 2025

Welded and hammered steel forms at Triton Museum dare to avoid anthromorphic—and pandemic—interpretation.

Drama Masks: Drawing the line

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 12, 2025

Opera Parallèle's 'The Pigeon Keeper' took on the costs of xenophobia, while Central Works' 'Push/Pull' tackles toxic masculinity.

Lurie won’t commit to an alternative approach to the opioid crisis

Drug policy Tim Redmond - March 11, 2025

Mayor doubles down on law enforcement, rejects Fielder's call for a 'Four Pillars' approach that has worked in other cities

Good Taste: Time to save some legacy food and drink classics

Food & Drink Tamara Palmer - March 11, 2025

Legendary SF spots like New Delhi and Da Flora are in danger. Our Legacy Business challenge will have you eating well, staying local.

Screen Grabs: Let’s run away to Greece

Movies Dennis Harvey - March 11, 2025

Greek Film Fest brings new visions. Plus: Cinequest, Robert Townsend, 'Mickey 17,' Gunvor Nelson, Karel Doing, more movies

The death of a beloved wild burrowing owl may augur the next pandemic

Environment Steven T. Jones - March 10, 2025

Avian flu is claiming the lives of iconic San Francisco Bay wildfowl—and the Trump administration can hardly be trusted to contain it.

Two lovers who bloomed in the Bay Area Figurative Movement come together again

Art Emily Wilson - March 10, 2025

At Cañada College, Theophilus Brown and Paul Wonner's nudes, still-lifes, and landscapes wow art history buffs.

What lies beneath: Erena Shimoda’s aquatic photography promotes healing

Art Dorothy Odonnell - March 10, 2025

Amputees, cancer survivors, and others who face challenges find their flow through artist's underwater lens.

How is SF going to approach drug dealing? There are very different proposals

Drug policy Tim Redmond - March 9, 2025

Plus: A report on police misconduct, and a documentary on the vulture capital firm that is destroying local news. That's The Agenda for March 9-16

After Newsom abandons trans people, a fairly tepid response at SF City Hall

LGBTQ Tim Redmond - March 9, 2025

Local officials were surprisingly cautious about responding to the governor's alarming (and inaccurate) statements.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Let’s run away to Greece

Greek Film Fest brings new visions. Plus: Cinequest, Robert Townsend, 'Mickey 17,' Gunvor Nelson, Karel Doing, more movies

Movies Dennis Harvey - March 11, 2025

Screen Grabs: The Swedish outsider who challenged gender roles behind the camera

Screen Grabs: Everybody loves the free public library (we hope)

Ramblin’ renegade folk legend Faith Petric honored in new doc ‘Singing for Justice’

Music

DJ FLOW’s Saturday night sets spin Bay Area hip-hop mixshow tradition

102.1 Jams' new radio star has serious talent—and local influences starting with 1980s Filipino mobile crews.

Music Alan Chazaro - March 14, 2025

Noise Pop wrap-up: Crispy Tater Tots, Nosferatu rap, and more local love

New voices, deeply eloquent sounds inspire at the Audium

Under the Stars: Fake Your Own Death and Orions Belte stole their shows

Art

‘Emotions expand and figures distort’ in Robert Hightower’s unapologetic works

Richmond father and artist articulates police brutality and his own bipolar disorder through graphic motif.

Art Mary Corbin - March 14, 2025

Two lovers who bloomed in the Bay Area Figurative Movement come together again

What lies beneath: Erena Shimoda’s aquatic photography promotes healing

History of slavery pulled apart, one garment at a time, in ‘The Poetics of Dimensions’

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Housing

Death by homeless sweep in Vallejo

James Edward Oakley crushed by a city backhoe 'cleaning' a homeless camp

Homelessness Tiny - March 13, 2025

Now that Trump is cutting housing money, what will Sacramento do about mandates?

The brutality of ‘homeless cold’

Planners approve golf club building, put conditions on Engardio condo conversions

Politics

This is one disease I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about. Wrong.

Plus: Is SF moving away from harm reduction and Housing First? That's The Agenda for March 17-24

News + Politics Tim Redmond - March 16, 2025

How is SF going to approach drug dealing? There are very different proposals

The first round of a brutal budget battle

A showdown on Lurie’s move to fire police commissioner

Opinion

The detention of Mahmoud Kahlil is a travesty of justice

The Trump Administration's arrest of the former Columbia student and protest leader is an unlawful breach of free speech rights.

Editorial 48 Hills - March 17, 2025

What’s on next at the Trump Center for the Performing Arts (besides more booing)?

Letters we answer: Pelosi, Newsom, trans athletes …

The death of a beloved wild burrowing owl may augur the next pandemic

Sponsored link

Performance

Drama Masks: Drawing the line

Opera Parallèle's 'The Pigeon Keeper' took on the costs of xenophobia, while Central Works' 'Push/Pull' tackles toxic masculinity.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 12, 2025

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