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Food & Drink

Good Taste: IKEA-adjacent Saluhall retools one year in

Tamara Palmer - April 30, 2025

The Mid-Market food hall has gone through some changes, but still shows belief in San Francisco.

Onstage

An interstellar drag quest to save the galaxy (and you call the shots)

Marke B. - April 29, 2025

Media Meltdown's 'Select Thine Own Journey... in Space!' melds love of Dungeons & Dragons, '90s YA lit, and campy cosmic flicks.

Housing

Mayor Ishii and Berkeley’s ‘Missing Middle’

Zelda Bronstein - April 30, 2025

Collaborative legislating—or a disdain for public process?

Contest

Win passes to the Mill Valley Music Festival, May 10 + 11

Marke B. - April 28, 2025

We've got six pairs to giveaway—funk-rock out with Nile Rodgers & Chic, Gary Clarke Jr., The Crosby Collective, Monophonics, more.

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Comedy

From Kennedy Center to Berkeley Rep, W. Kamau Bell still rides ‘that curiosity thing’

Lou Fancher - April 28, 2025

'Going in there to be myself and make my positions clear is my way of protesting,' says the comedian on 'Who's With Me?' tour

Music

Down the ‘Jackrabbit’ hole with San Fermin

Adrian Spinelli - April 28, 2025

10th anniversary of Brooklyn indie outfit's seminal album summons sweet memories of hopping in a van and starting out.

News + Politics

Weird accounting could free up millions of dollars for next SF budget

Tim Redmond - April 28, 2025

More than $300 million in "interdepartmental transfers" was unspent in 2023

Music

MTT’s brilliance shone through at final SF Symphony bow

Marke B. - April 28, 2025

A grand celebration in blue bid the maestro adieu—but his decades-long legacy of championing challenging music will linger.

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Win tickets to see Las Cafeteras at Sweetwater Music Hall, Sat/3

Contest Marke B. - April 28, 2025

We've got two pairs for the LA band's 'sonic explosion of Afro-Mexican roots rhythms, electronic beats and powerful rhymes.'

The Pope, Capitalism, and the SF budget battle

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 27, 2025

Plus: An exclusive golf club vs. school kids, and would a new hotel undermine an existing historic building? That's The Agenda for April 27-May 4

Dorsey measure that undermines harm reduction moves forward

Drug policy Tim Redmond - April 27, 2025

'Nobody dies from harm reduction.' Yet, the measure passes 3-0.

Playing a gig worker—and being one, too—in an increasingly chilly SF

Movies Joshua Rotter - April 24, 2025

Asia Kate Dillon stars in Elena Oxman's 'Outerlands,' which details navigating loss in a city that seems to be closing in.

Under the Stars: A hometown electronic hero’s swan song sees the light

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 24, 2025

Plus: FlyLo gives us the GREEBLES, Raf Reza's Bangladeshi dub, Steven Julien new jacks, 'Paris Blues' at 4 Star, more music news

SF Democrats oppose Airbnb tax cut—after some try to kill the resolution

News + Politics Tim Redmond - April 24, 2025

A late-night move to defy labor and undermine tax justice narrowly fails

Lurie plays small ball while San Francisco faces the abyss

News + Politics Calvin Welch - April 24, 2025

Here are three huge issues the new administration is simply ignoring

Screen Grabs: The shivers and ‘The Shrouds’

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 24, 2025

Cronenberg keeps rising from the dead. Plus: 'The Ugly Stepsister,' a slew of new queer films, 'Compensation,' more

Big Week: Shipyard Open Studios, Indie Bookstore Day, Rollin’ with the Homos…

Big Week Marke B. - April 24, 2025

Grow your own groceries, Camper Van Beethoven, Malik Rahim, Sarah and the Sundays, Discostan, 'Bad Lobster,' more to do

Budget battle begins as labor, CBOs push back against brutal Lurie cuts

News + Politics Tim Redmond - April 23, 2025

Why does a city with 85 billionaires and big tech companies that want tax breaks have to settle for austerity?

From a Pedro Pascal prompt, ‘The Last of the Love Letters’

Onstage Emily Wilson - April 23, 2025

Ngozi Anyanwu's play at Z Below was written in a fervor after the actor prodded her with a playbill and a lack of 'insane' roles.

Drama Masks: ‘Two Trains Running’ is an electrifying triumph

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 23, 2025

August Wilson's dialog drives an epic critique of Black capitalism at ACT. Plus: Hilarious heathens of Killing My Lobster go all in for sin.

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Movies

Playing a gig worker—and being one, too—in an increasingly chilly SF

Asia Kate Dillon stars in Elena Oxman's 'Outerlands,' which details navigating loss in a city that seems to be closing in.

Movies Joshua Rotter - April 24, 2025

Screen Grabs: Flashing back with John & Yoko, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd

SFFilm Fest taps local topics with forest fires, gig workers, ode to the Roxie

Unnamed Footage Festival leans into low-budget, shaky-cam community

Music

Win passes to the Mill Valley Music Festival, May 10 + 11

We've got six pairs to giveaway—funk-rock out with Nile Rodgers & Chic, Gary Clarke Jr., The Crosby Collective, Monophonics, more.

Contest Marke B. - April 28, 2025

MTT’s brilliance shone through at final SF Symphony bow

Win tickets to see Las Cafeteras at Sweetwater Music Hall, Sat/3

Under the Stars: A hometown electronic hero’s swan song sees the light

Art

Sandra Yagi’s bewitching ‘The Faerie Realm’ light-heartedly skewers human nature

At Modern Eden, leafy scenes locate the mystery of life via cavorting, skeletal avatars of Death.

Art Review DeWitt Cheng - April 17, 2025

A mysterious smile: The unexpected curves of Lin Fischer’s figurative art

Andrea Bergen collages a post-apocalyptic world whose creatures feast on scraps

$100,000 ice cream sundae? What MrBeast’s flamboyant sums say about our internet

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Housing

Mayor Ishii and Berkeley’s ‘Missing Middle’

Collaborative legislating—or a disdain for public process?

Housing Zelda Bronstein - April 30, 2025

Planning hearing on upzoning shows the two worlds of housing advocates

Conditions at a Hunters Point housing project are disgraceful—and the private operators are ducking responsibility

Workers, families face eviction as racetrack in Pleasanton closes abruptly

Politics

The Pope, Capitalism, and the SF budget battle

Plus: An exclusive golf club vs. school kids, and would a new hotel undermine an existing historic building? That's The Agenda for April 27-May 4

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 27, 2025

SF wants to run an untested experiment on West Side neighborhoods

Can the West Side absorb more density without displacing existing tenants and small businesses?

Militant union on strike at Urban Ore in Berkeley

Opinion

The Dyke March needs help to return full-throttle

New organizers launch fundraiser to restore Pride Weekend's radical centerpiece to its sprawling, outspoken self.

Protest Marke B. - April 22, 2025

The Drain: Marke B. spouts off on poverty porn peddlers and the billionaires who love them

Listen to the rank and file: Political lessons from something I missed 25 years ago

A $50,000 Rolex faces deportation

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