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... Plus: Is the SF Zoo really capable of hosting pandas, and is the city ready to start letting developers off the hook for the impacts their projects create? That's The Agenda for April 24-31

Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest unleashes Dizzy Gillespie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, June Squibb

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 21, 2024

Where else can you catch a 94-year-old action star, a jazz legend fighting for the Congo, and a requiem for activist Rob Peace?

Is protesting in traffic ‘false imprisonment?’

Protest Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024

Then what about Waymo blocking a highway entrance ramp?

‘Never too late’: Grannies of Grant Avenue Follies dance onto the airwaves

Culture Dorothy Odonnell - April 20, 2024

PBS highlights the Chinatown-based cabaret troupe of 11 spirited grandmothers keeping local history alive.

Revisiting the violent time when drag was illegal in ‘The Pride of Lions’

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 19, 2024

Risking it all in the 1920s to perform onstage and live authentically in Theatre Rhino's latest, by Roger Mason.

Under the Stars: Gauging the Bay Area spring music hype

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 19, 2024

Free Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, SF Symphony at the Movies, Brijean's return help patch tragedies like the A's leaving

New conservative DCCC members will face vote on critical labor issues

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - April 18, 2024

Will the 'moderate' majority elected with tech money support bills that regulate AI, robotaxis, and robotrucks?

SF could get federal funding for 4,000 affordable housing units—maybe

Housing Savannah Dewberry - April 18, 2024

So far, the Breed Administration has not taken advantage of a program that will close in September.

Watch: Our Stud sneak peek parted the sequined curtains on new location

Nightlife 48 Hills - April 18, 2024

Drinks, drag, dancing and more at the legendary queer bar's new location ahead of the 4/20 grand opening.

SF once again fails women who report sexual assault

News + Politics Tim Redmond - April 17, 2024

Ronen asks: Why have the cops done nothing since 2021 on allegations by three women that they were assaulted by Jon Jacobo?

Master of samples Carl Stone returns, accompanied by car-long ‘Hurdy Grande’

Music Daniel Bromfield - April 17, 2024

The 71-year-old musical pioneer inaugurates the West Oakland Sound Series with experimental gusto.

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan opens up about candid new biopic ‘Girl You Know it’s True’

Music Joshua Rotter - April 17, 2024

'I can say proudly that love has healed me,' says star who weathered instant fame and disastrous downfall.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Stylish but deadly classic ‘Le Samouraï’ swings into the Roxie

Plus: Ridiculous and enjoyable 'Challengers,' exhausting 'Boy Kills World,' the rise of Christian Nationalism, more

Screen Grabs Dennis Harvey - April 25, 2024

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan opens up about candid new biopic ‘Girl You Know it’s True’

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond &… Milli Vanilli?

Screen Grabs: Strap yourself in for a harrowing ‘Civil War’

Music

Matmos drops in for tea and jockstraps

Radical sound-collage duo dish on roots in SF's wild '90s nightlife scene as debut 'In Lo-Fidelity' hits 30.

Music Joshua Rotter - April 24, 2024

Master of samples Carl Stone returns, accompanied by car-long ‘Hurdy Grande’

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan opens up about candid new biopic ‘Girl You Know it’s True’

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond &… Milli Vanilli?

Art

Tehran-born artist Sameh Khalatbari strings resistance into every work

Deeply felt homages to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom protest movement emanate from her San Ramon studio.

Art Mary Corbin - April 23, 2024

A profound web of hybrid histories in MoAD’s ‘Unruly Navigations’

Life burbles with inside jokes in Rebecca Ness’s jumbo paintings

Sticking to it: The packing tape art of Pablo Manga

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Housing

SF could get federal funding for 4,000 affordable housing units—maybe

So far, the Breed Administration has not taken advantage of a program that will close in September.

Housing Savannah Dewberry - April 18, 2024

Citizens advisory committee presses Navy for answers on Hunters Point Shipyard

The Yimbys think they rule—but there are some serious signs to the contrary

SF prepares to evict people living in vehicles on Bernal Hill

Politics

Supreme Court hears critical case on homeless policy (SF wants to legalize sweeps) …

... Plus: Is the SF Zoo really capable of hosting pandas, and is the city ready to start letting developers off the hook for the impacts their projects create? That's The Agenda for April 24-31

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024