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BIG WEEK: Great Pumpkin edition—all you need to Halloween (and Día, too)

Kronos Quartet, Ben Klock, Sama' Abdulhadi, Substance Fest, Día de los Muertos fests and much more light up the city.

Big Week Marke B. - October 30, 2025

Natalie Gee, community organizer, enters race for D4 supervisor

Candidate offers a platform of opening the Great Highway, opposing Lurie's upzoning—and taxing the rich

City Hall Tim Redmond - October 29, 2025

Feeling steamy? Coatshek’s ambient poppers tribute dips you in a ‘Sound Bath’

SF producer attempts to 'create the arc of a lovemaking session'—and a brilliant listen comes forth.

Music Daniel Bromfield - October 29, 2025

Screen Grabs: Halloweek brings the scares, killer clowns and all

Plus: Spike & Mike's Animation Fest returns, a vivid look at Artsakh, stranger-than-fiction 'Mistress Dispeller,' more movies

Arts + Culture Dennis Harvey - October 29, 2025

Stage Review

Drama Masks: ‘Suffs’ brings the fervor, ‘Spanish Stew’ heats up old school SF

Charles Lewis III - October 29, 2025

Plus: Fascinating 'Pilgrimage' follows four Muslim women on their Hajj to Mecca. A trio of new play reviews

Development

Supes deregulate land use in North Beach, in sign of what is to come

Tim Redmond - October 28, 2025

A test case for ending historic neighborhood protections wins 8-2 approval

Immigration

Drag queen snatched by ICE released with asylum: ‘It was terrible’

Emma Lorraine Garcia - October 28, 2025

Detained during Pride week at a routine immigration court date, Hilary Rivers is now home recovering from her traumatic ordeal.

Economy

Supes to vote on public bank—and we can start to talk about ways to fund it

Tim Redmond - October 27, 2025

Several ballot measures at the state and local level would start to tax the very rich

Onstage

‘Hills of California’ aims to sing with real-life family harmony—and discord

Lou Fancher - October 27, 2025

Director Loretta Greco brings decades-hopping story of four sisters and their ambitious mother to Berkeley Rep.

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Movies

What we saw at the NY Film Fest: Ficks’ Picks of feature films

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - October 27, 2025

Big director names filled up screens, from Richard Linklater and Noah Baumbach to Kathryn Bigelow and Luca Guadagnino.

Contest

Win tickets to see The Faint, Earl Sweatshirt, G Flip, Eden

Marke B. - October 27, 2025

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

The Agenda

The billionaires really are running SF

Tim Redmond - October 26, 2025

Plus: Saving small businesses (or not), and the imminent destruction of the protections for North Beach history and small businesses .... That's The Agenda for Oct. 26 to Nov. 2

Movies

What we saw at the NY Film Fest: Ficks’ Picks of experimental gems

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - October 24, 2025

A very meta Romanian 'Dracula', Sharon Lockhart's breathtaking grace, melancholic Georgian questing, more.

Immigration

Thousands march against ICE

JJ Lansing - October 24, 2025

Somber yet also jubilant rally serves as reminder that federal agents are still here in San Francisco

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Featured

The Gala was terrific—and you can still support us!

Marke B. - October 24, 2025

Photos: Lovers of independent media and Best of the Bay winners flooded El Rio on Wednesday—help us reach our goal.

Immigration

Labor, community groups rally against Trump’s threats of an ICE invasion

JJ Lansing - October 23, 2025

White House backs off—for the moment—but the community is organized and ready

Drama Masks

Drama Masks: In no mood for theatrics

Charles Lewis III - October 23, 2025

When self-professed "villain" Scott Wiener is centerstage at the No Kings rally, maybe it's time to question the whole production.

Opinion

Gee, maybe San Francisco needs a few more billionaires

Joel Schechter - October 23, 2025

If we paid eight supes $1 billion a year, would Trump listen to them and give our city what it really needs?

Lit

Join us for Litcrawl’s ‘The Waymo That Ate San Francisco’

Marke B. - October 23, 2025

Indie media journalists take on the AI Bubble and Big Tech with hilarious, thought-provoking, and award-winning pieces.

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Featured

BIG WEEK: Great Pumpkin edition—all you need to Halloween (and Día, too)

Natalie Gee, community organizer, enters race for D4 supervisor

Feeling steamy? Coatshek’s ambient poppers tribute dips you in a ‘Sound Bath’

Screen Grabs: Halloweek brings the scares, killer clowns and all

Drama Masks: ‘Suffs’ brings the fervor, ‘Spanish Stew’ heats up old school SF

Supes deregulate land use in North Beach, in sign of what is to come

Drag queen snatched by ICE released with asylum: ‘It was terrible’

Supes to vote on public bank—and we can start to talk about ways to fund it

‘Hills of California’ aims to sing with real-life family harmony—and discord

What we saw at the NY Film Fest: Ficks’ Picks of feature films

Win tickets to see The Faint, Earl Sweatshirt, G Flip, Eden

The billionaires really are running SF

What we saw at the NY Film Fest: Ficks’ Picks of experimental gems

Thousands march against ICE

The Gala was terrific—and you can still support us!

Labor, community groups rally against Trump’s threats of an ICE invasion

Drama Masks: In no mood for theatrics

Gee, maybe San Francisco needs a few more billionaires

Join us for Litcrawl’s ‘The Waymo That Ate San Francisco’

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