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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Riding the edge in ‘Bull’ and ‘All Day and A Night’

Dennis Harvey - May 4, 2020

Funny how some entertainment already plays as “pre-quarantine”—we seem to have been locked down long enough that seeing fictive characters go about their normal...

Housing

Physicians, advocates stage die-in outside mayor’s house

Garrett Leahy - April 30, 2020

"House us now! House us now!" A group of UCSF physicians associated with the Do No Harm Coalition, activists from the Coalition on Homelessness, the...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

Marke B. - April 30, 2020

As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...

Support musicians directly this Friday!

John-Paul Shiver - April 27, 2020

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share again on May 1, looking out for independent artists right now. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the...

Housing

Mayor defies supes, says she won’t open hotel rooms for all homeless

Tim Redmond - April 26, 2020

Mayor London Breed announced this weekend that she is not going to sign – or apparently abide by – legislation requiring the city to...

DJs and musicians scramble for income in devastated scene

Garrett Leahy - April 24, 2020

Governor Newsom's announcement last Tuesday that live shows and concerts are unlikely to happen until there is a COVID-19 vaccine, which may be as...

News + Politics

Letter to the Editor: ‘Ceci n’est pas une guillotine’

Mira Martin-Parker - April 22, 2020

I guess I’ll have to sell something in order to pay rent to our corporate landlords this month. I’ve been holding out, trying bide...

Culture

A 420 treat from ‘Sheesh & Schlong’

Marke B. - April 20, 2020

Some parks may have been crowded in San Francisco this weekend—but it wasn't with festive stoners celebrating 420. They're finding other ways to celebrate on...

Movies

‘Crip Camp’ captures a very vivid moment in disability rights struggle

Emily Wilson - April 16, 2020

In 1970 and 71, Jim LeBrecht attended Camp Jened for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York. The camp had a profound effect on his...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Here comes the recession

Reese Erlich - April 10, 2020

The current recession was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. But after 11 years of economic boom, a capitalist bust was inevitable. And it’s being...

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