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All Ears: 17 music releases to look forward to in 2020

John-Paul Shiver - January 16, 2020

Between embargoes and secret release dates that see artists dropping projects when a Twitter trend is to their benefit, it's a little perplexing assembling a strong...

News + Politics

The Chron’s bizarre (but predictable) attack on Chesa Boudin

Tim Redmond - January 14, 2020

To read the San Francisco Chronicle headlines, a rather routine decision by the new district attorney to bring his own staff to leadership positions...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables

Dennis Harvey - January 14, 2020

This very random week at the movies features two big franchise reboots. Doolittle is from writer-director Stephen Gaghan, previously associated with such very grown-up...

Housing

Moms4Housing stand up to eviction

Tiny - January 13, 2020

UPDATE: The Sheriff's Office forcibly evicted the Moms this morning. https://twitter.com/LeftSentThis/status/1217138736560930817 Dominique Walker issued the following statement: “We’ve heard from people all over the world who are...

Cartooning the Japanese Internment, through George Takei’s eyes

Emily Wilson - January 13, 2020

Harmony Becker, the creator of the comics Himawari Share, Love Potion, and Anemone and Catharus, was at her booth at an indie comic arts show in Brooklyn...

News + Politics

How ICE treats transgender people — a horror story

Tim Redmond - January 5, 2020

Lexis Avilez thought she was going home on Christmas. It seemed, she later said, like a miracle when Yuba County sheriff’s deputies took her Dec....

Housing

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

Tim Redmond - January 5, 2020

State Sen. Scott Wiener will hold a press conference and rally in Oakland Tuesday/7 to announce that he’s re-introducing a new version of his...

Exclusive

What’s really going on with the US and Iran?

Reese Erlich - January 3, 2020

On Jan. 2 a US drone fired a missile on a car caravan leaving the Baghdad airport, killing Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani and...

News + Politics

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Tiny - December 27, 2019

Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders, land stealers who know that...

Culture

Chatting by cell: ‘Uncuffed’ is a prison podcast for our time

Peter-Astrid Kane - December 23, 2019

As setups to Thanksgiving jokes go, a manic wild turkey that burst into a California prison compound seems almost too on-the-nose, considering how two...

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All Ears: 17 music releases to look forward to in 2020

The Chron’s bizarre (but predictable) attack on Chesa Boudin

Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables

Moms4Housing stand up to eviction

Cartooning the Japanese Internment, through George Takei’s eyes

How ICE treats transgender people — a horror story

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

What’s really going on with the US and Iran?

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Chatting by cell: ‘Uncuffed’ is a prison podcast for our time

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