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COVID

How Cuba is succeeding in the fight against COVID

Reese Erlich - May 28, 2020

One morning along a street with cracked sidewalks and houses with fading paint, Dr. Liz Caballero and two medical students stopped at every door...

News + Politics

The Agenda: Saving local journalism ….

Tim Redmond - May 25, 2020

All local news media is critical during this crisis, and most local news media outlets are struggling. But the nonprofits, the outlets that are...

Culture

Out of the crate: 6 vinyl re-issues that are pretty damn dope

John-Paul Shiver - May 23, 2020

Before everybody got stuck in the house with their family—spouses, housemates, cats, dogs, hamsters, and rando dude on couch—and became thankful for all the...

Housing

Supes look to protect SRO residents

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2020

The Board of Supes Finance Committee approved today emergency legislation aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 in single-room occupancy hotels. The measure by Sup....

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two of SF’s biggest acting exports light up screens again

Dennis Harvey - May 9, 2020

One of the first cultural casualties of the pandemic was, of course, live theater, with many local productions stopped mid-run, others’ openings canceled, and...

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...

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