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Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

Onstage

Review: Crimes of a cheatin’ heart in ‘This Side of Crazy’

Jeffrey Edalatpour - October 3, 2019

Del Shores might not have cribbed the idea for This Side of Crazy (at New Conservatory Theater through October 20) from Beth Henley’s Crimes of...

News + Politics

Massive new office development in Soma? Maybe not

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2019

The various parties to a series of lawsuits over Soma development have settled– but that doesn’t mean two massive new office projects are going...

News + Politics

Accounting trick hides real cost of admin raises at City College

Michael Toren - October 1, 2019

Most City College administrators will see a 10 percent increase in their next paycheck – plus back pay retroactive to July 1 – after...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From ‘The Joker’ to Japan…

Dennis Harvey - October 1, 2019

It’s no joke that the film crowding out all others this week is Todd Phillips’ Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix drawing bets as a likely...

Onstage

Review: ACT’s ‘Top Girls’ spotlights ladies of the ’80s (and 800s)

Dennis Harvey - September 27, 2019

With Cloud Nine in 1979 and Top Girls (through October 13 at ACT) three years later, Caryl Churchill shot to the front ranks of living...

News + Politics

An open letter to Marc Benioff about homelessness

Tiny - September 24, 2019

Dear Marc Benioff: A few months ago you announced the launch of a $30 million study of homelessness: Benioff Homelessness and Housing initiative . As you launch...

Beloved techno ex-pat Alland Byallo pops his head in

John-Paul Shiver - September 22, 2019

Calling this new EP Rule of Thirds (Full Bleed Records)—the atmospheric, broken beat-centered project from the California-born-and-raised DJ-producer Alland Byallo—a comeback release, would just be a...

Culture

Enola Gay and the witchy origin of the first AIDS protest

Marke B. - September 19, 2019

Just around the crack of dawn on September 23, 1984, a handful of gay men gathered outside the gates of the Lawrence Livermore National...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Marke B. - September 17, 2019

MUCH ADO ABOUT FOLSOM Folsom Street Fair is two Sundays away (watch for my party guide), and what better way could organizers seize the news...

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