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Arts + Culture

Playwright Lauren Yee’s tribute to China Town community comes home to SF

Emily Wilson - January 18, 2019

Lauren Yee’s play, King of the Yees, has been produced all over – Baltimore, Toronto, Seattle, and Chicago. But she’s particularly excited for it...

News + Politics

CASA’s secret New York junket

Zelda Bronstein - January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

Arts + Culture

Puff: The doctor done told me

Dan Karkoska - January 11, 2019

So US Surgeon General Jerome Adams finally said it. The most authoritative medical opinion in America stated that the government should rethink its stance...

News + Politics

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

News + Politics

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

Tim Redmond - January 7, 2019

It was a time to celebrate in San Francisco tonight. Progressive groups in Chinatown held a banquet for the new supervisors, who ran on...

News + Politics

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

The Agenda

Celebrating the new supes …

Tim Redmond - December 30, 2018

The new Board of Supes is sworn in Jan. 8, and the first order of business will be electing a president. The process has...

News + Politics

Two local slates vie to set direction for state Democratic Party

Tim Redmond - December 27, 2018

City Hall pretty much closes up shop for a couple of weeks this time of year; the city, unlike the federal government, is not...

News + Politics

Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Tiny - December 17, 2018

“This (conservatorship law) sounds like slavery to me,” Memphis, houseless poverty skola reporter for POOR Magazine’s RoofLESS radio, reported after a terrifying town hall on...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: A Camp Fire benefit that couldn’t be more San Francisco

Marke B. - December 13, 2018

ARTS FORECAST What happens when your family loses everything, almost in an instant? That's the horror event producer Daniel James Burke faced as the Camp...

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