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Solidarity after the massacre of Jews in Pittsburgh

Rabbi Michael Lerner - October 29, 2018

Rabbi Michael Lerner, who leads the Beyt Tikkun Synagogue-Without-Walls in Berkeley and is the editor of Tikkun magazine, sent this out to his community in the...

Onstage

A timely, unrelenting family drama unfolds at Magic Theatre

Elaine Elinson - October 25, 2018

ONSTAGE When Annie (Martha Brigham) opens the front door of her family home at the beginning of Magic Theatre's "The Resting Place" (through November 4),...

News + Politics

Tenant Troubles: What Prop. 10 is really about

Dave Crow - October 24, 2018

“Local governments are on the front lines of managing homelessness, displacement and gentrification. They need the ability to stop the bleeding. Proposition 10 would...

Campaign Trail

The socialists aren’t leaving the Democratic Party

Tom Gallagher - October 23, 2018

In the October 20 “Willie’s World,” Willie Brown’s often surprisingly informative and entertaining San Francisco Chronicle column, the former mayor and state Assembly speaker...

News + Politics

The truth about ‘progressive’ housing policy

Calvin Welch - October 22, 2018

Randy Shaw, who runs a website called “BeyondChron,” is now writing for the Chron. In a piece that ran Oct. 21, he argues that...

Foreign Correspondent

What the Khashoggi case tells us about terrorism

Reese Erlich - October 19, 2018

ISTANBUL -- In 2013, an Iranian national living in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison for planning to assassinate the Saudi ambassador...

News + Politics

The neighborhood case for Proposition 10

George Wooding - October 14, 2018

Vote YES to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (state ballot measure Proposition 10). This state law repeal will impact the entire state. Current existing...

Party Radar

Party Radar: El Rio’s 40th, Bardot-A-Go-Go, Juliana Huxtable …

Marke B. - October 11, 2018

PARTY RADAR Welp, it took me two weeks to recover from Folsom Street Fair, so that means we've got a lot to catch up on!...

Arts + Culture

Old school Chinatown funk? 50 years of Jest Jammin’ with Rev. Norman Fong

Joanna Ladd - October 9, 2018

ALL EARS If you’re not nostalgic for Chinatown nightlife circa 1970, it’s probably because you don’t know about it. Despite the passing of civil rights...

Onstage

ACT’s ‘Sweat’ asks: When does class solidarity end and racism begin?

Elaine Elinson - October 8, 2018

ONSTAGE The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...

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