Activism Archives

Lit

‘Jeopardy!’ champ Amy Schneider does not want to be your favorite trans person on TV

Lou Fancher - September 29, 2023

On the eve of her appearance at Porchlight Storytelling's Litquake edition, the beloved game show guru and memoir author isn't holding back.

Dance

Utopia, please: Sean Dorsey Dance’s ‘The Lost Art of Dreaming’ returns to refresh spirits

Marke B. - September 26, 2023

A year after its premiere in SF, the 'full-throttle' show returns after spreading liberating queer reverie throughout the country

Lit

‘Weed’ sparks up candid cannabis education for young people—and the rest of us

Marke B. - September 10, 2023

Caitlin Donohue's latest book for teens takes a big picture view of cannabis policy and culture in the Americas

Opinion

The Oakland school bomb threat is a dire warning about our current politics

Cat Brooks - August 30, 2023

Right-wing activism is happening at both the national and the local level.

News + Politics

Tenderloin tour upends ‘doom loop’ narrative

Christopher D. Cook - August 27, 2023

There's a lot more to the neighborhood than the national media wants to report.

Opinion

Affordable housing is critical infrastructure, and the city needs to invest now

Shanti Singh and Roisin Isner - May 9, 2023

SF won’t begin to meet its housing goals unless Breed commits the funding

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Queens on parade, from Capote to ‘Jamie’

Dennis Harvey - September 13, 2021

Plus: SF Short Film Fest, Crossroads Fest, and a very terrible 'Malignant'

Movies

Berkeley director meets Icelandic elves in ‘The Seer and the Unseen’

Pam Grady - September 9, 2021

Sara Dosa talks about filming a unique intersection of mystical beings and environmental activism.

Puff

Cannabis community reels from death of 69-year-old activist “OG” Eddy Lepp

Dan Karkoska - August 18, 2021

The cultivator of one of the “greatest marijuana gardens of all time" laid the seed for today's marijuana legalization movement.

Movies

Drag legend Terence Alan Smith takes center stage in ‘The Beauty President’

Alex Arabian - August 12, 2021

As Joan Jett Blakk, the performer made two historic runs for president. A new short film asks what could have been.

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