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News + Politics

Fielder shows surprising strength in state Senate fundraising report

Tim Redmond - August 3, 2020

Incumbent state Senator Scott Wiener and his challenger, Jackie Fielder, have raised almost the same amount of money between February and June, campaign finance...

Homelessness

A free fridge opens in the Mission

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 2, 2020

Days before Mayor London Breed declared the shelter-in-place order back in March, Gabriela Alemán was already trying to figure out how her older neighbors...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Sentiment averse

Dennis Harvey - July 31, 2020

Normally I wouldn’t bother explaining why a certain movie is not being covered in this column, but this weekend there’s a particular glut of ‘em, all...

Music

10 artists centering Latinidad in the sound of the Bay today

Richard Villegas - July 28, 2020

For over 50 years, the Bay Area has been a crucial intersection of global music. Everything from psych rock to funk, hip hop, and...

Culture

Latina and Filipina-founded health center offers free wellness classes

Caitlin Donohue - July 27, 2020

It’s no secret that COVID has been rough on our health, even when we don't catch the virus itself. About a third of US...

Education

OPINION: Education pods for everyone

Guest Opinion - July 26, 2020

By Renée Aguilar, Eliana Elias, Casey Federico, Brooke Giesen, Angelica Guerrero, Ramya Krishna, Bethica Quinn, and Madonna R. Stancil Almost five months into this global...

Business + Tech

Lyft drivers have to pay for their own masks and hand sani

Garrett Leahy - July 23, 2020

When Lubungu, a Navy veteran and longtime Uber and Lyft driver, saw a group of activists passing out free facemasks, gloves, and hand sanitizer...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Change finally comes to dance music

Marke B. - July 23, 2020

Superstar DJ The Black Madonna has changed her name to The Blessed Madonna. Beloved disco-house DJ Joey Negro has dropped his stage name and...

New Music: Oakland collective SMARTBOMB has that feeling of futurism

John-Paul Shiver - July 23, 2020

Beat music, the defiant all-inclusive electronic aesthetic that seizes and chops up odd bits of hip-hop, library music, jazz, bass music, IDM, and anything...

Foreign Correspondent

SF joins fight for US-Cuba medical cooperation

Reese Erlich - July 22, 2020

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution July 21 calling for the US to cooperate with Cuba in the fight against...

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