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News + Politics

In Hong Kong, protests and precautions at Chinese New Year

Herb Mintz - March 24, 2020

My wife (she prefers that label) and I travel to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region each year to visit her relatives, in particular,...

Housing

An emergency platform for protecting unhoused people

Tim Redmond - March 19, 2020

The Coalition on Homelessness just put out an emergency policy platform to protecting unhoused people from COVID-19. You can sign the petition to show...

New Music: Monophonics’ ‘It’s Only Us’ summons classic soul’s expansive phase

John-Paul Shiver - March 18, 2020

Veteran San Francisco based psychedelic soul outfit Monophonics seem to be going through a "thing." Their latest record Itʻs Only Us (Colemine Records) with the first three song titles "Chances," "Suffocating," and the...

Onstage

Review: ‘Toni Stone’ hits a home run (and you can watch it on your couch)

Elaine Elinson - March 17, 2020

Editor's Note: In the wake of its theaters shutting down, ACT is streaming its plays Gloria (reviewed here) and Toni Stone, reviewed below on...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Cinemas go dark, but here’s what to watch

Dennis Harvey - March 17, 2020

As I write this on Monday the 16th, “shelter-at-home” decrees around the coronavirus have negated any need to tell you about all the individual...

News + Politics

Mayor’s order leads to panic shopping

Tim Redmond - March 16, 2020

About an hour before the mayor’s announcement that six Bay Area counties are under a shelter-at-home order, word leaked out – and people started...

Let’s help local artists, workers, and small businesses. Join in!

Marke B. - March 15, 2020

Note: Scroll down all the way to the to the comments section at the bottom of this article to help support specific local artists,...

Arts + Culture

Arts workers struggling after performances are cancelled and venues closed

Garrett Leahy - March 15, 2020

UPDATE: We are keeping a running list of artist and worker resources here, as well as including the opportunity for those affected by the...

Onstage

In ‘Please Don’t Eat the Mangos,’ this Mami has secrets

Emily Wilson - March 11, 2020

When Wilma Bonet first read Ricardo Pérez González's script for the play Don’t Eat the Mangos (through March 22 at Magic Theatre), she liked it right away. “First...

News + Politics

Bayview Hunters Point tests its air

Tom Molanphy - March 9, 2020

Although no rain fell in San Francisco in February for the first time since 1878, Dalila Adofo and Anthony Khalil of Greenaction have another...

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