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Arts + Culture

Look out

Dennis Harvey - June 9, 2017

SCREEN GRABS After the long-fought but still remarkable gains of recent years under the most gay-friendly POTUS in American history, the LGBTQ community has...

News + Politics

SF public power agency under attack

Tim Redmond - June 8, 2017

The majority of the Board of Supervisors Budget Committee voted today to effectively cut funding for the only city agency that has a mandate...

Arts + Culture

Holes in our understanding

Caitlin Donohue - June 5, 2017

You may recognize dancer-performance artist-"faux queen" Fauxnique a.k.a. Monique Jenkinson from such gigs as winning the 2003 edition of Heklina’s landmark drag competition formerly known...

News + Politics

The big media lie about single-payer health care

Tim Redmond - June 4, 2017

The headlines were so consistent, so predictably bad, that I almost couldn’t read them. “Single-payer will cost $400 billion.” “Single-payer costs dwarf entire state...

Arts + Culture

Sgt. Pepper, UnderCover

Joanna Ladd - May 26, 2017

1967 was a banner year for music – a year when Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Aretha Franklin topped the charts. But perched...

News + Politics

Why ABAG housing quotas lead to displacement

Thomas Lord - May 19, 2017

The Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), a product of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), assigns to each Bay Area Jurisdiction quotas of...

Arts + Culture

A leap for CROSSROADS

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - May 16, 2017

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque’s eighth annual experimental film festival, CROSSROADS 2017, has some genuine medicine for the overabundance of melancholy fogging up the...

Music

APART of the scene

Joanna Ladd - May 9, 2017

Leave it to a rapper to find a name for her show that has, not one, but three layers of meaning. Sat/13, local "smart...

Arts + Culture

Now look here

Dennis Harvey - May 4, 2017

SCREEN GRABS You may not have noticed it, but foreign films have grown increasingly scarce on American movie screens. In San Francisco this is...

News + Politics

Scott Wiener’s housing straw man

Calvin Welch - May 2, 2017

“The market is powerful, but we need other things. That’s why we have regulations. We have to go against the flow and re channel...

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