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Arts + Culture

The good kind of trashy: Creative reuse center SCRAP turns 40

Caitlin Donohue - October 18, 2016

SCRAP is celebrating four decades as town's most magic place to shop for used tiles, colored pom-poms and old Life Magazines. Those acquainted with the...

News + Politics

Turning point for City College

Tim Redmond - October 6, 2016

A team from the discredited, rogue accrediting agency will visit City College this month as part of a final determination on the status of...

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Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

Calvin Welch - October 4, 2016

On September 27th the Obama administration released a "Housing Development Toolkit" promoting a deregulation program for market rate housing development at the local level....

Arts + Culture

Lights, camera, Mill Valley

Dennis Harvey - October 4, 2016

SCREEN GRABS In the Bay Area we’re fortunate to have arthouses, film festivals and other outlets providing year-round access to movies not typically on...

Arts + Culture

Resurrecting the mighty Alhambra

Dennis Harvey - September 28, 2016

SCREEN GRABS Designed inside and out by Timothy Pfleuger (who also created fellow art deco movie palaces the Castro and Paramount, among other Bay...

News + Politics

The battle for Midtown: A community housing struggle

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - September 23, 2016

The weekly tenant meetings of the residents of Midtown Park Apartments at the corner of Geary and Divisadero always begin and end with a...

Music

Quick ‘n dirty guide to Folsom 2016 parties

Marke B. - September 21, 2016

PARTY RADAR There may be no giant leather-harnessed sheep presiding over this year's Folsom Street Fair -- as there has in years past -- but...

Arts + Culture

‘Type/Caste’ is a curtain call for theater stereotypes

Caitlin Donohue - September 7, 2016

ONSTAGE I’ve been close to Bay Area actor Rotimi Agbabiaka for years, during which we have spent many moments laughing. There was the time...

Music

Vibing strong, 20 years on

Marke B. - September 5, 2016

PARTY RADAR "I think of dub as anything but conservative," Dub Mission's DJ Sep tells me. "Part of the reason I really got into...

News + Politics

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Zelda Bronstein - September 2, 2016

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

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