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Megablast for a minimal giant

ALL EARS One of the most incredible yet undersung developments of the past decade on the SF scene has been the explosion of interest in...

We beat a bad housing bill, so let’s forget the blame game

There was a provocative screed in Beyond Chron this past Thursday by its editor Randy Shaw about Governor Brown’s failed “By Right Development” bill...

Is SF done with Pocha Nostra? (Is Pocha Nostra done with SF?)

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- Logistically and philosophically, being a trans-border radical performance art troupe is not simple. The Bay Area-based Pocha Nostra troupe, led...

The Agenda, Aug15-21: The DCCC, Republican donors, and the supes races …

I am intrigued that a New York Times columnist is startled at the lack of growth in much of the world and the resulting...

PARTY RADAR: Rave of Thrones, Freq Fest, Afrolicious, American Tripps …

PARTY RADAR Starting off this week with some good news: San Francisco's pioneering "Legacy Business" legislation, offering lifelines for longtime businesses in danger of...

John Ross book puts the rebel back in reporting

Journalism needs its outward thinkers, the ones willing to put the voices of the powerless over those of the powerful. And nobody did that...

Party Radar: Dore to-dos, Mr. Scruff, New Wave Prom, more

PARTY RADAR Ahoy-hoy. This Sunday is the infamous Dore Alley Fair, aka Up Your Alley, Folsom Street Fair's "dirty little brother," and there are so...

The straight dope

ONSTAGE It's been a minute since hyperkinetic comic actor John Leguizamo tore up the boards here -- I last caught him nearly half a decade...

Incredible portraits of Cleveland

While what's going on inside Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena continues to fascinate and mortify, it's the crowd gathered outside the arena that yields a...

Governor’s housing plan promoted at closed-door meeting with Mayor Lee

I went to the strangest press conference today. Ed Lee was there; so was Ben Metcalf, who is Gov. Jerry Brown’s director of housing...