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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Fighting for survival in ‘Arctic’ and courting death in Norwegian black metal

Dennis Harvey - February 6, 2019

Yors truly is just back from the Sundance Film Festival, and the only thing you really need to know about that is that quite...

Arts + Culture

W. Kamau Bell talks R. Kelly, Elmwood Cafe whiplash on eve of Sketchfest tribute

Joshua Rotter - January 11, 2019

Nationally, comedian W. Kamau Bell is known for his multiple Emmy-winning CNN show “United Shades of America," his Netflix comedy special “W. Kamau Bell:...

News + Politics

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

DJ Spooky spins the Web in YBCA’s ‘Quantopia’

Marke B. - January 7, 2019

ALL EARS For many, the Internet has come to seem ominous in recent years: It now represents, among other things, gentrification, invasion, surveillance, weird...

News + Politics

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Sweet, sweet NYE

Marke B. - December 28, 2018

PARTY RADAR Let's kick this sorry ass-end of a year bah-byeeeeee and hit the dance floor for a couple days running, shall we? Below are...

Photographer Wesaam Al-Badry: from ‘Contemporary Muslim Fashions’ to Camp Fire

Emily Wilson - December 18, 2018

At the refugee camp where he lived with his family after the Gulf War broke out in their native Iraq, Wesaam Al-Badry thought the...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: A Camp Fire benefit that couldn’t be more San Francisco

Marke B. - December 13, 2018

ARTS FORECAST What happens when your family loses everything, almost in an instant? That's the horror event producer Daniel James Burke faced as the Camp...

News + Politics

A new housing ‘compact’ looks a lot like a developer’s dream

Tim Redmond - December 9, 2018

With State Sen. Scott Wiener’s new housing bill now pending, a group convened by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has released a draft plan to...

News + Politics

Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 2

Fabian Fernandez, Levi Vonk, Seth M. Holmes. - December 7, 2018

Read part 1 of our coverage here. Three days ago, anthropologists Seth M. Holmes, Fabian Fernandez, and Levi Vonk returned to UC Berkeley after meeting...

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