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Food & Drink

Good Taste: It’s-It Minis, Double Double sushi, and Indigenous energy bars

Tamara Palmer - May 4, 2021

Plus: MoAD chef Bryant Terry’s new food book imprint and a needed Grocery Outlet opens in Bayview

Art

Brilliant color and dynamic forms define Orin Carpenter’s poignant paintings

Mary Corbin - May 3, 2021

The Northern California artist addresses social issues and identity in his wide-ranging, spiritually-rooted work

Opinion

If we don’t have to wear masks outdoors, how will we angrily judge each other?

Marke B. - April 28, 2021

The CDC rolls back restrictions for activities and small gatherings. Now what will we use to measure our moral superiority?

Movies

Nevermind the Oscars: Here’s Ficks’ Picks favorite flicks of 2020 (and beyond)

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - April 27, 2021

The overlooked, the underseen, and more: Unmissable gems to search out, from a very strange cinematic era

Labor

AAA insurance agents in California are seeking to unionize

Garrett Leahy - April 26, 2021

Complaints about pay and working conditions drive effort to form a union among giant nonprofit's insurance employees.

Music

In memory of Shock G, the Piano Man

Tamara Palmer - April 26, 2021

The death of a Bay Area funk and rap legend hits home

Art

X-Men to X-acto: The otherworldly analog collages of Michael Tunk

Mary Corbin - April 19, 2021

Wild West meets interplanetary apocalypse (and plenty more) in the Alameda artist's visions.

Lit

Black Freighter Press sails in, boosting writers of color and radical imagination

Alan Chazaro - April 14, 2021

The revolution will be published, with the help of SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and Alie Jones' new outlet.

Movies

SFFILM fest spotlights Rita Moreno, Muppets, ‘Lost Landscapes of Oakland’

Dennis Harvey - April 4, 2021

2021 installment of the super-fest beams from drive-in and laptop, with plenty of star power.

Opinion

More parks privatization: The horses of Golden Gate Park

Steven Hill - March 23, 2021

Private vendor takes over public space for high-priced concession -- and workers get to live in trailers in the park (while homeless people are kicked out).

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