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Housing

Newsom, Chiu agree on bill that could lead to widespread evictions

Tim Redmond - August 28, 2020

Assemblymember David Chiu has reached a compromise with Gov. Gavin Newsom and the big landlord groups on a relatively limited bill to protect renters...

Movies

Ficks’ Picks at the 11th Annual CROSSROADS Experimental Film Festival

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - August 28, 2020

This year's mind-melting batch of experimental films at San Francisco Cinematheque's 11th annual CROSSROADS 2020, may be extremely helpful to some of you looking...

Campaign Trail

The horror that is the RNC

Tim Redmond - August 25, 2020

I almost couldn’t watch. And I’ve watched a lot of bad politics. The Republican Convention has been something different, a new low beyond the worst...

Homelessness

Epic Sacramento showdown over looming eviction tsunami

John Elberling - August 23, 2020

In an important State Capitol legislative shift, on Thursday Berkeley Assemblymember Nancy Skinner agreed to amend her controversial housing bill, AB1085. She said she will...

Labor

Drivers rally against Uber and Lyft extortion

Garrett Leahy - August 21, 2020

About 70 drivers rallied outside Uber’s headquarters on Market Street on Thursday, decrying Uber and Lyft’s threat to cancel rideshare services in California in retaliation...

Music

How San Francisco changed the sound of Christian music

Daniel Bromfield - August 20, 2020

The Summer of Love was as fruitful a time for music as its long winter of discontent. As the hippie dream dissipated and mellow...

Homelessness

Lawyers say it’s unsafe to restart eviction cases

Garrett Leahy - August 19, 2020

Last week, about 30 lawyers and organizers gathered outside the state building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue to demand that the state Judicial Council...

Music

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2020

Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Kamala Harris on war, peace, and the Middle East

Reese Erlich - August 14, 2020

Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hasn’t forgotten a 2017 meeting with members of Senator Kamala Harris’s staff to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza....

Campaign Trail

The TikTok campaigns

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 13, 2020

After a few edits and some graphics, Sameera Rajwade uploaded the first video to her TikTok account. Within a day, it had racked up...

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