Campaigns Archives

Nightlife

Dance floor to ‘First Floor’: Shawn Reynaldo grapples with electronic music’s slippery culture

Marke B. - September 27, 2023

The longtime journalist's popular newsletter—and now book—captures the fine-grain details of a mercurial scene

News + Politics

Nancy Pelosi is getting two more years. Maybe she can help SF with housing money

Tim Redmond - September 11, 2023

Is it all about her daughter taking her seat—or, for a change, will she use her clout to bring federal cash to SF for affordable housing?

News + Politics

The scariest book I’ve read this year

Bruce Mirken - August 31, 2023

'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' has lessons for us all—right now

City Hall

Lies, damn lies, and the new ‘report’ on San Francisco government

Calvin Welch - August 28, 2023

Ignore the realities of SF politics. Ignore a wide-ranging corruption scandal. Just go after district elections. That's what the Rose Institute, funded by Michael Moritz, is doing.

Music

Seeing Ghost, and the importance of embracing Satan amid fabricated panics

Danny Acosta - August 14, 2023

In the age of QANON and hysterical anti-LGBTQ backlash, one rock band embodies a hellishly fantastic alternative.

Opinion

Opinion: The Great Highway shutdown fiasco

Steven Hill - September 9, 2021

It's worse for the environment. It's infuriated residents. The city needs to rethink the highway closure—now, when a compromise is possible.

Labor

With Ed Asner, you always got what you saw—integrity

Tim Paulson - September 6, 2021

Remembering a devoted, consistent, and aggressive labor leader.

Labor

‘It’s always been there:’ Dolores Huerta speaks out on racism and Jim Crow

Dennis J. Bernstein - August 29, 2021

At 91, the co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union is still active and speaking out against voter suppression.

Movies

Drag legend Terence Alan Smith takes center stage in ‘The Beauty President’

Alex Arabian - August 12, 2021

As Joan Jett Blakk, the performer made two historic runs for president. A new short film asks what could have been.

City Hall

After more than a century, PG&E is finally on the ropes in San Francisco

Tim Redmond - August 1, 2021

The city's moving to establish a public-power system—but we should also talk about accountability for the politicians and media that enabled an illegal monopoly for so long.

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