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Opinion

I finally paid off my student loans at 40. No one should go through this

Peter-Astrid Kane - April 20, 2021

Not even winning on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' helped me outrun Navient and condescending bootstrapper-types

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Tragedies of global market capitalism on display

Dennis Harvey - April 1, 2021

From Lesotho to Ohio, new films draw a damning through-line. Plus: Oscar nominated shorts

Movies

Performing poverty in ‘Nomadland’ and ‘White Tiger’

Tiny - March 7, 2021

Two acclaimed movies from poverty outsiders don't go far enough in exposing wealth-hoarding and corporate slavery.

Art

In a year of protest and change, YBCA 100 highlights vital activist-artists

Emily Wilson - March 1, 2021

The annual list of honorees focuses on organizers, educators, and creators whose work reaches deep into community.

Homelessness

The bad narrative of ‘bad choices’

Tiny - February 25, 2021

It's an easy way to look away and blame homelessness on poor people.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Elders on the move, in love and crisis

Dennis Harvey - February 18, 2021

Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a couple navigating dementia in 'Supernova'; 'Nomadland' shows Frances McDormand weathering poverty

Music

New Music: Behold the curious power of ’80s Japanese mutant pop

John-Paul Shiver - February 11, 2021

'Somewhere Between' comp highlights moment when minimal electronic gestures seemed like big experiments.

COVID

Protest caravan demands Newsom release vulnerable prisoners

Garrett Leahy - January 31, 2021

More than half the state's prison population is positive for COVID -- and they don't need to die.

Housing

ABAG’s regional housing plan is a fantasy

John Elberling - January 27, 2021

The affordable housing won't get built, developers will get rich, and low-income communities will be devastated.

News + Politics

SF moves a big step closer to a public bank

Tim Redmond - January 26, 2021

At least six supes on board with visionary plan that has never been done in a city.

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