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City Hall

If SF bans smoking weed in your apartment, where could you get high?

Caitlin Donohue - November 25, 2020

Bill would criminalize pot smoking for a large part of the city's population.

COVID

COVID denial is a grim rerun of AIDS denialism

Bruce Mirken - November 17, 2020

Two decades ago, a cult-like crowd believed that HIV was harmless and AIDS was a plot. Many of them ended up dead.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Racist technology, rocky queer love, and an Oakland thriller

Dennis Harvey - November 17, 2020

Plus: Berlin & Beyond's In Focus installment, Mank, The Outpost, and more movies to dive into this week.

Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2020 Readers’ Stories of Resilience and Inspiration

Marke B. - November 12, 2020

We asked our readers for stories of Bay Area strength and celebration—your responses gave us hope for the new year.

Movies

Swaggering legends, thrilling myths at Transgender Film Fest 2020

Peter-Astrid Kane - November 11, 2020

History, heroism, and even horror meet in an all-digital compendium of seven original programs that tell a community's stories.

Performance

Remembering Bambi Lake, a San Francisco underground icon

Joshua Rotter - November 9, 2020

The transgender singer and trailblazer, who died last week, definitely lived a life out loud.

Elections

PHOTOS: Castro erupts in patriotic fervor as Biden named winner

Marke B. - November 9, 2020

On a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, SF's traditional party neighborhood was full of rainbow flags and champagne

Culture

Bay Area celebrates Biden win with claps, clangs, and honks

Marke B. - November 7, 2020

Street parties nationwide and in the castro... and chants of 'Oakland in the White House'

Arts Forecast

A very haunted Arts Forecast: Halloween undead!

Marke B. - October 28, 2020

Howl through your mask at this year's stream 'n (socially distant) scream spooktaculars

Housing

A displacement housing bill barely dies — but it will come back

Zelda Bronstein - September 23, 2020

Measure to turn any single-family lot into four units -- with zero affordable housing -- is the top of the Scott Wiener/Yimby agenda.

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