Chronicle Archives - Page 17 of 41

Beyond ‘Suavecito’: A tribute journey through Jorge Santana’s Chicano rock

John-Paul Shiver - June 8, 2020

Guillermo "Jorge" Santana, the musician, guitarist, and younger brother of Carlos Santana—who passed on May 14 of natural causes at the age of 68...

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Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now

Dennis Harvey - June 7, 2020

As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump...

News + Politics

Which side of the ‘house divided’ are you on?

Scott Soriano - May 31, 2020

This morning I made the dire mistake of reading twitter comments on a San Francisco Chronicle report of protesters at SF Mayor London Breed's...

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Screen Grabs: Into ‘The Vast of Night’—and beyond

Dennis Harvey - May 30, 2020

A couple restored minor classics, plus new features about recording-industry sexism, Islamic fundamentalism and UFO invasion, make this another wide-ranging week in the streaming...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Big hearts and summer lovin’

Dennis Harvey - May 27, 2020

Summer romance is the foundation on which many a movie used to be built, before summer moviegoing became primarily about comic-book heroes and other...

Arts + Culture

Good info, little relief at city’s Virtual Nightlife + Entertainment Summit

Marke B. - May 18, 2020

There are lots of big questions about COVID-gutted San Francisco nightlife that have yet to be directly addressed. How and why are live venues,...

COVID

The dangerous, inaccurate reporting on homelessness and the COVID crisis

Tim Redmond - May 7, 2020

Take some salacious information, add a single person with a point of view, and suddenly you have a major international story – that can...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The lyin’ preacher, the witch-tree, and The Whistlers

Dennis Harvey - April 27, 2020

Escapism may be one of the few commodities experiencing a boom during lockdown, but not all escapes are lighthearted—the new releases highlighted below offer...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: More new flicks for your streaming pleasure

Dennis Harvey - April 23, 2020

Welcome to Part 2 of our survey of new streaming releases you might be seeing in theaters at present if sanity weren’t currently prevailing—at...

News + Politics

Social distancing is the wrong term

Marc Norton - April 9, 2020

I am very tired of hearing about “social distancing.” We do not need social distancing. We need physical distancing. What we need is social solidarity. I...

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