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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...

COVID

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

Calvin Welch - March 31, 2020

"There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now. NYC must develop an...

Culture

15 ways to support the local food scene—and eat (and drink) well

Tamara Palmer - March 25, 2020

Here are some options for excellent nourishment that will help support local restaurants, food vendors and their staff in their efforts to stay afloat: Arizmendi...

Housing

Large crowd debates Valencia bike lanes

Mia Sullivan - February 27, 2020

On Monday night, the meeting room at the City College Mission campus was packed as tightly as an N-Judah train during commute hours. The...

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