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Lit

Black Freighter Press sails in, boosting writers of color and radical imagination

Alan Chazaro - April 14, 2021

The revolution will be published, with the help of SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin and Alie Jones' new outlet.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti

48 Hills - March 14, 2021

Remembrances of the late literary lion from writers David Talbot, Tony Robles, and Eric Sneathen

Lit

Literary lion Ferlinghetti exits, but his community legacy roars on

Marke B. - February 23, 2021

Thoughts on Lawrence's passing—and how his heroic drive still resonates in SF, even now.

Culture

Saving Specs’: Beloved North Beach bar is ‘getting desperate’

Marke B. - May 14, 2020

It's unfathomable to imagine North Beach without certain institutions—City Lights, Vesuvio's, Gino & Carlo's, Caffe Trieste, and, of course, Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…

Dennis Harvey - November 4, 2019

Woe betide the Bay Area movie lover equally enthused about South Asian cinema, transgender screen expressions, and amateur porn—because this week the signature local...

Lit

Remembering Kevin Killian, 1952-2019

Alvin Orloff - June 18, 2019

Editor's Note: Word came Saturday from his wife and fellow writer Dodie Bellamy that essential SF queer writer Kevin Killian—poet, teacher, playwright, gossip, Kylie...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Bye, bye, Babylon…

Marke B. - April 23, 2019

ARTS FORECAST San Francisco, your Golden Gates are closing, it sometimes feels like—especially with the announcement that, after 45 years of high spirits and higher...

News + Politics

I am not a homeless vampire

michelle - April 2, 2019

I didn’t come to this city because I wanted to take advantage of all the homeless resources and services. I’m not some homeless vampire...

News + Politics

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Tiny - March 6, 2019

No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….

Marke B. - March 5, 2019

ARTS FORECAST For decades, if you had a question about sex, any question at all, you would "Ask Isadora." The goddess of alternative weekly...

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