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Silent is golden

Dennis Harvey - May 29, 2017

SCREEN GRABS Particularly these days, a one-story building designated for commercial usage in space-hungry San Francisco is an unusual sight, so you may at...

News + Politics

When hate speech became a movement

Andrew Lam - May 21, 2017

Just over a year ago Microsoft introduced Tay, an AI chatbot that was designed to learn from and replicate online chatter. Tay, according to...

Music

Bursting into color

Joanna Ladd - May 2, 2017

Sat/6 at Rickshaw Stop, Bay Area audiences will have a chance to hear the sound of an artist’s limitations falling away. Local favorite Meklit,...

Arts + Culture

A crackling evening of AGITPROP!

Dennis Harvey - April 24, 2017

SCREEN GRABS The National Endowment for the Arts and PBS seem headed for budgetary doom under President Trump, although not because they’re costly and...

News + Politics

Dignity Health sued for refusing care to a transgender patient

Sana Saleem - April 19, 2017

The ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU of Southern California, the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP...

News + Politics

Trial date for Luis Gongora case set for Fall 2018

Sana Saleem - March 14, 2017

Around a dozen supporters and family members attended the first court hearing at the federal courthouse for Can v City and County of San...

News + Politics

Racism — and politics — in SF Redevelopment history

John Elberling - February 22, 2017

Bad history -- even when well-intended -- gives me a headache, because it so often misses and conceals far more important truths. To wit,...

News + Politics

Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

John Elberling - February 12, 2017

There is no designated Sociologist position on the 200+ staff of San Francisco’s City Planning Department. And a bachelor/masters degree in Urban Planning can...

News + Politics

BREAKING: SFPD pulling out of controversial Joint Terrorism Task Force with FBI

Sana Saleem - February 1, 2017

The San Francisco Police Department announced on Wednesday that it will be pulling out of the Joint Action Task Force, a controversial co-operation with...

News + Politics

“I hope I can be re-united with my brother” — Iranian American awaits

Sana Saleem - January 28, 2017

Koosha Seyvani and his mother have been waiting for Hussain Seyvani since the early hours this morning. Hussain, who is Iranian, landed in San...

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