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Housing

Community advocates push for major changes in city housing plan

Tim Redmond - November 16, 2022

Extraordinary hearing shows that Housing Element won't work—and Newsom Administration just wants to help real-estate interests make money.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Remarkable Arab voices—queer, refugee, Lebanese, Palestinian—fill local screens

Dennis Harvey - November 10, 2022

This week: Arab Film Fest, New Lebanese Cinema of the '70s and '80s, 'Holy Spider.' Plus, a lost 1974 Oakland Blaxploitation delight.

Housing

Landlords try to trick voters with anti-tax mailers on Props M and O

Tim Redmond - October 26, 2022

Cynical campaign exploits very real economic fears in an effort to protect the big real-estate interests.

Dance

Which witches? Choreographer Liz Lerman’s coven is here to dance

Lou Fancher - October 25, 2022

"Wicked Bodies" at YBCA conjures magic from a diverse cast, in reaction to the crude depictions of the past

Economy

The Golden Goose is dead

John Elberling - October 24, 2022

For decades, the city's elite touted downtown development as the savior of SF economy. That era is now officially over.

News + Politics

How much military-style equipment does the SFPD really need—and for what?

Tim Redmond - October 23, 2022

Tanks, assault rifles, chemical projectiles ... the supes have a chance to weigh in on the inventory and the rules. That's The Agenda for Oct. 23 to 30.

Arts + Culture

Ready to get started? In new book, W. Kamau Bell asks us to ‘Do The Work’

Alan Chazaro - October 23, 2022

At Gateway High with co-author Kate Schatz, the comedian introduced his anti-racism activity kit that challenges readers to step up

Opinion

Unpacking the political framing of the Board of Education elections

Noah Sloss - October 17, 2022

What is 'performative politics' anyway, and why do the conservatives keep talking about it?

Art Review

‘The New Black Vanguard’ displays power at nexus of art and fashion

Charles Lewis III - October 14, 2022

MoAD features 15 contemporary photographers expanding rigid narratives about Black media imagery

Homelessness

Begging, sadly, for protection from eviction at Oakland’s Wood Street community

Tiny - October 10, 2022

A bicycle convoy to Sacramento shows how legislators duck the crisis.

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