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The next chancellor: An open letter to the City College trustees

Anita Martinez - May 17, 2020

Editor's note: City College will be hiring and interim chancellor to serve for the next year while a permanent chancellor his hired. It's a...

Culture

An online summit targets COVID’s racial disparity

Marke B. - May 15, 2020

Evidence continues to mount that Black and Latino communities are being disastrously and disproportionately affected by COVID and its economic fallout. As CNN, analyzing...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Get in, we’re going streaming

Dennis Harvey - May 14, 2020

We’ve been in the middle of all this long enough for events during what’s usually high festival season to start coming up with some...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

Dennis Harvey - May 12, 2020

Many everyday things have been notable for their absence during the shutdown, so something that stood out was construction—because it never seemed to stop,...

News + Politics

SF measure would allow all residents to serve on commissions

Garrett Leahy - May 7, 2020

On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to put on the fall ballot a City Charter amendment that would allow all San Francisco...

Opinion

Opinion: Action desperately needed for COVID-hit Latino community

Jon Jacobo - May 5, 2020

Numbers matter. Inequity, by definition, means a lack of fairness or justice. Inequity in practice means 84% of the hospital beds in San Francisco General Hospital for...

Lit

A Drag Queen Story Hour star and activist publishes her own kids’ book

Joshua Rotter - May 5, 2020

For the majority of Americans, drag queens are performers they catch every Friday night on RuPaul’s Drag Race or at their local gay bar...

News + Politics

Supes have plan to staff hotel rooms — but mayor ignores it

Tim Redmond - April 30, 2020

Sup. Matt Haney, with the support of four of his colleagues, put forward a plan this week to address the staffing needs that the...

Culture

Folsom Street Fair 2020 moves online due to COVID concerns

Marke B. - April 27, 2020

This September, Folsom Street Fair's jingle-jangle of nipple rings and crack-crack-crack of the whip will be floating out of your laptop speakers—rather than above...

COVID

COVID crashes Earth Day 50

Tom Molanphy - April 21, 2020

Before 20 million Americans hit the streets for the first Earth Day in 1970 (still the largest civic event in recorded human history), and...

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The next chancellor: An open letter to the City College trustees

An online summit targets COVID’s racial disparity

Screen Grabs: Get in, we’re going streaming

Screen Grabs: ‘5 Blocks’ delves into Mid-Market development quandary

SF measure would allow all residents to serve on commissions

Opinion: Action desperately needed for COVID-hit Latino community

A Drag Queen Story Hour star and activist publishes her own kids’ book

Supes have plan to staff hotel rooms — but mayor ignores it

Folsom Street Fair 2020 moves online due to COVID concerns

COVID crashes Earth Day 50

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