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Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

Dennis Harvey - July 9, 2020

The demand for streaming movies has increased such during recent months that many films are getting taken off the shelf where they’ve laid neglected...

News + Politics

SF Superior Court ends Zero Bail Policy, threatening public health

Tim Redmond - July 9, 2020

The San Francisco Superior Court has chosen not to continue the Zero Bail Policy that has reduced county jail populations across the state. That, a...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Dennis Harvey - July 7, 2020

For years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival was a July event, and this summer would have marked its 25th anniversary—but due to you-know-what,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Cinema’s future in doubt, but these world classics endure

Dennis Harvey - July 1, 2020

Movie theaters (drive-ins aside—who’d have imagined they’d get a comeback?) remain closed for the time being, their re-openings TBD in the Bay Area and...

News + Politics

Foreign Correspondent: Lessons from the Cuban police

Reese Erlich - June 22, 2020

A group of muscular cops carrying semi-automatic pistols and batons slowly move through the crowd at the end of an outdoor salsa concert. My...

Business + Tech

The plutonium of Artificial Intelligence could be coming to a city near you

Tim Kingston - June 10, 2020

Of all the tools of mass surveillance deployed by law enforcement, private industry and the federal government, Facial Recognition Technology poses by far the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now

Dennis Harvey - June 7, 2020

As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump...

Culture

From Angelou to Zinn: An anti-racism resource guide

Marke B. - June 5, 2020

Amid the latest protests against institutional racism, many are looking to sharpen their own knowledge and talk to their neighbors about how they can...

News + Politics

Which side of the ‘house divided’ are you on?

Scott Soriano - May 31, 2020

This morning I made the dire mistake of reading twitter comments on a San Francisco Chronicle report of protesters at SF Mayor London Breed's...

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Screen Grabs: What’s a long weekend? It’s staycation stream time

Dennis Harvey - May 22, 2020

It’ll be odd to have a Memorial Day weekend under quarantine—or one without, presumably, the usual exodus of city dwellers to other destinations—but there...

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