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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables

Dennis Harvey - January 14, 2020

This very random week at the movies features two big franchise reboots. Doolittle is from writer-director Stephen Gaghan, previously associated with such very grown-up...

News + Politics

DA Chesa Boudin sworn in with promises of dramatic reform

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2020

A reformer who has promised to shake up the broken criminal justice system was sworn into office Thursday, with a promise to end cash...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: New year, death row

Dennis Harvey - January 8, 2020

January is generally considered a dumping ground for unloved movies, squeezed in to fill any space remaining by Christmas and awards-bait major releases still...

For thriller ‘Uncut Gems,’ an electronic soundtrack of erupting chakras

John-Paul Shiver - January 7, 2020

Daniel Lopatin, AKA electronic musician Oneohtrix Point Never, teams up with directors Josh and Benny Safdie a second time to deliver a supernaturalistic score, which documents the inner dreams of...

Culture

Chatting by cell: ‘Uncuffed’ is a prison podcast for our time

Peter-Astrid Kane - December 23, 2019

As setups to Thanksgiving jokes go, a manic wild turkey that burst into a California prison compound seems almost too on-the-nose, considering how two...

News + Politics

More details emerge in Mission police shooting

Tim Redmond - December 18, 2019

We learned a lot more Tuesday night about the shooting of Jamaica Hampton – and it was, at best, disturbing. Chief Bill Scott released at...

News + Politics

SF man faces deportation—for a crime he committed at 16

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - December 8, 2019

Based solely on appearances, Simon Liu resembles any other tech worker in San Francisco: Clad in a puffy jacket and sneakers, Simon carries his...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Burning Man: The Musical, more

Marke B. - December 4, 2019

Blades will slice, crystals will fly, Mariah will be Careyed up to the high heavens. OK, it's not as dramatic as all that—I wish—but...

Arts + Culture

Life before dot-com: Two exhibitions explore the not-so-distant past of SF

Dennis Harvey - November 26, 2019

San Francisco has tended to be defined by its high profile cultural moments and movements, from the libertine Barbary Coast era to the Beats,...

News + Politics

Four years in prison — for driving without a license?

Tim Redmond - November 19, 2019

If you want to get a sense of what’s wrong with the criminal justice system in San Francisco, take a look at the case...

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