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Screen Grabs: Two major docs on devastating scandals

Dennis Harvey - November 12, 2019

Equal parts entertaining and discomfiting, the two major documentaries opening at local theaters this week are both likely to make you mad. Not at...

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Screen Grabs: French noir to vintage punk, a week of retro gems

Dennis Harvey - November 11, 2019

Considering all the odds against it—real estate/rent issues, changing audiences, ever-more home viewing options—it’s pretty amazing that San Francisco still has any arthouse scene...

Campaign Trail

The future of SF politics

Tim Redmond - November 10, 2019

If you spent any time in the headquarters of the campaigns for Chesa Boudin or Dean Preston, if you spent any time on the...

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Screen Grabs: Two movies for grown-ups at the multiplex

Dennis Harvey - November 7, 2019

Last month 76-year-old Martin Scorcese ignited a firestorm—at least amongst fuming fanboy types—when he shrugged that he’d “tried” to grok superhero movies, “But that’s...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…

Dennis Harvey - November 4, 2019

Woe betide the Bay Area movie lover equally enthused about South Asian cinema, transgender screen expressions, and amateur porn—because this week the signature local...

Arts + Culture

San Francisco’s doomed! Listen to this mix

Tamara Palmer - October 31, 2019

Tamara Palmer is a writer, DJ (as TeeMoney), and publisher of food zine California Eating. We asked her to make a mix of some...

Campaign Trail

Sup. Vallie Brown evicted low-income tenants

Tim Redmond - October 10, 2019

Sup. Vallie Brown has a narrative driving her campaign: She had a difficult childhood, faced evictions and homelessness, and is now working to protect...

News + Politics

SF planners say 11-year-old data is just fine — and will never expire

Tim Redmond - October 8, 2019

The Board of Supes rejected an appeal of a housing development in the Mission today after the Planning Department effectively admitted that it can...

Campaign Trail

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From ‘The Joker’ to Japan…

Dennis Harvey - October 1, 2019

It’s no joke that the film crowding out all others this week is Todd Phillips’ Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix drawing bets as a likely...

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