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Screen Grabs: Dig deeper into ‘made in China’ at SFMoMA film series

Dennis Harvey - January 16, 2019

One of the world’s largest movie markets, China nonetheless has an odd relationship towards the international film market. Stringently limited number of foreign films...

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A progressive candidate files for DA, opening up the 2019 race

Tim Redmond - January 15, 2019

Since the day George Gascon announced he’s not running for re-election as district attorney, progressives involved in the criminal justice system have been wondering...

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Puff: The doctor done told me

Dan Karkoska - January 11, 2019

So US Surgeon General Jerome Adams finally said it. The most authoritative medical opinion in America stated that the government should rethink its stance...

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The spy cameras you didn’t know about in Golden Gate Park

Beth Winegarner - December 27, 2018

Just inside Golden Gate Park, not far from where Haight Street dead-ends at Stanyan, Alvord Lake offers a quiet, shady spot to relax, walk...

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Mayor Breed’s brother should be released from prison

Tim Redmond - December 20, 2018

Jerry Brown is poised to leave office with 740 people on death row and 130,000 others in state prisons, 70 percent of them Black...

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The POA wants to lock more people up — and thinks its chosen candidates will, too

Tim Redmond - October 22, 2018

If you think the solution to the problems of drugs and car break-ins is to make more arrests, prosecute more cases, and lock more...

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Gascon will step down — but who will step up?

Tim Redmond - October 3, 2018

A lot of people in the San Francisco political world were stunned when District Attorney George Gascon announced he would not be running for...

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Rape Culture and the Kavanaugh hearings

Bianca Rosen - September 28, 2018

The Brett Kavanaugh hearing yesterday showed that even during a period of heightened public consciousness around sexual assault, rape culture wins out. Rape culture is...

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Attacking an SF judge for being too ‘soft on crime’

Tim Redmond and Alex Catsoulis - August 28, 2018

An auto burglary case that, thanks in part to an SF Chron column, has spurred anger among mostly white anti-crime crusaders comes before a...

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We know how to control housing costs

Peter Dreier - August 23, 2018

Editors note: This is the testimony Professor Peter Dreier gave June 21 at a joint hearing of the state Senate Judiciary Committee and the Assembly...

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