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Ficks Pick at TIFF: Experimental cinema is where it’s at!

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - September 24, 2018

Our critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks caught this year's Toronto International Film festival. Read more of his coverage here. TIFF It was no small feat to watch...

Rapping the ‘Housing Crisis’

Marke B. - February 15, 2018

ALL EARS "With the passing of Ed Lee, I think we’re at a crossroads in terms of the future of housing in this city,...

News + Politics

Is Trump planning permanent occupation of Afghanistan?

Reese Erlich - August 22, 2017

On my first reporting trip to Afghanistan, I was surprised to find that so many people supported the US invasion. They loved President George...

Arts + Culture

A leap for CROSSROADS

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - May 16, 2017

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque’s eighth annual experimental film festival, CROSSROADS 2017, has some genuine medicine for the overabundance of melancholy fogging up the...

Arts + Culture

‘I want to be humble, but I want to be fierce’

Marke B. - January 17, 2017

ONSTAGE "I certainly don't mean to talk your ear off," Bill T. Jones, one of the legends of contemporary dance and queer culture, says...

Arts + Culture

Ficks’ Picks: Favorite films (spoiler-free!) of 2016

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - January 3, 2017

SCREEN GRABS Our esteemed film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, who attended Sundance, SFiFF, Crossroads, Frameline, and Mill Valley Film Festival this year, picks the cream...

News + Politics

A militant in pink slippers: Remembering an eviction fighter

Ron Winter - December 14, 2016

Mary Elizabeth Phillips was the reluctant media star of San Francisco’s eviction epidemic. And now, she has quietly passed into the vibrant history of...

Music

Party Radar: Ghost Ship fire fundraisers all week

Marke B. - December 7, 2016

PARTY RADAR "Closure is a myth," local punk legend, DJ, and preacher-of-a-sort Jello Biafra told a crowd of thousands that the luminous memorial for...

News + Politics

Polar bears and climate change in Vegas

Steven T. Jones - October 25, 2016

Las Vegas is a tough town for polar bears. But there I was, in the hours before the final presidential debate, sweating profusely inside...

News + Politics

Bernie Sanders speaks in the Mission — but doesn’t endorse Reform Slate for DCCC

Tim Redmond - June 6, 2016

Bernie Sanders visited the Mission District today on the eve of the California primary, and called for his supporters to remake the Democratic Party...

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