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News + Politics

Supes call for major cuts in police budget

Tim Redmond - August 20, 2020

The Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee moved toward some significant cuts for the Police Department today, with the chair, Sup. Sandra Lee...

Music

How San Francisco changed the sound of Christian music

Daniel Bromfield - August 20, 2020

The Summer of Love was as fruitful a time for music as its long winter of discontent. As the hippie dream dissipated and mellow...

Music

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2020

Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations...

Music

In a time for Black voices, the terrific ‘High Fidelity’ gets canceled. Why?

John-Paul Shiver - August 11, 2020

Welp, I was wrong. HULU may actually be an acronym for stupid. As we move with GREAT hesitation these days—government mishandled pandemics and all—the need...

Opinion

Castro nightlife must change if we are to move forward after COVID

Levi Maxwell - August 6, 2020

Nightlife as we know it is dead. In the late summer of 2020 we must all be aware that we will not return to Saturday...

Movies

Clap your hands, stomp your feet for ‘River City Drumbeat’

Pam Grady - August 5, 2020

River City Drumbeat (playing Fri/7-August 21 at Roxie Virtual Cinema) captures a Louisville, KY, phenomenon: the River City Drum Corp, a youth brigade of African...

Music

All Ears: Denise Young takes the helm of the SFJAZZ board of trustees

John-Paul Shiver - August 4, 2020

As the world grapples with how to stabilize itself this summer, SFJAZZ has announced a change that should catapult the esteemed institution; effective September...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Dennis Harvey - August 4, 2020

At this point even six months ago may feel like an entirely different, long-lost epoch—as, meanwhile, November 3 can’t possibly come soon enough. But...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Local shows to stream on your screens

Caitlin Donohue - August 3, 2020

Local drag star and owner of SoMa club Oasis, D’Arcy Drollinger’s new show “Hot Trash” would probably not have been born under normal circumstances....

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Dennis Harvey - July 28, 2020

Social media political propaganda campaigns, sexual abuse accusations, invaded privacy—art certainly seems to be imitating life even more than usual amongst new streaming releases...

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