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Media

Media Week: Why is Haney’s dubious campaign spending not a bigger story?

Tim Redmond - June 24, 2024

Plus: If SF is the worst-run city in the country, the data doesn't show it.

Dance

Get Free Festival’s liberatory storytelling stays fresh five years in

Nicole Gluckstern - June 24, 2024

Embodiment Project's nine-day hip hop gathering choreographs provocation, battle—and unfettered joy.

Puff

Puff: Pride’s about to get hella lit

Dan Karkoska - June 21, 2024

The first Hottboxx area at Pride will feature cannabis demos, drag, dancing, and Laganja Estranja.

Environment

Burning Man is getting dirtier and dirtier

Steven T. Jones - June 20, 2024

New data show carbon pollution way up in Black Rock City — until the rainstorm hit last year

Housing

Big Real Estate wants to prevent effective rent control—and is pushing SF supes

Tim Redmond - June 20, 2024

Showdown looms next week on state ballot measure that would let local government regulate rents on new housing, vacant apartments.

Art

Celebrity portraitist Tom Zimberoff turns his lens to nature’s riptide

Mary Corbin - June 20, 2024

He used to think of the beach as a background player for his star-studded snaps. Now in Outer Sunset, he sees it leads.

Art

The kid from Plainfield: Irving Penn retrospective captures him capturing us

Lou Fancher - June 20, 2024

De Young retrospective shows how the photographer built a time capsule of humanity in San Francisco and far beyond.

Art

A kickass tattoo artist honors her Mescalero Apache roots

Danny Acosta - June 20, 2024

'It's in my blood,' says 24th Street Studio's Renette Hammer, who felt destined to open up shop in SF.

Housing

A truly bizarre debate on rent control at the Board of Supes

Tim Redmond - June 19, 2024

Stefani, Dorsey argue that protecting tenants is somehow a Nimby plot to block new housing.

Arts + Culture

On James Devane’s ‘Searching,’ randomized snippets pair for off-kilter grooves

Daniel Bromfield - June 19, 2024

'We have to make music that's weirder going forward,' says software engineer, whose program smashes jams together.

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