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Onstage

Lorraine Hansberry Theatre stages Black women’s healing with joyful jeté

Lou Fancher - November 29, 2023

Artistic director Margo Hall celebrates company's mentorship opportunities and high-spirited holiday production 'Soulful Christmas.'

Art

Come hang (art): 800-plus artists welcome you to 49th Open Studios

Lou Fancher - October 18, 2023

ArtSpan's annual event has emerged from the cave-like years of the pandemic as a vibrant, sparkling beast of creativity

Music Review

Portola Fest 2023: What worked (and didn’t) in year two of the dance music massive

Adrian Spinelli - October 3, 2023

Underworld rocked, Skrillex blasted, Nelly Furtado delighted, Black excellence reigned—but still a few kinks in the giant event

News + Politics

The local record and legacy of Dianne Feinstein

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2023

Let's celebrate her accomplishments. But there's another story that needs to be told. I was there.

Education

School Board to discuss possible school closures at critical budget meeting

Tim Redmond - August 27, 2023

Some board members say state is forcing the issue, alternatives exist, and closures should be 'the last option.' That's The Agenda for Aug. 28-Sept 3.

Lit

Shipwrecks and scurvy: ‘The Wager’ reveals human frailty beneath European colonialism

Lou Fancher - August 23, 2023

Novelist David Grann's tale of 18th-century maritime disaster adds to his record of relentless truth-telling, rats and all

Development

Lots of housing laws. Not much housing

Zelda Bronstein - August 1, 2023

Hearing, data show how the state's 'streamlining' supply-side approach is failing.

LGBTQ

A trans immigrant fleeing persecution tries to get asylum—and just get by—in SF. It’s not easy

Stardust Doherty - July 31, 2023

Millions face pervasive discrimination and unjustifiable violence at home. Some come here seeking asylum in the true sense of the word. This is one story

Remembrance

A Tony Bennett Sunday kind of love

Tony Robles - July 26, 2023

His timeless voiced filled my childhood home on California Street, articulating what it meant to be human

Culture

Threads vs. Twitter: Look ma, no Nazis (yet)

Tamara Palmer - July 8, 2023

Instagram’s new app offers a fix for soap opera lovers and the social media-dependent—but watch that privacy

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