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Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

Arts + Culture

Forget the ‘pale male’ podcast scene, here’s Bitch Talk

Joshua Rotter - May 19, 2020

In 2012, Erin Lim, a publicist and Karyn Paige, a digital marketer, had just appeared on a San Francisco podcast called Your Straight Male...

Aquarium vibes on Folsom: Inkletterman, others beautify shuttered storefronts

John-Paul Shiver - May 12, 2020

"It was perfect timing as I was looking for an artist to do the work, knowing the ugliness that boarded-up storefronts have created all...

COVID

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Garrett Leahy - April 3, 2020

“I can’t even afford to go to work,” said taxi driver Colin Marcoux, who has been driving a cab for over two decades. COVID has...

50 years of Jimi Hendrix’s radical, redefining ‘Band of Gypsys’

John-Paul Shiver - March 25, 2020

By the time Jimi Hendrix and his Band of Gypsys—released on Capitol Records March 25, 1970—came together for their two-night performance at the Fillmore East on New Years 1970, with...

Culture

Howdy, neighbor! Storied: San Francisco podcast bridges divide

Marke B. - March 24, 2020

"How can you get to know your neighbor, when you can't even shake their hand right now?" Podcaster Jeff Hunt posed the question to...

Onstage

Review: ‘Toni Stone’ hits a home run (and you can watch it on your couch)

Elaine Elinson - March 17, 2020

Editor's Note: In the wake of its theaters shutting down, ACT is streaming its plays Gloria (reviewed here) and Toni Stone, reviewed below on...

Movies

Robbie Robertson on heart-wrenching The Band doc ‘Once Were Brothers’

Joshua Rotter - February 24, 2020

The Band’s Robbie Robertson feels that most rock autobiographies and documentaries lack “feeling." But finding so much pathos and excitement in much of his former...

Housing

Preston wants rent control for Midtown

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - January 9, 2020

Supervisor Dean Preston announced Tuesday the introduction of legislation that would bring the Fillmore-Western Addition’s historic Midtown Park Apartments under rent control. The rents at...

Exclusive

Investigation: Complaints cite racist, sexist harassment by Muni fare inspectors

Chloe Bennett - December 9, 2019

In January, 2019, a woman called Muni’s customer service to complain about what she described as her daughter’s alarming interaction with a fare inspector....

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