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From Mali to Memphis: Dee Dee Bridgewater fires up the soul of her youth

Reese Erlich - March 15, 2019

ALL EARS Two of the great divas of blues and jazz will be performing in the Bay Area this coming week. It's a wonderful opportunity...

News + Politics

Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

Haley Keizur - February 12, 2019

Nine hundred ninety-eight. That’s how many people were shot and killed by police in the US in 2018. And 115 of those were in...

News + Politics

Will the state Democratic Party support public power?

Tim Redmond - February 10, 2019

The collapse of Pacific Gas and Electric Company is leading to serious efforts on both the statewide and the local level to replace the...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore confronts queer assimilation in ‘Sketchtasy’

Caitlin Donohue - January 22, 2019

A standing ovation to Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel Sketchtasy, which follows a group of friends navigating Boston nightlife and LGBTQ assimilation, has been...

News + Politics

PG&E is in bankruptcy court — and public power may be the only way out

Tim Redmond - January 14, 2019

It was, in a weird way, ironic to hear on NPR today that PG&E is one of the first companies that is directly impacted...

News + Politics

Protesters call for public control of PG&E — and it makes such perfect sense

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2019

Activists shut down another hearing of the California Public Utilities Commission today, just after Pacific Gas and Electric Co. tried to head off bankruptcy...

News + Politics

PG&E is on the ropes

Tim Redmond - December 26, 2018

When the California Public Utilities Commission – never known for its tight oversight of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. – suddenly starts talking about...

News + Politics

Have you read these? Our top stories of 2018

Staff - December 26, 2018

It's been a wild rollercoaster of a year, which from some vantage points seems like several very, very long years. Two elections, a contentious...

Puff

Puff: A holiday cannabis wish list

Dan Karkoska - December 19, 2018

PUFF Every Christmas when I was a child I would wait with excitement for the Sears Wish Book catalog to arrive in the mail. I...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: A Camp Fire benefit that couldn’t be more San Francisco

Marke B. - December 13, 2018

ARTS FORECAST What happens when your family loses everything, almost in an instant? That's the horror event producer Daniel James Burke faced as the Camp...

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