Sunday, May 5, 2024

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Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

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...

Will the state Democratic Party support public power?

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

Supes close to deal on budget ‘windfall’

With a hearing on Mayor London Breed’s proposal to spend most of the city’s education-money windfall on homeless services set for tomorrow, there is...

Puff: The best weed to help you sleep

I stayed up late last night watching movies and woke up, well, my cat jumped on my head for giggles and scared me awake,...

Debate over $185 million windfall begins this week

The debate over how to spend a $185 million windfall that the city just received begins at the Board of Supes Wednesday/6 when the...

Screen Grabs: IndieFest, Godard’s latest, and a Jeff Goldblum smorgasbord

Last week we mentioned the beginning of SF Indiefest, whose 21st edition starts Wed/30 with the new indie comedy The Unicorn and a “live re-score” of Disney...

Some reality facing the candidates for president

The 2020 presidential race is well under way, and now that Sen. Kamala Harris surprised nobody by announcing she’s running, more people will enter. Harris...

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

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

Screen Grabs: Dig deeper into ‘made in China’ at SFMoMA film series

One of the world’s largest movie markets, China nonetheless has an odd relationship towards the international film market. Stringently limited number of foreign films...

A progressive candidate files for DA, opening up the 2019 race

Since the day George Gascon announced he’s not running for re-election as district attorney, progressives involved in the criminal justice system have been wondering...