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News + Politics

Rust Belt SF? Are we doomed by progressive politics?

Tim Redmond - September 6, 2018

CNBC calls it a picture of a “dystopian future.” The Chron calls it a vision for “a better San Francisco.” That’s what we get with...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Soundwave’s diverse, reverberating visions

Marke B. - September 5, 2018

ARTS FORECAST The biennial Soundwave festival (Sat/8-October 26) is one of those incredible Bay Area experiences that really connects music and performance with the feeling...

Campaign Trail

The Prop. C job-loss myth …

Tim Redmond - September 4, 2018

The Chamber of Commerce, the cops, and some big tech companies are attacking Prop. C, which would tax a small number of companies to...

Party Radar

Party Radar: BFFs Forever

Marke B. - August 30, 2018

PARTY RADAR This week, BFF.fm aka Best Frequencies Forever internet radio is celebrating five years of broadcasting some of the most diverse programming heard outside of a...

News + Politics

A people’s climate summit

Martha Hawthorne, Michael Eisenscher, Lorraine Thiebaud, and Jonathan Kocher - August 29, 2018

This September, community, political, and business leaders from around the globe will be meeting in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit to discuss...

Lit

A showcase of ‘young blood’ Asian American writers

Emily Wilson - August 28, 2018

The Pilipinx American Library, a non-circulating library in the reading room at the Asian Art Museum, has bean bag chairs, a table with books...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Soviet Hippies, Green Film Fest, John McEnroe

Dennis Harvey - August 28, 2018

SCREEN GRABS It’s a week unusually full of documentaries, including the Roxie’s single showing next Wed/5 of Soviet Hippies—a look at countercultural resistance behind...

Movies

A peek at pre-Internet SF

Marke B. - August 22, 2018

ARTS FORECAST In start-up clogged SF, nostalgia for a time before the Internet was capitalized has certainly been growing. On September 13, a new film...

Campaign Trail

Prop. C will define progressive politics in SF

Tim Redmond - August 20, 2018

The most important measure to address homelessness in San Francisco in years now has a ballot designation: It’s Proposition C. And on the state level,...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Trump in Afghanistan

Reese Erlich - August 13, 2018

President Donald Trump is back on the stump, trumpeting his alleged triumphs since the 2016 elections. Somehow, he never mentions Afghanistan. For years, Trump has...

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