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Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Zelda Bronstein - September 2, 2016

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

Arts + Culture

Black abstractions, charting a “Blank Map”

Maro Guevara - June 1, 2016

ON STAGE This weekend, Adee Roberson, Brontez Purnell, keyon gaskin, Tasha Ceyan, and Wizard Apprentice come together to present "Blank Map" (Fri/3-Sun/12), a new...

Movies

Horror films save lives

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - October 26, 2015

A personal appreciation of the bloodiest genre of all. Plus a super-scary stalker top 10!

Arts + Culture

Pick up your horn and blow!

Marke B. - August 24, 2015

Housed in a stunning Mission Edwardian for 94 years, Community Music Center continues to bring music to the masses.

News + Politics

The case against Junipero Serra

Tiny - August 17, 2015

Native Americans and their allies meet to discuss the disaster of making a colonizing killer into a saint By Tiny AUGUST 18, 2015 -- The screams...

Culture

The week ACT UP shut SF down

Marke B. - June 16, 2015

25th anniversary events commemorate historic Sixth International Conference on AIDS protests -- and reunite seminal local activists, Fri/19-Sun/21. By Marke B. JUNE 16, 2015 -- "We were fraught,...

News + Politics

Don’t be a Stanford asshole

Tim Redmond - January 26, 2015

David Talbot talks about different world visions for young educated workers from The Farm. JANUARY 26, 2015 -- Editor’s note: Early Sunday morning, I made...

Arts + Culture

Grrrlz on film: ‘Shot for Shot’ fest fetes doomed Lexington Club

Marke B. - January 21, 2015

On eve of closure, legendary lesbian watering hole the Lexington Club comes alive onscreen at Roxie Cinema, on Sun. Jan. 25 By Marke B. When word...

Culture

Why SF’s iconic dyke bar, the Lexington Club, is closing

Marke B. - October 23, 2014

By Marke B. OCTOBER 23, 3014 -- "I'm selling the Lex," Lila Thirkield told me, her no-nonsense voice tinged with a little disbelief at what...

News + Politics

Does private zoning trump public zoning? Do we care?

Tim Redmond - March 25, 2014

By Tim Redmond You don't hear much about Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions in San Francisco these days. The "CC&Rs," as they are called, are private...

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