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Nightlife

Remembering Phatima Rude, fearless legend of SF’s nightlife scene

Don Baird - July 20, 2021

Magical, complex, transcendent: Our patron goddess of wild performance has moved on. Here's where to pay respects

News + Politics

Supes panel appoints three community-based progressives to redistricting panel

Tim Redmond - July 19, 2021

Move will counter the Elections Commission's appointments, all of whom are allies of the mayor, in what could be a major gerrymandering fight.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Jewish Film Fest delves into heroes, hoaxes, and hair-raisers

Dennis Harvey - July 19, 2021

Teen tribulations, historical thrillers, and even a Bernie Madoff musical at the 41st installment, online and in-person.

News + Politics

The future of the Board of Supes is on the line as redistricting moves forward

Tim Redmond - July 16, 2021

A city task force will draw new district lines for the next decade. The mayor's allies already have members. The supes pick three this week.

News + Politics

And yet we signed: Behind the letter to the president of Nicaragua

Elaine Elinson - July 15, 2021

Hundreds who spent the 1980s doing Sandinista solidarity work are now condemning Daniel Ortega's new wave of political repression. Here's why.

News + Politics

Low-income people in SF might actually get paid for jury duty

Tim Redmond - July 14, 2021

Plus: Landlords kill a transparency bill that would hold speculators accountable. That's today in Sacramento.

Onstage

Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Caitlin Donohue - July 14, 2021

At nearly a half-century, this showcase of early-career playwrights must be doing something right. Find out what, starting Fri/16.

Art

In “Altered States” exhibition, artists play with the illegible

Genevieve Quick - July 13, 2021

Kandis Williams' sculpture of a monstera plant, intervened with images of Frederick and Helen Pitts Douglass, leads the way.

Art

“Seeing Sound” argues that creating noise is the most human act of all

Genevieve Quick - July 8, 2021

The KADIST group show (through July 24) presents alternative auditory realities and spaces.

Education

How pre-schoolers can learn about society’s biases — and respond

Eliana Elias and Barbra Blender - July 6, 2021

Teaching Behind the Mask: A discussion of anti-bias curriculum and its role in early childhood education.

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Remembering Phatima Rude, fearless legend of SF’s nightlife scene

Supes panel appoints three community-based progressives to redistricting panel

Screen Grabs: Jewish Film Fest delves into heroes, hoaxes, and hair-raisers

The future of the Board of Supes is on the line as redistricting moves forward

And yet we signed: Behind the letter to the president of Nicaragua

Low-income people in SF might actually get paid for jury duty

Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

In “Altered States” exhibition, artists play with the illegible

“Seeing Sound” argues that creating noise is the most human act of all

How pre-schoolers can learn about society’s biases — and respond

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