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Housing

Newsom, Chiu agree on bill that could lead to widespread evictions

Tim Redmond - August 28, 2020

Assemblymember David Chiu has reached a compromise with Gov. Gavin Newsom and the big landlord groups on a relatively limited bill to protect renters...

Music

Beat change: New funds for Black emerging composers announced

John-Paul Shiver - August 24, 2020

Music historians often refer to jazz as the United States' classical music. The genre was born out of the African American experience, from Miles...

Labor

Drivers rally against Uber and Lyft extortion

Garrett Leahy - August 21, 2020

About 70 drivers rallied outside Uber’s headquarters on Market Street on Thursday, decrying Uber and Lyft’s threat to cancel rideshare services in California in retaliation...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

Dennis Harvey - August 21, 2020

For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as...

News + Politics

Supes call for major cuts in police budget

Tim Redmond - August 20, 2020

The Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee moved toward some significant cuts for the Police Department today, with the chair, Sup. Sandra Lee...

Campaign Trail

Biden’s convention: Powerful images, powerful speeches ….

Tim Redmond - August 20, 2020

Wednesday night was about fighting back. The speakers took on Donald Trump, with former President Barack Obama – normally the calm, measured voice of...

Music

How San Francisco changed the sound of Christian music

Daniel Bromfield - August 20, 2020

The Summer of Love was as fruitful a time for music as its long winter of discontent. As the hippie dream dissipated and mellow...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Kamala Harris on war, peace, and the Middle East

Reese Erlich - August 14, 2020

Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hasn’t forgotten a 2017 meeting with members of Senator Kamala Harris’s staff to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza....

Arts + Culture

Books: ‘Caste’ and the history of racism in the US

Ellen Chaitin - August 14, 2020

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent has received acclaims from literary critics in addition to bringing Oprah to tears. The book presents...

Campaign Trail

Understanding the politics of Kamala Harris

Tim Redmond - August 12, 2020

Joe Biden was never going to pick Rep. Barbara Lee as his running mate. He’s not a left-progressive-democratic socialist, and never was. So Sen....

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