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Movies

Ficks’ Picks: The best flicks of 2019

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
48 Hills festival movie critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks travels the continent for us checking out the biggest film events. He also hosts the invaluable...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables

Dennis Harvey -
This very random week at the movies features two big franchise reboots. Doolittle is from writer-director Stephen Gaghan, previously associated with such very grown-up...
Housing

Why so little state money for housing?

Tim Redmond -
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing the biggest budget in state history, $220 billion,which is a huge number, and it shows that Newsom, unlike his...
Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Trump backs down, but Iran conflict continues

Reese Erlich -
Trump blinked. After threatening to bomb military and cultural sites in Iran, President Donald Trump has apparently backed down on further escalation in his quasi-war...
Housing

Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing

Steven Hill -
State Senator Scott Wiener has reintroduced his housing bill, SB 50, which seeks to alleviate the housing crisis by forcing more density around transit corridors. But...
Housing

Preston wants rent control for Midtown

Natalia Robyns-Kresich -
Supervisor Dean Preston announced Tuesday the introduction of legislation that would bring the Fillmore-Western Addition’s historic Midtown Park Apartments under rent control. The rents at...

The unflagging, cinematic visions of James Tissot

Emily Wilson -
A sharpshooter in the Franco-Prussian War, a society painter, and a watercolorist who did hundreds of religious scenes that inspired filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg...
Housing

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

Tim Redmond -
State Sen. Scott Wiener will hold a press conference and rally in Oakland Tuesday/7 to announce that he’s re-introducing a new version of his...
Culture

Bingeing on dystopia: The politico-cultural decade in review

Peter-Astrid Kane -
Gore Vidal once remarked that the three saddest words in the English language were “Joyce Carol Oates,” but from the vantage point of late...
News + Politics

Our top stories of 2019

Marke B. -
From the election of Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston to a renewed spirit of arts and culture in the face of displacement, the 48...
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