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Housing

Deal with SF’s worst planning scofflaw goes forward with little public review

Tim Redmond - December 4, 2019

A settlement deal with one of the city’s worst planning scofflaws comes before the Government Audit and Oversight Committee tomorrow – but the case...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Burning Man: The Musical, more

Marke B. - December 4, 2019

Blades will slice, crystals will fly, Mariah will be Careyed up to the high heavens. OK, it's not as dramatic as all that—I wish—but...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Monsters (and wonders) of history awaken

Dennis Harvey - December 3, 2019

The holiday season tends to induce nostalgia, and while Hollywood is always very interested in directing your leisure dollars towards big new commercial movies,...

Arts + Culture

At Zinn Fair, Peter Cole explores SF’s unique history of labor and race

James Tracy - December 3, 2019

In Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in South Africa and the San Francisco Bay Area, labor historian Peter Cole uncovers the undocumented history of waterfront...

Exclusive

SF General nurses told not to provide bilingual services

Michael Toren - December 1, 2019

When Lauren Cook heard that the new contract her union, SEIU 1021, had negotiated with San Francisco General Hospital included provisions to streamline the...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: What’s next for Bolivia after military coup?

Reese Erlich - November 29, 2019

In 2005, I sat in a lounge off the Senate chamber in La Paz, Bolivia, waiting for an interview. I was wearing my best...

Onstage

Theatre of Yugen stages ‘A Christmas Carol’ with an ancient Japanese spin

Joshua Rotter - November 29, 2019

There are plenty of ways to experience yūgen or “beauty, with a tinge of sadness,” according to the great 14th- and 15th- century Japanese...

Arts + Culture

Life before dot-com: Two exhibitions explore the not-so-distant past of SF

Dennis Harvey - November 26, 2019

San Francisco has tended to be defined by its high profile cultural moments and movements, from the libertine Barbary Coast era to the Beats,...

News + Politics

A nonprofit alliance becomes an ally of Big Telecom

Chris Witteman and Tracy Rosenberg - November 24, 2019

It's not unusual for businesses to spend princely sums lobbying government to free them from regulations, which generally means consumer protections are reduced or...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Escape your family at the movies

Dennis Harvey - November 24, 2019

Apparently obeying the logic that audiences will be sufficiently occupied with such recent popular entries as Frozen 2 or Ford v Ferrari—if they aren’t simply...

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