Tag: Journalism
Books: A fun ride through SF and NorCal in the 1980s
I’ve known Daniel Ben-Horin for many years – as journalist, as the head of Media Alliance way back in the days when I was a young reporter, and as...
Arts Forecast: Local shows to stream on your screens
Local drag star and owner of SoMa club Oasis, D’Arcy Drollinger’s new show “Hot Trash” would probably not have been born under normal circumstances. But when COVID caused the...
Party Radar: Change finally comes to dance music
Superstar DJ The Black Madonna has changed her name to The Blessed Madonna. Beloved disco-house DJ Joey Negro has dropped his stage name and is now simply Dave Lee....
Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47
Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was 47 years old.
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The problem with ‘centrists’
The resignation of New York Times columnist Bari Weiss is all over the news, and the right-wingosphere is using it to push the demonstrably false narrative that major news...
New Music: An array of excellent sounds to discover (and artists to support)
Here we are halfway through 2020, with so much to keep an attentive eye on that you might walk into the shower fully clothed. For real. That shit happened....
The Agenda: Saving local journalism ….
All local news media is critical during this crisis, and most local news media outlets are struggling. But the nonprofits, the outlets that are set up to provide community-supported...
The dangerous, inaccurate reporting on homelessness and the COVID crisis
Take some salacious information, add a single person with a point of view, and suddenly you have a major international story – that can do serious damage to a...
Phyllis Lyon, lesbian rights icon, passes at 95
It's impossible to imagine the queer rights movement without Phyllis Lyon, who passed away today at the age of 95 of natural causes. Along with her wife and partner...
‘Rogue’ party uproar shows tech, journalism’s COVID-19 limits
As unpleasant as it is to find out that swans are not in fact mating-for-life in Venetian canals next to frolicking dolphins, it’s doubly frustrating to hear that people...
