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Read something new! California Book Award finalists announced

Marke B. - April 2, 2018

LIT Spring brings an overflow of book recommendations, when the announcements of both the Northern California Book Award winners and the California Book Award...

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Ananda Esteva’s border-crossing, jazz-driven Califaztlan tale

James Tracy - March 9, 2018

The Wanderings of Chela Coatlícue: Touring Califaztlan (Transgress Press) is the first installment of a trilogy of coming-of-age adventures, following a brazen young musical...

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‘Knucklehead’ author Adam Smyer takes on the turbulent ’90s

James Tracy - March 3, 2018

LIT San Francisco writer Adam Smyer’s debut novel Knucklehead introduces the reader to Marcus Hayes, a black lawyer who regulates everyday bad behavior with short,...

News + Politics

How we beat Airbnb

Calvin Welch - January 22, 2018

San Francisco has set another first in the annals of the tech economy: a 50% reduction in the number of Airbnb listings for the...

News + Politics

Recollections from the Frisco Five hunger strike — and a real San Francisco poet

Tim Redmond - December 26, 2017

The Frisco Five hunger strike electrified the city. Five San Franciscans, sick of the rampant police violence, stopped eating for 17 days – long...

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Small city, Big Oil, upset victories

Janis Hashe - November 18, 2017

The pundit-defying results in Virginia’s recent elections happened because of “local, grassroots organizing,” according to Democratic leaders. An intensively researched saga, Steve Early’s Refinery...

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Sunday’s Howard Zinn Book Fair envisions “The World We Want”

Marke B. - November 15, 2017

LIT The world is flaming on Twitter, your friends are frothing on Facebook, and, well, let's just say online political discourse in this precarious global...

Music

Tears (and bubbly) for Bubbles

Marke B. - September 11, 2017

"Where are the snow cones! Where are the snow cones!" The chant rose over the crowd assembled Sunday evening on the corner of Larkin...

Arts + Culture

Grrrlz on film: ‘Shot for Shot’ fest fetes doomed Lexington Club

Marke B. - January 21, 2015

On eve of closure, legendary lesbian watering hole the Lexington Club comes alive onscreen at Roxie Cinema, on Sun. Jan. 25 By Marke B. When word...

Culture

Why SF’s iconic dyke bar, the Lexington Club, is closing

Marke B. - October 23, 2014

By Marke B. OCTOBER 23, 3014 -- "I'm selling the Lex," Lila Thirkield told me, her no-nonsense voice tinged with a little disbelief at what...

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