Market Street Archives

Art

Life’s a grand circus—art is, too—for painter Michael Brennan

Mary Corbin - March 31, 2022

The artist-designer magically transforms pandemic into pandemonium and art-world portraits into carnivalesque celebration

Housing

Ten percent of SF housing is vacant, a new report shows

Tim Redmond - January 31, 2022

The number of condos that are sold but never occupied has soared in the past five years, suggesting that letting developers build freely doesn't really help the crisis.

Elections

School Board recall election set; Assembly candidates could run four times

Tim Redmond - October 18, 2021

Plus: Some very sketchy moves by signature gatherers for Boudin recall effort.

Labor

Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Tim Paulson - September 19, 2021

Ten years later, remembering the movement that gave us "We are the 99 percent" and put economic inequality on the national agenda.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Open Studios 2021, Colson Whitehead, The Residents return…

Marke B. - September 14, 2021

Plus: Cocteaufest, Leather Walk, Judy Collins, Tea Lautrec opening, and more choice events

Culture

Win a pass to How Weird Street Faire!

48 Hills - September 3, 2021

The 22nd annual phenomenon is celebrating Sun/12 with eight music stages, and tons of art and entertainment.

Environment

Students demand that teacher pension fund revoke fossil fuel investments

Garrett Leahy - August 29, 2021

CalSTRS holds $6 billion in fossil-fuel company stock, and the next generation wants to see a dramatic change.

Puff

Cannabis community reels from death of 69-year-old activist “OG” Eddy Lepp

Dan Karkoska - August 18, 2021

The cultivator of one of the “greatest marijuana gardens of all time" laid the seed for today's marijuana legalization movement.

Movies

Drag legend Terence Alan Smith takes center stage in ‘The Beauty President’

Alex Arabian - August 12, 2021

As Joan Jett Blakk, the performer made two historic runs for president. A new short film asks what could have been.

Housing

Facebook’s housing echo chamber

Zelda Bronstein - April 22, 2021

Zuckerberg money funds news outlets that repeat Zuckerberg group's supply-side position on the housing crisis.

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