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Music

SF Symphony dives into diverse local sounds with online ‘Currents’

Marke B. - September 3, 2020

"Music isn't just about an end result. It's about what people do and how people come into things," conductor Michael Morgan told me over...

Nightlife

Grab that virtual wig, it’s all aboard for Oaklash!

Marke B. - September 2, 2020

Weekend-long Oakland drag festival Oaklash (Fri/4-Sun/6 at www.twitch.tv/oaklash2020) has become such an integral part of the Bay Area queer performance scene that I was taken...

Movies

A man, a plan, a documentary: ‘The Palindromists’

Pam Grady - September 1, 2020

Palindromes read the same forward and back. We learn that in grade school. "Madam, I'm Adam." "A man. A plan. A canal. Panama." "Was...

Homelessness

Old SF money backing stealthy new right-wing group

Tim Redmond - August 31, 2020

Most start-up political organizations like a splash. They hold news events, press conferences, big galas to say: We have arrived. This is who we...

Lit

Books: A fun ride through SF and NorCal in the 1980s

Tim Redmond - August 31, 2020

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...

Movies

Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

Dennis Harvey - August 28, 2020

One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of...

Culture

Get the look: 13 Bay Area clothing brands to feed your flow

Caitlin Donohue - August 24, 2020

It may sound strange, but you want to look good for the apocalypse. Waist-up Zoom 'fits are one thing, but somewhere in the mush,...

Labor

Giants workers fight back

Marc Norton - August 16, 2020

The San Francisco Giants returned home on Friday, August 14 and found themselves being picketed by the workers who normally sell garlic fries and...

Campaign Trail

The TikTok campaigns

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 13, 2020

After a few edits and some graphics, Sameera Rajwade uploaded the first video to her TikTok account. Within a day, it had racked up...

Music

In a time for Black voices, the terrific ‘High Fidelity’ gets canceled. Why?

John-Paul Shiver - August 11, 2020

Welp, I was wrong. HULU may actually be an acronym for stupid. As we move with GREAT hesitation these days—government mishandled pandemics and all—the need...

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