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News + Politics

Social distancing is the wrong term

Marc Norton - April 9, 2020

I am very tired of hearing about “social distancing.” We do not need social distancing. We need physical distancing. What we need is social solidarity. I...

Culture

Need a quick lift? Meet our favorite locals on TikTok

Tamara Palmer - April 9, 2020

With many of us homebound and in the mood to master new media formats ("one-minute videos—how tough can that be?"), there’s now time to...

News + Politics

Mexico and COVID: So far from god, so close to the epicenter

Caitlin Donohue - April 8, 2020

MEXICO CITY, MEX. — I’m healthy and housed and I hope you and yours are safe. I wanted to write my first Letter From...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Help save bookstores, drag queens, Frameline, more

Marke B. - April 3, 2020

Let's start with something positive! And then some more things positive! We deserve it. Except those of you joggers still cutting me off on...

Culture

Silenced in place? SF’s resilient music scene faces its latest obstacle

John-Paul Shiver - March 30, 2020

As Broken Horse, an enduring San Francisco band that calls its oeuvre Western Doom Noir, erupted into tuning instruments at its Rite Spot comeback show...

Culture

‘Rogue’ party uproar shows tech, journalism’s COVID-19 limits

Peter-Astrid Kane - March 28, 2020

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...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Fault Radio helps DJs stream through quarantine

Marke B. - March 27, 2020

If, like me, you're "into" nightlife and music, your social media feed has flipped almost instantaneously into a multi-roomed nightclub, with DJs and musicians...

Culture

Leading drag and performance venue closes indefinitely

Garrett Leahy - March 25, 2020

Since its opening in 2015, the cabaret/theater/nightclub Oasis, on 11thSt. in Soma, has been a “lighthouse” for queer creative culture, in the words of...

News + Politics

In Hong Kong, protests and precautions at Chinese New Year

Herb Mintz - March 24, 2020

My wife (she prefers that label) and I travel to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region each year to visit her relatives, in particular,...

News + Politics

City College board fires chancellor

Tim Redmond - March 23, 2020

The City College Board put Chancellor Mark Rocha on administrative leave today, the first step toward what will almost certainly be a full dismissal...

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