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News + Politics

El Tecolote turns 50 — as strong and relevant as ever

Sadie Peckens - December 8, 2020

Longest running bilingual paper in California grew out of the activism of SF in the early 1970s.

Homelessness

The year in homeless policy

TJ Johnston - December 3, 2020

A few successes and a lot of failures as people on the streets stayed at risk during the pandemic.

Music

Local Listen: La Doña’s bold femmeton, Kelly Finnigan’s soul holiday, more

John-Paul Shiver - November 30, 2020

An indie duo's Joshua Tree retreat and some good ol' Sacramento rock 'n roll also prick up our ears

Homelessness

A free fridge opens in the Mission

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 2, 2020

Days before Mayor London Breed declared the shelter-in-place order back in March, Gabriela Alemán was already trying to figure out how her older neighbors...

Movies

City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Pam Grady - July 22, 2020

When the Roxie Theater announced the first open call for a Mixtape event in 2015, the festival was never meant to become an annual...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Dennis Harvey - July 7, 2020

For years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival was a July event, and this summer would have marked its 25th anniversary—but due to you-know-what,...

Beyond ‘Suavecito’: A tribute journey through Jorge Santana’s Chicano rock

John-Paul Shiver - June 8, 2020

Guillermo "Jorge" Santana, the musician, guitarist, and younger brother of Carlos Santana—who passed on May 14 of natural causes at the age of 68...

Culture

An online summit targets COVID’s racial disparity

Marke B. - May 15, 2020

Evidence continues to mount that Black and Latino communities are being disastrously and disproportionately affected by COVID and its economic fallout. As CNN, analyzing...

Opinion

Opinion: Action desperately needed for COVID-hit Latino community

Jon Jacobo - May 5, 2020

Numbers matter. Inequity, by definition, means a lack of fairness or justice. Inequity in practice means 84% of the hospital beds in San Francisco General Hospital for...

Housing

Physicians, advocates stage die-in outside mayor’s house

Garrett Leahy - April 30, 2020

"House us now! House us now!" A group of UCSF physicians associated with the Do No Harm Coalition, activists from the Coalition on Homelessness, the...

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