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Arts + Culture

Life before dot-com: Two exhibitions explore the not-so-distant past of SF

Dennis Harvey - November 26, 2019

San Francisco has tended to be defined by its high profile cultural moments and movements, from the libertine Barbary Coast era to the Beats,...

News + Politics

DA deal? D5 money … and will an 11-year EIR ever die?

Tim Redmond - October 6, 2019

There are really only two questions for George Gascon at this point: Did he cut a deal with the mayor (and everyone knows Gascon...

Review: 20 years in, SF Electronic Music Fest doubles down on avant-garde

Winston Mann - September 18, 2019

The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, which took place over four days beginning September 12, describes the force behind itself as an artist-run organization founded...

Culture

Review: Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity

Winston Mann - July 31, 2019

Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. —Dante, The Inferno. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. —Camus, The Myth of...

‘Art of Peace’ transforms guns into beauty

Emily Wilson - July 23, 2019

ART LOOKS Pati Navalta Poblete grew up in Vallejo. But after her 23-year-old son Robby Poblete was shot there in 2014, she had such...

News + Politics

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Tiny - May 22, 2019

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

Onstage

‘We Have Iré’ celebrates the Afro-Cuban immigrant experience—and challenge

Emily Wilson - May 4, 2019

ONSTAGE Paul Flores grew up in Chula Vista, California, near the Mexican border. His single mom worked a lot, and his grandmother was a central...

Culture

A live cinema event to ‘Remember Los Siete’ in the Mission

Caitlin Donohue - April 24, 2019

On May 1,1969, a pair of cops stopped a group of Latino activists on the Mission District's Alvarado Street. In the ensuring altercation, one...

News + Politics

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Tiny - March 6, 2019

No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

News + Politics

Save the Redstone Building!

Tim Redmond - February 19, 2019

My first job in San Francisco was in the Redstone Building, at 2940 16thStreet, near the 16thand Mission BART plaza. I worked as a...

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