Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: Mission

The Prop. C job-loss myth …

The Chamber of Commerce, the cops, and some big tech companies are attacking Prop. C, which would tax a small number of companies to...

Touching down on ‘Planet Celadon’

ART LOOKS The video and dance performance coming to the Asian Art Museum, Planet Celadon: Our Receiver Is Operating, features scuba gestures, air traffic signals,...

Party Radar: BFFs Forever

PARTY RADAR This week, BFF.fm aka Best Frequencies Forever internet radio is celebrating five years of broadcasting some of the most diverse programming heard outside of a...

Examined Life: Power, patriarchy, and the imperfect guru

It’s the end of an era, albeit a very short one. In 2014, Against the Stream (ATS) Buddhist Meditation Society—an organization founded by counter culture...

Prop. C will define progressive politics in SF

The most important measure to address homelessness in San Francisco in years now has a ballot designation: It’s Proposition C. And on the state level,...

Party Radar: For Navid

PARTY RADAR The Bay Area nightlife community has weathered a lot of ghastly blows in the past couple years, from Ghost Ship and the shooting...

The very odd Breed Administration memo on homeless policy

The Chron, which lost any hope of claiming objectivity during the mayor’s race, is now clearly on the side of the Chamber of Commerce...

Screen Grabs: BlacKkKlansman, Atomic Cafe, Nico 1988…

SCREEN GRABS The most eagerly awaited movie of the week—for many, of the year—is Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, based on Ron Stallworth’s real-life account of infiltrating...

Huge crowd cheers Democratic Socialist message of Ocasio-Cortez

A huge, energized crowd piled into Mission District event space Gray Area tonight to hear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who stunned the Democratic Party with her...

Arts Forecast: Hip-hop pioneers, classic punks, Hawaiian fun…

ARTS FORECAST It's weird growing older in a media-saturated environment. For years, the only connection I had to my hip-hop-adoring youth was a clutch of...