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News + Politics

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

Tim Redmond - March 10, 2019

The long-term impact of the Twitter tax break was never going to be the money that came in or was lost by the city...

Venezuela: Democratic uprising or US coup?

Reese Erlich - February 8, 2019

Tens of thousands of angry people march in the streets to protest lack of democracy. Women bang on pots to raise alarm over the...

Foreign Correspondent

Does Cuba censor the Internet? Think again

Reese Erlich - January 25, 2019

HAVANA -- A group of Cubans stared intently at the screens of their smart phones here in Old Havana, checking emails and Googling news...

News + Politics

Building momentum and the Women’s March

Tim Redmond - January 21, 2019

The New York Times spent a lot of time talking about the “controversy” around this weekend’s Women’s March. The march was “smaller;”maybe there’s a “waning...

Arts + Culture

Black Panthers, today: A 1968 photo series exploring the activists’ humanity finds significance in 2019

Caitlin Donohue - January 18, 2019

How is the humanity of activists obscured to discredit their movement? San Francisco Art Institute explores the question in “Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics &...

News + Politics

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

Tim Redmond - January 7, 2019

It was a time to celebrate in San Francisco tonight. Progressive groups in Chinatown held a banquet for the new supervisors, who ran on...

Onstage

Pucks to plays: Former hockey pro brings drama to Magic Theatre

Emily Wilson - October 14, 2018

ONSTAGE Ashlin Halfnight sees a lot of parallels between his former career as a professional hockey player and his current one as a playwright. “It seems...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Mill Valley, SF Dance, Drunken Film Fests ….

Dennis Harvey - October 1, 2018

SCREEN GRABS It’s a starry as well as busy week in Bay Area filmgoing, with major openings including the new Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga A Star...

Opera singer Russell Thomas on diversity, drive, and ‘Roberto Devereux’

Emily Wilson - September 8, 2018

ALL EARS When opera singer Joy Davidson heard tenor Russell Thomas sing in his high school choir in Miami, she asked him if he’d ever considered...

News + Politics

Attacking an SF judge for being too ‘soft on crime’

Tim Redmond and Alex Catsoulis - August 28, 2018

An auto burglary case that, thanks in part to an SF Chron column, has spurred anger among mostly white anti-crime crusaders comes before a...

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