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Music

Review: Pandemica! Metallica jams (safely) at the drive-in

Tamara Palmer - August 31, 2020

For decades, some of the greatest pleasures that have made me feel like me have involved attending and writing about concerts and music festivals. So...

Campaign Trail

The TikTok campaigns

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 13, 2020

After a few edits and some graphics, Sameera Rajwade uploaded the first video to her TikTok account. Within a day, it had racked up...

Music

In a time for Black voices, the terrific ‘High Fidelity’ gets canceled. Why?

John-Paul Shiver - August 11, 2020

Welp, I was wrong. HULU may actually be an acronym for stupid. As we move with GREAT hesitation these days—government mishandled pandemics and all—the need...

Labor

Giants and Warriors give their workers the boot

Marc Norton - August 4, 2020

I got the email firing me from my job at the Giants ballpark on Monday evening, July 27. On Tuesday evening I learned from...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Dennis Harvey - July 28, 2020

Social media political propaganda campaigns, sexual abuse accusations, invaded privacy—art certainly seems to be imitating life even more than usual amongst new streaming releases...

News + Politics

Supes, by one vote, reject public advocate plan

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The San Francisco supes today refused by one vote to put a measure on the ballot creating a public advocate to focus on public...

News + Politics

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Tina Gerhardt - July 19, 2020

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...

News + Politics

‘She Represents’ teaches teens the good, bad, and infuriating of women in politics

Caitlin Donohue - July 16, 2020

Large, wild quantities of joy and a smattering of acute frustration were involved in writing my first book, the YA title She Represents: 44...

News + Politics

The problem with ‘centrists’

Tim Redmond - July 14, 2020

The resignation of New York Times columnist Bari Weiss is all over the news, and the right-wingosphere is using it to push the demonstrably...

Onstage

Too soon for COVID jokes? Shazia Mirza on Zoom comedy and life at home

Joshua Rotter - July 13, 2020

Shazia Mirza has been making the most of quarantine. The award-winning British stand-up comedian and writer—best known for her show “The Kardashians Made Me...

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Review: Pandemica! Metallica jams (safely) at the drive-in

The TikTok campaigns

In a time for Black voices, the terrific ‘High Fidelity’ gets canceled. Why?

Giants and Warriors give their workers the boot

Screen Grabs: Art imitates life

Supes, by one vote, reject public advocate plan

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

‘She Represents’ teaches teens the good, bad, and infuriating of women in politics

The problem with ‘centrists’

Too soon for COVID jokes? Shazia Mirza on Zoom comedy and life at home

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