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Lit

SF’s Juli Delgado Lopera on language, matriarchy, and ‘Fiebre Tropical’

Marke B. - March 11, 2020

UPDATE: The book release party has been postponed, but you can still buy Fiebre Tropical at Booksmith. When I met San Francisco author, artist, and...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Traveling the world, popcorn in hand

Dennis Harvey - March 4, 2020

This week’s openings personify the movies’ appeal as armchair travel, encompassing cinematic detours to Ireland, Israel, Poland, China (twice), American backroads and various African...

News + Politics

Election night live: Upbeat crowd at Sanders HQ

Tim Redmond - March 3, 2020

The Bernie Sanders’ San Francisco Office started to become more upbeat once the polls closed in California. At around 7:40pm, the office was busy with...

Arts + Culture

These film revivals prove SF is still a place for movie lovers

Dennis Harvey - March 2, 2020

Though exhibition is perennially imperiled—the most recent bad news being that after 110 years, the Clay Theatre is no more, the good news that...

News + Politics

Caltrans agrees to pay $2 million for destroying homeless people’s property

Sam Lew - February 19, 2020

In a civil rights victory, Caltrans will pay $2 million for destroying homeless people’s property and will change procedures around homeless encampment evictions on...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Raining Internet cats and live-action dogs

Dennis Harvey - February 19, 2020

It’s raining cats and dogs with the more family-friendly film events of the week. One is the new 20th Century Fox Animation/Disney live action...

Art

Electrifying art of Black Power in ‘Soul of a Nation’

Emily Wilson - February 18, 2020

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983 was organized by London’s Tate Museum and traveled to Arkansas, New York,...

News + Politics

What did Breed’s Nuru announcement really mean?

Tim Redmond - February 16, 2020

It’s taken a couple of days, but the local news media have mostly come around to the fact that the real news Friday was...

News + Politics

Breed took $5,600 gift from Nuru; may be illegal

Tim Redmond - February 14, 2020

Nearly every local news outlet led the latest story on former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru with some version of this: BREAKING: Mayor Breed just...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Reaction to coronavirus is overblown

Reese Erlich - February 14, 2020

A new and deadly virus from China is coming to get you. Cancel your travel plans, quarantine your grandparents, and don’t let a Chinese...

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