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Cartoonist Tanna Tucker creates works of art to celebrate voices of incarcerated kids

Maddy Clifford - July 20, 2020

Last May, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a plan to close California’s state-run youth prisons, an initiative that has since been stalled. But San Francisco...

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

Public toilets—and public corruption

Tim Redmond - June 28, 2020

The deepening public works scandal, which now involves political connected permit expediter Walter Wong, appears to have links to a big corporation that has...

News + Politics

Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community

Tim Redmond - June 22, 2020

Donald Trump has – no surprise – turned a basic public-health practice into a political issue, putting millions of lives at risk. Trump has consistently...

Culture

Insurance companies deny 100s of COVID claims; venues sue

Garrett Leahy - June 16, 2020

When the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order began on March 19, owners of the East Bay music venue Ivy Room, thought that their business interruption insurance would...

Nightlife

SF bars push to reopen in July, alongside restaurants

Marke B. - June 10, 2020

The Newsom administration continues to announce and refine guidelines for business re-openings in California. Much of it depends on on counties hitting certain thresholds...

Arts + Culture

Good info, little relief at city’s Virtual Nightlife + Entertainment Summit

Marke B. - May 18, 2020

There are lots of big questions about COVID-gutted San Francisco nightlife that have yet to be directly addressed. How and why are live venues,...

Housing

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Tim Redmond - May 4, 2020

While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is...

News + Politics

Judge excoriates ICE, orders inmates released

Tim Redmond - April 29, 2020

After a dramatic hearing in which Federal Judge Vincent Chhabria sharply criticized ICE, the judge has issued an order requiring the federal agency to...

Culture

Folsom Street Fair 2020 moves online due to COVID concerns

Marke B. - April 27, 2020

This September, Folsom Street Fair's jingle-jangle of nipple rings and crack-crack-crack of the whip will be floating out of your laptop speakers—rather than above...

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