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Movies

Screen Grabs: Docfest brings pop-punk, word nerds, Pac-Man, Sleeze Lake, more

Dennis Harvey - August 31, 2020

With no end in sight yet for a public health crisis that (thanks to the inimitable bungling of Dear Leader) only other countries are...

News + Politics

Oakland group launches non-police mental health hotline

Garrett Leahy - August 30, 2020

On Friday, the Anti-Police Terror Project launched MH First Oakland, a hotline staffed by 12 volunteers with backgrounds in social work, peer counseling, and...

Culture

Get the look: 13 Bay Area clothing brands to feed your flow

Caitlin Donohue - August 24, 2020

It may sound strange, but you want to look good for the apocalypse. Waist-up Zoom 'fits are one thing, but somewhere in the mush,...

Music

Beat change: New funds for Black emerging composers announced

John-Paul Shiver - August 24, 2020

Music historians often refer to jazz as the United States' classical music. The genre was born out of the African American experience, from Miles...

Music

How San Francisco changed the sound of Christian music

Daniel Bromfield - August 20, 2020

The Summer of Love was as fruitful a time for music as its long winter of discontent. As the hippie dream dissipated and mellow...

Labor

Giants workers fight back

Marc Norton - August 16, 2020

The San Francisco Giants returned home on Friday, August 14 and found themselves being picketed by the workers who normally sell garlic fries and...

Business + Tech

Uber, Lyft drivers rally as state sues the companies

Garrett Leahy - August 8, 2020

On Thursday, about 50 Uber and Lyft drivers joined a caravan outside the Uber Greenlight Hub in Oakland demanding that the rideshare companies classify...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Local shows to stream on your screens

Caitlin Donohue - August 3, 2020

Local drag star and owner of SoMa club Oasis, D’Arcy Drollinger’s new show “Hot Trash” would probably not have been born under normal circumstances....

Homelessness

A free fridge opens in the Mission

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 2, 2020

Days before Mayor London Breed declared the shelter-in-place order back in March, Gabriela Alemán was already trying to figure out how her older neighbors...

Movies

Movies: ‘Around the Sun’ makers bring mumblecore teachings to a château

Pam Grady - July 29, 2020

A visit to London planted the seeds for the romantic sci-fi drama Around the Sun, which opens a run in the Roxie Virtual Cinema...

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