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News + Politics

Our top stories of 2019

Marke B. - December 28, 2019

From the election of Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston to a renewed spirit of arts and culture in the face of displacement, the 48...

News + Politics

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Tiny - December 27, 2019

Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders, land stealers who know that...

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Where the air is never spared

Tom Molanphy - December 19, 2019

“Do the right thing,” Marie Harrison admonished the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in June, 2018. “You know it’s not safe yet.” Harrison was accepting...

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City College chancellor wants to reject emergency funding

David Mamaril Horowitz - December 16, 2019

The sudden cancellation of 345 classes at City College of San Francisco on Nov. 20, the night before the school’s spring 2020 registration, prompted...

Culture

Korrupt’s rogue looks fit our apocalyptic times to a T

Marke B. - December 16, 2019

I met local fashion label Korrupt's Henry Miyoshi and his business-and-life partner John McArdle at a bastion of old school Lower Haight spirit, Cafe...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: An open letter to a Trump-supporting friend

Reese Erlich - December 14, 2019

I first met Robby Robertson during the 1969 General Electric strike. He was a young, militant worker fighting for a decent contract and social...

News + Politics

[UPDATED] Outrage as CBS announces development of Ghost Ship show

Marke B. - December 12, 2019

UPDATE: After readers responded, Waldman and Chabon have decided not to go ahead with the show. The San Jose Mercury News reported on Tuesday that...

Arts + Culture

Burger Boogaloo 2020 announces killer lineup

John-Paul Shiver - December 10, 2019

Alice Bag, who fronted first-wave LA punk band The Bags and appeared in Penelope Spheerisʻ eye-opening 1981 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, adapted...

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SF man faces deportation—for a crime he committed at 16

Natalia Robyns-Kresich - December 8, 2019

Based solely on appearances, Simon Liu resembles any other tech worker in San Francisco: Clad in a puffy jacket and sneakers, Simon carries his...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Drag Queens on Ice, Burning Man: The Musical, more

Marke B. - December 4, 2019

Blades will slice, crystals will fly, Mariah will be Careyed up to the high heavens. OK, it's not as dramatic as all that—I wish—but...

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