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Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Son Jarocho Festival, J Dilla shots, and queer gamers unite!

Caitlin Donohue - February 6, 2019

ARTS FORECAST In the years that have passed since the 2006 death of Detroit producer, J. Dilla’s import has only come into sharper focus....

News + Politics

CASA’s secret New York junket

Zelda Bronstein - January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

News + Politics

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

Somi sings of Harlem immigrants (and gentrification’s effects) on ‘Petite Afrique’

Joanna Ladd - January 4, 2019

ALL EARS The sound of Harlem during its jazz heyday is so indelible that it jumps to mind instantly, almost a century later. For...

News + Politics

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

Arts + Culture

The (final) Doormat Division: Moldy Carpet Award goes to …

Erik Walker - December 29, 2018

Week 17. When teams have just given up, are fighting for the Doormat lives, are booking tee times in Florida, and, most importantly, are...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Sweet, sweet NYE

Marke B. - December 28, 2018

PARTY RADAR Let's kick this sorry ass-end of a year bah-byeeeeee and hit the dance floor for a couple days running, shall we? Below are...

Arts + Culture

The Doormat Division: One more awful week to go

Erik Walker - December 26, 2018

BROWNS 26, BUNGLES 18 It was a hard-working day in the Dawg Pound yesterday at that place of 7-7-1, on Lou Groza Blvd, a place...

Culture

Doormat Division: A huge upset …

Erik Walker - December 17, 2018

MASSIVE UPSET: 49ERS 26, SEAHAGS 23 (OT) A monkey got off everybody's back in Santa Clara yesterday. The 49ers, against all expectations, finally beat the...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: A Camp Fire benefit that couldn’t be more San Francisco

Marke B. - December 13, 2018

ARTS FORECAST What happens when your family loses everything, almost in an instant? That's the horror event producer Daniel James Burke faced as the Camp...

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