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Sava Cannabis: Best of the Bay 2020 Editors’ Pick

48 Hills - January 3, 2021

Cannabis relief from the wild ups and downs—and downs—of the year, delivered directly to your door by this queer- and women-owned outfit

Music

Albums of the Year 2020: Wild spirits helped us hold tightly onto humanity

John-Paul Shiver - December 29, 2020

From police brutality call-outs to a new century gospel, artists still wrung beauty and inspiration from a hard year

Art

A local artist honors lost Black lives, portrait by portrait

Mary Corbin - November 16, 2020

Painter Radha Mehta's series commemorating lives lost to racially motivated murder and police brutality spreads to cities around the country.

News + Politics

The air is bad all over the city. It’s way worse in Bayview Hunters Point

Tom Molanphy - September 2, 2020

Although unhealthy air quality canceled the car parade to City Hall to Mayor Breed’s office, a small but devoted group of 30 Bayview Hunters...

Nightlife

Grab that virtual wig, it’s all aboard for Oaklash!

Marke B. - September 2, 2020

Weekend-long Oakland drag festival Oaklash (Fri/4-Sun/6 at www.twitch.tv/oaklash2020) has become such an integral part of the Bay Area queer performance scene that I was taken...

Music

10 artists centering Latinidad in the sound of the Bay today

Richard Villegas - July 28, 2020

For over 50 years, the Bay Area has been a crucial intersection of global music. Everything from psych rock to funk, hip hop, and...

News + Politics

Black youth a new organizing force in Oakland

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - June 30, 2020

As former Black Panther Angela Davis spoke to the crowd of thousands that had gathered at the Port of Oakland June 19 to protest...

Movies

In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon

Pam Grady - June 29, 2020

Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon who has represented the 5th District of Georgia, including Atlanta, since 1987, is 80 now, running for...

News + Politics

Labor unions join call to defund the police

Garrett Leahy - June 18, 2020

A group of about 150 demonstrators representing several Bay Area labor unions gathered outside the Oakland Police Officers Association headquarters on Wednesday, endorsing calls...

Onstage

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

Emily Wilson - June 16, 2020

Last year, the Tenderloin Museum hosted 22 sold-out performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. One of the writers, Donna Personna, saw about half of...

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