Tag: Politics
Photographer Dorothea Lange’s archive now available online at OMCA
The collection presents the iconic Lange as the personable creator she was—and a local picturmaker to boot.
Wiener attacks SF supes
State Senator says board is not functional and harks back to his own days as a supe -- which were only "collegial" when it meant helping Big Tech
Foreign Correspondent: Trump plays both sides against the middle
Is he a hawk? Is he a peacenik? The president keeps us guessing.
Screen Grabs: Two notorious tricksters return—as does the big screen(?)
This week sees the US release at last of what must be the most re-scheduled movie in history, Tenet. Christopher Nolan’s latest Rubik’s Cube-y sci-fi extravaganza was the highest-profile...
From stoner cartoon frog to vicious alt-right icon in ‘Feels Good Man’
It is only appropriate that Feels Good Man, Arthur Jones's documentary about cartoonist Matt Furie and his creation Pepe the Frog should screen at the Roxie Theater's virtual cinema,...
Old SF money backing stealthy new right-wing group
Most start-up political organizations like a splash. They hold news events, press conferences, big galas to say: We have arrived. This is who we are, this is our agenda,...
The horror that is the RNC
I almost couldn’t watch. And I’ve watched a lot of bad politics.
The Republican Convention has been something different, a new low beyond the worst of my lifetime as a...
Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be
From globe-trotting LGBTQ narratives to social justice documentaries (and dramas), there’s a lot of diversity amongst fresh streaming releases this week—as well as some low-down dirty thrills in a...
Drivers rally against Uber and Lyft extortion
About 70 drivers rallied outside Uber’s headquarters on Market Street on Thursday, decrying Uber and Lyft’s threat to cancel rideshare services in California in retaliation against an injunction order issued August 10...
Foreign correspondent: Kamala Harris on war, peace, and the Middle East
Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hasn’t forgotten a 2017 meeting with members of Senator Kamala Harris’s staff to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Israeli land and sea...
