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Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The San Francisco Democratic Party will vote on endorsements for the Board of Supes Wednesday/22, and while the party nod doesn’t always mean victory,...

News + Politics

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Tina Gerhardt - July 19, 2020

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...

News + Politics

‘She Represents’ teaches teens the good, bad, and infuriating of women in politics

Caitlin Donohue - July 16, 2020

Large, wild quantities of joy and a smattering of acute frustration were involved in writing my first book, the YA title She Represents: 44...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Dennis Harvey - July 7, 2020

For years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival was a July event, and this summer would have marked its 25th anniversary—but due to you-know-what,...

News + Politics

Jane Morrison, lifelong activist, dies at 100

Tim Redmond - July 5, 2020

Jane Morrison, who was an urban environmentalist before anyone knew what that meant and a central part of the progressive movement in this city...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Libya, the forgotten war

Reese Erlich - July 2, 2020

I arrived at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, on assignment for CBS Radio with my paperwork in order. I even had the phone numbers...

News + Politics

Culture of casual corruption faces political reckoning

Tim Redmond - June 30, 2020

The city controller and city attorney released a report this week showing how a lack of oversight and loopholes in ethics laws allowed the...

Lit

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

Emily Wilson - June 30, 2020

Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter....

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

News + Politics

Harry Britt, LGBT progressive pioneer, dies at 82

Tim Redmond - June 24, 2020

Harry Britt, who was a pioneering LGBTQ leader as well as a champion of the city’s left, died today at 82. Britt was a close...

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Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

‘She Represents’ teaches teens the good, bad, and infuriating of women in politics

Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Jane Morrison, lifelong activist, dies at 100

Foreign correspondent: Libya, the forgotten war

Culture of casual corruption faces political reckoning

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Harry Britt, LGBT progressive pioneer, dies at 82

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