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Forget the ‘pale male’ podcast scene, here’s Bitch Talk

Joshua Rotter - May 19, 2020

In 2012, Erin Lim, a publicist and Karyn Paige, a digital marketer, had just appeared on a San Francisco podcast called Your Straight Male...

Culture

Saving Specs’: Beloved North Beach bar is ‘getting desperate’

Marke B. - May 14, 2020

It's unfathomable to imagine North Beach without certain institutions—City Lights, Vesuvio's, Gino & Carlo's, Caffe Trieste, and, of course, Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe,...

Culture

Tom Ammiano’s feisty new memoir tells all, from Milk to mayoral run

Marke B. - May 7, 2020

In 'Kiss My Gay Ass,' the eminent politico, activist, comedian, teacher, and personality spills the tea.

Lit

Tori Amos: ‘Artists will be the second round of responders’

Joshua Rotter - May 6, 2020

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos is quick to applaud the first responders—the doctors, nurses, and EMTs—who are currently risking their lives to save others during the...

Noise Pop to Vinyl Dreams: 6 local can’t-miss music streams

John-Paul Shiver - May 3, 2020

From Kim Gordon viewing Instagram as a performative space and Kenya Barris using Netflix as a platform to distill the messy politics of honestly critiquing Black art, to...

News + Politics

Supes have plan to staff hotel rooms — but mayor ignores it

Tim Redmond - April 30, 2020

Sup. Matt Haney, with the support of four of his colleagues, put forward a plan this week to address the staffing needs that the...

Culture

A song of San Francisco’s origins, via national parks

Caitlin Donohue - April 21, 2020

Coronavirus hasn’t stopped famed Bay Area music education community center Los Cenzontles. To the contrary, as executive director Eugene Rodríguez sees it now is...

Lit

The mother who stoned San Francisco

Joshua Rotter - April 20, 2020

Alia Volz, the author of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, knew she had a good story on her hands. Every...

News + Politics

Phyllis Lyon, lesbian rights icon, passes at 95

Marke B. - April 9, 2020

It's impossible to imagine the queer rights movement without Phyllis Lyon, who passed away today at the age of 95 of natural causes. Along...

News + Politics

Latest person caught up in scandal was a major political player

Tim Redmond - March 13, 2020

Another major player in San Francisco politics in in serious trouble in the ever-widening City Hall scandal. Rodrigo Santos, an ally of former mayors Willie...

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