Stories about Poor
Screen Grabs: All hail the mighty Godzillafest!
Monster mayhem at the Balboa and Castro, a strikingly oceanic documentary, Korean and Italian mobsters, more in cinemas
‘American Factory’ a tale of two blue collars: US and Chinese
Obamas' project for Netflix yields an eye-opening doc that shows how one innovative solution to a factory closing went awry.
Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill
Complex regional housing bill is driven by tech and development interests with no concern for out-of-control office growth.
Big Telecom tries another deregulation scam in Sacramento
In the name of protecting internet calls, bill would eliminate state control over pretty much every type of telecommunications in California.
AIDS, sex, and ‘Illuminations on Market Street’
Activist-author Benjamin Heim Shepard turns to fiction, inspired by working in an SF AIDS housing program in the mid-1990s.
Joan Jett Blakk for President, perpetually!
The subject of an acclaimed new play, drag talk show host and presidential candidate Terence Alan Smith looks back on his trailblazing life.
Eviction, elder abuse, and homelessness
Why are so many elders and families on the street? They got evicted.
“What does it mean to be a good person?”
'The Good Person of Szechwan' at Cal Shakes delivers an invigoratingly moral, musical take on Brecht's agit-prop classic.
DA candidates address SF’s failures in sexual assault cases
Proposed policies would shift the city to a survivor-centered approach
People in cages, Earth under attack in occupied colonial land
Horrors and some nasty surprises on a poverty tour of the Southwest