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Movies

Screen Grabs: Another vital public film program axed—for what?

Dennis Harvey - July 26, 2021

SFMOMA's hatchet job. Plus reviews of Blood Red Sky, Old, Charlatan, Mandibles, more

News + Politics

And yet we signed: Behind the letter to the president of Nicaragua

Elaine Elinson - July 15, 2021

Hundreds who spent the 1980s doing Sandinista solidarity work are now condemning Daniel Ortega's new wave of political repression. Here's why.

Police

Mayor and police chief want more cops on the streets …

Tim Redmond - July 13, 2021

... but SFPD has lots of money and is still far behind on the reforms it needs.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two deeply different narratives of sex work in ‘Working Girls’ and ‘Medusa’

Dennis Harvey - July 8, 2021

Plus: Saudi Arabian feminist mythology soars in 'Scales' and 'Dachra's creepy atmospherics.

Arts + Culture

Record head catnip? ‘Vinyl Junkie Thangs’ is a treasure trove of funk

John-Paul Shiver - July 7, 2021

Jasper The Vinyl Junkie's new collection for BBE Records makes his wax mastery clear

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Final chapter of ‘Purge’ series is an eerie echo of modern chaos

Dennis Harvey - July 5, 2021

'The Forever Purge' is not subtle. But then, we are not living in gently-nuanced cultural times.

Culture

Year of the cats: What to do if you spot the wild felines prowling around lately

Tamara Palmer - July 1, 2021

A brief survey of the fine mega-kitties who've been dropping by the Bay Area—just don't try to pet them

News + Politics

The indigenous struggle to save trees — and sacred spaces — in Humboldt

Tiny - June 21, 2021

Between the timber companies and state agencies, so much devastation.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Black Film Festival lifts off—and other stratospheric releases

Dennis Harvey - June 17, 2021

The best of the new, from the surveilling of surveillance in 'All Light, Everywhere' to 'Les Norte' and its discomfiting coming-of-age twists

City Hall

Walton calls out Breed for her attacks on the Board of Supes

Tim Redmond - June 16, 2021

Simmering clash between the mayor and the supes breaks into the open after Breed attacks the board for asking tough questions of her department heads.

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