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News + Politics

The truth about ‘progressive’ housing policy

Calvin Welch - October 22, 2018

Randy Shaw, who runs a website called “BeyondChron,” is now writing for the Chron. In a piece that ran Oct. 21, he argues that...

Arts + Culture

Old school Chinatown funk? 50 years of Jest Jammin’ with Rev. Norman Fong

Joanna Ladd - October 9, 2018

ALL EARS If you’re not nostalgic for Chinatown nightlife circa 1970, it’s probably because you don’t know about it. Despite the passing of civil rights...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: I Am Not a Witch, Iranian Film Fest, Blaze …

Dennis Harvey - September 16, 2018

SCREEN GRABS While you could say the annual fall sprawl of anticipatory “awards season” has already begun—with the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals that...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Yayoi Kusama, Latino Film Fest, Nosferatu …

Dennis Harvey - September 10, 2018

SCREEN GRABS Last call for those interested in saving the Opera Plaza Cinemas, whose four arthouse screens are at high risk of being exterminated for...

News + Politics

Rust Belt SF? Are we doomed by progressive politics?

Tim Redmond - September 6, 2018

CNBC calls it a picture of a “dystopian future.” The Chron calls it a vision for “a better San Francisco.” That’s what we get with...

News + Politics

Attacking an SF judge for being too ‘soft on crime’

Tim Redmond and Alex Catsoulis - August 28, 2018

An auto burglary case that, thanks in part to an SF Chron column, has spurred anger among mostly white anti-crime crusaders comes before a...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Soviet Hippies, Green Film Fest, John McEnroe

Dennis Harvey - August 28, 2018

SCREEN GRABS It’s a week unusually full of documentaries, including the Roxie’s single showing next Wed/5 of Soviet Hippies—a look at countercultural resistance behind...

News + Politics

We know how to control housing costs

Peter Dreier - August 23, 2018

Editors note: This is the testimony Professor Peter Dreier gave June 21 at a joint hearing of the state Senate Judiciary Committee and the Assembly...

Foreign Correspondent

What 15 years of war has brought us: Angry Iraqis

Reese Erlich - August 23, 2018

Militant protests continue in the oil rich city of Basra despite a harsh government crackdown. Thousands of Iraqis are demanding jobs, restoration of basic...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Support the Girls, Madeline’s Madeline, The Wife

Dennis Harvey - August 21, 2018

SCREEN GRABS The MeToo movement has heightened what was already an increasingly loud conversation about women’s representation in the film industry, particularly in the...

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