Poverty Archives - 48 hills

Music

Wild ride: SF rapper Rymeezee breaks down city life on latest album ‘Turbulence’

Alan Chazaro - September 4, 2022

Multitalented wordsmith speaks about love and hate in Frisco (including all those smashed car windows)

Campaign Trail

Fall ballot measures will test the mayor and her allies

Tim Redmond - July 14, 2022

Who is going to oppose taxes on Amazon and on vacant apartments?

Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘Noir City’ tackles still-relevant issues in black and white

Dennis Harvey - March 21, 2022

Racial strife to potential pandemic, the fest's 19th edition resonates. Plus: Seven Samurai, The Batwoman, Stunt Rock, more

Homelessness

A houseless woman gives birth in a porta potty in Oakland—and the baby lives

Tiny - January 25, 2022

No pre-natal care. Nowhere to go. And yet, thanks to community action, mama and child are okay.

News + Politics

Don’t blame progressives for problems like homelessness, drugs, and crime

Tim Redmond - December 13, 2021

Neoliberal mayors and their failed market-based policies have created the crisis that the left is now trying to solve.

Police

Justice for Tyrell Wilson, homeless and dead in a largely white town

Tiny - September 27, 2021

The challenges of 'not looking dangerous' in the California suburbs

Movies

Screen Grabs: Fighting back, from Armenian revolution to Civil Rights struggle

Dennis Harvey - September 20, 2021

Plus: An in-depth look inside Balanchine's notorious ballet classroom. New movies!

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Queens on parade, from Capote to ‘Jamie’

Dennis Harvey - September 13, 2021

Plus: SF Short Film Fest, Crossroads Fest, and a very terrible 'Malignant'

Housing

Bridge housing talks about community empowerment …

Zelda Bronstein - August 27, 2021

... and then supports two bad housing bills that do the exact opposite. And they want my money.

Lit

In ‘Plexiglass,’ a poet illuminates voices of the incarcerated

Margo Perin - August 27, 2021

A new volume offers a critique of the criminal justice system through the lens of prison writing workshops

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