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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Dennis Harvey - March 5, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

Foreign Correspondent

Venezuela: Democratic uprising or US coup?

Reese Erlich - February 8, 2019

Tens of thousands of angry people march in the streets to protest lack of democracy. Women bang on pots to raise alarm over the...

Arts + Culture

‘Take back our lives:’ The words of poverty scholars

Tony Robles - February 6, 2019

May 2 marks the 10-year anniversary of the passing of poet Al Robles. Al Robles was conferred much respect as a poverty scholar of...

News + Politics

Taxing the rich is suddenly a popular idea

Tim Redmond - January 29, 2019

I have always been fascinated by the World Economic Forum at Davos, where world leaders, rich people (and people who want to be seen...

News + Politics

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

Tim Redmond - January 7, 2019

It was a time to celebrate in San Francisco tonight. Progressive groups in Chinatown held a banquet for the new supervisors, who ran on...

News + Politics

Mayor Breed’s brother should be released from prison

Tim Redmond - December 20, 2018

Jerry Brown is poised to leave office with 740 people on death row and 130,000 others in state prisons, 70 percent of them Black...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Xmas Weekend flicks galore

Dennis Harvey - December 18, 2018

SCEEN GRABS This week brings two major new films about “divisive” American political figures—not exactly what the general public usually wants for Xmas, but...

News + Politics

Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Tiny - December 17, 2018

“This (conservatorship law) sounds like slavery to me,” Memphis, houseless poverty skola reporter for POOR Magazine’s RoofLESS radio, reported after a terrifying town hall on...

News + Politics

Special Report: Scenes from the migrant caravan in Tijuana, part 1

Fabian Fernandez, Levi Vonk, Seth M. Holmes. - December 5, 2018

Three days ago, anthropologists Seth M. Holmes, Fabian Fernandez, and Levi Vonk returned to UC Berkeley after meeting the migrant caravan in Tijuana. During...

Opinion

Beyond Zuckerberg General Hospital

Bob Prentice - December 5, 2018

The current flap over Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s proposal to remove Mark Zuckerberg’s name from San Francisco General Hospital because of Facebook’s failure to protect...

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