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Campaign Trail

Barbara Lee talks about economic inequality in visit to the Mission

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2024

Why we need both a wealth tax and a return to pre-Reagan income taxes.

Elections

Here come the billionaires: Election 2024

Tim Redmond - December 24, 2023

Big money goes into measures attacking poor people and eroding police oversight. It's really about Breed's re-election and the oligarchs controlling the city.

Environment

New report says we can’t save the planet without taxing the rich

Tim Redmond - November 20, 2023

Oxfam says there is no such thing as an effective climate plan that isn't also an economic equality plan.

Housing

Why not let the unhoused take over some empty SF office buildings?

Mary Jane Agnew - November 17, 2023

Rally suggests solution to downtown vacancies—and homelessness

Movies

Screen Grabs: Men on misguided paths in ‘Manodrome’ and ‘The Mission’

Dennis Harvey - November 8, 2023

John Chau brings Jesus where no one wants him and Jesse Eisenberg bends to misogynistic fervor in two new movies

The Agenda

Who should pay for more cops? Plus: high-speed police chases ….

Tim Redmond - November 5, 2023

... and alternatives for the future of downtown. That's The Agenda for Nov. 5-12

Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘Priscilla,’ locked in a golden Graceland cage

Dennis Harvey - November 2, 2023

Sofia Coppola's opaque tribute. Plus: Colman Domingo plays Civil Rights giant 'Rustin,' border-town education gets 'Radical'

Music

Soul legend Valerie Simpson is making joyful noise for Glide’s Holiday Jam

Lou Fancher - November 1, 2023

This year's stellar music program celebrates Reverend Cecil Williams' 60th anniversary with the essential community org

Onstage

The voice, the passion, the eternal magic of ‘PIAF!’

Joshua Rotter - October 31, 2023

French theatrical sensation Nathalie Lermitte brings the musical legend to life in this blockbuster show

Art Review

24-karat gowns, ghost handprints, powerful hair, more in MoAD’s fall exhibitions

Charles Lewis III - October 12, 2023

New exhibits uplift and memorialize through ravishing color, while provoking thoughts about the SF just beyond the walls

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