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Onstage

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Elaine Elinson - June 12, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...

Campaign Trail

Eight ‘Big Ideas’ at MoveOn Forum

Jeantelle Laberinto - June 2, 2019

On Saturday afternoon, eight Democratic presidential hopefuls appeared for MoveOn’s “Big Ideas Forum” in San Francisco. Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Cory Booker, Congressman Beto O’Rourke,...

Dance

‘The Wait Room’ expresses the physical effects of a loved one’s incarceration

Caitlin Donohue - April 15, 2019

“When my husband was first sentenced, people would cross the street to avoid me,” remembers choreographer Jo Kreiter, writing to 48 Hills before her...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore confronts queer assimilation in ‘Sketchtasy’

Caitlin Donohue - January 22, 2019

A standing ovation to Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel Sketchtasy, which follows a group of friends navigating Boston nightlife and LGBTQ assimilation, has been...

Campaign Trail

A progressive candidate files for DA, opening up the 2019 race

Tim Redmond - January 15, 2019

Since the day George Gascon announced he’s not running for re-election as district attorney, progressives involved in the criminal justice system have been wondering...

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...

News + Politics

American Psychological Association beats back military psychologists

Reese Erlich - August 8, 2018

On Wednesday the leadership council of the American Psychological Association (APA) voted by an overwhelming 61-33% to keep its current policy prohibiting members from...

News + Politics

From the poor house to the jail house

Tiny - August 10, 2017

We walk back and forth in a jail cell everyday – it’s called your doorways tent cities Bus benches and Metal chairs...

News + Politics

Remembering Rose Braz, social and environmental justice warrior

Christopher D. Cook - July 19, 2017

The public is invited to a July 30 memorial service celebrating the remarkable life of Rose Braz, much-beloved warrior for social and environmental justice....

News + Politics

A ‘dangerous felon’ who was never convicted of a violent crime

Matt Gonzalez - July 18, 2017

Two years ago, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez was arrested for the death of Kate Steinle on San Francisco’s popular waterfront. The case gained national...

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