Puerto Rico Archives

Protest

Raging Grannies and Radical Women on protecting reproductive rights—and more

Lou Fancher - May 11, 2022

We’ll tell them that if abortion is not legal, abortions won’t be gone, they will just be unsafe.

Sports

On bikes. On hard pavement. With a ball and a mallet.

Dillon McNeil - February 20, 2022

Bike Polo is not for the faint of heart—but the eclectic athletes that play it in San Francisco are part of an international competition.

Music

With ‘The Return of Pachyman,’ a worthy dub descendent of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

John-Paul Shiver - September 1, 2021

Pachy García's latest DIY release shows why he's 'Puerto Rico's emergent champion of rub-a-dub-style'

Music

Now Watch This: Great new videos from Pachyman, Alycia Bella, more

John-Paul Shiver - June 1, 2021

Don't miss Sonny & the Sunsets' ciubbhyhole-rousting 'Ring My Bell' and Georgia Anne Muldrew's multiversal G-fonk.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Films for a fragile planet, from Puerto Rico to Mars

Dennis Harvey - April 19, 2021

Livable Planet fest opens with excellent Landfall, more. Plus: 8 Billion Angels, Occupy the Farm, Gunda, Malni

Music

Tyler Holmes navigates trauma through softer sounds on ‘Nightmare in Paradise’

Marke B. - April 14, 2021

The Oakland musician and performer's lush, emotive new album records the process of grappling with PTSD.

Movies

SFFILM fest spotlights Rita Moreno, Muppets, ‘Lost Landscapes of Oakland’

Dennis Harvey - April 4, 2021

2021 installment of the super-fest beams from drive-in and laptop, with plenty of star power.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A trek through world cinema to scratch your travel itch

Dennis Harvey - January 21, 2021

New Brazilian Cinema series, The White Tiger, Mandabi, and films from rural Mexico to Poland, India, and Sudan

Music

For Puerto Rican freedom, MaJo Montijo summons a bomba ‘Huracán’

Joanna Ladd - October 27, 2020

Oakland musician fights "continuous colonial disaster," including Hurricane María aftermath, with gale-force release.

Exclusive

The biased coverage and real story around Lowell High and school renaming

Tim Redmond - October 25, 2020

Attention Chronicle: A lottery for the 'elite' school is neither new nor a radical idea -- and neither is discussing changing the names of schools celebrating racists and colonialists.

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Raging Grannies and Radical Women on protecting reproductive rights—and more

On bikes. On hard pavement. With a ball and a mallet.

With ‘The Return of Pachyman,’ a worthy dub descendent of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

Now Watch This: Great new videos from Pachyman, Alycia Bella, more

Screen Grabs: Films for a fragile planet, from Puerto Rico to Mars

Tyler Holmes navigates trauma through softer sounds on ‘Nightmare in Paradise’

SFFILM fest spotlights Rita Moreno, Muppets, ‘Lost Landscapes of Oakland’

Screen Grabs: A trek through world cinema to scratch your travel itch

For Puerto Rican freedom, MaJo Montijo summons a bomba ‘Huracán’

The biased coverage and real story around Lowell High and school renaming

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