Tag: Robots
It takes a city to open the schools
Testing, tracking, vaccines -- and Muni! -- have to be part of the plan, and neoliberal leadership isn't going to help.
Albums of the Year 2020: An experimental bent seized the isolating zeitgeist
Deep reggaeton, sonic healing, coatcheck ambient, hyperkinetic crust punk covers... and Ariana Grande? It was a wild ride inside
New Music: 3 terrific local acts to support directly
Sci-fi vibes from Salami Rose Joe Louis, uneasy computer nostalgia from Neutrals, and Scatter Swept's wiry grooves
Screen Grabs: Must-see horror films for the Halloween that wasn’t
Drive-ins step in for trick-or-treating in 2020—plus, flicks following quarantine seances, malevolence-plagued asylum seekers, bedeviled hairdos, and Kazahk-Bulgarian dystopian futures visible from the gloom of home.
A warped film fest for warped times
Mr. HoleHead's Warped Dimension beams good ol' fashioned chills, kills, and cheap thrills to your Zoom room.
KQED says 48 Hills is a story of the decade
KQED released a beautifully designed, memory-triggering package yesterday called "Our Turbulent Decade." It's an in-depth, year-by-year look some of the most impactful events and trends in the Bay Area,...
Review: MF Robot’s ‘Finders Keepers’ pushes a rolling funk momentum
When Brand New Heavies burst on the scene in the late '80s appropriating fashion and funk music cues from the 60ʻs, they were part of a retro-future soul awakening...
Should a developer lawyer be on the Planning Commission?
For the first time in at least my 37 years of covering city politics – and possibly much longer – a lawyer who has spent a career representing real-estate...
The Chron’s robo-journalism
It looked just like so many other short news briefs in the San Francisco Chronicle; straightforward, factual, a little boring. A modest earthquake struck in Soledad:
The United States Geological...
Review: Gray Area Festival’s inferno of hybrid arts creativity
Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. —Dante, The Inferno.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. —Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.
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