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Movies

At Indiefest, director Rodrigo Reyes examines Mexico via time-traveling conquistador

Joshua Rotter - February 1, 2021

Oakland filmmaker's '499' asks, How do we make tragic history real?

COVID

Protest caravan demands Newsom release vulnerable prisoners

Garrett Leahy - January 31, 2021

More than half the state's prison population is positive for COVID -- and they don't need to die.

News + Politics

OPINION: The importance of prosecuting cops for killings

Bruce Neuburger, Robin Larsen, Dolores Perez Heilbron, and David Heilbron - January 31, 2021

What DA Chesa Boudin is doing will make a huge difference.

Music

New Music: With ‘Family Album,’ Lia Ices marries Laurel Canyon to Wine Country

John-Paul Shiver - January 29, 2021

Written in Sonoma as she became a new mom, album supplies a bonny cluster of psychedelic-tinged Americana

Homelessness

Supes to push for more hotel rooms for unhoused

Tim Redmond - January 28, 2021

The feds will pay for 100 percent of the cost -- so why is the Breed Administration moving so slowly?

Education

Has the Chron even noticed that we are in a national reckoning over racism?

Tim Redmond - January 28, 2021

From the coverage of the school names changes, apparently not.

COVID

The urgency of vaccines for people with disabilities

Howard Chabner - January 28, 2021

An open letter to the mayor and the supervisors.

Movies

Screen Grabs: What do we want? Bleak, rewarding films from the former USSR!

Dennis Harvey - January 28, 2021

Intense government cover-up drama Dear Comrades!, Atlantis, Beginning, and Tarkovsky's 'Mirror' restored

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: A peep back at psychedelic SF will raise your spirits

Marke B. - January 28, 2021

Plus: New local streaming channels from SFSymphony, Oasis, and SFJAZZ—and get ready for Festpocalypse

Housing

ABAG’s regional housing plan is a fantasy

John Elberling - January 27, 2021

The affordable housing won't get built, developers will get rich, and low-income communities will be devastated.