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Supes increase pressure on mayor to find hotel space

Tim Redmond - April 7, 2020

Five supervisors introduced emergency legislation today that would mandate that the city procure and provide 8,250 hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness and front-line...

‘Change the dynamics’: Dawoud Bey on photography, place, and history

Emily Wilson - April 7, 2020

On February 15, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened An American Project, a retrospective, of the work of multi-award-winning photographer and teacher...

Burger Boogaloo, other big fests reschedule in COVID wake

John-Paul Shiver - April 5, 2020

The forthcoming 11th annual Burger Boogaloo festival, held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park and originally planned for July 11 and 12 has been rescheduled for Halloween weekend due to...

Opinion

OPINION: Save the soul of San Francisco

John Kirkley and Joanna Lawrence Shenk - April 3, 2020

How do you shelter at home, when you don’t have a home? As our city leaders have moved rapidly and wisely to minimize the risks...

COVID

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Garrett Leahy - April 3, 2020

“I can’t even afford to go to work,” said taxi driver Colin Marcoux, who has been driving a cab for over two decades. COVID has...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Help save bookstores, drag queens, Frameline, more

Marke B. - April 3, 2020

Let's start with something positive! And then some more things positive! We deserve it. Except those of you joggers still cutting me off on...

Culture

With Black community hard-hit by COVID, Bayview groups demand aid

Marke B. - April 2, 2020

As tragic stories about COVID cluster deaths in Black communities begin to emerge from New York and Detroit to Georgia and beyond, many are...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: How about a little levity?

Dennis Harvey - April 1, 2020

One slender plus in all this corona-crisis-ing has been the extent to which friends and strangers alike have gone to amuse each other long-distance,...

Housing

Mayor, supervisors at odds over hotel rooms for homeless

Sam Lew - April 1, 2020

UPDATE: The first case of COVID in a homeless shelter has been reported. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday to place sheltered...

COVID

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

Calvin Welch - March 31, 2020

"There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now. NYC must develop an...

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