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News + Politics

Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Tim Redmond - July 19, 2020

For the first time in history, San Francisco will soon have a permanent monument to a person of color killed by the police. I was...

News + Politics

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Tina Gerhardt - July 19, 2020

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...

Arts + Culture

Purpose in precarity: SF arts orgs share COVID-era gameplans

Caitlin Donohue - July 17, 2020

The COVID crisis has hit us all differently, and that variance certainly applies to local arts organizations. While the virus refuses to give a...

New Music: Compilation recalls the greatness of Om Records’ city synthesis

John-Paul Shiver - July 17, 2020

Better go grab yourself a burrito and Jarritos before you sit down to assess the money behind today's electronic music. According to the Ibiza...

Movies

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Johnny Ray Huston - July 17, 2020

Imagine, if you will, a time before carefully categorized and context-free snippets and vignettes on PornHub—a time before 10,000 slangy, jokey descriptors turned sex...

Culture

Police union opposes Black Lives Matter posters

Tim Redmond - July 16, 2020

The San Francisco Police Commission wants to put Black Lives Matter posters in every police station. Chief Bill Scott supports the idea. Officers for...

COVID

Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID

Garrett Leahy - July 15, 2020

In her 27 years as a tenant on Leavenworth, Andrea Carla Michaels has had few issues with any of her landlords. Now she is the...

News + Politics

Supes are driving the political agenda in SF

Tim Redmond - July 15, 2020

The center of public policy in San Francisco has so clearly shifted from the Mayor’s Office to the Board of Supes that nearly every...

News + Politics

The problem with ‘centrists’

Tim Redmond - July 14, 2020

The resignation of New York Times columnist Bari Weiss is all over the news, and the right-wingosphere is using it to push the demonstrably...

COVID

Special Report: HIV, COVID, and the Latinx community

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - July 13, 2020

A deadly virus enters the United States and disproportionately hits Black and Brown communities, while the White House fails to respond quickly to the...

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