Sunday, May 5, 2024

Tagged with: San Francisco

After the Camp Fire, which destroyed an entire community, let’s not bail out PG&E again

The Camp Fire has wiped out an entire town. It’s horrible: Paradise no longer exists. At least 48 people are dead; 8,800 homes have...

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop Dance Fest, The Orb, Great Dickens Christmas Fair…

ARTS FORECAST Everyone's pretty much been forced indoors by the smoke, so it's a good time to see a show—and I'll be keeping an eye...

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ as a holiday opera, bumbling angel and all

ONSTAGE Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer have not shied away from big topics,  San Francisco Opera dramaturg Kip Cranna, pointed out. Heggie worked...

Holcombe Waller’s timely queer ‘Requiem’ for persecuted LGBTQs

ONSTAGE Holcombe Waller does "total theater." The Portland artist-composer approaches music in terms of ritual, history, art, movement, and conceptual ideas, creating a spectacle...

48hills founder Tim Redmond wins Lifetime Achievement honor

The San Francisco Press Club has announced the finalists for its Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards. Winners will be announced Thu/15—but the press club...

A bad Central Soma Plan is going to move forward …

The Board of Supes is set to give final approval Tuesday/13 to a Central Soma Plan that almost everyone agrees has too much office space...

Mar declares victory in D4 as Jessica Ho concedes

Jessica Ho conceded today and Gordon Mar declared victory in the only sup race that was still up in the air, making clear that...

Election winners and losers in SF

First, we don’t really know anything for sure yet. There are, according to the Department of Elections, an astonishing 139,000 ballots still to be...

Haney far ahead, Mar still leading and Prop C has won big!

The election-day results show the progressive candidates in D4 and D6 are extending their leads. In D6, Haney is now at 56 percent. If we...

Screen Grabs: Festival mania fills local cinemas!

SCREEN GRABS There is surely nowhere in the world with more film festivals per capita than San Francisco. While the bigger annual events are...