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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: What happened to Dag Hammarskjold?

Dennis Harvey - August 13, 2019

SCREEN GRABS It’s mid-August, the weather is theoretically fine, the summer blockbusters are already well into their runs—it is not a time of the...

News + Politics

Mayor Lee’s ‘jobs agenda’ made life worse for many San Franciscans

Tim Redmond - August 12, 2019

The late Mayor Ed Lee called it the “jobs agenda.” When he took office, the city was coming out of the recession, and he...

News + Politics

Excelsior residents oppose new luxury housing project

Jeantelle Laberinto - August 11, 2019

On Sunday afternoon, Excelsior residents and community-based organizations gathered to march, drum, chant, perform, and express their collective anger and distress over the rise...

News + Politics

Juul fails in effort to change ballot language

Michael Toren - August 9, 2019

Juul failed today in its effort to get the city to change substantially the language that will describe the company’s initiative in the November...

News + Politics

Juul challenges key ballot language on overturning e-cig ban

Tim Redmond - August 8, 2019

A relatively obscure city committee will make what some say is a crucial decision tomorrow on a ballot measure that would overturn the city’s...

News + Politics

SF cops, judge knew search warrant subject was a reporter

Michael Toren - August 7, 2019

Newly unsealed court documents show the San Francisco Police Department Internal Affairs officers investigating departmental leaks were aware the target of a search warrant...

Arts + Culture

Joan Jett Blakk for President, perpetually!

Johnny Ray Huston - August 6, 2019

“Hunny, I cannot tell you, it’s so weird being history.” Terence Alan Smith, aka Joan Jett Blakk, is over at my apartment for lunch, and...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A devil in Tasmania, Tel Aviv on fire…

Dennis Harvey - August 6, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque has been doing all too many posthumous tribute programs of late, as major figures of experimental film and video...

The joy of big bamboo—and lots of it

Emily Wilson - August 5, 2019

ART LOOKS Tanabe Chikuunsai IV has been surrounded by bamboo since he was born. A fourth generation Japanese bamboo artist, he studied at sculpture at...

Campaign Trail

What happens if Wiener gets challenged from both the right and the left?

Tim Redmond - August 4, 2019

The idea that former state Sen. Quentin Kopp is planning to challenge incumbent Scott Wiener sets up some fascinating political possibilities. I talked to Kopp,...

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