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Best of the Bay

BEST OF THE BAY 2020 EDITORS’ PICKS

48 Hills - December 1, 2020

We're highlighting some of the tremendous people, places, and things that made the Bay Area shine during one heck of a year

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A much-needed civic boost with ‘City Hall’

Dennis Harvey - November 13, 2020

Plus: tributes to women older and younger, a portrait of toxic friendship, religious ecstasy in Brazil

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Must-see horror films for the Halloween that wasn’t

Dennis Harvey - October 20, 2020

Drive-ins step in for trick-or-treating in 2020—plus, flicks following quarantine seances, malevolence-plagued asylum seekers, bedeviled hairdos, and Kazahk-Bulgarian dystopian futures visible from the gloom of home.

Housing

Planning commission rejects condo plan for building where seniors were evicted

Tim Redmond - October 1, 2020

In a 3-3 vote (the supes appointees on one side, the mayor's on the other) panel refuses to give financial windfall to owners a property where Ellis Act eviction took place.

Business + Tech

Big real estate escapes $360 million in annual SF taxes

Zachary James, Elissa Mann, and Tim Redmond - September 30, 2020

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Owners of 55 local buildings (including Donald Trump) use Prop. 13 to save millions in taxes that could go to schools and city services.

Homelessness

Lawyers say it’s unsafe to restart eviction cases

Garrett Leahy - August 19, 2020

Last week, about 30 lawyers and organizers gathered outside the state building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue to demand that the state Judicial Council...

COVID

Millions of tenants at risk as court ban on evictions set to expire

Tim Redmond - August 12, 2020

The organization that manages the courts in California is moving to end a moratorium on evictions that has saved millions of people from losing...

Movies

Clap your hands, stomp your feet for ‘River City Drumbeat’

Pam Grady - August 5, 2020

River City Drumbeat (playing Fri/7-August 21 at Roxie Virtual Cinema) captures a Louisville, KY, phenomenon: the River City Drum Corp, a youth brigade of African...

Homelessness

A free fridge opens in the Mission

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 2, 2020

Days before Mayor London Breed declared the shelter-in-place order back in March, Gabriela Alemán was already trying to figure out how her older neighbors...

Campaign Trail

Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The San Francisco Democratic Party will vote on endorsements for the Board of Supes Wednesday/22, and while the party nod doesn’t always mean victory,...

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