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Housing

City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem

Tim Redmond - July 23, 2020

The Land Use and Transportation Committee hearing this week was remarkable: For the first time ever, as far as I can remember, the Planning...

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...

Business + Tech

Supes consider major changes in business taxes

Tim Redmond - July 12, 2020

The Board of Supes Budget and Finance Committee will consider Thursday/16 a series of tax measures that could raise more than $100 million for...

News + Politics

Before the looting, a peaceful march

Garrett Leahy - May 31, 2020

On Saturday, before the incidents of looting that have made the biggest headlines, several hundred protestors peacefully marched in San Francisco to protest the...

Housing

Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?

Tim Redmond - May 4, 2020

While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is...

Culture

Folsom Street Fair 2020 moves online due to COVID concerns

Marke B. - April 27, 2020

This September, Folsom Street Fair's jingle-jangle of nipple rings and crack-crack-crack of the whip will be floating out of your laptop speakers—rather than above...

Culture

SOMA Pilipinas restaurants pivot to feed community

Tamara Palmer - April 14, 2020

San Francisco’s Kultivate Labs, the nonprofit economic development and arts organization that has been instrumental in establishing the SOMA Pilipinas Cultural District, which recognizes and...

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...

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...

Culture

Silenced in place? SF’s resilient music scene faces its latest obstacle

John-Paul Shiver - March 30, 2020

As Broken Horse, an enduring San Francisco band that calls its oeuvre Western Doom Noir, erupted into tuning instruments at its Rite Spot comeback show...

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