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The Agenda

The Agenda: LGBT history, high insurance rates, the leaning tower of Soma …

Tim Redmond - January 30, 2017

Phil Burton, the legendary politician who created the Golden Gate National Recreation Era and helped define the modern US Congress, lost his first race...

News + Politics

The Agenda, Jan 23-30: Trump and the media, SROs and Central SoMa

Tim Redmond - January 22, 2017

You have to give the New York Times credit: The front-page headline Sunday/21 reads “Slamming media, Trump advances two falsehoods.” The story makes clear...

Arts + Culture

Join us Jan. 19 for the 48 Hills Pre-Trumpocalypse Happy Hour!

Marke B. - January 11, 2017

January 19. The last day before the dreaded Presidential Inauguration. Our final moment of freedom before a horrid human Cheeto strolls into the Oval...

Arts + Culture

Will the Thrillpeddlers meet their doom?

Marke B. - January 10, 2017

ONSTAGE From beloved annual Halloween tradition "Shocktoberfest" to hugely successful revivals of early Cockettes musicals like "Pearls Over Shanghai" (with stops in saucy Paris...

Arts + Culture

Coming in FRESH

Caitlin Donohue - January 4, 2017

ONSTAGE The piece Bay Area dancer and educator Amara Tabor-Smith will perform this weekend at the 2017 FRESH Festival explores how capitalism seeks control of black...

News + Politics

Local housing: A little reality

John Elberling - January 1, 2017

Reading the superficial year-end wrap-ups and “expert commentary” about the city’s housing situation in the local press this week is making my head hurt....

Music

In the Ghost Ship aftermath

Marke B. - December 4, 2016

The mood was tenderly festive last night at the long-awaited party for the reopening of RS94109, the Tenderloin record store and cafe. A slight...

News + Politics

Why won’t SFMade support Prop. X?

Zelda Bronstein - November 3, 2016

A seeming anomaly of San Francisco’s current election season is the opposition to Prop. X, which seeks to preserve manufacturing space in the city,...

News + Politics

The Agenda, Oct. 23-30: Does the Eastern Neighborhoods plan even work any more?

Tim Redmond - October 23, 2016

There’s more and more evidence that the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan, which since 2008 has guided development in a large swath of San Francisco, is...

News + Politics

Why Prop. X is needed to save PDR

Zelda Bronstein - October 22, 2016

San Francisco’s artists, small blue-collar businesses, and community-serving nonprofits are being forced out of the city by soaring rents; outright evictions; and, in many...

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