Super Bowl Archives

Culture

PHOTOS: Celebrating Skatin’ Place, SF’s ‘joy vortex’ during the pandemic

Lucas Thornton - March 3, 2021

A colorful community rolled, danced, and twirled through the dark days of COVID—led by the Skate Godfather, of course.

Music

Love in a to-go cup: An off-beat quar-times Valentine’s playlist

John-Paul Shiver - February 9, 2021

Full-tilt covers, bizarre takes, choice oddities—what to listen to when you can't really date.

Labor

The Super Bowl billionaires

Marc Norton - February 7, 2021

Sports team owners, including Charles Johnson of the Giants, made $98.5 billion during the pandemic. Their stadium workers are suffering.

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Al Pastortas, all purple everything—plus Lunar New Year, V-Day tips

Tamara Palmer - February 2, 2021

Super Bowl snacks, ube mania, a mango-themed restaurant, loaded love latkes, and more local treats

Housing

A new approach to homelessness

Garrett Leahy - January 20, 2021

Advocates release plan that involves taking primary response to calls away from the police.

Campaign Trail

Wiener tries to look progressive in debate

Tim Redmond - October 4, 2020

But that requires a bit of historical revisionism, since his record has always been very moderate on police, housing, and homelessness.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

Dennis Harvey - August 21, 2020

For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as...

Movies

Indiefest electrifies with punk and sci-fi royalty, surreal thrillers, local debuts

Dennis Harvey - January 24, 2020

SF Indiefest (Wed/29-February 13) may not look backward a great deal, but when it does, it has to be the right fit for a festival...

Housing

Is Mayor Breed planning more homeless sweeps?

Tim Redmond - November 20, 2019

A press release from the Mayor’s Office arrived in my inbox two days ago, to wit: Mayor London N. Breed today joined City officials and...

Arts + Culture

The (final) Doormat Division: Moldy Carpet Award goes to …

Erik Walker - December 29, 2018

Week 17. When teams have just given up, are fighting for the Doormat lives, are booking tee times in Florida, and, most importantly, are...

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