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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…

Dennis Harvey - November 4, 2019

Woe betide the Bay Area movie lover equally enthused about South Asian cinema, transgender screen expressions, and amateur porn—because this week the signature local...

News + Politics

The Street Sheet: 30 years of journalism by and for homeless people

TJ Johnston - November 1, 2019

Since 2001, I’ve been involved with Street Sheet in some capacity — at first as a freelancer, and now as a sort-of managing editor...

Movies

Transgender visions in urgent times

Peter-Astrid Kane - October 31, 2019

Visibility has always been a guiding principle of queer liberation. From Harvey Milk’s “Come out, come out, wherever you are” to the debates over...

Lit

‘Disasterama!’ chronicles SF’s wild, lost queer underground

Marke B. - October 15, 2019

A certain queer generation has come of memoir age—which is a bit bracing (read: terrifying) for those of us who survived the '80s and...

Campaign Trail

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

Nightlife

Quick ‘n Dirty Guide to Folsom Parties 2019

Marke B. - September 26, 2019

Let your fetish flag wave! On Sunday, September 22, a giant leather flag was raised in SoMa on the site of the new Eagle...

At 83, piano legend Larry Vuckovich recounts a ‘Fascinating Jazz Life’

Reese Erlich - June 13, 2019

ALL EARS Pianist and composer Larry Vuckovich has been a headliner in the Bay Area jazz scene for over 60 years. His creative approach...

News + Politics

The Twitter Tax Break was a bad idea

Zachary James - June 7, 2019

Eight years after the city decided to use tax breaks to turn central market into a tech hub, the evidence suggests that the impacts...

Onstage

‘The Bald Soprano’: A perfect hour of absurdity returns, fire chief and all

Emily Wilson - June 4, 2019

ONSTAGE Ten years ago, Rob Melrose, who founded the Tenderloin’s Cutting Ball Theatre with his wife Paige Rogers, translated and directed Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist...

Featured

Big project at Divis and Oak could be issue in D5 supe race

Tim Redmond - May 23, 2019

The SF Planning Commission meets Thursday/23 to consider a project on Divisadero and Oak that could become an issue in the heated District Five...

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