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Lit

Booker winner Anne Enright: ‘I don’t play hide-and-seek, I play hide-and-hide’

Lou Fancher - October 15, 2023

The Dublin author on new 'The Wren, The Wren,' which centers the women left behind by a garrulous poet

Stage Review

Just like a real family get-together, ‘Josephine’s Feast’ is both cringe and sweet

Charles Lewis III - August 15, 2023

All-Black cast at Magic Theatre navigates generation gaps and gender roles around the table in Star Finch's latest

Homelessness

Protesters say city needs to keep SIP hotels open — and people in them

Garrett Leahy - December 28, 2020

Members of the Prop. C oversight panel call for city money to buy hotels.

Nightlife

How did the Ocean Beach party happen—and can we prevent another incident?

Marke B. - September 11, 2020

Why didn't the police shut things down earlier? Sup. Stefani wants criminal investigation; Sup. Mandelman worries about Halloween

Onstage

Springsteen meets surveillance state in ‘Born in East Berlin’

Emily Wilson - February 10, 2020

Rogelio Martinez likes a little chaos when he works. So one day he had his toddler daughter, Charlotte, on his lap watching videos while...

Our critic picks 2019’s Music of Note

John-Paul Shiver - December 18, 2019

There is no through-line to this 2019 Music of Note line-up. Just honest music that runs the gamut of progressive soul, breakbeat mayhem, a...

From legendary roots, a great new Afrobeat record

John-Paul Shiver - September 15, 2019

Every time Leon "Kaleta" Ligan-Majek—known as simply Kaleta—uses that Fela meets James Brown grunt, leaping from the breadbasket, that's a cultural signpost indicating "get...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Two-spirits celebrate 20 years of Bay community

Caitlin Donohue - January 30, 2019

The annual Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits powwow marks a key gathering for the region's Native American community. From the gourd dance to the...

News + Politics

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

Tim Redmond - January 7, 2019

It was a time to celebrate in San Francisco tonight. Progressive groups in Chinatown held a banquet for the new supervisors, who ran on...

Culture

Doormat Division: A huge upset …

Erik Walker - December 17, 2018

MASSIVE UPSET: 49ERS 26, SEAHAGS 23 (OT) A monkey got off everybody's back in Santa Clara yesterday. The 49ers, against all expectations, finally beat the...

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