Stories about Veterans
Arts Forecast: Local shows to stream on your screens
Local drag star and owner of SoMa club Oasis, D’Arcy Drollinger’s new show “Hot Trash” would probably not have been born under normal circumstances. But when COVID caused the...
Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising
The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have shown that the power of...
New Music: I, Ced maps the funky zigs and zags of modern romance
Los Angeles artist I, Ced, who's been a fixture on the session musician track since leaving St. Louis, Missouri in 2001 and arriving in SoCal, keeps his name and...
Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now
As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump era, drowned out by his...
Support musicians directly this Friday!
Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share again on May 1, looking out for independent artists right now. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the online music store and platform...
Screen Grabs: Battle of the giant Russian oligarchs
The big event this week is Friday’s return of Noir City, whose latest annual edition at the Castro we’ve previewed separately here.
Among commercial openings this Friday, Guy Ritchie appears...
Our critic picks 2019’s Music of Note
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 couple of sublime DJ mixes,...
A nonprofit alliance becomes an ally of Big Telecom
It's not unusual for businesses to spend princely sums lobbying government to free them from regulations, which generally means consumer protections are reduced or eliminated. In a nutshell, that's...
Special report: Bay Area academics visit Kurds in Northern Syria
Editor's Note: This story by our Foreign Correspondent columnist Reese Erlich is accompanied by photographs by Beth LaBerge. In Laberge's words, "I spent two weeks in June traveling between...
Filipino language access still lacking in SF
In 2014, San Francisco certified Filipino as the city’s official third language. Under the Language Access Ordinance, this certification should have signaled a full implementation of Filipino as a...
