Tag: Waterfront
Screen Grabs: Bring on the zombies!
A bloom of horror in a pandemic, with #Alive, Spiral, Ravers, The Devil All the Time, more. Plus: Fort Mason drive-in opens
The money—and endorsements—in District Five
One of the most interesting elements of the D5 supervisorial campaign is challenger Vallie Brown’s website. Check out the tab that says “endorsements.”
Most people running for office make a...
Clap your hands, stomp your feet for ‘River City Drumbeat’
River City Drumbeat (playing Fri/7-August 21 at Roxie Virtual Cinema) captures a Louisville, KY, phenomenon: the River City Drum Corp, a youth brigade of African American kids aged 5-18 who...
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...
Public toilets—and public corruption
The deepening public works scandal, which now involves political connected permit expediter Walter Wong, appears to have links to a big corporation that has been doing business in SF...
Screen Grabs: The lyin’ preacher, the witch-tree, and The Whistlers
Escapism may be one of the few commodities experiencing a boom during lockdown, but not all escapes are lighthearted—the new releases highlighted below offer primarily the escape of focusing...
Final, final results: Progressives win three judges, DCCC
The results of the March 3 San Francisco election are finally (almost) final; the Department of Elections reports all but about 1,500 ballots have been counted. So we can...
It’s easy to find housing in SF — if you’re in the 1 percent
The Chron put the story on the front page of the Sunday paper: There is no housing crisis in San Francisco.
It is a good time to be condo shopping...
At Zinn Fair, Peter Cole explores SF’s unique history of labor and race
In Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in South Africa and the San Francisco Bay Area, labor historian Peter Cole uncovers the undocumented history of waterfront activism and its role in...
Is Mayor Breed planning more homeless sweeps?
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 community partners to launch the...
