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Arts + Culture

Life before dot-com: Two exhibitions explore the not-so-distant past of SF

Dennis Harvey - November 26, 2019

San Francisco has tended to be defined by its high profile cultural moments and movements, from the libertine Barbary Coast era to the Beats,...

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...

The Agenda

Guess who’s a lawyer for the city’s worst planning scofflaw? (Hint: He writes for the Chron)

Tim Redmond - October 27, 2019

The City Attorney’s Office and the Planning Department just released some details of the legal settlement between the city and the Academy of Art...

News + Politics

Planners keep wanting to streamline approvals for housing that won’t get built

Tim Redmond - August 19, 2019

The Board of Supes isn’t back from vacation yet, but the Planning Commission is – and on Thursday/22 the panel will hear a report...

Arts + Culture

Joan Jett Blakk for President, perpetually!

Johnny Ray Huston - August 6, 2019

“Hunny, I cannot tell you, it’s so weird being history.” Terence Alan Smith, aka Joan Jett Blakk, is over at my apartment for lunch, and...

Campaign Trail

Warren steals the show at Democratic Convention

Tim Redmond - June 1, 2019

It’s remarkable how much the mainstream of the Democratic Party has shifted since Bernie Sanders shook up the party three years ago. This year,...

Campaign Trail

The tensions are going to emerge at the Dem Con this weekend

Tim Redmond - May 31, 2019

The Democratic Convention officially starts this afternoon, and the talk amoung progressive delegates is all about the nasty attacks on Kimberly Ellis, who is...

News + Politics

Court to hear arguments on police raid of reporters house

Tim Redmond - May 20, 2019

The fate of the property of journalist Bryan Carmody – and the role of the local courts in allowing a clearly illegal search warrant...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

Dennis Harvey - March 26, 2019

SCREEN GRABS In a week that brings the literally elephantine spectacle of a (mostly) live-action Dumbo remake by Tim Burton, you might well run in...

News + Politics

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Tiny - March 6, 2019

No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

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