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Screen Grabs: DocFest’s local focus includes Jeff Adachi, Hyphy, Aquarius Records

Dennis Harvey - May 29, 2022

Our guide to the 21st bonanza. Plus: Castro Theatre's 100th birthday. a 'lesbian El Topo,' and the adult voyage of Bella Cherry

News + Politics

Mayor makes smart move with public defender appointment

Tim Redmond - March 11, 2019

The entire Office of the Public Defender was celebrating today with the news that Mayor London Breed has named Manohar Raju to replace the...

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Breed may not be opposed in November—but her policies will be

Tim Redmond - February 28, 2019

Things can change quickly in San Francisco politics, but for the moment, it appears that Mayor London Breed will not have a serious challenger...

News + Politics

Rally denounces DA’s failure to charge killer cops

Tim Redmond - May 29, 2018

A crowd rallied on the steps of the Hall of Justice today to denounce District Attorney George Gascon’s decision not to file charges against...

News + Politics

A challenge to sitting judges — and the secretive judicial system

Tim Redmond - February 27, 2018

Judges don’t like elections. That’s been true in San Francisco for decades, and it’s true in most of the rest of the country. The...

News + Politics

Garcia Zarate gets time served — but won’t go free

Sana Saleem - January 5, 2018

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the undocumented homeless man whose trial became a national issue, was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday in the death...

News + Politics

Famed lawyer Tony Serra to represent Garcia Zarate on federal gun charges

Tim Redmond - January 4, 2018

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, who was acquitted in the death of Kate Steinle, will be sentenced Friday morning for a minor gun possession charge,...

Arts + Culture

Our most-read stories of 2017

Marke B. - December 30, 2017

This was a truly unsettling year, from the election of Donald Trump and the resurgence of white supremacist movements to the sudden death of...

News + Politics

Growing chorus agrees Gascon bungled the Zarate case

Tim Redmond - December 3, 2017

Nobody’s surprised that the rightwingosphere has gone batshit over the Garcia Zarate verdict. We knew this would happen. From the first day of jury...

News + Politics

Why was Garcia Zarate charged with murder?

Tim Redmond - November 30, 2017

There’s only one conclusion I can reach from the outcome of the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate: This case should never have been charged...

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