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Letters to the editor: The lack of fire safety on the West Side of town

Lurie wants more density in an area that has fallen behind in a key public safety area

Letters to the Editor Herbert F. Mintz II - September 28, 2025

Neighborhood finds it’s hard to fight AT&T

Planners approve 104-foot tower in Diamond Heights over broad community opposition

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - September 25, 2025

How Scott Wiener is undermining affordable housing

Plus: A strange move to allow city donations to a law-enforcement group, and why SF should buy apartments from a bankrupt landlord. That's The Agenda for Sept. 28-Oct. 5

The Agenda Tim Redmond - September 28, 2025

Good Taste: Supergroup of chefs launch Indian Restaurant Week

Anticipating Diwali, some of the Bay's best come together October 5-11 to highlight flavors of essential local community.

Food & Drink Tamara Palmer - September 25, 2025

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Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘One Battle After Another’ tests our moment’s wild waters

Dennis Harvey - September 25, 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson delivers radical leftists terrorists, fascist invasions, Leonardo in a man-bun. Plus: A flimsy 'Him'

Nightlife

Party Radar: Quick ‘n dirty guide to Folsom Street Fair fiestas

Marke B. - September 25, 2025

Disco Daddy, Hard Reset, Soft Play, Power Snatch, Bears in Space, Horse Meat Disco, Grunt, Squish, Ew!, Chunk, more freaky affairs

Arts + Culture

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Fantastic Negrito

Lou Fancher - September 25, 2025

Oakland-raised singer-songwriter refuses to rest on laurels, turning in a painfully introspective album with 'Son of a Broken Man.'

Fashion

Leather, lace, and hardware: All the looks you need at Folsom Street Fair

Joshua Rotter - September 24, 2025

From Five and Diamond to Love Lorn Lingerie—a tour through some of the fine fetish fashions on offer at the festival.

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New study shows why Lurie’s zoning plan will never make housing affordable

Housing Tim Redmond - September 24, 2025

Detailed housing data from 2015 to 2022 shows that developers aren't building what the city needs—and are damaging vulnerable communities

Watch: 48 Hills’ Tim Redmond talks Engardio recall, ‘family zoning plan’ on Doomloop Dispatch

News + Politics Tim Redmond - September 24, 2025

Our editor appeared on the podcast to delve into the roots of the housing crisis and discuss how to fight another tech takeover.

Portola’s party daze triumphed. But will it return in 2026?

Music Tamara Palmer - September 24, 2025

Two days spent eating to the beat of raver nostalgia (and Xtina's Grindr bleeps) on Pier 80, wondering if it ever has to end.

Drama Masks: SF Opera and Shotgun Players ask, What price life?

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - September 24, 2025

'Dead Man Walking' and 'The Motion' investigate the value we place on existence, in very different ways.

Under the Stars: The necessary genius of Saul Williams (and friends)

Music John-Paul Shiver - September 23, 2025

Plus: Prince's worldly curveball, Jessy Lanza's tender life slap, Armed Byrd takes flight, more new music

New state ‘loitering’ law could lead to racial profiling and deportations

Immigration Serena Finney - September 23, 2025

In the name of fighting sex trafficking, the state just opened the door to racial profiling, abuse, and helping ICE

Just one week left to vote for Best of the Bay!

Best of the Bay Marke B. - September 23, 2025

Best Burrito, Best Drag Show, Best Street Fair, Best Bookstore... Voting ends September 30—tell us what you love!

The bizarre incompetence of Wiener’s SB 79

Housing Michael Barnes - September 22, 2025

Do that math: This will never work. And it undermines all the twisted efforts cities are making to comply with RHNA

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Z Space

Arts + Culture Charles Lewis III - September 22, 2025

A blessedly versatile former can factory has become a well-established gem of a stage complex—and party place.

Iconoclastic as ever, Hunx and His Punx mix the apocalyptic with the cheery

Music Daniel Bromfield - September 22, 2025

Long-awaited new LP 'Walk Out On This World' came through tragedy to deliver sweet garage punk goods.

Screen Grabs: Blasting off with Jordan Belson’s mind-expanding cinema

Movies Dennis Harvey - September 22, 2025

Plus: 'Cannes for dirtbags' Scumdance Fest, Emma Thompson on thin ice, and a 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' love letter.

Win tickets to Folsom Street Fair’s official (and very naughty) parties!

Contest Marke B. - September 22, 2025

Grab a fun friend and hit up Freak Curious, Magnitude, and/or Deviants: Here's how to enter

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Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘One Battle After Another’ tests our moment’s wild waters

Paul Thomas Anderson delivers radical leftists terrorists, fascist invasions, Leonardo in a man-bun. Plus: A flimsy 'Him'

Movies Dennis Harvey - September 25, 2025

Screen Grabs: Psychedelic bro love swirls in ‘Lemurian Candidate’

Screen Grabs: Witness the incendiary birth of nunsploitation in ‘The Devils’

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

Music

Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Fantastic Negrito

Oakland-raised singer-songwriter refuses to rest on laurels, turning in a painfully introspective album with 'Son of a Broken Man.'

Arts + Culture Lou Fancher - September 25, 2025

Drama Masks: SF Opera and Shotgun Players ask, What price life?

Under the Stars: The necessary genius of Saul Williams (and friends)

Iconoclastic as ever, Hunx and His Punx mix the apocalyptic with the cheery

Art

Rock legend Andy Summers takes aim with a different instrument

New multimedia tour is 'nothing like what I did in the Police at all,' says guitarist and photographer.

Music Joshua Rotter - September 20, 2025

Mel Odom’s kaleidoscopic queer eye drew stunning art through AIDS

After 51 years of welcoming visitors in, SF Open Studios is gazing outwards

Painter Luis Felipe Chávez contemplates the monuments immigrants carry within

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Housing

New study shows why Lurie’s zoning plan will never make housing affordable

Detailed housing data from 2015 to 2022 shows that developers aren't building what the city needs—and are damaging vulnerable communities

Housing Tim Redmond - September 24, 2025

The bizarre incompetence of Wiener’s SB 79

Strange (and maybe inappropriate) actions at the Planning Commission …

Planning Commission passes Lurie plan over strong community opposition

Politics

How Scott Wiener is undermining affordable housing

Plus: A strange move to allow city donations to a law-enforcement group, and why SF should buy apartments from a bankrupt landlord. That's The Agenda for Sept. 28-Oct. 5

The Agenda Tim Redmond - September 28, 2025

Here’s what Scott Wiener has done

The Engardio recall and the failure of conservative politics in SF

Voters recall Engardio, by huge margin

Opinion

Letters to the editor: The lack of fire safety on the West Side of town

Lurie wants more density in an area that has fallen behind in a key public safety area

Letters to the Editor Herbert F. Mintz II - September 28, 2025

The Engardio recall and the failure of conservative politics in SF

Lurie is damaging transit, the environment—and democracy—on Market Street

Silence equals death—and that applies to AIDS and to antisemitism and to Palestine

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