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Onstage

Nothing’s gonna rain on ‘Funny Girl’ Katerina McCrimmon’s SF parade

Joshua Rotter - April 25, 2024

“I've always been fighting to make it this far," says the dynamo Fanny Brice with Miami roots and plenty of chutzpah.

Development

Supes put a hold on Breed’s Treasure Island developer bailout plan

Steve Stallone - April 25, 2024

Mayor's Office, developers now have to figure out how to move forward with a deeply troubled project

Housing

Supes rent-relief program saved 20,000 people from eviction during the pandemic

Tim Redmond - April 25, 2024

New city report shows how taxing the rich to help low-income renters is highly effective.

Music

1984—the year pop music shot to the stratosphere

John-Paul Shiver - April 25, 2024

As the 40th anniversary releases and tributes roll out, revisiting a year of barrier-busting giants.

Hot topics

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Stylish but deadly classic ‘Le Samouraï’ swings into the Roxie

Dennis Harvey - April 25, 2024

Plus: Ridiculous and enjoyable 'Challengers,' exhausting 'Boy Kills World,' the rise of Christian Nationalism, more

Onstage

After ‘painful’ preparation, ‘Blue Door’ opens onto Black men’s complex life in US

Lou Fancher - April 24, 2024

Director Darryl V. Jones on creating the soundtrack of generational haunting at Aurora Theatre Company

Music

Matmos drops in for tea and jockstraps

Joshua Rotter - April 24, 2024

Radical sound-collage duo dish on roots in SF's wild '90s nightlife scene as debut 'In Lo-Fidelity' hits 30.

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Getting flaky at Smörgåsland

Tamara Palmer - April 23, 2024

The pastry-stacked promise of IKEA’s new bakery and food hall in downtown SF.

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Unbearable tension of ghosts past and present in ‘Returning to Haifa’

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 23, 2024

Palestinians come back home in the shadow of the Six-Day War, in Golden Thread's latest on Potrero Stage.

Tehran-born artist Sameh Khalatbari strings resistance into every work

Art Mary Corbin - April 23, 2024

Deeply felt homages to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom protest movement emanate from her San Ramon studio.

‘Portrait of a Woman’ tells of unlikely champ for 18th century art equality

Lit Lou Fancher - April 23, 2024

Bay Area-based author Bridget Quinn explains why she visited one of her subject's paintings 'every day for years.'

Breed’s Treasure Island developer bailout is a serious problem

Opinion Steve Stallone - April 22, 2024

Peskin, Chan amendments offer accountability—but where is the affordable housing, and why are details still secret?

Supreme Court hears critical case on homeless policy (SF wants to legalize sweeps) …

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024

... Plus: Is the SF Zoo really capable of hosting pandas, and is the city ready to start letting developers off the hook for the impacts their projects create? That's The Agenda for April 24-31

Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest unleashes Dizzy Gillespie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, June Squibb

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 21, 2024

Where else can you catch a 94-year-old action star, a jazz legend fighting for the Congo, and a requiem for activist Rob Peace?

Is protesting in traffic ‘false imprisonment?’

Protest Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024

Then what about Waymo blocking a highway entrance ramp?

‘Never too late’: Grannies of Grant Avenue Follies dance onto the airwaves

Culture Dorothy Odonnell - April 20, 2024

PBS highlights the Chinatown-based cabaret troupe of 11 spirited grandmothers keeping local history alive.

Revisiting the violent time when drag was illegal in ‘The Pride of Lions’

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 19, 2024

Risking it all in the 1920s to perform onstage and live authentically in Theatre Rhino's latest, by Roger Mason.

Under the Stars: Gauging the Bay Area spring music hype

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 19, 2024

Free Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, SF Symphony at the Movies, Brijean's return help patch tragedies like the A's leaving

New conservative DCCC members will face vote on critical labor issues

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - April 18, 2024

Will the 'moderate' majority elected with tech money support bills that regulate AI, robotaxis, and robotrucks?

SF could get federal funding for 4,000 affordable housing units—maybe

Housing Savannah Dewberry - April 18, 2024

So far, the Breed Administration has not taken advantage of a program that will close in September.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Stylish but deadly classic ‘Le Samouraï’ swings into the Roxie

Plus: Ridiculous and enjoyable 'Challengers,' exhausting 'Boy Kills World,' the rise of Christian Nationalism, more

Screen Grabs Dennis Harvey - April 25, 2024

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan opens up about candid new biopic ‘Girl You Know it’s True’

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond &… Milli Vanilli?

Screen Grabs: Strap yourself in for a harrowing ‘Civil War’

Music

1984—the year pop music shot to the stratosphere

As the 40th anniversary releases and tributes roll out, revisiting a year of barrier-busting giants.

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 25, 2024

Under the Stars: Gauging the Bay Area spring music hype

Master of samples Carl Stone returns, accompanied by car-long ‘Hurdy Grande’

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan opens up about candid new biopic ‘Girl You Know it’s True’

Art

Tehran-born artist Sameh Khalatbari strings resistance into every work

Deeply felt homages to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom protest movement emanate from her San Ramon studio.

Art Mary Corbin - April 23, 2024

A profound web of hybrid histories in MoAD’s ‘Unruly Navigations’

Life burbles with inside jokes in Rebecca Ness’s jumbo paintings

Sticking to it: The packing tape art of Pablo Manga

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Housing

Supes rent-relief program saved 20,000 people from eviction during the pandemic

New city report shows how taxing the rich to help low-income renters is highly effective.

Housing Tim Redmond - April 25, 2024

Federal official tells SF to fix ongoing problems at ‘uninhabitable’ Plaza East public housing

Citizens advisory committee presses Navy for answers on Hunters Point Shipyard

The Yimbys think they rule—but there are some serious signs to the contrary

Politics

Supreme Court hears critical case on homeless policy (SF wants to legalize sweeps) …

... Plus: Is the SF Zoo really capable of hosting pandas, and is the city ready to start letting developers off the hook for the impacts their projects create? That's The Agenda for April 24-31

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 21, 2024