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Screen Grabs: Starry floodgates open at Mill Valley Film Fest 49

Oscar bait, celeb sightings, and some real gems. Plus: Tsui Hark flabbers gasts, Joan Crawford's Hag-stravaganza, more movies

Movies Dennis Harvey - September 29, 2026

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Six Feet Apart Productions

Vibrant storytelling organization launched online during the pandemic and has since spread its tales into live spaces and new frontiers.

Best of the Bay Dorothy O'Donnell - September 29, 2026

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Festus Ezeli

The former Warrior now leans into his food-loving side, highlighting local mom-and-pop restaurants that could use some spotlight.

Best of the Bay Tamara Palmer - September 29, 2026

Live Shots: Pervy and proud at Folsom Street Fair

People (and pup) watching at the massive—and inspiring—annual leather and fetish fair

Live Shots Jon Bauer - September 28, 2026

The Agenda

LA is taxing mansions to building affordable housing. Why is Lurie opposing a similar plan?

Tim Redmond - September 27, 2026

Plus: Supes to confront jail conditions ... and have the Yimbys crossed a line in the Castro?

Food & Drink

Good Taste: Summer’s gone—but it left us great cafes

Tamara Palmer - September 24, 2026

A quartet of exceptional new spots where you can linger over coffee, pastries, and perhaps some great art in the making.

Humor

A Luddite AI that self-destructs? Why not?

Joel Schechter - September 24, 2026

'End Times' and a 21st Century version of a 19th Century phenomenon

Media

Why won’t the media call a lie a lie?

Bruce Mirken - September 24, 2026

Trump and RFK, Jr. constantly and deliberately spew falsehoods. We know this, they know this—why doesn't the press?

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Drama Masks: There’s a flesh-eating alien plant inside the queer theater!

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - September 24, 2026

'Little Shop of Horrors' comes to NCTC. Plus: Long live the DNA Lounge parklet, a true and trusty survivor.

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Tablehopper

Best of the Bay Tamara Palmer - September 24, 2026

20 years in, still white-hot local food & drink newsletter gives you all the scoop—two scoops, even—on culinary dish.

BIG WEEK: Dolly Day, Folsom Parties, 924 Gilman Benefit, Kevin Powell, Laurie Anderson…

Big Week Marke B. - September 24, 2026

'King Lear,' Boof x Squish, Buzzed Lightbeer, Sake Day, 'The History of Concrete,' SFEMF, more great things to do!

With new incarnation, stoner doom metal legends Sleep sail on

Arts + Culture Daniel Bromfield - September 23, 2026

Tipping its hat to Rush on 'Hempispheres' LP, the San Jose-rooted outfit now boasts Melvins and Void members.

Inspired by Maren Hassinger’s work, BAMPFA community bonds on paper

Art Emily Wilson - September 23, 2026

Knotting and twisting, Julia Goodman leads workshops that celebrate a luminous living artist.

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Qu’in de la Noche

Onstage Charles Lewis III - September 23, 2026

The Dark Siren of San Francisco stuns with burlesque production chops—and ability to render calls for justice undeniably hot.

Under the Stars: We almost lost Eli’s Mile High Club

Music John-Paul Shiver - September 23, 2026

East Bay players weigh in on the jeopardized venue's importance. Plus, BALTHVS psychs out and Perennial sveltes up.

Screen Grabs: Local auteur JP Allen stays offbeat, indie, and frisky

Movies Dennis Harvey - September 23, 2026

Plus: Brazilian Film Fest, Another Other Cinema oddity, an ode to concrete, 'Viktor' in Ukraine, 'Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!'

Supes reject PG&E’s latest attempt to delay public power—but where is Lurie?

News + Politics Tim Redmond - September 22, 2026

The mayor will soon name a PUC general manager, who will need to stand up to PG&E. The future of clean, cheap municipal power hangs in the balance

Live Shots: El Trí brought glittering rock en español power to San Jose

Music D.A. Mission - September 22, 2026

Mexico City rockeros delivered on a 50-year legacy of rebellious chords.

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Featured Marke B. - September 22, 2026

Sponsor our annual celebration on October 27 and help us keep local news independent and human-driven!

Gaza’s MC Abdul on life in the Bay—and a debut album that maps his journey

Music D'Andre Ball - September 22, 2026

Palestinian rapper learned English listening to Tupac. Now he's dropping 'Day by Day, Shway Shway' on SF's EMPIRE label

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Starry floodgates open at Mill Valley Film Fest 49

Oscar bait, celeb sightings, and some real gems. Plus: Tsui Hark flabbers gasts, Joan Crawford's Hag-stravaganza, more movies

Movies Dennis Harvey - September 29, 2026

‘Lost’ films seen through fresh eyes at Re:Vision Fest

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Artists’ Television Access

Screen Grabs: Who doesn’t love a bear in a hot tub?

Music

Live Shots: Pervy and proud at Folsom Street Fair

People (and pup) watching at the massive—and inspiring—annual leather and fetish fair

Live Shots Jon Bauer - September 28, 2026

Under the Stars: We almost lost Eli’s Mile High Club

Live Shots: El Trí brought glittering rock en español power to San Jose

Gaza’s MC Abdul on life in the Bay—and a debut album that maps his journey

Art

Inspired by Maren Hassinger’s work, BAMPFA community bonds on paper

Knotting and twisting, Julia Goodman leads workshops that celebrate a luminous living artist.

Art Emily Wilson - September 23, 2026

An extraordinary pianist plays her way through immigration limbo

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Artists’ Television Access

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: SCRAP SF

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Housing

SF is about to run out of affordable housing money—unless Props. I and C pass

Ten years of bond money is spent. The next bond isn't until 2034. Thousands of units will stall if the voters don't approve annual funding

Housing Tim Redmond - September 17, 2026

Why is SF encouraging a notorious landlord to build luxury housing in Lower Haight?

How cities are going to lose all control over housing development, soon

The Chron discovers, sort of, that Wiener’s housing bills are a con

Politics

LA is taxing mansions to building affordable housing. Why is Lurie opposing a similar plan?

Plus: Supes to confront jail conditions ... and have the Yimbys crossed a line in the Castro?

The Agenda Tim Redmond - September 27, 2026

AI operators aren’t slowing down; they are becoming even more of a threat to democracy

Drama Masks: The curtain falls at SF Opera

Want to slow down AI before it kills us? Maybe just cancel all the IPOs

Opinion

A Luddite AI that self-destructs? Why not?

'End Times' and a 21st Century version of a 19th Century phenomenon

Humor Joel Schechter - September 24, 2026

The world, and my life, changed on Sept. 11, 25 years ago

A search for the corrupt insiders in Lurie’s City Hall

AI, sexual harassment, and a drag queen at a nurse’s convention

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Performance

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Six Feet Apart Productions

Vibrant storytelling organization launched online during the pandemic and has since spread its tales into live spaces and new frontiers.

Best of the Bay Dorothy O'Donnell - September 29, 2026

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