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See a show for free at Lost Church in March

Flamenco, comedy, variety, music: Catch something unique at the independent North Beach venue. But act fast.

Promotion Marke B. - February 27, 2026

The real story behind Muni’s budget deficit

Instead of investing in public transit, City Hall has been looking for ways to privatize it

Transportation Ian Firstenberg - February 26, 2026

YBCA’s ‘Conjuring Power’ grounds hope for LGBTQ+ future in shared history

Ester Hernández, Serge Gay Jr., Crystal Mason, Tanya Wischerath, and others carry on distinctly SF practice of world-building.

Art Lou Fancher - February 27, 2026

Lurie plan would nearly eliminate the Department of the Environment

Protesters say 80 percent cut would imperil Climate Action Plan

Environment Serena Finney - February 26, 2026

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Onstage

Drama Masks: The Manhattanization of San Francisco stages

Charles Lewis III - February 26, 2026

Bilal Mahmood's proposal for a new arts district promises to be of little benefit to local creatives.

City Hall

And now, another big tax cut for the developers and speculators in SF

Tim Redmond - February 25, 2026

Lurie, Mahmood want to eliminate affordable housing money to help the profits of luxury developers

Movies

What we saw at Sundance 2026: 9 narrative features that found the plot

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 25, 2026

'Buddy' taps horror in children's TV, Channing Tatum shines as SF father in Beth de Araújo's 'Josephine', a surprising wartime divorce comedy soars.

What To Do

BIG WEEK: Black Choreographers Fest, Sunset Night Market, FAGJAZZ, Winterfest, more

Caitlin Donohue - February 25, 2026

Plus: Maara, Psychedelics and Cinema, Chulita Vinyl Club, Dr. Bittinger, 'The Voice of Hind Rajab', more.

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Party Radar: With ‘Unabridged,’ the story of Detroit techno unfolds in the Bay

Nightlife Marke B. - February 25, 2026

As You Like It crew brings in legends like Jeff Mills, Moodymann, and Stacy 'Hotwaxx' Hale for BBQ, film, panels, and lots of dancing.

Zines, memories, sonic assault: Mabuhay Gardens’ 50-year SF punk detonation

Music Joshua Rotter - February 24, 2026

Iconic North Beach venue hosts day-to-night convergence of unruly local history and modern-day community.

Screen Grabs: Back to back with Almodovar muse Carmen Maura

Movies Dennis Harvey - February 24, 2026

Plus: Jewish Film Institute’s Winterfest, Emeryville International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, BAMPFA gets psychedelic, more.

Bottoms up with the advanced cicerone crafting this year’s SF Beer Week

Food & Drink Adrian Spinelli - February 24, 2026

Venture capital exodus be damned—Sayre Piotrkowski will advocate for the pours of 71 Bay Area Brewers Guild members until last call.

Karl Marx at the Antiquarian Book Fair; or, anybody got $134,900 to spare?

Lit Joel Schechter - February 24, 2026

57th edition of rare volume exhibition brings treasures to Pier 27—and some ironic commodity fetishism.

No, taxes on billionaires won’t destroy innovation in California

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - February 23, 2026

Tax opponents are putting out a line that makes no sense; just look at Bay Area tech history

Noise Pop Diary: Indie legend Christopher Owens returns, with a flamenco twist

Music Daniel Bromfield - February 23, 2026

The Girls frontman has been through hell, but has kept making music; his presence brought roars from the local crowd.

Under the Stars: Carlos Niño & Friends deliver a glad-to-be-alive moment

Music John-Paul Shiver - February 23, 2026

Plus: Celebrate 50 years of San Francisco punk at Mabuhay Gardens, DJ Sep hits The Riptide, more.

A zap of Latine abstraction in ‘Rebel Forms’

Art Marke B. - February 22, 2026

Romer Young's small but powerful show taps into possibilities of futurity, freedom, and unfettered beauty.

Bernie Sanders talks about AI—and the billionaires who control it

The Agenda Tim Redmond - February 22, 2026

Plus: The DCCC holds its endorsements meeting, and the supes vote on more chain stores and an illegal $40 million luxury hotel tax break. That's The Agenda for Feb. 22-March 1

Democratic candidates run away from the billionaire tax

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - February 22, 2026

Discussion of economic inequality was rare at the state convention. Our report from Moscone Center

What we saw at Sundance 2026: 8 documentaries bringing back facts

Movies Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 22, 2026

An ode to Barbara Hammer, a women's chess champ, Marianne Faithfull's reckoning—and polar bears.

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Movies

What we saw at Sundance 2026: 9 narrative features that found the plot

'Buddy' taps horror in children's TV, Channing Tatum shines as SF father in Beth de Araújo's 'Josephine', a surprising wartime divorce comedy soars.

Movies Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 25, 2026

What we saw at Sundance 2026: 8 documentaries bringing back facts

Screen Grabs: End of days at Fear and Faith Horror Festival—plus other new flicks to help scream it out

‘Pillion’ director Harry Lighton on kinky dom-com’s delicious chemistry

Music

Party Radar: With ‘Unabridged,’ the story of Detroit techno unfolds in the Bay

As You Like It crew brings in legends like Jeff Mills, Moodymann, and Stacy 'Hotwaxx' Hale for BBQ, film, panels, and lots of dancing.

Nightlife Marke B. - February 25, 2026

Noise Pop Diary: Indie legend Christopher Owens returns, with a flamenco twist

Under the Stars: Carlos Niño & Friends deliver a glad-to-be-alive moment

Noise Pop Diary: Cindy scored the reconnections, New Jazz Underground went for gold

Art

YBCA’s ‘Conjuring Power’ grounds hope for LGBTQ+ future in shared history

Ester Hernández, Serge Gay Jr., Crystal Mason, Tanya Wischerath, and others carry on distinctly SF practice of world-building.

Art Lou Fancher - February 27, 2026

A visit with Alice the Anarchist to ‘Manet & Morisot’

Manet, Morisot, and the language of the eyes

Love, luck, ink: Friday the 13th met Valentine’s Day in SF tattoo parlors

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Housing

Is the tide finally turning on the ‘abundance agenda?’

Two new studies show that the free market won't solve the housing crisis—and that Newsom, Lurie, and Wiener are wrong

Housing Tim Redmond - February 12, 2026

Finally, a media breakthrough of the pro-Yimby narrative that has dominated press and politics

New study shows that deregulation is not the answer to the affordable housing crisis

The Marina Safeway project is just a shiny bauble to distract us from real issues

Politics

And now, another big tax cut for the developers and speculators in SF

Lurie, Mahmood want to eliminate affordable housing money to help the profits of luxury developers

City Hall Tim Redmond - February 25, 2026

Democratic candidates run away from the billionaire tax

How Lurie bungled the teachers strike

Chakrabarti doubles down on support for Mahmood, Lurie

Opinion

‘Sex trafficking’ stings—or ICE deportation at the Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl trafficking panic doesn’t reduce exploitation—it legitimizes policing that harms sex workers and immigrants

Opinion megan hobza - February 7, 2026

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

Optional vaccines? CDC chair’s bizarre views would turn US into deadly experiment

People do not need to ask permission to belong

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Performance

Drama Masks: The Manhattanization of San Francisco stages

Bilal Mahmood's proposal for a new arts district promises to be of little benefit to local creatives.

Onstage Charles Lewis III - February 26, 2026

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