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

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

What To Do Caitlin Donohue - February 25, 2026

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

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

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

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

Music Joshua Rotter - February 24, 2026

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Back to back with Almodovar muse Carmen Maura

Dennis Harvey - February 24, 2026

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

Food & Drink

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

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.

Lit

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

Joel Schechter - February 24, 2026

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

Business + Tech

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

Tim Redmond - February 23, 2026

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

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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.

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

Music John-Paul Shiver - February 21, 2026

33rd indie music fest kicked off on a Bay Area high note, with friendly vibes and winning sounds.

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

Movies Dennis Harvey - February 20, 2026

Also: "Films of Remembrance" explores forced WWII Japanese American incarceration, a glockenspiel-equipped tribute to Georges Melies.

With Gov Gav missing, will Democrats have a strategy to win in November?

News + Politics Tim Redmond - February 19, 2026

The state's weird primary system could put two Republicans in the general election for governor. What is a party with too many weak candidates going to do?

Party Radar: The Night’s Watch takes on sexual violence in SF nightlife

Nightlife Marke B. - February 19, 2026

New org demonstrates how to open more lines of safe communication and plans of action to face down enduring problem.

Under the Stars: Miles Davis centennial celebrations blow into the Bay

Music John-Paul Shiver - February 19, 2026

Plus: Drum and bass contemporaries can't catch Calibre, The Necessaries anthology pays homage to prescient indie rock, more.

Corporate Democrats are in control as party holds state convention in SF

News + Politics Tim Redmond - February 19, 2026

No big-name speakers who support the billionaire tax get to take the stage, a sign of who controls the party as we head for the midterms

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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

A zap of Latine abstraction in ‘Rebel Forms’

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

Art Marke B. - February 22, 2026

Manet, Morisot, and the language of the eyes

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

‘Pride in Panels’ fest inks in queer cartoon brilliance

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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

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

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

The Agenda Tim Redmond - February 22, 2026

How Lurie bungled the teachers strike

Chakrabarti doubles down on support for Mahmood, Lurie

Watch: Teachers rally outside City Hall as strike launches

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

Century-old Martha Graham Dance Company proves the future of the art is in good hands

Elegant, forceful reimaginings of legendary choreography hit their mark.

Dance Lou Fancher - February 18, 2026

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