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Shamann Walton, Nato Green team up for comedy at our big party!

Our Oct. 27 Triple Gala continues to bring on the heat, with two of the city's favorites bringing laughs and high spirits.

Featured Marke B. - October 21, 2026

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Combo Tezeta

Get drenched—or just slightly micro-dosed—in powerful psychedelic cumbia from this incredible Oakland outfit.

Best of the Bay John-Paul Shiver - October 21, 2026

Drama Masks: ‘Every Saturday Night’ buzzes with complexities of Black gentrification

SFBATCO's latest punches upwards at sell-out politicos and smug bougie folk, while celebrating Fillmore's jazz legacy.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - October 21, 2026

Mary W.D. Graham explores the prism of Black beauty—and the burden of colorism

'Once I see her, the painting is finished,' says North Beach portraitist, who digs into fraught subjects like 'the paper bag test.'

Art Mary Corbin - October 21, 2026

Music

Posthumous ‘staggering explosion’ from emcee P.E.A.C.E. is released at last

John-Paul Shiver - October 20, 2026

Freestyle Fellowship legend recorded with SF producer Romanowski over 13 years; proceeds will benefit his kids.

Best of the Bay

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Bosco

Adrian Spinelli - October 20, 2026

New 140-seat Italian restaurant in SoMa feels astonishingly intimate, with innovative yet homey dishes straight from Mother Nature.

Movies

Bloodsuckers ran amok at International Vampire Film Festival

Dhruv Baronia - October 20, 2026

Garlic from Gilroy, plastic-fanged goths, spooky films from all over the world: Balboa Theater gave vamp fans plenty to sink their teeth into.

Movies

Screen Grabs: SF Latino Film Fest finds a happy place in heavy times

Dennis Harvey - October 20, 2026

Plus: Horny fairy tale triumph 'Wicker,' powerful immigrant doc 'One in a Million,' Cannes-winner 'Fjord,' more new movies

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Our gala heats up with Chile Lindo empanadas, Latin tunes from DJ Lizzy al Toque

Featured Marke B. - October 19, 2026

Get your tickets now for October 27: Our annual community party helps save local journalism, the fun way!

Here’s what the supes ought to be asking the mayor

News + Politics Tim Redmond - October 19, 2026

Tech worker horrors, Money to fight ICE, data centers, affordable housing: What a missed opportunity Tuesday's meeting will be.

Opinion: Why labor supports Connie Chan for Congress

Opinion Larry Mazzola Jr., Mike Casey and Kim Tavaglione - October 19, 2026

Local unions aren't always in agreement on politics—but they agree on this election

Raucous electronic artist Tricky FM knows you’re shocked

Music Leah Isobel - October 19, 2026

Talking spiky girl energy, cum circle crowdwork, new LP 'Twin Star Fantasy,' so much more with rising beatmaker

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Luis Felipe Chávez

Art Emily Wilson - October 19, 2026

The artist showed us just how US and Mexico relate on a monumental scale—now he's turning his gaze to colonial power structure.

Live Shots: Danny Elfman delivered raging rock spiked with a Halloween fave at the Masonic

Music Danny Acosta - October 19, 2026

Lovable former Oingo Boingo frontman and cinematic soundtrack master went gonzo with his heavy side.

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Rize Up Bakery

Best of the Bay Tamara Palmer - October 19, 2026

Black-owned, SF-based, perfect sourdough loaves and boules from baker Azikiwee Anderson—now available in his own cafe.

The city’s a mess. The supes don’t want to question the mayor

The Agenda Tim Redmond - October 18, 2026

Plus: How to expand equity with neighborhood schools—and will Lurie's agenda create a sterile city that nobody will celebrate in 50 years? That's The Agenda for OCt. 18-25

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Slumberland Records

Music John-Paul Shiver - October 16, 2026

Mike Schulman's powerhouse Oakland indie-pop record label has a sound as chill and comforting as a blanket of Bay Area fog.

Good Taste: Indulge in our favorite Restaurant Week deals

Food & Drink Tamara Palmer - October 16, 2026

From $15 Colombian brunch at Creative Ideas Cafe to beautiful $90 Indian feast at Copra, here are 12 can't-miss picks.

At 87, the great Judy Collins sings farewell—but stays in the now

Music Joshua Rotter - October 16, 2026

Singer-activist shares tales of Leonard Cohen, Chicago Seven ahead of Sunday farewell concert at Cal Performances.

Another bad Congressional ‘debate’ reflects the failures of local media and US politics

Campaign Trail Tim Redmond - October 15, 2026

Nobody challenged the basic assumptions in Wiener's question, or his comments on AI money

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Movies

Bloodsuckers ran amok at International Vampire Film Festival

Garlic from Gilroy, plastic-fanged goths, spooky films from all over the world: Balboa Theater gave vamp fans plenty to sink their teeth into.

Movies Dhruv Baronia - October 20, 2026

Screen Grabs: ‘NAZA’ doc chillingly excoriates Israel’s killing machine

Screen Grabs: Green and UN film fests land at a raw moment for humanity

Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest blows in with wild weddings, sand thieves, ghost schools

Music

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Combo Tezeta

Get drenched—or just slightly micro-dosed—in powerful psychedelic cumbia from this incredible Oakland outfit.

Best of the Bay John-Paul Shiver - October 21, 2026

Raucous electronic artist Tricky FM knows you’re shocked

Live Shots: Danny Elfman delivered raging rock spiked with a Halloween fave at the Masonic

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Slumberland Records

Art

Mary W.D. Graham explores the prism of Black beauty—and the burden of colorism

'Once I see her, the painting is finished,' says North Beach portraitist, who digs into fraught subjects like 'the paper bag test.'

Art Mary Corbin - October 21, 2026

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Creative Collective

Best of the Bay 2026 Editors’ Pick: Far Out Gallery

In ‘Character Development,’ personae made of monsters, makeup, and dark magic

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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

The city’s a mess. The supes don’t want to question the mayor

Plus: How to expand equity with neighborhood schools—and will Lurie's agenda create a sterile city that nobody will celebrate in 50 years? That's The Agenda for OCt. 18-25

The Agenda Tim Redmond - October 18, 2026

AI-backed PAC puts up $3 million to elect Wiener to Congress

School Board to consider plans that would increase inequality in student enrollment

District 8 supe race: The plot thickens

Opinion

Opinion: Why labor supports Connie Chan for Congress

Local unions aren't always in agreement on politics—but they agree on this election

Opinion Larry Mazzola Jr., Mike Casey and Kim Tavaglione - October 19, 2026

How Porter, Newsom, and so many others are wrong about Proposition 40

Yes, groping can be sexual assault—even for gay men

A Luddite AI that self-destructs? Why not?

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Performance

Drama Masks: ‘Every Saturday Night’ buzzes with complexities of Black gentrification

SFBATCO's latest punches upwards at sell-out politicos and smug bougie folk, while celebrating Fillmore's jazz legacy.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - October 21, 2026

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