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Diamond Dave Whitaker, a San Francisco icon and legend, dies at 88

He turned Bob Dylan onto pot and Woody Guthrie. He organized underground poetry and political protest. He was part of the city's radical soul, and we will miss him

Remembrance Tim Redmond - March 4, 2026

Drama Masks: ‘Paranormal Activity’ and other things that go bump in the night

Plus: 'All My Sons' proves Arthur Miller's anti-establishment cred and 'Looking For Justice' finds a broken system.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 4, 2026

The Audium thrums with Pamela Z’s factory-sampling ‘Arbeitsklang’

Composer weaves sounds from German worksites—Bayer plant, futon stitchery, Gutenberg press—for latest piece.

Music Marke B. - March 5, 2026

Noise Pop Diary: Wrapping up a stellar fest, with Sun Ra Arkestra magic

By celebrating local talent and venues (with a sprinkling of cosmic legends), Noise Pop grew exponentially this year.

Music Review John-Paul Shiver - March 4, 2026

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What To Do

BIG WEEK: Women’s Day, Barbara Ramos street photography, Lunar New Year parade, John Malkovich

Caitlin Donohue - March 4, 2026

Plus: African Film Festival, BFF.FM Super Schmackdown, Indian Restaurant Week, 'Paranormal Activity'.

Protest

SF protests against war on Iran draw cries to “Send Barron’

Joel Schechter - March 3, 2026

On Saturday and Monday, crowds gathered to demand an end to US intervention in the Middle East.

Business + Tech

DA Brooke Jenkins attacks unions, says the city needs to be nicer to billionaires

Tim Redmond - March 3, 2026

At conference for democrats who want to crush the left, Jenkins says the city is at a "reckoning" with local labor

Music

A Detroit techno visionary soundtracks a German sci-fi classic (again)

Marke B. - March 3, 2026

Jeff Mills performs his new, third score for Fritz Lang's dystopian 'Metropolis': 'I wish it weren't so relevant now'

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Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment

Movies Dennis Harvey - March 3, 2026

Plus: New German cinema, African Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray’s 'Days and Nights in the Forest'.

Noise Pop Diary: Illuminati Hotties caped for BOTH, Orcutt Shelley Miller thrilled the dudes

Music Review John-Paul Shiver - March 3, 2026

Free show from tenderpunk faves erased the condos closing in; avant-rock trio took the beards on wild rides at GAMH.

Noise Pop Diary: Sideswiped by TikTok fame, Julie Doiron had many more tales to tell

Music Review Daniel Bromfield - March 2, 2026

30-year-old 'August 10' soundtracks today's teen Reels, but the Canadian stalwart transcends viral splash with guitar chops.

When you eat broccolini, remember the farmworkers who harvest it for you

Labor David Bacon - March 2, 2026

Fresh produce is a great benefit of living in the Bay Area—but the workers in the fields are the ones who make it happen

Noise Pop Diary: SML cooked at SFJAZZ—all sauce, no Butterss

Music John-Paul Shiver - March 1, 2026

One key player was missing, but the LA-based future jazz outfit heated up Joe Henderson Lab just fine.

Why is Trump going to war with Iran?

The Agenda Tim Redmond - March 1, 2026

Plus: Finally, a supervisor calls out City Planning for ignoring affordable housing, and the next move toward a public bank. That's The Agenda for March 1-8

Noise Pop Diary: Shannon Shaw came sans Clams; SpongeBob’s Tom Kenny rode Hi-Seas

Music Review Daniel Bromfield - March 1, 2026

KQED Live set brought out a local garage rock legend's country side, while a beloved voice actor dove into classic soul.

Inspired by Youtube thumbnails, L. Song Wu captures the internet’s insatiability

Art Mary Corbin - February 28, 2026

Her anime girls were being fetishized—so the painter turned to depicting mukbangs.

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

Art Lou Fancher - February 27, 2026

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

See a show for free at Lost Church in March

Promotion Marke B. - February 27, 2026

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

The real story behind Muni’s budget deficit

Transportation Ian Firstenberg - February 26, 2026

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

Lurie plan would nearly eliminate the Department of the Environment

Environment Serena Finney - February 26, 2026

Protesters say 80 percent cut would imperil Climate Action Plan

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Movies

A Detroit techno visionary soundtracks a German sci-fi classic (again)

Jeff Mills performs his new, third score for Fritz Lang's dystopian 'Metropolis': 'I wish it weren't so relevant now'

Music Marke B. - March 3, 2026

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

Screen Grabs: Back to back with Almodovar muse Carmen Maura

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

Music

The Audium thrums with Pamela Z’s factory-sampling ‘Arbeitsklang’

Composer weaves sounds from German worksites—Bayer plant, futon stitchery, Gutenberg press—for latest piece.

Music Marke B. - March 5, 2026

A Detroit techno visionary soundtracks a German sci-fi classic (again)

Noise Pop Diary: Illuminati Hotties caped for BOTH, Orcutt Shelley Miller thrilled the dudes

Noise Pop Diary: Sideswiped by TikTok fame, Julie Doiron had many more tales to tell

Art

Inspired by Youtube thumbnails, L. Song Wu captures the internet’s insatiability

Her anime girls were being fetishized—so the painter turned to depicting mukbangs.

Art Mary Corbin - February 28, 2026

A zap of Latine abstraction in ‘Rebel Forms’

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

Manet, Morisot, and the language of the eyes

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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

The Audium thrums with Pamela Z’s factory-sampling ‘Arbeitsklang’

Composer weaves sounds from German worksites—Bayer plant, futon stitchery, Gutenberg press—for latest piece.

Music Marke B. - March 5, 2026

Why is Trump going to war with Iran?

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

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

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: ‘Paranormal Activity’ and other things that go bump in the night

Plus: 'All My Sons' proves Arthur Miller's anti-establishment cred and 'Looking For Justice' finds a broken system.

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - March 4, 2026

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