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How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist's intense memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' peels back rock icon mythos

Music Joshua Rotter - April 18, 2026

Under the Stars: Irreversible Entanglements channel peace vibrations

Plus: DJ Platurn goes shopping, Earth Tongue jams and slithers, another winner from Bar Part Time, more music

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 17, 2026

Karyn Gabriel’s ceramic sculptures ask, ‘Is beauty important?’

Drawn to the mantra of repetition and the stillness of nature, the Marin artist lets each work 'percolate on its own timeline.'

Art Mary Corbin - April 18, 2026

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference

Some rational discussion based on facts, and some Yimby presentations with no facts

Housing Tim Redmond - April 16, 2026

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Labor

Hundreds rally against health care cuts

Serena Finney - April 16, 2026

Layoffs and service reductions will harm the city's most vulnerable residents

Music

Live Shots: Lamb of God took the Masonic ‘Into Oblivion’

D.A. Mission - April 15, 2026

Virginia heavy metal legends' full-throttle show transformed venue onto vortex of cathartic aggression.

Stage Review

Drama Masks: Of tyrannical kings and dancing kilts

Charles Lewis III - April 15, 2026

SF Ballet's 'La Sylphyde' goads us to run to the woods; NCTC's 'how to make an American son' picks at the myth of meritocracy

Movies

Screen Grabs: In the trenches of democracy with Amy Goodman

Dennis Harvey - April 14, 2026

Bracing 'Steal This Story, Please!' Plus: Soderbergh's intelligent 'The Christophers,' biting 'Continental '25,' spectral 'Dry Leaf'

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What the new Chakrabarti poll really shows

News + Politics Tim Redmond - April 14, 2026

The real question is not just percentage—it's who votes

Alvin Ailey’s annual Berkeley run brought further ‘Revelations’

Dance Lou Fancher - April 14, 2026

Revered African American dance company set sail for 'Jazz Island,' tackled a table-top 'Embrace,' and renewed a stone classic.

Puff: Flying high for 420 with a full week of Space Walk fest

Puff Dan Karkoska - April 12, 2026

Clone Fest, Cutie Pipes, the Herb Somm, dub dancing, Brownie Mary doc, and mind-blowing strains. Plus: You need this fast food bong.

A decade in, the Back Room still holds space for intimate musical encounters

Music Joshua Rotter - April 12, 2026

Berkeley mainstay hosts 10-day concert series marking 10 years of diverse, all-ages, BYOB, communal gigs.

Record Store Day 2026 brings a ‘1983’ treat

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 12, 2026

Annual brick-and-mortar booster re-releases Flying Lotus vinyl classic (among many others) to tempt you inside on April 18.

Rich people are lying to seniors about the billionaire tax; does the news media care?

The Agenda Tim Redmond - April 12, 2026

Plus: Protecting civilian control of the cops, and is SF 'a liberal oligarchy?' That's The Agenda for April 12-19

Why is the City Attorney’s Office ‘investigating’ a leaked document? It’s unprecedented and alarming

City Hall Tim Redmond - April 9, 2026

It's hard to see the focus on Sup. Fielder's Office as anything except a political vendetta, and the Chron should be ashamed to be part of it.

Screen Grabs: Balboa Theater hits 100—and honors a costuming legend

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 9, 2026

Plus: 'Return to Oz,' a new Camus, Doris Day's cult lesbian moment, Paleolithic Herzog, 'Faces of Death,' more

How to catch a crab

Culture Kajsa Kedefors - April 9, 2026

Reeling in a delicious catch—and finding a friendly community—at Pacifica Pier and beyond.

Under the Stars: Stoked for Stern Grove and SF Bay Popfest lineups, ‘lesbian doom folk’

Music John-Paul Shiver - April 8, 2026

Ulrika Spacek, Slake, Little Hill Lounge, Mortified, Vinyl Williams, Radio Sofia—so much great music.

Drama Masks: Keeping the monsters of the world at bay

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 8, 2026

Perk yourself up with 'Lost in Yonkers' or 'Compton's' riot. Meanwhile, Berkeley Rep's 'The Monsters' tells a sadly familiar tale.

Supes reject illegal conversion that turned four rental units into one mansion

Housing Tim Redmond - April 7, 2026

Critical vote not to accept Sauter deal sends a message to speculators—but there are plenty of other examples that the city has ignored

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Movies

Screen Grabs: In the trenches of democracy with Amy Goodman

Bracing 'Steal This Story, Please!' Plus: Soderbergh's intelligent 'The Christophers,' biting 'Continental '25,' spectral 'Dry Leaf'

Movies Dennis Harvey - April 14, 2026

Grab a free pass to see new doc ‘Lorne’

Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company

Screen Grabs: Tributes to three trailblazing women filmmakers

Music

How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s

Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist's intense memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' peels back rock icon mythos

Music Joshua Rotter - April 18, 2026

Live Shots: Lamb of God took the Masonic ‘Into Oblivion’

A decade in, the Back Room still holds space for intimate musical encounters

Record Store Day 2026 brings a ‘1983’ treat

Art

Karyn Gabriel’s ceramic sculptures ask, ‘Is beauty important?’

Drawn to the mantra of repetition and the stillness of nature, the Marin artist lets each work 'percolate on its own timeline.'

Art Mary Corbin - April 18, 2026

Rachel Simon Marino’s off-kilter Day-Glo world aims to overwhelm

Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine ‘Homocore’ blasts back into view

For Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi, ‘ornamentation becomes a form of resistance’

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Housing

The best and worst of CA housing policy, on display at UCLA conference

Some rational discussion based on facts, and some Yimby presentations with no facts

Housing Tim Redmond - April 16, 2026

In Oakland, a tiny-home community is forced back onto the streets

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

Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue

Politics

Hundreds rally against health care cuts

Layoffs and service reductions will harm the city's most vulnerable residents

Labor Serena Finney - April 16, 2026

Rich people are lying to seniors about the billionaire tax; does the news media care?

Why is the City Attorney’s Office ‘investigating’ a leaked document? It’s unprecedented and alarming

Four rental units become one $4.75 million mansion. Will the supes legalize it?

Opinion

The US war economy and the ‘threat of peace’

In 1957, I.F. Stone suggested that global peace would kill the military industrial complex. That's even more true today.

Humor Joel Schechter - March 23, 2026

United Nations, won’t you come on home?

HIV denialist Peter Duesberg is dead. Good.

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

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Performance

Drama Masks: Of tyrannical kings and dancing kilts

SF Ballet's 'La Sylphyde' goads us to run to the woods; NCTC's 'how to make an American son' picks at the myth of meritocracy

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - April 15, 2026

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