Top Stories

The News Is Not the Enemy of the People. But Trump Isn’t the Enemy of News.

Hundreds of newspapers have rallied to defend the principle of a free press. But they're missing the point.

 

Reem Assil: The Art of Warm

The labor activist opened a bakery in Oakland, and — after enduring a backlash over a mural plus a difficult pregnancy — went on to open the full-service Dyafa in Jack London Square only a year later.

 

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News

SFMTA Pulls 180 on Costly McAllister Traffic Circle

Step aside, needles and poop! Traffic circles are here, and San Franciscans are not happy.

 

Suspect in Fatal Tenderloin Hit and Run had Multiple DUIs

Michael Smith is accused of drinking from a bag of wine before fatally striking 65-year-old Gregory Blackman at Turk and Taylor streets.

 

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Slideshows

Deafheaven, Drab Majesty, and Uniform at August Hall, Tuesday, August 14, 2018

 

ohGr, Lead into Gold, and Omniflux at Slim’s, Wednesday August 15, 2018

 

Splash House 2018, August 10-12

 

2018 Outside Lands Day Three

 


Music

Jack White Refuses to Phone It In

His “phone-free” concert at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Wednesday night was a callback to simpler times.

 

Empress Of Headlines the 20th Street Block Party

The Mission’s free, neighborhood-centric alternative to monster festivals returns this Saturday Aug. 18, outside Noise Pop HQ.

 

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Culture

The Last Reunion at the Rock

A few Alcatraz prison inmates and guards are still around, and told us stories of jailhouse murders, contraband booze, and doing time on ‘The Rock.’

 

Big Cojones Energy in King of Cuba

Marga Gomez is alternately louche and forceful in Cristina García's satire of Fidel Castro, at Central Works through Aug. 26.

 

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Dining

Everything to Know About Eat Drink SF

Go crazy on pulled pork, cavirar, and a whole lot more, at all four grand tastings at Fort Mason (Aug. 24-26).

 

Maine Event: Luke’s Lobster Will Hit SoMa This Fall

The only small-scale commercial building in SoMa to survive the 1906 earthquake will soon house the first California location of Luke’s Lobster, a B Corp dedicated to a sustainable fishery.

 

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Film

Skate Kitchen

Friendships and fallings-out among the skater girls of New York.

 

The Captain

In war as in peace, the clothes make the monster.

 

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