Top Stories

Investigation Launches Into Mysterious Death of Indigenous Bayview Woman

Jessica Nicole Alva, mother of six, worked for an organization to help Native Americans get back on their feet.

 

City Grants Nonprofits First Priority in Building Sales

Housing nonprofits will stand a better chance of permanently protecting rent-controlled buildings from the speculative market.

 

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News

UN Plaza Fountain Now Surrounded by Ugly White Fence

An updated version of anti-homeless infrastructure now graces the city's central plaza.

 

Sen. Kamala Harris Regrets S.F.-Born Truancy Policy

The practice of threatening parents of truant children with prosecution has received intense scrutiny as a 2020 presidential candidate.

 

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Slideshows

Charlotte Gainsbourg at The Regency Ballroom, Monday, April 15, 2019

 

Soccer Mommy at Great American Musical, April 17, 2019

 

HEALTH, Youth Code at The Independent, April 10, 2019

 

Mortiis: Era 1 Performance & Tenebrose at Oakland Metro Operahouse, April 6, 2019

 


Music

Little Simz Says Farewell to Doubt

The 25-year-old London rapper brought the honest talk she — and many of us — needed to have with herself to an exhilarating Grey Area.

 

Three Must-See Act This Week

Charlotte de Witte on Saturday at Public Works, Kero Kero Bonito on Sunday at Great American, and White Denim on Thursday, April 25, at The Independent.

 

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Culture

In the Weeds with Cannabis Tourism

Dispensary tours have cropped up since recreational cannabis legalization, but two theater performers-turned-cannabis-guides take you inside farms of the Emerald Triangle.

 

Finding a Measure of Ease, in In Old Age

Catharsis comes late in life for the matriarch of the Ufot family, by Mfoniso Udofia.

 

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Dining

Udon and Add-on

Udon Time is fast-casual noodle house that continues the Omakase Restaurant Group's near-singlehanded effort to breathe a little life into one of San Francisco’s liminal zones.

 

Go Eat This Now: D&A Cafe

A Chinese diner in the Richmond with limitless possibilities.

 

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Film

Get Ready for SPLIFF, the Stoner Film Festival

'Dank Savage' gets kind his ‘film festival made by the stoned for the stoned' (May 3-4, at the Victoria Theatre).

 

Wild Nights with Emily

A funny, sexy look at a great literary injustice.

 

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Sponsored

S.F. Allows for Flexibility in the Workplace

 

Following chain of liability in e-scooter injuries

 

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