Top Stories

Here’s Where Berkeley Free Speech Week Stands

Is it really to celebrate the First Amendment, or is it a PR ploy by Milo Yiannopoulos?

 

Folsom and Jetsam

Once seen as a moral scourge, Western SoMa's BDSM scene is poised to become S.F.'s Leather Cultural District.

 

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Slideshows

Goldfrapp and Morgan Saint at The Warfield, San Francisco, Sept. 16, 2017

 

Epica & Lacuna Coil at UC Theater Berkeley Sept.14th, 2017

 

The Do Over at The Great Northern Sept. 17, 2017

 

Black Star at Fox Theater Oakland Sept. 13, 2017

 


News

Three Final Options Unveiled for New Harvey Milk Plaza

The commenting period ends tonight.

 

Two Weeks Without Bubbles

Friends and community members eulogize Bubbles and question the forces that led to their death.

 

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Music

Lila Blue is Growing Up Fast

The 17-year-old singer-songwriter has a slew of shows coming up — plus an EP coming out Friday, Sept. 22 — on her way to Hardly Strictly.

 

Hey DJ: Kimmy Le Funk

 

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Culture

As a Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor, Jake Gyllenhaal Gets Stronger

A film about a man's struggle to regain control of his body parallels the Stephen Hawking biopic, "The Theory of Everything."

 

Otis Williams is Gonna Make You Love Them

With more dramatis personae than 1981's "Dreamgirls," "Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of The Temptations" has more room to flesh out the band members' conflicting temperaments.

 

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Dining

Celebrate a Year of Voodoo Charm at Bernal’s Old Devil Moon

The art-directed restroom, Tarot reading resident psychic, and voodoo-driven decor commemorate a trip around the sun with secret kegs!

 

Belden Alley Welcomes the Open-Til-4 a.m. Toy Soldier

The proposal to let bars serve alcohol until 4 a.m. appears to have died in the State Senate, but in the meantime, here's a fun new spot that stays open past two.

 

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Film

Zoology

We all wish we had a tail, of course, but would it be worth it?

 

The Tiger Hunter

A shiny tale of immigration woes in 1979 Chicago.

 

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