Top Stories

Rent Increase Pass-Throughs Do Not Pass Go

A sneaky loophole that passes on property taxes to renters is being challenged by tenants rights advocates in City Hall.

 

Does This Mayoral Race Even Matter?

Spoiler alert: Yes, it does.

 

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News

Trump Wants Libby Schaaf Prosecuted Over ICE Raids

The president’s “These are animals” rant also contained an obstruction of justice threat against Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.

 

Police Arrest 18 at Protest of Former Israeli Leader

The arrests came one day after hundreds protested outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, citing recent killings of protesters in Gaza.

 

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Slideshows

Acoustic-4-A-Cure at The Fillmore, May 15, 2018

 

The Human League and Book of Love at The Regency Ballroom, Sunday, May 13, 2018

 

Taylor Swift at Levi’s Stadium, May 11, 2018

 

U2: Experience & Innocence Tour, May 7, 2018 at SAP Center, San Jose, CA

 


Music

Who You Must See At Lightning in a Bottle

The DoLaB’s annual music festival is imminent, and here are the artists from the stacked lineup you cannot miss at next weekend’s event.

 

Three Must-See Acts This Week

Rival Consoles, Ruby Ibarra, and SAINt JHN.

 

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Culture

Meet Your Makers

Making its way back for the 13th year, the ‘Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth’ Maker Faire brings more than a thousand works to San Mateo this weekend.

 

Listen to the Voice of God — Actually, Leonard Cohen — at Fraenkel Gallery

"Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: THE POETRY MACHINE & Other Works" turns an organ into an instrument for playing the musician's gruff timbre.

 

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Dining

Che Fico: Mad Fig in the Fog

David Nayfeld and Angela Pinkerton's long-awaited Roman-Jewish restaurant is probably going to be on a lot of restaurant-of-the-year lists.

 

The Pastries Are Everything at Stonemill Matcha

Matcha tea itself is almost beside the point, so don’t expect yet another cafe retread.

 

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Film

Dark Crimes

Jim Carrey as a grizzled Polish detective investigating sex crimes is even less fun than you think.

 

Beast

Beastliness is in the eye of the beholder.

 

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Fighting Porn Addiction With Technology

 

Global Community of Artists Celebrates Freedom and Human Rights

 

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