Top Stories

Horrible Rich Lady Takes Out Full-Page Anti-Homeless Ad in the Chron

Have we reached peak tone-deafness? Probably not, but a $30,000 anti-homeless broadside from a fake advocacy organization will be hard to beat.

 

Vallie Brown Succeeds Breed as District 5 Supervisor

Breed and Mirkarimi's former chief of staff has a long history of community organizing within District 5.

 

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News

Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee Might Join Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic Leadership

The Oakland representative, who turns 72 today, is mulling a bid to replace Rep. Joe Crowley, who famously lost to a 28-year-old outsider, as the caucus chair.

 

Non-Citizens Can Now Register to Vote in School Board Race

Immigrant parents will have more voice over their children's education — with a huge caveat that ICE can access their registration information.

 

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Slideshows

Citizen, Oso Oso, and Teenage Wrist, Cornerstone, Sunday July 15

 

Sound and Fury,​ The Belasco Theater, July 13-14, 2018

 

John Zorn & Bill Laswell: Konx Om Pax at The Chapel, Saturday July 14, 2018

 

The Horrors & Machineheart at The Independent, Friday June 29, 2018

 


Music

Phoebe Bridgers’ Hyper-Specific Dream

At 23, the indie folk songwriter is learning to cope in public.

 

My Bloody Valentine Says New Music Is Coming!

Five years after M B V and the shoegaze pioneers' last performance in the Bay Area, the band plays two shows at the Fox on July 20-21.

 

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Culture

Greed is Good, in Dry Powder

Sarah Burgess' Mamet-like play about financial markets (at Aurora Theatre through July 29) centers on a woman for whom "outthinking any potential adversary and having power over them turns her on."

 

TONIGHT: Activists Project ‘Traitor Trump’ on Federal Building

Stop by and marvel at the specter of a sitting U.S. president selling out the country to a foreign dictator.

 

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Dining

Filipino Night Market ‘Undiscovered SF’ Returns Saturday, July 21

After last year's successful run, 2018's iteration is bigger and better — and at a new location.

 

Pearl Is All About Handkerchief Pasta and Eggs in Purgatory

An instant delight opens in the central Richmond, centered on a wood-fired oven.

 

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Film

Ava

Being a teenager still sucks, and more so in some places than others.

 

The Misandrists

The director of Super 8 ½ reconciles revolutionary beliefs with sexual politics, among other things.

 

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Sponsored

Jahi Mcmath And The Legal Battle Around Brain Death

 

PG&E Customers May See Fee Hike In Light Of North Bay Fires

 

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