Top Stories

Creature Features Has Risen from the Grave

How a low-budget monster-movie show kept the Bay Area strong.

 

New Report Confirms Uber, Lyft Make S.F. Traffic Miserable

The rideshare companies declined to provide data and preemptively challenged the report.

 

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News

Oracle OpenWorld Closes Part of SoMa This Week

Another corporate conference comes to town and brings gridlock to South of Market, coinciding with the Marriott strike and recent transit woes.

 

After 15 Years, S.F. Fire Chief to Retire

Chief Joanne Hayes-White has steered the Fire Department through 15 years of controversy, ranging from emergency response times to Upper Market bike lanes.

 

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Slideshows

Brownies & Lemonade: Block Party in Oakland, Saturday, October 20, 2018

 

Arctic Monkeys and Mini Mansions at Bill Graham Civic, Saturday, October 21, 2018

 

Zeal & Ardor and Astronoid at Bottom of the Hill, Friday, October 12, 2018

 

Arhoolie Foundation Benefit Concert Featuring Taj Mahal and Fantastic Negrito

 


Music

How Some Local Nightclubs Fail Their Disabled Patrons

What do you do when you don't have 20-year-old knees, but you still go to metal shows? Some Bay Area clubs help patrons with invisible disabilities keep rocking, but others do not.

 

Gorgon City and the Reimportation of House into the U.S.

With a new album, Escape, the British duo has taken full advantage of London’s new prominence in the dance universe.

 

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Culture

Hamilton Returns: The Online Queue Is 100,000 People Long Already

Don't throw away your shot! Get over to the SHN Orpheum Theatre, where the line is only several dozen people long.

 

Fairview, As Far As the Eye Can See

Jackie Sibblies Drury’s astonishing and unpredictable play (at Berkeley Rep through Nov. 4) centers on two sisters whose relationship is defined by an unspecified and unspoken antagonism.

 

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Dining

ALX Gastropub Is an Extremely Overpriced Mediocrity

This spinoff of the vaunted Alexander's Steakhouse takes the word ‘casual’ and snaps it in half.

 

Hello, I Must Be Going! (To Bon Voyage!)

The Bon Vivants open the long-awaited follow-up to Trick Dog — with drinks called a Phil, Tom, and Bootsy Collins.

 

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Film

The Guilty

The long dark night of one deskbound cop’s soul.

 

San Francisco International Festival of Short Films 2018

Because people with short attention spans also deserve quality entertainment.

 

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Jury Duty and Disabilities

 

Safety regulations for commercial trucks carrying produce

 

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