Top Stories

Fires Leave Hazardous Waste Ready for EPA

Flammable liquids, asbestos, and batteries pose a threat to residents returning home.

 

Beloved Tenderloin Cop ID’d as Victim of Hit-And-Run

Officer Elia Lewin-Tankel's commitment to community-based policing has made him a well-liked figure in the neighborhood.

 

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Slideshows

Jimmy Buffett at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Oct. 19, 2017

 

Iron & Wine at The Warfield, Oct. 21, 2017

 

Steven Van Zandt at The Fillmore, Oct. 13, 2017

 

Zola Jesus & John Wiese at The Independent, Oct. 17th, 2017

 


News

The Rehabilitation of George W. Bush Is Gross and Has to Stop

The urge to praise anyone, however terrible, who criticizes Donald Trump has yielded some pathetic results.

 

Warriors Debut Jerseys with Awful Advertising

What in the heck is a Rakuten? Who knows, but the new NBA jerseys with ads on them are literally being ripped to pieces.

 

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Music

Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz Headline UCSF Benefit on Nov. 7

MC Hammer and will.i.am perform at the afterparty, too, so if you've got a grand to spare, this is the place.

 

Broken Social Scene Has the World Hug Back

The Canadian indie-rock collective fell to the wayside after its early 2000s heyday, but they return to the Fox this Thursday, Oct. 26 — with anthems intact.

 

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Culture

Blackness, Religion, and Angry Republicans, at Uncharted, The Berkeley Ideas Festival

Founder Lance Knobel and co-curator Helena Brantley note dryly that organizers for similar events simply Google "most interesting speakers for your festival.”

 

This Was the Wait to See a $100 Million Painting

Twice lost to history, and valued at only $100 as recently as the 1950s, Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" goes to auction next month.

 

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Dining

Canela Revives Halloween in the Castro

The 6-year-old tapas restaurant does the ‘Time Warp’ again.

 

Is Eric Schramm Northern California’s Ultimate Forager?

Mendocino's mushroom hunter gives us a toadstool tell-all.

 

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Film

Tom of Finland

How the patron saint of leather achieved his sweaty apotheosis.

 

Dina

If two people on the autism spectrum can find love together, maybe there’s hope for us all.

 

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