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

Zhao Promises to Decline School Board Seat — But Privately, Not Publicly

Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club revealed the discreet assurance for Josephine Zhao, who said she withdrew from the race, after canvassers were seen campaigning for her over the weekend.

 

Sex Work ≠ Sex Trafficking

A new massage-therapist bill seeks to help victims of sex trafficking, but only further criminalizes those who engage in consensual sex work.

 

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Slideshows

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

 

Arhoolie Foundation Benefit Concert Featuring Taj Mahal and Fantastic Negrito

 

Monster Energy Aftershock Festival Day 1

 

Treasure Island Music Festival Day 2

 


Music

Three Must-See Acts This Week

3LAU (at Our Music Festival) on Saturday at the Greek Theater, The Internet on Monday at the Fox, and Abhi The Nomad on Tuesday at Rickshaw Stop.

 

How Dirtybird Perfected Its West Coast Festival

In Modesto, the collective aced its first solo festival production with flying colors.

 

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Culture

Dan Savage: Jacks

 

The Second Half of Litquake Has Some Awesome Events

Everything cool and literary from tonight until Saturday night's Lit Crawl.

 

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Dining

Go Eat This Now: Tony’s Cable Car

It’s not the defunct Joe’s Cable Car in the Excelsior, but a place for high-quality inexpensive burgers.

 

Tank18 Rolls Out an Excellent Dinner Service in Western SoMa

Dishes like okra jardiniere and elote with mahón curado cheese fill a postindustrial space that feels like the original Sightglass Coffee started dinner, five nights a week.

 

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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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