Top Stories

Upper Haight Dispensary Gets City Hall OK

The San Francisco Planning Commission approved a pot shop permit for Haight and Cole Streets.

 

Can the Mission Save Itself from Commercial Gentrification?

While many efforts to preserve the neighborhood’s cultural backbone focus on affordable housing, United to Save the Mission rolls back gentrifying behavior one small business at a time.

 

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News

NRA Membership Ban for SFPD Moves Ahead on Parkland Anniversary

SFPD has not been a member of the NRA for years but supervisors felt it was time to prevent the possibility.

 

Atherton Is America’s Richest Town for the Third Year Running

The average 2017 income in 94027 is $450,696.

 

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Slideshows

Anderson .Paak at The Masonic Feb. 11, 2019

 

Home Sick 2 in Petaluma at The Phoenix Theater, Jan. 19, 2019

 

Elton John at the Oracle Arena Friday Jan. 18, 2019

 

Toro y Moi at The Fillmore, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019

 


Music

Lightning in a Bottle Announces Booty-Shakin’ Lineup

Disclosure, Flying Lotus, Big Gigantic, and Santigold headline this year's fest — which is now in a different location on a different weekend.

 

Adult.’s Life Kills

The 20-year partnership between Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller yielded its most haunting record yet in 2018’s This Behavior.

 

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Culture

Incarceration, Not Internment, in ‘Then They Came for Me’

Putting polite euphemisms to rest in this photographic exhibit on Japanese-Americans during World War II.

 

Savage Love: The Doll

 

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Dining

Remember the Maine, at Luke’s Lobster

It punches a hole through the idea of fast-casual, but this is a Dungeness crab roll to rival Woodhouse Fish Co.

 

Go Eat This Now: #25 Dry at Ha Nam Ninh

Hu tieu nam vang would be a clear noodle soup if it weren’t really a bowl of vermicelli noodles and assorted meats, plus a shot of broth on the side.

 

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Film

Holiday

Does this kind of life look interesting to you?

 

Mostly British Film Festival 2019

A panoply of pictures running from Feb. 14-21 that are collectively between 51-percent and 99-percent British. (Maths is power!)

 

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Sponsored

Get ready for Dan Savage’s Very Best of HUMP! Film Tour!

 

Finding Liability for Falling Trees

 

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