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Labor

Surprise price hike spurs talk of video game developers organizing

Leah Isobel - November 20, 2023

Young industry has been shy of unionization—but as a major game engine changes its terms, 'democratizing' gains strength

Movies

Screen Grabs: This Thanksgiving, don’t stream a turkey

Dennis Harvey - November 20, 2023

Deep family trauma to 5000 aliens on tap. Plus: 'The Rolling Stones & Brian Jones,' Nic Cage in your dreams, more

Onstage

Live Shots: What the Great Dickens? The Victorian Christmas Fair returns

Jon Bauer and Patty Riek - November 21, 2023

Sip some mead, tie a knot, boot the cat, taste a banger, and get down with Fezziwig at the 39th annual holiday affair

Environment

New report says we can’t save the planet without taxing the rich

Tim Redmond - November 20, 2023

Oxfam says there is no such thing as an effective climate plan that isn't also an economic equality plan.

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News + Politics

Cuba solidarity activists rally in SF as U.N. overwhelmingly calls for end to embargo

Mark Ginsburg - November 19, 2023

US talks human rights—but the blockade against Cuba violates the human rights of the Cuban people.

Music

How the B-52’s 1982 EP ‘Mesopotamia’ became a Black radio lodestar

John-Paul Shiver - November 19, 2023

Detroit DJs from The Electrifying Mojo to Theo Parrish have kept band's techno precursor hot.

Homelessness

Why not let the unhoused take over some empty SF office buildings?

Mary Jane Agnew - November 17, 2023

Rally suggests solution to downtown vacancies—and homelessness

Music

Live Shots: La Doña blew the Fillmore down at sold-out show

D.A. Mission - November 17, 2023

With new EP 'Can't Eat Clout' and a full band, the local femmeton trailblazer was a force of nature.

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Nearing 80, singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn angles into mortality on ‘O Sun O Moon’

Music Lou Fancher - November 16, 2023

'The songs are written from the view of an old guy,' says the legendary Canadian musician. 'I invited people to notice.'

Puff: Thanksgiving treats that give new meaning to ‘smoked’ turkey

Puff Dan Karkoska - November 16, 2023

Need a little something to sustain you through the holiday? Stuff these cannabis goodies in your pocket

Track by track, the Bay runs the court on ‘NBA2K’ series

Sports Danny Acosta - November 16, 2023

E-40, Too $hort, Zion I, Snow Tha Product... The 2K franchise has fused hip-hop and gaming for decades. Here's the playlist

‘Bulrusher’: A California story that wades into fetid weeds

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - November 16, 2023

Eisa Davis' 2007 Pulitzer nominee at Berkeley Rep is engrossing, until it succumbs to colorism and misogynoir.

Screen Grabs: Todd Haynes jumps back on track with twisty drama ‘May December’

Movies Dennis Harvey - November 15, 2023

Unfortunately, Taika Waititi's 'Next Goal Wins' doesn't quite follow in the same footsteps.

The profound irony of the APEC news media coverage

Homelessness Tim Redmond - November 15, 2023

The problem that the mayor is trying to solve with sweeps was created by the same political agenda that drives the event she is so happily hosting.

Live Shots: The 48 Hills 10th Anniversary Gala went off, and you can still support us!

News + Politics Marke B. - November 15, 2023

Best of the Bay winners, local politicos, and independent media supporters filled Bssap Baobab October 26. Check out the pics!

Far Caspian fuzzes up for deeper issues on ‘The Last Remaining Light’

Music Marke B. - November 14, 2023

On latest album, UK indie polymath Joel Johnston addresses Crohn's disease and building a new relationship.

From casting director to portraitist: Jiab Prachakul finds spirit beneath surface

Art Emily Wilson - November 14, 2023

Scenes of family ties and bar flies populate walls in new show 'Simplicity/Complexity' at Micki Meng.

Do you feel what I feel? ‘Into the Dark’ plunges audience into the sensorial

Stage Review Nicole Gluckstern - November 14, 2023

Jess Curtis/Gravity's latest for Blind, Low Vision, and Sighted physical performers immerses viewers in limitations and possibilities

‘Omar’ is pretty to look at, but opera treats slavery with kid gloves

Stage Review Charles Lewis III - November 13, 2023

New work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels traces the tempestuous life of enslaved African scholar Omar ibn Said.

An ongoing, private light show in Golden Gate Park? Who knew?

Environment Tim Redmond - November 13, 2023

New 'public-private' entity would charge $40 admission to events, threaten flora and fauna, attract 180,000 visitors—with no public notice.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: This Thanksgiving, don’t stream a turkey

Deep family trauma to 5000 aliens on tap. Plus: 'The Rolling Stones & Brian Jones,' Nic Cage in your dreams, more

Movies Dennis Harvey - November 20, 2023

Screen Grabs: ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and the evolution of trans cinema

Screen Grabs: Men on misguided paths in ‘Manodrome’ and ‘The Mission’

At Trans Film Fest, echoes of nightlife we almost lost to COVID

Music

Live Shots: What the Great Dickens? The Victorian Christmas Fair returns

Sip some mead, tie a knot, boot the cat, taste a banger, and get down with Fezziwig at the 39th annual holiday affair

Onstage Jon Bauer and Patty Riek - November 21, 2023

Live Shots: La Doña blew the Fillmore down at sold-out show

Nearing 80, singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn angles into mortality on ‘O Sun O Moon’

Track by track, the Bay runs the court on ‘NBA2K’ series

Art

From casting director to portraitist: Jiab Prachakul finds spirit beneath surface

Scenes of family ties and bar flies populate walls in new show 'Simplicity/Complexity' at Micki Meng.

Art Emily Wilson - November 14, 2023

Sandy Ostrau wants viewers to ‘feel their place’ in her luminous figurative work

‘Custer had it coming’: Duane Linklater’s missives from an Indigenous present

Chuck Sperry screenprints rock history and the fight for equal rights, one poster at a time

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Housing

Why not let the unhoused take over some empty SF office buildings?

Rally suggests solution to downtown vacancies—and homelessness

Homelessness Mary Jane Agnew - November 17, 2023

Arrogant developer infuriates Mission activists

New laws seek to end private developer risk, burdening public instead

Breed won’t support affordable housing in gentrified Hayes Valley

Politics

Surprise price hike spurs talk of video game developers organizing

Young industry has been shy of unionization—but as a major game engine changes its terms, 'democratizing' gains strength

Labor Leah Isobel - November 20, 2023

Bandcamp layoffs paint bleak picture for indie musicians and union organizers

Who should pay for more cops? Plus: high-speed police chases ….

Plan to put police funding in City Charter creates huge public safety risks

Opinion

Dan Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ demonstrates the radical empathy we need right now

The long-running solo show channels 11 folks crossing identity-based and geographic borders, and remains a must-see

Onstage Halim Madi - November 3, 2023

Opinion: Not much to celebrate in mayor’s Latino Heritage Month celebration

Opinion: Brooke Jenkins is no ally to the LGBTQ community

OPINION: Kafka’s Statue of Liberty

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Performance

Live Shots: What the Great Dickens? The Victorian Christmas Fair returns

Sip some mead, tie a knot, boot the cat, taste a banger, and get down with Fezziwig at the 39th annual holiday affair

Onstage Jon Bauer and Patty Riek - November 21, 2023

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