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Screen Grabs: 50 is the new 20, darling'Frameline celebrates golden year of queer film
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (1182+ words) 48 Hills Screen Grabs: 50 is the new 20, darling'Frameline celebrates golden year of queer film Stars past and present align for world's longest-running LGBTQ movie festival. Here's our inside guide. It's a major achievement for any arts organization to negotiate cultural changes…...
A week of budget protests as Lurie's brutal cuts hit everyone except the cops
17+ hour, 3+ min ago (767+ words) Plus: Letting big institutions off the planning hook'and yet another bizarre prosecution from DA Brooke Jenkins. That's The Agenda for June 14-13 The Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee will continue hearings on the mayor's budget proposal this week'and City…...
The Chan-Wiener race could be very close
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (598+ words) The winner will not only go to DC put unlike Pelosi, will play a critical role in the future of local politics The San Francisco election results are pretty much final, and as the later votes were counted, state Sen....
Some hard, factual truth about the needless brutality of the Lurie budget
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (1632+ words) It's not about waste. It's about bad priorities On Tuesday, dozens of people gathered on the steps of City Hall to call attention to the Lurie Administration's moves to criminalize homelessness. The administration is closing shelters, cutting down on Permanent…...
The wild inside story of San Francisco's first gay film festival
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (977+ words) 50 years ago, a ragtag bunch of local geniuses got together to show their scrappy Super 8s'and a movement was born. San Francisco, 1977." Location: a formerly Irish working class neighborhood that evolved into a gay mecca and rechristened as'the Castro." The…...
Under the Stars: 'Happy Today' brings wizardly space and grace to longform jazz jams
6+ day ago (483+ words) Plus: Digital Underground's 'Sex Packets' at 35, Black Gold Sun's poignant punk, Space Ghost's remixed freedom, more music Don't look now, but your phone is becoming a portal to your favorite outdoor music festival. Disney+ and Hulu announced last month that…...
Should SF offer sanctuary for the Statue of Liberty?
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (281+ words) If Trump wants to bulldoze Lady Liberty, maybe we can make room in the Bay Should San Francisco offer the Statue of Liberty sanctuary? Maybe the lady's "not his type," as he has said about some other women he is…...
Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (212+ words) Plus: Summer with Monica Vitti, Nicholas Meyer's SF sci-fi, a daring 'Devil Queen,' A Complete Stanley Kubrick, more movies on tap That got Meyer hired to do'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the likewise SF-set franchise entry many fans still…...
BIG WEEK: Festa Italiana, Juneteenth on the Waterfront, Rocky Horror, The Klezmatics. ..
1+ week, 4+ day ago (346+ words) Plus: Persia does Pride, Free Techno in Union Square, Union Street Fest, Marbled Eye, Juniper, Satya, more to do! Welcome to Big Week, our weekly guide to cool things to do, put together by our expert critics and writers." GENERAL…...
Tech plutocrats won a lot in the SF election. .. .
1+ week, 4+ day ago (672+ words) But I'm not so sure most voters buy into their not-so-hidden agenda. It's possible that Chan will be elected to Congress The general response to the June 2 election in San Francisco is summed up by the headline on Joe Eskenazi's…...