In the 1980s, we called the struggle “downtown vs. the neighborhoods,” which was a synecdoche: Downtown represented the ...

Smell some gorgeous flowers, listen to beautiful music, check out the Queen of Art Deco, play some Galaga—we're here for you.

I’m not going to make predictions about the San Francisco election; the races, especially for mayor, are way too close. But I ...

One has to hand it to Noël Coward: 125 years after his birth, the late author’s plays are no less horny than they were when ...

The deeper you go down the wormhole with Phil Lesh, bass player and co-founder of Haight-Ashbury’s first and foremost band, The Grateful Dead—the more you understand: His bass technique was a pure ...

KADIST show takes on poignant personal effects of racism, fentanyl, queerphobia—but leaves out pandemic elephant in the room.

While stories like the recent one in the SF Standard by Han Li have provided a fine overview of Propositions D and E, what’s desperately missing has been context—why is TogetherSF spending close to ...

There had been nothing like his films beforehand, and anything resembling them afterward owed him a clear debt of influence.

On the surface, an international language school like Goethe-Institut and an arts organization dedicated to foregrounding ...

Eun Sun King's conducting is so masterful, she makes Wagner's five-hour tale of dramatic love and death almost fun.

Prop. 36 would lock more people up—and undermine proven solutions that break the cycle of crime and incarceration.

Documenting the underground, the photographer locates a 'queer liminal zone' in present/dreaming, warm/cold contrasts.