Crowd Urges SFPD: Keep Tenderloin Together

Posted January 30, 2015 by Randy Shaw

Over 300 Tenderloin residents and workers came to the Kelly Cullen Center on January 28 to send a powerful message from a neighborhood fed up with crime. Most urged the Police Commission to reject a proposed redistricting plan that breaks
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Life’s Blood Quartet with special guest Amber McZeal

Posted January 30, 2015 by E. ”Doc” Smith

Life’s Blood “damn well rock their Jazz” says blogger disaster amnesiac, while exploring the influences and inspirations that make the art of jazz and improvisation timeless. The ensemble pays tribute as well as brings to light, reinvents, deconstructs, and breaths
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TREE – REGIONAL PREMIERE BY JULIE HEBERT

Posted January 30, 2015 by Buzzin’ Lee Hartgrave

SF PLAYHOUSE – POST STREET This play could have been called ROOTS – but that title has been used Didi, a white woman from the South shows up on a Chicago door step. Leo, a black man caring for his
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If Media Covered Inequality Like Weather

Posted January 29, 2015 by Randy Shaw

On January 26, the NY Times featured a front-page story, “The Shrinking American Middle-Class.” It could have rocked the political world. America prides itself on its large middle-class, so a story documenting shrinking incomes in the 21st Century should have
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‘Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal’

Posted January 29, 2015 by Mark Erlich

On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced a series of executive actions on immigration. Up to 5 million of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States will be protected from deportation. In addition, parents of U.S. citizens
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Reviews from the 2015 Berlin And Beyond Film Festival

Posted January 29, 2015 by Peter Wong

Berlin And Beyond, the annual showcase of films from German-speaking countries, begins this Thursday with a three day run at SF’s Castro Theatre. A second chance to see Doris Dorrie’s female mariachis documentary “Que Caramba Es La Vida” provides one
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Praying and Practicing: Getting Ready for the Super Bowl

Posted January 29, 2015 by Kelly Candaele

Shortly after Seattle Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wilson led his team to an overtime victory against the Green Bay Packers last week, he tearfully commented to a TV reporter that God had prepared his team for the come-from-behind victory. “God
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When Recall Becomes Necessary

Posted January 28, 2015 by Rosemary Jenkins

I am a Democrat—capital and small letter “d” and proud to be both. I believe in the democratic process, in representative government, in division of power, in government of, by, and for the people. We like to think that when
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