June 2024 - Beyond Chron

Will Tenant Issues Impact SF’s Mayor’s Race?

Posted June 24, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Voters Back Expanding Rent Control San Francisco’s 2024 elections have focused on public safety. That’s what made Aaron Peskin’s assertion last week at the mayor’s debate about extending rent control to vacant apartments so striking. Tenant issues once dominated San Read More »

New Book Chronicles SF’s Communist Heyday

Posted June 24, 2024 by Randy Shaw

San Francisco Communists Built Union Power The Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer provided a brief, mass entertainment look into the motivations of Americans joining the Communist Party in the 1930’s and 40’s. The film hints at what Robert W. Cherny achieves in Read More »

Wrap-Up Reviews From The 2024 Frameline Film Festival/”The Sixth”

Posted June 24, 2024 by Peter Wong

Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer’s entertainingly fun Teddy Award-winning documentary “Teaches Of Peaches” shows using a senior walker doesn’t stop famed avant rocker Peaches from singing about diddling her skittle. Using the 20th anniversary concerts celebrating Peaches’ breakthrough album “The Read More »

Will the Next Mayor Finally Close SF’s Drug Markets?

Posted June 17, 2024 by Randy Shaw

What Will Mayoral Candidates Do? San Francisco’s open-air drug markets are in their sixth year. They have operated throughout Mayor London Breed’s tenure. Check out Heather Knight’s October 2018 story describing the Tenderloin and SOMA as the “safe sites for Read More »

Will Supervisors Block Latest Attack on Little Saigon?

Posted June 17, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Tenderloin Businesses Fighting to Survive “During COVID the city arranged with the COVA Hotel—which borders Little Saigon—to go from housing tourists to temporarily housing the unhoused. The COVA remains the only hotel still used for the homeless. It’s not a Read More »

Reviews From The 48th Frameline LGBT Film Festival

Posted June 17, 2024 by Peter Wong

“Two women fall for each other, but one woman is already in a relationship with a man.” That’s the plot hook of many lesbian relationship films made in the past, and it’s the plot of Iris Brey’s dramatic and sexy Read More »

Photo shows Build Back Better housing plan

5 Big Lies About Homelessness

Posted June 3, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Spreading Falsehoods About Homeless Policies “SF has more commissions per capita than comparable cities. With 5 commissions on homelessness, you’d think we’d have fewer homeless residents than Fort Worth. Instead, SF has about 4x as many homeless residents as FW. Read More »

New Book Exposes Our Broken Mental Health Care System

Posted June 3, 2024 by Randy Shaw

Diagnosing American’s Mental Health Failure The United States, and particularly California, has done a terrible job helping people with mental health problems. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 March ballot measure was the state’s biggest effort to address this crisis Read More »