October 2025 - Beyond Chron

Can San Francisco Clear Market Street’s Drug-Filled Sidewalks?

Posted October 27, 2025 by Randy Shaw

A San Francisco comeback requires reviving Market Street. Hundreds of drug users and dealers inhabit the area after midnight. This must stop. It badly hurts the city’s image and is unfair to Market Street’s hotels, theaters, housing and businesses. The Read More »

Can Connie Chan Defeat Scott Wiener?

Posted October 27, 2025 by Randy Shaw

On October 6 I assessed a likely three-way race to succeed Congressmember Nancy Pelosi. She is expected to announce her decision not to run after the November elections. Evidence has since emerged that Pelosi’s daughter, Christine, will not run and Read More »

2 Years After Raid, Has SF’s Van Ness and Eddy Improved?

Posted October 27, 2025 by Sebastian

Graffiti appears in every neighborhood in the city, like mushrooms after a rainstorm. It’s the gateway to crime if it’s not nipped in the bud. Any signal of a lack of community oversight can create an environment where more serious Read More »

Reviews From United Nations Association Film Festival 2025 And Final Mill Valley Film Festival 48 Reviews

Posted October 27, 2025 by Peter Wong

Who knew Israel’s genocidaires could be effectively trolled by the simple sentences “It’s Ahmad. I’m alive?” Those are the words Ahmad Ghunaim, the subject of Yusu Omar and Aurelia Driver’s United Nations Association Film Festival documentary short “Ahmad Alive,” regularly Read More »

National Guard Can’t Close San Francisco’s Drug Markets

Posted October 20, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Marc Benioff’s urging Trump to send the National Guard to San Francisco overlooked a key fact: Governor Newsom sent the National Guard to the city in 2023 and it failed to reduce drug activities. The National Guard supposedly provided strategic Read More »

New report: Spam robocalls hit 6-year high as fewer phone companies protect us

Posted October 20, 2025 by Teresa Murray

FCC aggressively shut down nearly 1,400 violators this year; new consumer threats emerge from AI deepfakes, SIM-swapping

Four years after Congress required phone companies to start thwarting scam and telemarketing robocalls, we’re getting more of these annoying and sometimes

Supervisor Sherrill Works to Protect Jefferson Square Park

Posted October 20, 2025 by Sebastian

The Eddy and Gough Streets side of Jefferson Square Park was damaged by vandalism last year. One of the vandals, Ignacio Dzul AKA Nacho,39, still lives at the park (moving around between the Gough side and the Eddy side of Read More »

“It Was Just An Accident” and “The Invisible Mammal”–Reviews

Posted October 20, 2025 by Peter Wong

Jafar Panahi, director of “It Was Just An Accident,” does not direct films in the most anodyne sense of the phrase. The best of his works do more than make leaps for the low-hanging fruit of entertaining the viewer fortunate Read More »