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To the Editor…

Posted December 18, 2018 by Beyond Chron

Dear Editor: Randy Shaw wrote a piece (“SF Public Defender Wrong About Tenderloin Drug Dealing,” December 11) challenging me about my stand on drug arrests and strategy in the Tenderloin the day after I was quoted in the Chronicle, claiming
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Noe Valley Seniors Thwart Ellis Act Speculators

Posted November 13, 2018 by Stephen P. Booth

Community Rallies behind San Francisco Elders with a Lifetime of Counseling Underprivileged Over the last three years, nearly 70 percent of the households facing Ellis Act evictions that I have counseled contained occupants 65 years or older. Many of these
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To the Editor…

Posted November 6, 2018 by Beyond Chron

RE: “Special Edition: Election Predictions for November 2018” Editor, * I agree with the author’s prediction that the Democrats will retake the House of Representatives, and regain the majority. The American people are tired and fed up with the Republicans’
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“Infinite Football” And “1968 And Global Cinema” At The Pacific Film Archive

Posted November 5, 2018 by Peter Wong

Could an octagonal playing field be an improvement over soccer’s current rectangular field? That’s one of the ideas thrown out by self-styled soccer re-inventor Laurentiu Ginghina. This man who dreams of revolutionizing soccer is the subject of Cornelieu Porumboiu’s newest
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Reviews From The 16th 3rd i Film Festival

Posted October 30, 2018 by Peter Wong

The annual 3rd i Film Festival returns this weekend with its 16th edition of films from South Asia and its Diaspora. Of particular interest this time around are a couple of personal documentaries about two areas of South Asia unfortunately
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Pia Guerra Cartoon Collection “Me The People” Impales Trump’s America With Acerbic Images

Posted October 23, 2018 by Peter Wong

Pia Guerra’s Image Comics collection “Me The People” makes a timely appearance for Americans numbed and traumatized by the venality and mendacity of Trump’s America. The visible wincing and sometimes loud laughter Guerra’s images evoke will reassure these readers that
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New Book Sets Record Straight on the VA

Posted October 16, 2018 by Paul Cox

As a Vietnam veteran who served in the Marines between 1968 and 1972, I am all too familiar with the wounds of war Suzanne Gordon describes in her excellent new book. Like so many people who served in Vietnam, I
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Reviews From The 2018 United Nations Association Film Festival

Posted October 16, 2018 by Peter Wong

Rebecca Haimowitz’ horrifying documentary short “62 Days” illustrate the awfulness of fetal personhood-inspired “Screw the mom, hatch the kid” laws. When pregnant Texas paramedic Marlise Munoz suffers a pulmonary embolism, it’s soon clear her brain is dead. But treating hospital
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