Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.

Gil Scott-Heron’s 1974 “Winter in America” serves as a prescient cultural framework for understanding the “perpetual chill” of the contemporary United States. By examining the artist’s lyrical warning...

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Pastor promotes peace, hope through art and prayer

Arlene Eisen has lived in the Bay Area on and off for 60 years, though along the way, she found her home traveling among a global community of women

A power player during San Francisco’s punk era, Howie Klein used his KSAN show and indie label 415 Records to amplify local bands before punk and new wave broke nationally.

After the closures of the San Francisco Art Institute and Mills College, the announced end of CCA hits triply hard.

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As more than 6,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers in several neighborhoods lost power for three hours Saturday, protesters rallied for a state takeover of the utility.

Howie Klein 1948-2025 Writer, political activist, broadcaster, and record man Howie Klein’s life was large, unique and apparently complete as it came to a close on December 24. The work, his work&#…

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Jack Foley’s show about poetry was called “Cover to Cover,” and he embodied that title by compiling a 1,300-page anthology including just about every poem published in California from 1940 to...

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Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to h...

Preliminary results show that the effort to recall Supervisor Engardio is winning with 65 percent of the vote.

I don’t blame the latest generation who want to partake in their own rituals or a virtual tribal love rock musical: It’s the cost to play the game I can’t relate to. There’s also the carbon in/carbon ...

Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts - Big Crime (chicago sound check) - (Official Audio)-by Denise SullivanIn today’s top news in protest music, last night, Neil Young performed a new song, “Big Crime,” ...

Back in the Paleolithic era, I worked as front desk receptionist for concert promoter Bill Graham and had several encounters with members of the Grateful Dead family. Not that I knew who they were …

Some Deadheads are sidestepping San Francisco entirely ahead of the anniversary shows. “There’s no more Grateful Dead family — this is a business, through and through,” one said.

At last week's Nobel Laureate Assembly for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Chicago, Kronos performed "Hard Rain" with Allison Russell. “You know, it’s remarkable that a 21-year-old singer-songwriter ...

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