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Troubles in SF's Larch Alley| Beyond Chron
Troubles in SF's Larch Alley| Beyond Chron
Labor Day 2025 comes amidst challenging times. Times that call for looking back to other tough struggles that show how, against the odds, social and economic justice can prevail. That’s what the new film, American Agitators, is all about. American Read More » The post American Agitators Offers Labor Day Inspiration appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
San Francisco’s historic Mid-Market neighborhood has not come back. While there are signs of progress, sidewalk drug activities, vacant retail, and inadequate positive foot traffic still beset the street. While allowing ride-share vehicles in Mid-Market will help, a real comeback Read More » The post Here’s What SF’s Mid-Market Needs Most appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
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Santa Monica, California can do something that urbanists and housing advocates only dream of: add thousands of affordable housing units to an affluent city without impacting existing neighborhoods. Housing targeted to Santa Monica workers otherwise priced out of the city. Read More » The post City Faces Historic Housing Opportunity. Will it Seize It? appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
It’s that time of year again! Though in my family, the First-Day-of-School jitters and excitement are now behind us, every year at this time I remember my son’s first day of kindergarten. He’s in his mid-twenties now, but the first Read More » The post A Message for the New School Year appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
Let’s have some big changes from the San Francisco Unified School District as we start this first week of school and map out where we want to be when school ends in June. Thankfully we have seen many concerns go to our rear view. The work ahead of increasing attendance and helping students read and […]| Beyond Chron
YIMBY’s success at eliminating barriers to new housing is growing. So is opposition to the pro-housing agenda. Opponents claim the generational drive to increase housing supply is not a movement but a billionaire-driven scheme to gentrify neighborhoods. But as I Read More » The post Are YIMBYS a Movement? appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
Brendan Murphy is finishing a beautiful new paint job on his building at the 200 block of Hyde Street. The Murphy family also owns an apartment building at the corner of 300 Hyde. That’s across the street from what until Read More » The post Tenderloin Businesses Are Not Giving Up appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
On Friday, August 8, 2025, a Washington D.C. appellate court halted an inquiry into contempt charges for the Trump Administration’s infamous disobedience of a court order not to deport alleged gang members while the court was considering their cases. They ended up in El Savador. By a 2-1 vote, the court stopped the contempt proceedings […]| Beyond Chron
Too bad Andrew Goldberg’s anger-inducing documentary “White With Fear” doesn’t end with an image of disgraced former president Richard M. Nixon laughing at the viewer. It was Nixon who first rode to campaign success by exploiting white voters’ fears about race without needing to use openly racist insults. He sadly wasn’t the last such political […]| Beyond Chron
Who knew talking about when to use “who” vs. “whom” could be a basis for emotional connection? Yet these and other grammar questions provide the wellspring for repeated conversational magic throughout SF DocFest’s entertaining and educational Opening Night Film, Brandt Johnson’s “Rebel With A Clause.” Grammarian Ellen Jovin began her Grammar Table project on […]| Beyond Chron
Viewers of Jennie LIvingston’s classic documentary “Paris Is Burning” will remember interviewee Venus Xtravaganza was tragically murdered before the film’s completion. Kimberly Reed’s documentary “I’m Your Venus” shows how the Pellagatti and Xtravaganza families work together to bring a proper remembrance for the slain sibling. Whether it’s having Venus’ home designated as a historic landmark […]| Beyond Chron
Public drug use in the Tenderloin has reached post-COVID highs. Consider: our July monitoring found many Tenderloin sidewalks had over 20 drug users per day. Some routinely had over 30. Why does City Hall allows this? 20 drug users would Read More » The post The Tenderloin’s Sidewalk Drug Use: By the Numbers appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
As a union rep who worked in northern New England and upstate New York for more than three decades, I became very familiar with down and out working class “spaces.” De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match up to the offerings of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting lower wages, […]| Beyond Chron
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James Bidgood’s seminal chronicle of gay erotic reverie, “Pink Narcissus,” returns in a newly restored version. Mostly set in an unnamed male hustler’s semi-ethereal apartment, this plotless vision of carnality chiefly delivered via innuendo takes viewers inside the hustler’s erotic fantasies as he awaits his next client. This hand-constructed film shot inside Bidgood’s apartment yields […]| Beyond Chron
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