Mayor Lurie and the Board want to close open-air drug markets. Yet City Hall is fighting efforts to stop the distribution of drug paraphernalia in the Tenderloin. What explains this hypocrisy? San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie campaigned on a pledge Read More » The post Why Does City Hall Support Nonprofits Handing Out Drug Paraphernalia in Tenderloin? appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
Over the past several months, veterans and their caregivers have been holding rallies every week in front of the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the Santa Rosa VA Outpatient Clinic. They’ve joined hundreds of other VA patients and staff Read More » The post Can Vets in California Rely On Private Medical Care? appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
Local filmmaker Rick Goldsmith’s powerful documentary “Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On The Brink” may have been around since 2023. But that fact doesn’t make the film’s information dated or irrelevant. In fact, given the ongoing American right-wing oligarchy’s program Read More » The post “Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On The Brink”–Review appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) aims for 70% third-grade literacy by October 2027—a bold goal that has been off track for two years. We’re at 49-52% now, and we can do much better. We should not at all be pleased with making progress to 20% literacy for african american students and 16% literacy […]| Beyond Chron
(this was published in 2004 when Burton left office) John Burton’s political career has come to an end. The media has emphasized his crusty, old-school style, and his commitment to fighting for the poor. But all of these “end Read More » The post John Burton, progressive hero, dies at 92 appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has excelled at avoiding major political fights. But that may not be possible for his Family Zoning Plan. Opposition is building across political lines. The battle harkens back to the “Downtown vs Neighborhoods” framework that Read More » The post Will Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan Divide San Francisco? appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
California Governor Gavin Newsom has stepped up to lead the national battle to save democracy. Newsom has provided a desperately needed vehicle for anti-Trump activists: a statewide campaign in November for Californians to reject the wanna be dictator’s agenda. By Read More » The post Upset About Trump? Join Newsom’s Prop 50 Campaign appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
Our third week of the public school year has begun and teachers, paraprofessionals, janitors and classified staff are settling into their commutes to school. For those who can’t afford the city’s high housing costs on their public school wages, they Read More » The post Teacher Housing Without Teachers appeared first on Beyond Chron.| Beyond Chron
America has now abandoned democracy and has slid into totalitarianism and fascism. Garrett Graff points out looking for the specific day this happened is a pointless exercise. The process consisted of small steps that cumulatively did not trigger mass alarms. Certainly, the lack of public outrage over the Orange Rapist’s recent “joke” that Americans wanted […]| Beyond Chron
Barack Obama has been careful to avoid obvious hints as to his choice of running mate, forcing pundits to assemble the smallest of clues. This week, one-time frontrunner Virginia Governor Tim Kaine saw his chances fall dramatically when his predecessor, Mark Warner, was assigned to give the keynote Convention speech; Obama is not likely to […]| Beyond Chron
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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
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
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
City Hall must address Tenderloin drug crisis| 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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