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Laura Jane Grace Is Just Asking Questions
The punk singer and Against Me! founder talks ‘God’s Dick’ and touring while trans in Trump’s America.
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Who Gets to Be Latino?
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San Francisco’s 112-Year-Old Roxie Theater to Buy Its Building
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Honoring the Girls Incarcerated in San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum
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A New Kids’ Book Shows How Even ‘The Littlest Drop’ Helps
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The New Season of ‘Black Mirror’ Is different, in a Good Way
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Rightnowish’s Grand Finale: Words of Wisdom from Timothy B.
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Building a Native Arts and Culture Space From the Ground Up
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Artist and curator Marcel Pardo Ariza poses for a photo at the archives of San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
‘All The Nights We Got to Dance’ is a Tribute to Queer Nightlife in SF
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Nobody Asked for This
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SFMOMA’s Ruth Asawa Retrospective Honors the Patron Saint of San Francisco Arts
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Laura Jane Grace Is Just Asking Questions
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Honoring the Girls Incarcerated in San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum
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This Classic Oakland Chinatown Restaurant Hits the Spot at 3 a.m.
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a portrait of a woman with short hair and a sleevless tank top with tattoos, looking pensive in front of a pink and orange background

Laura Jane Grace Is Just Asking Questions

The punk singer and Against Me! founder talks ‘God’s Dick’ and touring while trans in Trump’s America.
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Person wearing blue shirt and headphones shrugs in front of a collage of nation flags. Text: "Do I look Latino?"

Who Gets to Be Latino?

Host Xorje Olivares speaks with Latinos whose belonging is often questioned because of the way they look.
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San Francisco’s 112-Year-Old Roxie Theater to Buy Its Building

The arthouse theater has launched a fundraising campaign to stay in the Mission District permanently.
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A sepiatoned archival photo of a hotel-like building, with a brick facade and many windows, surrounded by a white fence and large gate adorned with a cross.

Honoring the Girls Incarcerated in San Francisco’s Magdalen Asylum

The Catholic institution, run by nuns, housed hundreds of ‘incorrigible’ teen girls.
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A New Kids’ Book Shows How Even ‘The Littlest Drop’ Helps

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper's new book.
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A mixed race woman with long brown hair stands in front of a large screen showing illustrated bees and honey. She is wearing a white button-up shirt and looks uncertain.

The New Season of ‘Black Mirror’ Is different, in a Good Way

The Netflix hit takes a more ambivalent approach to technology in its seventh season, showing both threats and opportunities.
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Nobody Asked for This

Marco Cochrane’s 45-foot-tall sculpture of a nude woman will stand at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco for up to a year.
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