Installation of Major Commission by Kara Walker opens at SFMOMA

SFMOMA’s Roberts Family Gallery is unveiling an installation by celebrated artist Kara Walker. The museum’s admission-free, street-level gallery is the location for the site-s... Read More

Election Matters with SDR, Opinion

Why Mark Farrell’s message resonates with San Francisco voters

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A new poll released by the Mark Farrell for Mayor campaign shows Farrell having the most first-choice votes among major candidates, and that after allocating votes to simulate the... Read More

Sports Corner

Ode to 24: The Greatest Giant of Them All

By Richard Keller

When the news came on June 18 of Willie Mays’ death at age 93, the Bay Area reacted in classic fashion. Instinctively, fans from San Francisco and beyond converged at the corner... Read More

Real Estate

Not Quite ‘Impossibly Unaffordable’

By Garey De Martini

San Francisco was just ranked among the top 10 most “impossibly unaffordable” cities in the world, according to a recent CNN report. It wasn’t the planet’s most unaffordab... Read More

The Best of Books

The Marina Books Inc. best sellers

By Chris Hsiang

Here is a list of the most popular books sold last month at Books Inc. in the Marina: HARDCOVER FICTION1. Funny Story, by Emily Henry2. Long Island, by Colm Toibin 3. The ... Read More

Television

A-List Television with ‘House of the Dragon,’ ‘The Boys’ and ‘Presumed Innocent’

By Erin Maxwell

This summer, every streaming service is bringing out the big guns with massive series starring A-listers, apathetic antiheroes and aerial lizards. Here are but a few new and retur... Read More

Films

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Does Not Live Up To Its Title — and That’s a Good Thing

By Michael Atkinson

Despite the global success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things” last year, I don’t think we are all quite yet full-on Lanthimosians, and his new film, the tripartite stealt... Read More

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