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Jun 10, 2025
Bar owners push back
A longtime Oakland bar owner recently requested anonymity during a phone interview, out of fear of retaliation from the city’s Alcohol Beverage Action Team, known as ABAT. “They’re so aggressive. They come in like the mafia and...
Jun 10, 2025
San Francisco Jazz Festival reinvents itself
For the casual music fan, the transition at SFJAZZ from the organization’s founder, Randall Kline, to trumpeter Terence Blanchard has been a seamless affair.
Week by week, the roster of artists performing in the SFJAZZ Center’s 700-seat Miner...
Jun 10, 2025
Social Eyes: Week of June 12-18
THURSDAY, JUNE 12
AMERICANA
MARY GAUTHIER
Mary Gauthier’s sophomore album, Drag Queens in Limousines, rocketed the bard of queer tales and tunes into visibility 25 years ago. Moving to Nashville, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter’s soulful lyrics told stories of outcasts. Gauthier’s...
Jun 10, 2025
Several years ago an editor asked me to come up with an article about a current dining trend. As a food writer I eat out a...
In the pre-streaming era, I watched the entire series of Sex and The City patiently, in real time. I couldn’t help but wonder, from one week...
