Arts Forecast: Ain’t Too Proud, Drag Queens on Ice, Widow Norton’s 100th…

Under the Stars is a quasi-weekly column that presents new music releases, upcoming shows, opinions, and a number of other adjacent items. We keep moving with the changes, thinking outside the margins. In this edition, we salute Sade, Snoop Dogg, and Teddy Riley on being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. We also outline some SF JAZZ-Noise Pop options, and make our first Bandcamp Picks of 2023. So many good things.

I have been talking to folks at the City Planning Department to follow up on my analysis of the numbers in the Housing Element, and after a good amount of research, I think can fairly conclude the following:. The state, thanks to the likes of Sen. Scott Wiener, has totally...

The horrifying footage out of Memphis came from the body cameras of the cops involved, but over the years, particularly in San Francisco, some of the most important evidence of police misconduct has been caught on private cell phones. That is: People were watching the cops, and filming the cops.