False narrative about SF's real estate tax emerges
Plus: Seminal queer punk zine 'Homocore' returns, great films about the USSR and more movies
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Today's headlines:
The false narrative about SF’s real estate tax measure starts to emerge
By Tim Redmond
Plus: Why Lurie's Charter reform would hurt tenants
Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine ‘Homocore’ blasts back into view
By Joshua Rotter
New anthology collects the DIY publication's precious few issues, which gave voice to anti-assimilationist sexual outlaws.
Screen Grabs: Back to the USSR
By Dennis Harvey
'Two Prosecutors' and 'Soviet Silver' take us there. Plus: A Dutch film Nazi, a Palestinian revolt, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' more
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