Talk of 'equity' used in violence against the unhoused?
Plus: 'The Axe' probes white racial amnesia, City Lights revisits Breton, Best of the Bay honors Compton's Cafeteria Riot, more.
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Today's headlines:
The lie of ‘equity considerations’ in Oakland attack on the unhoused
By Tiny
Use all the nice language you want—it still means destroying lives.
City Lights poetry editor revisits the lion of Surrealism, André Breton
By Nicole Gluckstern
Interview with Garrett Caples on reissuing Philip Lamantia—and how Breton contributed to the fall of the Haitian government.
Racial amnesia probed in ‘The Axe: a long line of broken white people’
By Aimée Ts'ao
Alley Wilde's latest performance explores European Indigeneity, violence, paganism at Counterpulse.
Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
By Charles Lewis III
The city thought it would never see itself done right onstage after 'Beach Blanket Babylon.' Then this long-running show came along.
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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Kina Kantor
GLŌM FEST’s polyglot nocturnal liturgy brings deathrock, darkwave artists from around the globe
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