Culture Reporter 

Sam Mondros

Locals clash at a meeting over an eight-story development that could become the tallest building in the area.

A San Francisco nonprofit is trying to protect a homeless man who has been cleaning one of the city’s most destitute streets for seven years.

Plus, a not-so-secret Sofar Sounds, SFMOMA’s Art Bash and Yvonne Orji—better known as Molly from ‘Insecure’—comes to Cobb’s Comedy Club.

A strategy developed during the AIDS crisis has fallen out of favor in the fentanyl epidemic. Its advocates say people will die. 

The sub-economy of stealing goods and reselling them on the black market serves as a dangerous lifeline for the city’s poorest residents.