Can Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ Make the Revolution Sexy? ^14.3%

KQED - By Nastia Voynovskaya - 5/19/2026, 11:00 AM

Halo Effect 12.9% - Negativity Bias 9.7% - Anecdotal 8.2%

When Boots Riley looks back at his debut feature, Sorry to Bother You, it’s not the rave reviews, near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score or $18 million in box office revenue that stand out. It’s the messages he got from labor organizers. Dozens wrote to tell him they swayed their colleagues to form unions or authorize strikes after showing... more

Punk Legend Jello Biafra Hospitalized After Stroke ^73.3%

KQED - By Nastia Voynovskaya - 3/9/2026, 10:07 PM

San Francisco punk legend Jello Biafra has been hospitalized following a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure, according to a statement posted on his Facebook page. The former Dead Kennedys frontman described collapsing after getting out of bed and realizing he had lost feeling in his left leg and arm. “I tried to hop back up... more