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Restaurants and Bars Are Relying on City Money to Liven Up San Francisco’s Downtown. Now the Future of That Funding’s Uncertain
Andrew Chun has a remarkably upbeat take on the survival of San Francisco’s downtown—whatever the future may hold for the neighborhood. ...
Remembering Mel Simmons: Culture on the Corner Founder Worked to Preserve Black Artistic Legacy of the Fillmore
Murals of civil rights leaders at Rosa Parks Elementary School and Booker T. Washington Community Center are just some of the physical reminders of...
Erasing Erasure: Two Historic Exhibits Cement the Legacy of Late Filipino Artist Carlos Villa
The artist, activist, and educator Carlos Villa (1936-2013) spent his career grappling with what it means to feel invisible while striving to make a...
Romance and the Stone: A Guide to SF Opera’s ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’
If you feel like you’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about Dream of the Red Chamber, you’re not alone. The opera—and the novel...
This Weekend: Pride Parade, Japanese Internment Opera, and an ‘Extinction’ Event
After a month of Pink Triangle lightings, public forums, film screenings and queer nü metal supergroup performances, San Francisco’s 30-day celebration of LGBTQ+ culture...