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San Francisco

  • In this archival episode, a recent Bay Area transplant wants to know if the Marina, which was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, would be safe during a big tremor.
  • In this week's Audiograph we head to San Francisco's Fillmore district, once known as the 'Harlem of the West,' jammed with clubs overflowing with song.…
  • In this week's Audiograph we head to San Francisco's Fillmore district, once known as the 'Harlem of the West,' jammed with clubs overflowing with song.…
  • On this week's Out in the Bay we bring you the story -- in his own words and voice -- of the late LGBTQ philanthropist, civil rights activist and ambassador James C. Hormel. He died in August after a full and fascinating life.
  • A lot of people see San Francisco as different. Maybe that’s why there are so many songs about the city by the bay. So many, in fact, that it’s perhaps the only city in the country – and maybe the world – with not one, but two official songs.
  • This S.F. neighborhood saw 10 times more coronavirus cases than one nearby it — SF Chronicle: “In one census tract in the Bayview neighborhood, for instance, nearly 18% of residents have tested positive for COVID-19. About 2 miles northwest, a tract in Noe Valley has seen only 1.6% of its residents test positive for the disease.”
  • Everyone in SF ages 16 and up is now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine — San Francisco Examiner: “San Francisco expanded eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday to everyone ages 16 and up, two days earlier than previously planned.
  • "Bayside Saturdays" Waterfront Block Party (April 2021) — SF Funcheap: Enjoy free drop-in fitness classes, giveaways, live music, small business specials — all while taking in nature and new art all along the waterfront. Feast your eyes on 71 large-scale murals from local artists. For the full experience, plan for a walk or bike ride along the new Bayview Quick Build pedestrian and bike path along Innes and Hunters Point Blvd.
  • Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's new book, The Freezer Door, mourns losing "the dream of queer" -- a “world without borders and hierarchies”-- that she says…