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Culture

Preserving stories of California life during COVID—and you can share yours

Emily Wilson - August 14, 2020

Erin Garcia, director of exhibitions at the California Historical Society, and her colleagues were looking for ways to engage their audience digitally. What they...

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Millions of tenants at risk as court ban on evictions set to expire

Tim Redmond - August 12, 2020

The organization that manages the courts in California is moving to end a moratorium on evictions that has saved millions of people from losing...

Arts + Culture

Purpose in precarity: SF arts orgs share COVID-era gameplans

Caitlin Donohue - July 17, 2020

The COVID crisis has hit us all differently, and that variance certainly applies to local arts organizations. While the virus refuses to give a...

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Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID

Garrett Leahy - July 15, 2020

In her 27 years as a tenant on Leavenworth, Andrea Carla Michaels has had few issues with any of her landlords. Now she is the...

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Special Report: HIV, COVID, and the Latinx community

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - July 13, 2020

A deadly virus enters the United States and disproportionately hits Black and Brown communities, while the White House fails to respond quickly to the...

Onstage

Too soon for COVID jokes? Shazia Mirza on Zoom comedy and life at home

Joshua Rotter - July 13, 2020

Shazia Mirza has been making the most of quarantine. The award-winning British stand-up comedian and writer—best known for her show “The Kardashians Made Me...

News + Politics

COVID is devastating the US economy—while the very rich get very richer

Tim Redmond - July 5, 2020

My poor puppy hates the fireworks. They’re loud and unpredictable. There are many theories, some of them pretty out there, as to why so...

Culture

Insurance companies deny 100s of COVID claims; venues sue

Garrett Leahy - June 16, 2020

When the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order began on March 19, owners of the East Bay music venue Ivy Room, thought that their business interruption insurance would...

Culture

How teachers leapt inequity hurdles when COVID shut schools

Emily Wilson - June 4, 2020

Reynaldo Dulaney, who teaches Ethnic Studies, Leadership, and Advanced Placement US History at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, says the quick switch from teaching...

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How Cuba is succeeding in the fight against COVID

Reese Erlich - May 28, 2020

One morning along a street with cracked sidewalks and houses with fading paint, Dr. Liz Caballero and two medical students stopped at every door...

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