Tag: Bay Bridge
New Music: Chroma’s ‘Source of Nurture’ comp features East Bay faves
When Chroma—the NYC collective and creative agency that advocates for centering the work and experience of womxn of color—reached out to DJ-producers Lara Sarkissian and 8ULENTINA, along with 23 other artists to compile...
This year, the giant Pink Triangle bursts into 2700 twinkling lights
Other cities have their Pride parades, rainbow flags, and disco ball balloons. Only San Francisco has the Pink Triangle.
Over the past 25 years, San Francisco’s iconic Pink Triangle display,...
Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill
48 hills’ “Facebook money and California housing” series delves into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s multi-million-dollar funding of the pro-growth shadow government that’s reshaping California housing policy. The first installment...
Uber’s plans include attacking public transit
Uber has acknowledged in a federal filing that its long-term goal is to privatize public transportation around the world.
In a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the...
Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup.
Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an insidious takeover led by an...
Screen Grabs: ‘Lost Landscapes of San Francisco’ returns
SCREEN GRABS In the silent era there were numerous important women filmmakers—a testament, alas, to how the medium wasn’t taken “seriously” for many years, for by the time the...
Puff: Why isn’t SF a cannabis sanctuary city?
PUFF On February 13, the city of Berkeley declared itself a sanctuary city for recreational marijuana, firmly kicking San Francisco’s cool cred in the butt. As proposed by mayor Jesse Arreguin and...
Caltrans strands bicyclists on the Bay Bridge
On May 31, at a little after 8:15pm, Isidro Magana rode his bicycle onto the Bay Bridge. He was doing what thousands have done since the new bike path...
A regional-planning coup
In late April the year-long power struggle between our region’s land use and transportation planning agencies, respectively the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, boiled...
Developers win with “smart growth” rule
With a big assist from the state Legislature, the SF Planning Department opened a new front in the city’s density wars last week. On Thursday, staff asked the Planning...
