Education Archives - Page 21 of 44

From Lagos with love—and the god of fire

Joshua Rotter - November 24, 2019

Bisi is more than a stage name for the 29-year-old Nigerian singer-songwriter who’s called San Francisco home for the last decade. It’s also a...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: And here’s the real kicker…

Marke B. - November 13, 2019

ARTS FORECAST The Stomp tour stomped into town for a very brief visit at ACT last weekend (why, when it could stay so much longer?)—and the...

Foreign Correspondent

Special report: Bay Area academics visit Kurds in Northern Syria

Reese Erlich - November 8, 2019

Editor's Note: This story by our Foreign Correspondent columnist Reese Erlich is accompanied by photographs by Beth LaBerge. In Laberge's words, "I spent two...

News + Politics

For unhoused people, every day is an emergency

Tiny - October 31, 2019

“We can’t take all that shit with us in this one hefty bag…” “But mama, this is my favorite pair of jeans.” “I don’t give a...

News + Politics

Filipino language access still lacking in SF

Jeantelle Laberinto - October 27, 2019

In 2014, San Francisco certified Filipino as the city’s official third language. Under the Language Access Ordinance, this certification should have signaled a full...

News + Politics

The problem with the Blue Angels

Christopher D. Cook - October 12, 2019

Editor’s note: The news media in San Francisco are all agog about the Blue Angels – as they always are, every year. The main...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest

Dennis Harvey - October 8, 2019

Who knows if we’ll ever see the day when the Arab Film Film Festival does not seem of urgent political relevance. But this year’s...

Culture

Celebrating 50 groundbreaking years of Ethnic Studies with ‘Solidarity’

Emily Wilson - October 7, 2019

When he was 13, PJ Gubatina Policarpio moved from the Philippines to San Francisco’s Excelsior District. As a student at Balboa High School, he...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Turkey plans attack on Syrian Kurds

Reese Erlich - October 6, 2019

ISTANBUL —The Turkish government plans to use Syrian refugees to displace the local Kurdish population in northern Syria. But so far, the scheme isn’t...

Lit

Ben Folds illuminates the music biz with ‘Lightning Bugs’

Joshua Rotter - September 10, 2019

Ben Folds is not your average rockstar, so it’s no surprise that the genre-bending alternative, pop, and classical artist’s autobiography, A Dream About Lightning...

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