Tag: Preservation
Quilting genius Rosie Lee Tompkins stitched abstraction to history
Through Berkeley Art Museum, the Richmond artist's "crazy quilts" dazzle with wild colors and spiritual messages
OPINION: The Ferris wheel must go!
Golden Gate Park should not be a commercial amusement park with diesel generators and bright lights.
Growth machine wins big in Berkeley
Mayor who ran as a progressive sides with developer-friendly plan for Adeline Corridor.
Two opportunities to address Black housing inequities
Midtown in SF and Golden Gate Village in Marin could become models for Black self-determination.
Oakland group launches non-police mental health hotline
On Friday, the Anti-Police Terror Project launched MH First Oakland, a hotline staffed by 12 volunteers with backgrounds in social work, peer counseling, and medicine -- including peer counselors,...
Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical
For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as late as 1976, the protagonist...
Supes, by one vote, reject public advocate plan
The San Francisco supes today refused by one vote to put a measure on the ballot creating a public advocate to focus on public corruption.
Two of the supes who...
OPINION: Defunding the police is just one step
Black Lives Matter and other abolitionist groups are leading communities across the country to recognize that the criminal justice system is a powerhouse of violence and white supremacy.
Policing was...
Generations of activism: Checking in with Cleve Jones
The LGBTQ community has already survived the tragic loss of Harvey Milk, the deaths of hundreds of thousands during the AIDS pandemic, and decades of discriminatory legislation.
But lifelong activist...
Arts Forecast: We can do this!
We may be going through tough times, but we're still producing the art, music, culture, deep inquiry, and joy that continue to sustain us. It feels like organizations are...
