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The Golden Gate Park Band hosted a Juneteenth celebration last month at the Spreckels Temple of Music (the “Bandshell”), featuring “The Sistas,” a gospel/R&B trio from the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre’s Soulful Christmas Choir made up of vocalists Mary Williams, Robin Hodge-Williams and Dr. Yvonne Cobbs.
On June 15, more than 50 seniors – with four dressed as iconic characters Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion – protested the mayor’s proposed $8.9 million in budget cuts to senior and disability programs. While singing a parody of “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz, Hene Kelly, dressed as Dorothy, led protesters to each supervisor’s office and asked them to “have a heart,” “use your brain” and “show some courage” to say no to senior cuts.
A new Vietnamese sandwich shop, also offering coffee drinks and iced teas, has begun its soft-opening on Balboa Street near Fifth Avenue. Ghien Banh Mi & Cafe was started by Tuan Luu and Uyen Vu, who also own Luxury Spa.
A resolution to extend APE’s contract with the Recreation & Parks Department for three more years, with an option of extending it out further to 2035, was approved by the Budget and Appropriations Committee in June and will go before the full Board on July 14.
This morning at City Hall, District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong announced a draft ordinance to change a decades-old building rule that housing advocates say has kept thousands of existing housing units off the legal rental market. The change would make those existing homes legal without requiring expensive renovations, and could make new construction more affordable, since lower ceilings require less material to build.
These tahini cookies are great to serve as a light dessert after a meal or as a snack with the afternoon tea or coffee.
Cyclical behavior is a recurring feature of economic and social systems. Expansion and contraction can be observed in business activity, financial markets and asset prices, as well as in more familiar seasonal patterns. These fluctuations are typically shaped by a combination of macroeconomic forces, including interest rates, inflation, credit conditions and shifts in business confidence.
On Taraval Street, near the western edge of the City, the morning arrives slowly. Surfers cross back from Ocean Beach with boards under their arms, dog walkers loop the block on their way home and the L train rolls toward the end of its line, letting the last of its riders out into the salt air.
With its cool breezes and wispy fog, the Sunset offers a perfect climate for enjoying coffee in a cozy spot. Fortunately, enticing coffee shops abound with unique blends of beverages and treats. Consider coffee shop hopping along Ninth Avenue and Irving Street and discover your favorites.
After three years of operating out of a tiny pop-up booth at the Outer Sunset Farmer’s Market, Maillards, a Sunset staple known for smashburgers, opened its first location on Noriega Street in late April, joined with a taproom courtesy of Two Pitchers Brewing Company.
Comparison photos of Stern Grove Concerts 87 years apart.
“Minister Chucky,” a short documentary film about the unconventional Las Vegas wedding of a queer couple, officiated by a killer doll Chucky impersonator from the eight-installment “Child’s Play” horror movie franchise, is funny until you consider the full context of the celebration – including subsequent plans for the pair to flee the United States under President Donald Trump’s regime.
To submit photos for consideration in the Photos of the Month online gallery, send three jpegs to Editor@RichmondSunsetNews.com by the 15th of the month.
Ask any parent in the Sunset what the most stressful months of the year are, and many will give you the same answer: the months between submitting their public school application and finding out where their child got placed. It is a strange thing to put families through, and stranger still that it has not changed.
Few drinking establishments offer patrons the chance to watch sports while sitting under a pantheon of history’s greatest thinkers, so perhaps that is why San Francisco recently added the Philosophers Club to its Legacy Business Registry.
