Would you believe that a TV parody of James Bond movies from the 1960s would inspire the name of a bar on Geary Boulevard two decades later?
Geary Bar, Would You Believe, is Honored as a Legacy Business
Alamo Elementary Marks 100 Years With the Block Party of the Century
Alamo Elementary School celebrated its centennial on May 16 with a block party on 23rd Avenue, closing the block between Clement and California streets to welcome students, families, alumni, teachers and neighbors for an afternoon of food, music and community.
State Senate: Scott Wiener
As we enter Pride Month, I’ve been reflecting on the challenges and triumphs facing San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community, and the lessons about resilience, resistance and joy that being a member of this community has taught me.
Kilduff’s Korner By Paul Kilduff
Cartoon by Paul Kilduff.
‘Then and Now’: Alamo Elementary School
Comparison photos of Alamo Elementary School 100 years apart.
Gee and Chakrabarti Campaigns Clean Up Their Signs
About a dozen volunteers and staffers for the Natalie Gee and Saikat Chakrabarti campaigns fanned out across the Sunset District’s commercial corridors today at 2 p.m, pulling posters and tape off windows in what may be the first-ever cleanup of its kind.
Police Blotter: Richmond District
Recent police activity in the Richmond District.
Assembly: Catherine Stefani
The end of May marked one of the most important milestones in our legislative calendar. By this deadline, bills must pass out of the legislative chamber where they were first introduced in order to continue moving forward to the next stage of our legislative process.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
To ensure taxpayer obliviousness, the Rail Authority claims “real progress” on the project and says almost 80 miles of “guideway” are complete in Madera, Fresno, Kings and Tulare counties, plus “171 miles under design and construction from Merced to Bakersfield.”
City Hall: Connie Chan
This year, as we prepare to tackle San Francisco’s budget deficit, I, as chair of the San Francisco Board of Supervisor’s Budget Committee, called a number of hearings to help bring transparency and understanding to what is at stake in this year’s budget and what it means for all of us. This is my fourth year as the Budget Committee Chair, where I have worked with two different board presidents and two different mayors to help guide our City’s finances to provide a stronger and more resilient San Francisco. I believe that, throughout these four years, we have done a lot of good work to trim waste, increase efficiencies and guard against corruption. These hearings were intended to help Budget Committee members understand the progress we have made as well as hear the priorities of everyday San Franciscans.
Past and Present Woven Together in ‘Nengi Omuku: The Gathering’
You can’t separate the art from the artist. With Nigerian painter and humanitarian Nengi Omuku, that is a really good thing, as opposed to infamous misogynist Pablo Picasso, pedophile and bigamist Paul Gauguin and murderous pimp Caravaggio (born Michelangelo Merisi).
Outer Richmond’s Newest Bookstore Started in a Driveway
About four years ago, Chelsea Brown started setting up a small shelf of books in front of her garage on Saturdays. Naming it “The Celestial Library,” she said it felt like the perfect way to meet neighbors and share her overflowing book collection. Soon, lending and sharing books led to buying books and hosting story time events, which revealed the growing need for a neighborhood bookstore. With the community’s support of more than $30,000, she will fill that need by bringing a brick-and-mortar bookstore called Celestial Books to the Outer Richmond later this year.
Cal Academy Utilizes A.I. after Laying Off 50 Employees
The California Academy of Sciences announced layoffs of 53 employees in late April as part of an effort to close a projected budget deficit exceeding $8 million. Some workers have continued to work, but on June 30, the layoffs will fully take effect, eliminating the 173-year-old San Francisco institution’s ability to produce its own planetarium shows or create graphics for its public floor.
Madland Appointed New General Manager of Rec and Parks
Sarah Madland, the new head of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, is entering her position promising transparency and that everyone will have the opportunity to express feedback.
Chan and Wiener Move on to November’s Race
District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan and State Sen. Scott Wiener will advance to November’s election for Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. At the end of election night, with 49% of the votes counted, Chan was in second place with 28.6% of the vote, while Saikat Chakrabarti was in third with 14.9%. Wiener leads the pack with more than 40,000 votes (41.26%), and pulled the majority of votes from precincts citywide.
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