I introduced a ballot measure urging San Francisco’s public schools to let kids take algebra by the eighth grade. Now, we make everyone wait until ninth grade because some aren’t ready for algebra sooner. Let’s better prepare all students instead of holding back kids who love math.
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Photos of the Month, November 2023.
One tragic shipwreck that Stephen Haller and John Martini discussed during ShipWRECKED! was the City of Rio De Janeiro. For years, the City of Rio De Janeiro had sailed through the Pacific, carrying immigrants from Hong Kong to San Francisco. During her last trip, the ship was carrying 210 passengers.
As residents of a major city, we know that getting from point A to point B doesn’t have to always involve a car. While public transit is a great option, people power should also be considered – and even play a bigger role. Active transportation is human-powered mobility, such as biking, walking or rolling.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu responded to a lawsuit filed against the City in state court by developers proposing a 600-foot-tall, 712-unit skyscraper on Sloat Boulevard. The building would occupy the site where the Sloat Garden Center is today, at 2700 Sloat Blvd., across the street from the SF Zoo. The area is zoned with a 40-foot maximum height limit, which could accommodate a building up to four-stories tall.
Sakatani, along with 640 other Bay Area artists, attended “artist day” at the de Young Museum, a reception staged a few days prior to the Sept. 30 opening of the de Young Open, a community-based art exhibition consisting of 883 artworks, displayed salon style from floor-to-ceiling by artists from nine Bay Area counties.
As we prepare to pay our federal and state income taxes pursuant to two extensions granted this year by the always-benevolent Internal Revenue Service and Franchise Tax Board, I’m reminded of quips meriting reiteration, such as: “Sorry people feel the government owes them a living! The rest of us would gladly settle for a small tax refund.”
The single-family home market emerges as a winner as since the pandemic people prefer to move to a lower density environment and to not live in close proximity with others. Luxury homes were slow and prices did drop but homes under $2.5 million held their own in terms of pricing.
The end of the road is on the horizon for a section of the Great Highway between Sloat and Skyline boulevards, after a unanimous vote by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) on Oct. 10.
Hidden under the waves of Ocean Beach and Lands End are the skeletons of hundreds of shipwrecks. On certain days, lucky beach-goers will be able to catch a glimpse of a rusted bow or the ribs of a boiler room jutting out of the water. The mystery and tragedy of the Golden Gate wrecks possesses a special allure for many people, including the Western Neighborhood Project’s (WNP) Executive Director Nicole Meldahl and Director of Programs Chelsea Sellin, who created “shipwreck week.”
In honor of Veterans Day and the 10-Year Anniversary of the MIS Learning Center, visit two thought-provoking military history exhibitions in the Presidio of San Francisco.
My apologies to those who have tried to contact me over the last several weeks. I had a medical emergency that prevented me from carrying out my duties as editor.
Murakami has blurred the boundaries of high and low art. His newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (AAM) in San Francisco, called “Takashi Murakami: Unfamiliar People – Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego” (Sept. 15-Feb. 12, 2024), demonstrates that his 82-foot, super-detailed, story-telling painting, created especially for this – his first-ever Bay Area exhibition – is consumed alongside the instantly recognizable, multicolor smiling flower motif, which visitors rabidly purchase in many forms (including as a stuffy-style pillow) at the museum gift shop.
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