t first-place winners. Two of the first-place winners, Emily Trinh and Chiara Di Martino, reside in the Sunset District.
Press Release: Local Journalists Win Awards at City College of San Francisco
Letter to the Editor: UGH ‘Slow Rides’ Don’t Help the Environment
Climate change is real and change MUST happen, and fast. However, closing a highway does not make the vehicles disappear.
At the de Young: Fashion Designer Patrick Kelly’s Brief but Influential Career
For fashion designer Patrick Kelly, it was all about the buttons – the mismatched ones adorning his signature body-conscious knit dresses and the metaphorical buttons he pushed addressing race, class and sexuality.
Press Release: City College Journalism Students Reel in 18 Awards
City College’s journalism students captured 18 honors in the 44th Annual San Francisco Press Club’s Greater Bay Area Awards night.
Police Blotter: Sunset District
Police activity in the Sunset District in October 2021.
Cooking Together: Three Sisters Winter Bowls
The celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States supposedly started with Native Americans and Europeans sharing food at a harvest celebration. However, many people today do not realize the important role played by the Native Americans in cultivating many crops such as squash, corn, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and berries and sharing this knowledge with the pilgrims. It should be acknowledged that these farming lessons most likely insured the newcomers’ survival.
Announcements: November 2021
Things to do and subjects of note on San Francisco’s west side.
Sunset Community Festival’s Return Inspires Optimism
On a sunny, picture-perfect day, vendors, community members and youth from throughout the Sunset and San Francisco gathered to celebrate the Sunset District.
Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Oct. 29-31, 2021.
Link to photos from Outstde Lands 2019. TOP
United Irish Cultural Center Envisions New Six-Story Building
The United Irish Cultural Center of San Francisco (UICC) submitted plans to the San Francisco Planning Department for a new six-story building to replace its current home. Fundraising has begun for the $65 million project.
Next Phase of Taraval Street Project Moves Forward
The second phase of the Taraval Street revamp is set to start next year, after a $57.2 million contract to fund it was awarded to the contractor by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) Board of Directors.
City Hall: Connie Chan
San Francisco continues to face an unprecedented housing affordability crisis. With the exception of the brief dip in the rental housing market during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s harder and harder for working families to afford to live in San Francisco.
Commentary: Quentin L. Kopp
Professor William Shughart of Utah State University described accurately the inaccuracy of “characterizing government spending as investment.” He reminded us public entities don’t “undertake projects based on expected rates of return, payback or any other sound financial criteria.”
City Hall: Gordon Mar
he mission of Sunset Forward is “to stabilize low- and moderate-income families and seniors in the Sunset, enhancing community connection and quality of life for all by addressing unmet needs in housing, transportation, and neighborhood businesses and services.”
Sponsored: The SF Public Utilities Commission, a Civic Disaster – From Corruption to Conflagration – How They are ‘MOC-ing’ the Richmond and Sea Cliff
Four years ago, in the November 2017 issue of the Richmond Review, there appeared an article entitled “Plan to Protect Neighborhoods Abandoned: Lack of water to fight fires in southern and western neighborhoods after a major quake could result in a firestorm, like the 1906 disaster.”
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 