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    Curated: Boatmen on the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham

    In the de Young Permanent Collection George Caleb Bingham’s Boatmen on the Missouri depicts what would have been a common sight for anyone traveling in the West during the mid-nineteenth…

    Sister Dana sez, “So Trump has already launched his 2020 campaign with the slogan: ‘Keep America Great!’ including a big exclamation point. But shouldn’t it realistically end with a question mark?”

    Sister Dana sez, “So Trump has already launched his 2020 campaign with the slogan: ‘Keep America Great!’ including a big exclamation point. But shouldn’t it realistically end with a question mark?”

    By Sister Dana Van Iquity– Sister Dana sez, “So Trump has already launched his 2020 campaign with the slogan: ‘Keep America Great!’ including a big exclamation point. But shouldn’t it realistically end…

    Gertrude Stein Comes of Age

    Gertrude Stein Comes of Age

    By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: For this issue of the San Francisco Bay Times, I present an excerpt from So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote…

    Time to March … and Walk!

    Time to March … and Walk!

    By Jamie Leno Zimron– While it’s March and we’re on the march, it seems like a great time to write about walking! For most of us lucky enough to have…

    ‘I Believe That Children Are Our Future’

    ‘I Believe That Children Are Our Future’

    By Louise “Lou” Fischer– In November of 2017, I wrote a column entitled “Enough Already, We Need Stricter Gun Control” (http://sfbaytimes.com/enough-already-need-stricter-gun-control/). Last month, in response to the tragic mass shooting…

    It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: Marching for Our Lives

    It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: Marching for Our Lives

    By John Lewis– When I learned about the upcoming “March for Our Lives” to end gun violence and shootings in schools, I reflected back on when gun violence first affected…

    An Often Unspoken Reality Underlying America’s Aversion to Gun Control

    An Often Unspoken Reality Underlying America’s Aversion to Gun Control

    By Andrea Shorter– As the national March for Our Lives is just days and hours away from this Sunday, March 24, our nation already owes the young people from Parkland,…

    Find Your Flexibility

    Find Your Flexibility

    By Cinder Ernst– During my thirty years of being a personal fitness trainer, I have noticed most people fall into three categories of flexibility. These categories are anecdotal observations coupled…

    Teachers Take Action Against Gun Violence

    Teachers Take Action Against Gun Violence

    By Lyndsey Schlax, Laura Nielsen and Sonya Mehta– On February 15, 2018, teachers across the country walked into their schools steeled for yet another day spent reassuring students that they…

    Youth Power Movement Answers the Call to Action

    Youth Power Movement Answers the Call to Action

    By Lyndsey Schlax– (Editor’s Note: Teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts launched the nation’s first on-site high school LGBT course in 2015. She…