By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– The housing situation in the Bay Area and elsewhere in California is problematic. Market rents are too expensive for most longtime residents of…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– Like many parents, I feel somewhat relieved. California has finally begun bringing back more students for in-person learning this month—thanks to AB 86, a compromise between…
By Paul Ellis– My coming out story is a good deal different from so many others. Let me tell you why. Sure, I grew up in a conservative town, Pittsburgh,…
San Francisco’s Krewe de Kinque (KDK) charitable Mardi Gras club is gearing up for “On The Radio,” the theme for Bal Masque XVIII, to be held virtually and in the…
By David Landis– For Nelson German, a young Dominican American chef from the streets of New York who now helms two of Oakland’s most revered restaurants (alaMar and Sobre Mesa),…
By Sister Dana Van Iquity– 2021 marks the 42nd Anniversary of the San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence! The Sisters’ annual “Easter in The Park” will be a virtual celebration,…
By Jan Wahl– Suddenly one of my favorite songs is not cool anymore. Frank Loesser’s Baby, It’s Cold Outside is a ball, especially when sung by Lady Gaga and Joseph…
By Michele Karlsberg– In the great tradition of Vampira and Zacherley, Stan the Mechanic is the new TV horror host who has hit the airwaves. Stan, as the one and only…
By Elisa Quinzi– A most indelible astrological year has come to a close and none of us are quite the same for it. The light indeed returns, and with it,…
By Brandon Miller, CFP– March is Women’s History Month. Like Black History Month, it seems sad that so many people have been erased from U.S. history that we have to…
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