By Ann Rostow– Caution: Children at Work The “deep state,” as I understand it, refers to career civil servants, deeply embedded in the D.C. bureaucracy, who bolster American values and…
By Andrea Shorter– At a birthday celebration a few days ago, I was overjoyed to see a mutual friend who had the privilege of working in the Obama administration throughout…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– California has some of the best legal protections in the country today for the LGBT community, but the road to get to this point hasn’t been…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– As Oakland’s citywide elected Councilmember, who also serves on the countywide Transportation Commission, I recently proposed that Oakland adopt regulations for shared bicycle…
By Stuart Gaffney– May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and this year I’ve been reflecting on what it was like to attend summer camp in Wisconsin in the early…
At the third in a series of four community meetings on April 14, Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza (FHMP) in partnership with the architecture firm Perkins Eastman presented four preliminary…
By Tom Moon, MFT– In the late 1980s, when the Prozac family of anti-depressants became available, I saw the new drugs make dramatic changes in the lives of many people.…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– It would have been the trial of the century, had there been a trial. In 130 A.D., attendants found the body of Antinous, the handsome young…
At the de Young through August 12 Layered, complex, and deeply personal, the still lifes Gerald Murphy produced between 1921 and 1929 reflect the tensions between surface and depth, exterior…
By Lyndsey Schlax– (Editor’s Note: It has just been announced that teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, along with Sonya Mehta and Sarah…
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