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    Let’s Go Home: 11.21.24

    Let’s Go Home: 11.21.24

    Here are two of the many pets now available for adoption at Oakland Animal Services (OAS): Nancy Nancy is a young girl with a gentle heart who is still learning…

    Macy’s SF SPCA Holiday Windows 2024

    Macy’s SF SPCA Holiday Windows 2024

    Always a favorite with San Francisco Bay Times readers and contributors is the annual Holiday Windows display at Macy’s Union Square presented in partnership with the San Francisco SPCA. Launching…

    Top of Your Stack: 11.21.24

    Vanishing Treasures (non-fiction – hardcover) by Katherine Rundell In Vanishing Treasures, Katherine Rundell explores the wonders of 23 extraordinary endangered animals, from dancing seahorses to frogs that freeze in winter…

    Lit Snax: 11.21.24

    Yr Dead by Sam Sax This queer, Jewish-diasporic coming-of-age novel is told in deeply compelling lyric fragments and raises important questions about how historical memory shapes the present. Can Give…

    27th San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

    27th San Francisco Transgender Film Festival

    Photos by Rink San Francisco Transgender Film Festival artisticbdirector Shawna Virago welcomed guests and introducedbfilmmakers from the stage at the Roxie Theater on Thursday, November 14, 2024. Festival staff included…

    Ann Rostow: Living in the Moment

    Ann Rostow: Living in the Moment

    By Ann Rostow– Living in the Moment As I write this, the election results have not been announced, even by my favorite reporters and friends at MSNBC. So, um, what…

    Rally to Save Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy

    Rally to Save Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy

    When the list of thirteen schools being considered for possible closures or mergers in the 2025–2026 school year was released in mid-October by the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD),…

    Your Body of Work

    Your Body of Work

    By Dr. Kathleen Sullivan– Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted as saying, “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” Getting older is a privilege…

    Record-Breaking Subsidies Available for Health Coverage

    Record-Breaking Subsidies Available for Health Coverage

    By Assemblymember Phil Ting– It’s remarkable how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made strides in reducing the number of uninsured Californians. In fact, our uninsured rate has reached an…

    Hydrogen’s Promise to Oakland

    Hydrogen’s Promise to Oakland

    By Rebecca Kaplan– As California accelerates its shift to a clean energy future, the debate around how to best reduce emissions often focuses on the merits of one technology over…