San Francisco’s streets are plastered with cryptic ads from AI startups. The strategy is intentional — but it’s not without cost.
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After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny
Eight years ago, Joann Moschella was injured after her bicycle was hit by a car. That’s when her unsung hero appeared, dressed in a furry lavender bunny suit.
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Public workers could be denied loan forgiveness if cities defy Trump, lawsuit alleges
A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations have resisted President Trump’s policies.
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‘Fairyland’ recalls a girl’s life with her poet father in pre-AIDS San Francisco
Alysia Abbott’s memoir about growing up in 1970s San Francisco with her gay, single father, has been adapted into a film directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola.
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Squeeze into a photo booth for a Valentine’s Day smooch
In honor of Valentine’s Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.
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A museum’s confession: why we have looted objects
An exhibition at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.
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Here’s one of the only places you can ride in a Filipino jeepney
The popular, brightly painted minibuses are being phased out in the Philippines, but you can still tour San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural District in one.
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Pete McCloskey’s life reminds us how politics long in the past live on in the present
McCloskey’s story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing to champion are as salient as ever.
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Photographer David Johnson, who chronicled San Francisco’s Black culture, dies at 97
Johnson studied with Ansel Adams in the 1940s and became known as one of the foremost photographers of San Francisco’s Black urban culture.
