10 APRIL 2024/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) There’s another attempt underway for an SF-to-LA overnighter that would compete with airline travel, this time a train service, which has made progress on getting access to the existing train tracks the trip would require. We’ve seen efforts to make an easy and affordable… Continue reading
by YUJIE ZHOU APRIL 10, 2024 (MissionLocal.org) Between now and the November election, Mission Local is asking each District 3 candidate one question per week, and candidates will get 100 words to respond. We will compile all responses to the 40-odd questions on a “Meet the candidates” page, so that voters… Continue reading
by ELENI BALAKRISHNAN APRIL 10, 2024, 11:14 AM (MissionLocal.org) Leer en español. On Friday, 23-year-old Alberto Vargas Quero had been in San Francisco for two days, and it was his first day on the job at Modern Hair Cuts on Mission Street. He hadn’t eaten all day and was waiting for his… Continue reading
By Adrienne Fong Not back posting on a regular basis List of Calendar of Events for Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/ Many other events for Palestine are listed on Indybay that might be of interest to you. Included are East Bay, South Bay and North Bay Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay… Continue reading
Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy Maxwell L. Stearns Can a parliamentary democracy end America’s constitutional crisis? Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can’t solve the nation’s most urgent challenges. Our eighteenth-century system is ill… Continue reading
Mariia Hlyten/The Atlantic A Ukrainian soldier guards his position. (photo: Mstyslav Chernov/AP) 09 april 24 (RSN.org) I just want the U.S. to deliver its promised aid—so that I still have a country to go back to. In early March 2022, I spent two weeks hiding in a basement in my… Continue reading
by ELENI BALAKRISHNAN APRIL 9, 2024 (MissionLocal.org) Here’s the latest in our “Meet the Candidates” series for District 5, where we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election. All the responses are compiled onto a single page, where readers can peruse the potential District… Continue reading
8 APRIL 2024/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) The three-story husk of a building at 2551 Mission Street has been vacant and accumulating graffiti now since 1987, but efforts to transform it into art galleries and retail spaces are finally showing some progress. There are many vacant eyesores on Mission Street, but… Continue reading
9 APRIL 2024/SF RESTAURANTS, FOOD & DRINK/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) The IKEA-affiliated Ingka Centres collaborated with a British hospitality firm to create a new paradigm for the mall food court. Will cocktails, Scandinavian pastry, and abundant plant-based options bring in crowds? What’s arguably going to be the biggest food debut in… Continue reading
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age Norman Ohler, Marshall Yarbrough (Translator) The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and… Continue reading
