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BART Plans To Build a Second Transbay Tube
By Eli Walsh BART and the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority unveiled a plan Wednesday to build a second transbay rail crossing and increase rail connection throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. The Link21 program will include multiple projects intended to make rail transit more accessible for residents in

What San Franciscans Want in Their New Monuments: A Report
The New Monuments Taskforce was asked to study San Francisco’s 87 public monuments, and what do with them. The project mapped out where all our monuments and asked the public everything from ‘what monuments (if any) should be removed’, to ‘what should a monument be?’ The taskforce is led by

Color That Lights Up SF Streets : Kate Tova Artist You Should Know
To escape the gray skies, the soviet facades, and 6-month long Russian winters, she painted with bright, intensely warm colors. The type of color palette that can light up a dark street corner.

What your BART Station says about you (PENINSULA/SOUTH BAY EDITION)
The Bay Area is a big place with a lot of cities, and every city in the Bay can be a little different. But one thing that is synonymous with the Bay Area experience, is BART. The Bay Area Rapid Transit, with its loud trains, lateness, general sketchiness and insanity

Airplanes Are Packed, So Why Aren’t Restaurants?
Restaurants across the country are struggling because of the pandemic, but the amount of struggle depends on the city or state that the restaurant is in. New York City doesn’t have indoor dining as an option at all, so restaurants there are totally empty depending completely on takeout and those

San Francisco May Have a New Office of ‘Drag Laureate’
Well this is absolutely delightful! San Francisco is considering creating the office of Drag Laureate. Yesterday on SF Gate, Peter-Astrid Kane (also a contributor to this website) wrote that the “Bay Area Reporter noted the idea was one of many in S.F.’s ‘LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy,’ a 2018 report that was revised

With All This Empty Commercial Space, Maybe it’s Time to Start Squatting
With the money running out and the uncertainty of the eviction moratoriums, I’m sure many San Francisco renters are wondering where they will go when it all comes crashing down. Those with a good grasp of history will find inspiration from the past, and in San Francisco, that past is

How to Watch the Sundance Film Festival From Home
Before the Coronavirus changed everything, the only way a person could take in the full Sundance Film Festival experience was to travel to Park City (or a surrounding town), dress very warmly, and brave insanely long lines for a chance to score a screening ticket. The 2021 Sundance Film Festival,