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Majority of SF Hospital Workers Vaccinated, Other CA Counties Fall Behind
SF healthcare workers lead the way in vaccination, other counties fall behind. California state has announced that the vaccine is now expected to be available to everyone by the end of 2021.

What Your Bart Station Says About You (EAST 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

San Francisco’s Prolific Street Artist : Calamity Fair
The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights Bay Area artists who are doing incredible work, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. If you’ve walked the streets of San Francisco this decade, you most likely will recognize this work.

Here’s Why Restaurants Will Never Be the Same
It’s going to be a long time before restaurants are back to normal, even after the vaccine rollout and Covid is in the rearview mirror. There are some things that will probably never go back to the way they were before. Personally, what I will miss most is greeting my

Carroll Fife Cuts Her Oakland City Council Teeth With Encampment Amendment Issue
Oakland City Council will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss a number of agenda items. Among items to be considered are some simple extensions of emergency declarations, a proposal to lease land near the Chabot Space & Science Center for use by the school district and clarification of the city’s regulations

San Francisco’s Queen of Monologues Turns 35 in Style
A million years ago, in 2018, when sitting in the confines of a tiny theater in the Tenderloin wasn’t anxiety-inducing in the least, I caught “Altars for my Alters” at the SF Fringe Festival. While most solo Fringe shows are minimalistic, often performed by a person in black using only

I Spent 24 hours on Parler Watching it Implode
It took a while to get used to it’s stuttering interface and odd flow of threads, but getting past that I threw up a few original posts: they got mad really fast. My notifications went wild. In my first hour or so on the site, these people proved they are the flakiest of snows.

The Best Stuff On Hulu In January
With this preview, yours truly is shifting streaming coverage from two monthly pieces on Netflix highlights to one devoted to Netflix and one devoted to Hulu. This switch means offering only a belated brief suggestion to check out on Netflix in the coming weeks the anti-”Slumdog Millionaire” adaptation The White