SF Bay Area

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

UC Berkeley Strips Hall of Controversial Name
University of California at Berkeley officials on Tuesday stripped another hall of its name, the fourth in a year’s time. Kroeber Hall, which honored anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, was unnamed because he continues to be associated with the ideas of exclusion and erasure of Native Americans. Kroeber is remembered as the

Bay Area Braces for Wet and Wild Winter Storm
The storm brewing overhead will deliver desperately needed rain throughout the region, but it unfortunately comes in the form of an atmospheric river that will create as much damage as it does benefit. The winter rainstorm quickly descending on the Bay Area has prompted widespread evacuations in the Santa Cruz

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

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,