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Mary Cassatt’s first North American retrospective in 25 years at the Legion of Honor. As one of the leaders of the French Impressionist movement and the most celebrated woman artist of her era, Mary Cassatt was an artist who used women, their activities, and the space they occupy in society as her main subject matter.
A short history of bordellos in San Francisco, part 2
In any case, sensing opportunity, Belle and Cora sailed for San Francisco, arriving late in 1849. Cora gambled from one mining town to another, and Belle, a striking brunette later described by a San Francisco detective as a “voluptuous creature,” tagged along. In the early 1850s, she opened a bordello in the California mining town of Sonora.
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his assemblymember wife tied to disgraced Oakland political operative Mario Juarez. As an assemblymember, Bonta requested $3.4 million grant for Viridis Fuels, run by Juarez, while Mia Bonta shared an office with now-defunct fuel firm. By Susan Dyer Reynolds. People who didn’t grow up in the San ...
New ownership for the Marina Times
The acquisition of the 36-year-old Marina Times was made public the same day that Street Media announced its purchase of The Village Voice in New York City, giving the expanding company anchors in Los Angeles, Orange County, New York, and San Francisco. “I think that there are certain communities that are special,” L.A. Weekly CEO …
Marina Times - Friends with Community Benefits
From 2012 to Jan. 31, 2020, firms have provided over $5 million in financial contributions. But the good the SFPUC Community Benefits Program does is eclipsed by a complete lack of transparency. Millions of dollars go to nonprofits — we don’t know exactly how many millions, because the SFPUC won’t say.
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‘They all knew’ - Marina Times
Nathaniel Roye (left) Garret Doty (right, red cap) buy drugs in the Marina District. by Susan Dyer Reynolds. May 2023. Garret Doty is back in the Marina just weeks after a brutal attack on former fire commissioner Don Carmignani. When images of a transient trio allegedly involved in the brutal, near-fatal beating of former fire commissioner Don ...
Marina Times - Fraudenbach: How the Coalition on Homelessness …
In 2018, COH drafted a plan to raise $300 million a year for “homeless services” by increasing gross receipts taxes 0.5 percent on San Francisco businesses making more than $50 million annually. They chose Christin Evans, a longtime homeless activist who runs several hobby businesses in the Haight district and whose parents own a $12 ...
‘Diego Rivera’s America’ comes to SFOMA - Marina Times
July 2022. Diego Rivera is well represented in San Francisco. His short stint here (1930–31) left the city with three massive murals, including those painted by his proteges inside Coit Tower. One of his murals, “Pan American Unity,” currently resides at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art along with its permanent collection of 70 ...