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Review: San Francisco Opera opens 102nd season with appealing ‘Ballo in...
Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” (“A Masked Ball”) opened San Francisco Opera’s 102nd season on Friday at the War Memorial Opera House, with many of the nearly 3,000 attendees sporting masks (decorative,...
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Marin County’s COVID-19 summer surge eases as local transmission,...
The latest Marin County data reveals a steady decline in local COVID-19 transmission and hospitalizations since mid-August, according to the county’s public health department. Virus levels in...
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Cashing in? A California tribe bought campaign ads for lawmaker who cast key...
Assemblymember Evan Low represents a Silicon Valley district that could lose tens of millions of dollars in local tax revenues if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that would allow casino-owning tribes to...
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Movies: Surf film fest at the Balboa, ‘Close Your Eyes,’ ‘Merchant Ivory’ and...
The first Ocean Beach Surf Film Festival, celebrating the art and cinema of surfing, tops this week’s local movie slate. Taking place at the Balboa Theater, just blocks from Ocean Beach (a longtime...
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No more being swept away: San Jose selects first sanctioned homeless ‘safe...
SAN JOSE OFFICIALS have zeroed in on the city’s first location for a sanctioned encampment, where homeless people will be allowed to stay inside tents without fear of being swept.The lot at 1157 E....
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Annual 100-mile Nome Cult Walk commemorating Konkow Trail of Tears begins in...
Dozens of Native Americans have gathered over the weekend in Chico to start a long and emotional walk to Covelo as part of the annual Nome Cult Walk. The five-day, 100-mile walk commemorates a tragic...
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Amy Seiwert ushers in Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s 31st season with program...
Smuin Contemporary Ballet ushers in its 31st season, the first led by artistic director Amy Seiwert, with a triple bill of Jennifer Archibald’s world premiere “ByCHANCE,” the company debut of Matthew...
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Pinole Police Chief Neil Gang retires after 36 years, leaving a legacy of...
Pinole Police Chief of Police Neil Gang retired last week after spending 36 years in law enforcement.“It has been an honor and a blessing to serve the Pinole community,” Gang said in a statement...
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Richmond police break up sideshow, track down participants and impound...
Richmond police impounded three vehicles, wrote citations and dispersed a crowd of about 200 at a sideshow Sunday night.Officers responded to the area of West Cutting and Canal boulevards and...
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Monterey Regional Airport lands over $37M to improve facilities and purchase...
The Monterey Regional Airport has been awarded new federal funding of over $37 million to modernize the airport.U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta said in a statement that he secured federal grants awarded...
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Antioch police arrest pair suspected of trying to burglarize Halloween store...
Antioch police arrested two men Thursday who allegedly burglarized a Spirit Halloween store wearing, perhaps not coincidentally, Halloween masks.The incident happened Sept. 5, after the store had...
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Finding a home for Carmen Marquez, a Venezuelan immigrant in SF seeking asylum
Last year, after her husband of 23 years died of COVID-19, Carmen Marquez fled a violent village in Venezuela with her teenage daughter and made it to the sanctuary city of San Francisco. On Monday,...
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California Latino voters say economy is top priority, but blame falls on...
Housing costs and inflation are the top concerns for California’s 9 million Latino registered voters, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Latino Community Foundation, a national nonprofit...
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Hate crimes rise against Indian Americans, deepening divide between Hindus...
On a morning just days before the New Year, Kiran Thakkar received a worrying phone call. A friend had found anti-India graffiti overnight on the Newark Hindu temple he co-founded. Someone sprayed...
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‘Handmaid’s Tale’ at SF Opera raises resonant, hot-button issues
San Francisco Opera’s West Coast premiere Sept. 14 of Poul Ruders’ “The Handmaid’s Tale” based on Margaret Atwood’s popular futuristic 1985 novel unusually speaks to audiences about issues in the news...
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Silicon Valley service workers favor no taxes on tips, but federal policy...
BEV LUCATELLI, OWNER of The Caravan Lounge, pretends to jokingly strangle one of her bartenders, King Patrick Eugenio, under the warm glow of the bar’s rainbow Christmas lights and they both burst out...
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Alameda City gets $16M federal grant to improve safety along three-mile corridor
The city of Alameda has been given a $16 million chunk of a $1 billion federal grant program, which it will use to enhance safety along a three-mile corridor in town, the city said this week. The...
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Fairfield pair arrested for bear spray attack on store employee after...
A man and a woman were arrested after they allegedly sprayed an employee with bear spray in a Fairfield store before making off with a bandana over the weekend, according to police.Police said around...
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Pacifica’s Measure M: Would higher hotel tax improve city services or drive...
One of several tax measures on the ballot for cities in San Mateo County on the November ballot is Pacifica’s Measure M, which would increase the tax for visitors staying at hotels or other short-term...
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15-year-old cold case solved: Indiana man charged with rape in San Jose...
A man found living in a small Indiana town has been charged with the rape of a woman in San Jose 15 years ago through an investigation that allegedly matched his DNA to the crime, the Santa Clara...
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