Healing
Angel Island’s Epic Festival is Back for 2023
Brand New, Fairs & Festivals, Healing, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Join us on Saturday, June 17, 2023 from 11 am to 3 pm for Family Day at the Angel Island Immigration Station. Family Day is an annual celebration intended to bring all families and communities together. Throughout the day, there will be musical and dance performances, storytelling, short-film screenings, self-guided tours, more...
SOMArts’ Día de Los Muertos Returns for First Public Opening Since 2019
Artsy Fartsy, Community, Healing, Museums / Cultural Institutions, Sponsored SOMArts’ Día de Los Muertos returns with its first public opening reception since 2019, on Friday, October 7, 2022. Now in its 23rd year and founded by beloved artist René Yañez, SOMArts’ annual Día de Los Muertos exhibition is one of the most internationally diverse Day of the Dead celebrations more...
Oakland Plans to Return Land to Indigenous Group
Bay Area Updates, Healing, Oakland, Outdoorsy Oakland has announced plans to return about 5 acres of land owned by the city to Indigenous stewardship. The Oakland City Council will hold hearings to consider conveying the site, known as Sequoia Point, to the Indigenous women-led non-profit, Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, and the East Bay Ohlone tribe, Confederated Villages of more...
Magic Mushrooms are Now Decriminalized in SF
Brand New, City Insight, Healing, San Francisco This just in...’shrooms are now decriminalized in San Francisco. Thanks to Broke-Ass Stuart for sharing the news that San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday, September 6, 2022 and unaminiously passed a resolution that makes entheogenic plants including peyote, ayahuasca, and psilocybin mushrooms San Francisco police’s lowest priority. Plus it more...
Goodbye “Squaw Valley,” Hello “Palisades Tahoe”
Healing, Outdoorsy, Reopening, Tahoe In an effort to ditch its offensive name, Tahoe’s Squaw Valley has officially changed its name to Palisades Tahoe. Today, Palisades Tahoe introduced its new name and logo that honor the resort’s history as a land of legends—home to freeskiing pioneers, Winter Olympians and cultural icons across more than seven decades of ski more...
20th Anniversary of 9/11: Bay Area Events & Memorials (2021)
Causes, Community, Healing By Astrid Casimire Bay City News Foundation Around the Bay Area, various cities, police and fire departments will commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday with service events, flag ceremonies and memorials. The events will honor the thousands of people who died during the attacks, including 343 New York City firefighters. All more...
Marin County Works to Rectify Historically Racist Housing Policies
Bay Area Updates, Have Your Voice Heard, Healing, Housing Marin County has launched a project to identify and rectify policies that prevented people of color from purchasing homes and led to segregated neighborhoods. Although such policies have been illegal since 1964, many public agencies — including throughout Marin County — still have not removed racially restrictive covenants that prohibit the more...
East Bay Firefighters Head to Florida to Help with Tower Collapse Rescue
Causes, Healing By Tony Hicks Bay City News Foundation The East Bay is sending a pair of firefighters to South Florida to help search and rescue efforts at the Champlain tower collapse in Surfside, where at least 10 people were dead and 151 were missing as of Monday morning. Oakland Fire Department Battalion Chief more...
California’s New Eviction Moratorium Extension: What It Means for You
COVID-19 Updates, Getting Help, Healing By Manuela Tobias, CalMatters California renters, who are still struggling to pay the rent even as the pandemic wanes, will be shielded from eviction through Sept. 30, under a last-minute deal announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders. The agreement, which more fully opens up $5.2 billion to pay full back more...
Presidio’s 100-Foot Tall “Spire” Has Been Repaired
Bay Area Updates, Healing, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Reopening Last June, Andy Goldsworthy’s Spire unfortunately suffered fire damage. The Presidio recently repaired the sculpture, and added a cable fence, new signage, and wood benches made by their Forestry crew. It’s looking really beautiful out there, so be sure to stop by and take a peek. We also have an “up close” glimpse through a brief drone video. History of Andy Goldsworthy & Spire Renowned more...
40 Years Later: National AIDS Memorial Tribute in Golden Gate Park
Healing, Pride June 5th marks 40 years since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States. It is also HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day. The issues our nation faced in the past year — a raging pandemic with hundreds of thousands of lives lost, social injustice, health inequity, stigma, more...
San Jose Hosts Public Vigil for the VTA Victims (May 27)
Community, Healing In honor of the victims of today’s tragic mass shooting at the VTA Light Rail Yard, there will be a public vigil held at San Jose City Hall Plaza at 6 pm on Thursday, May 27, 2021. Please note the vigil is May 27, not May 26 as was earlier listed. Sadly, more...
VTA Light Rail Shutting Down at Noon Today
Bay Area Updates, Healing Following news of the mass shooting at the VTA Light Rail Yard in San Jose this morning, VTA announced they are shutting down light rail service beginning at Noon on Wednesday, May 26th “until further notice.” VTA, which serves Santa Clara Valley, will have bus bridges in place to provide limited more...
San Francisco General Hospital has 0 Covid Patients
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Healing, Uplifting For the first time since the pandemic started, San Francisco General has zero coronavirus patients. Dr. Vivek Jain from San Francisco General took to Twitter to make the uplifting announcement. A truly momentous day at San Francisco General Hospital @ZSFGCare @UCSF @SFGHFoundation: for the first time since March 5, 2020, we have more...
Cute Santa Cruz Turtles All Swaddled Up
Adorable, Bay Area Updates, Healing Adorable turtles were caught in traps at Glenwood East Preserve in Santa Cruz County and put in cute swaddles. They were having CT scans of their shells to check for deficits that may have been caused by a novel fungal pathogen. They were released back into the preserve that same day. Thanks more...
