SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic AI to Pay Authors, Publishers $1.5 Billion in Copyright Settlement Oakland-born figure skater Alysa Liu won’t be performing to the d4vd song she’d chosen for the Milan Olympics; Sinclair and Nexstar will be airing Jimmy Kimmel at their ABC affiliate stations Friday; and Anthropic has settled a lawsuit with authors and publishers alleging copyright infringement.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Roller Skaters Lead Effort to Build Outdoor Rink ‘Panther Skate Plaza’ in West Oakland A group of Bay Area roller skaters is on a mission to build Panther Skate Plaza, an inclusive, community outdoor rink at West Oakland’s DeFremery Park. Every week, dozens of residents attend the group’s Thursday Panther Prowl event.
Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: Thomas Bennett’s Dedication to Miyako Ice Cream and the Fillmore Community This week’s notable humans include Thomas Bennett, who made Miyako Ice Cream a Fillmore gem; Jilchristina Vest, curator of the iconic mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party; and Denise Ebright, a dedicated teacher and coach recognized on Good Morning America.
SF News City Council Considers Renaming West Oakland Intersection After Former Black Panther Elaine Brown Elaine Brown, former chair of the Black Panther Party and founder of dozens of revolutionary programs, might be getting a West Oakland intersection named after her.
SF News National Park Service Nixes Black Panther Homage Amid Conservative Backlash In the latest chapter of right-leaning newsgroups and placing a high value on disrupting the proceedings of Berkeley, California, the Chronicle reports that an almost-$100,000 grant from the National Park Service
Arts & Entertainment Video: Artist D'Angelo And Co-Founding Black Panther Bobby Seale Drive Through Oakland Discussing Racial Injustice "Ain’t nobody talkin’ bout no real shit,” R&B artist D'Angelo, whose transcendent album Black Messiah was released last December, told his longtime activist idol Bobby Seale. Seale, along with Huey
misc Board of Supes to Consider Resolution Urging the Release of (Alleged) Cop Killers According to Peter Jamison at , the SF Board of Supervisors plan to serve up a controversial (and, ultimately, benign) resolution that would ask for charges to be dropped against the San Francisco Eight,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Black Panther Rank and File</i> Opens At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Despite our WASPy, suburbanite background (which we go to great lengths to avoid acknowledging except when confronted with it like a speeding train at events such as these) – we walked through an exhibition