Arts & Entertainment Tripling in Size, The Tenderloin Museum Doubles Down on Its Legacy The Tenderloin Museum is tripling in size, adding a neon gallery, and relaunching 'Compton’s Cafeteria Riot' to honor the neighborhood’s rich history of activism, nightlife, and LGBTQ+ resistance.
SF News ICE Might Be Looking to Use Shuttered Dublin Women's Prison as Immigrant Detention Center The nightmare of undocumented immigrants being rounded up en masse into camps could be closer to reality than we think, as a rumor is now out there that ICE has been sniffing around FCI Dublin, the shuttered women's prison in the East Bay.
SF News Latest Busload of Migrants Shipped Out of Texas Lands in San Jose, Migrants Graciously Accepted A dozen undocumented immigrants arrived in San Jose on a bus from Texas this past weekend, and San Jose is making no apologies for rolling out the welcome mat with food, clothing, and medical care.
SF Politics Second Plane of Migrants, Likely Sent By DeSantis, Arrives In Sacramento In the second such politically motivated stunt in three days, a second group of migrants arrived via private jet in Sacramento on Monday — and while Florida Governor Ron DeSantis hasn't publicly taken credit, he's likely about to, and the move appears to have his fingerprints all over it.
SF News Sixteen Immigrants From South America Flown From Texas to Sacramento Carrying Nothing But Backpacks, and Newsom Is Pissed Someone — possibly a certain governor from Florida — arranged to have sixteen immigrants bussed from Texas to New Mexico and then flown by private jet to Sacramento, where they were dropped off outside a church Friday not knowing where they were.
SF Politics New Senator Alex Padilla Introduces His First Bill, Citizenship for Essential Workers The handpicked junior senator from California is likely to make immigration reform his signature cause, and comes out of the gate with a bill that would grant citizenship to immigrants working essential jobs.
SF News Demonstrators Call for Expanded Rent Relief Outside City Hall To Help Immigrants Amid Pandemic On Friday, dozens of community organizers, educators, and activists stood outside City Hall to call for more support of San Francisco's immigrant communities amid the pandemic, specifically demanding increased rent relief for members of those cohorts.
SF News Ninth Circuit Judges Rule Asylum-Seekers Can Appeal Their Deportations Our hometown Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sticks it to the Trump administration again, ruling that migrants who are denied for asylum will be allowed to appeal.
SF News SF Clarifies Its Sanctuary City Policy, And Illegal Immigrants With Serious Felonies Are Exceptions The SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously reaffirmed the city's Sanctuary City policy, and added some clarification about when it's OK for city workers and SFPD officers to dime out illegal immigrants to
misc Week Around the -ists The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle of life.
SF News Sunnyvale Madame / Sex Trafficker Gets 2.5 Years in the Clink Sue Yung Song, 48, former co-owner of the Sunnyvale-based Crystal Palace (a house of ill-repute) received a mere two and a half years in federal prison for "smuggle in Korean immigrants to work
SF News IDs for Immigrants? Gavin says he's on board with the proposal and will get his administration on it. He also says that he's prepared for the criticism to come his way and doesn’t care. Hey,
misc Week Around the -ists Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Theater: <em>No Parole</em> At an efficient 90 minutes, Peruvian-born D’Amore seamlessly breaks down (in more ways than one) his trajectory from wide-eyed, Italian/Latin-American kid in 1980s Peru to neurotic adult living with his too-brilliant
Arts & Entertainment What Immigration Means To Us: KQED Documentary Examines Impact On Bay Area Economy With all the recent hoopla regarding national immigration legistlation, now might be a great time to get a perspective on immigration here close to home. We're not sure how many SFist readers are
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
SF News Davis College Republicans Experimenting with Totally Faggy Performance Art Oh, what's become of our good old-fashioned hard-hearted conservative Republicans? What's next, long hair? Berets? Drapes and doilies? Irish cuisine? The Davis College Republicans are sponsoring some sort of symbolic art-game today (Tuesday)
SF News Reactionaries React to Gavin's Reaction First up, Screamin' Lou Dobbs who broke Godwin's Law in envoking Nazis to describe Gavin's statement. Said Lou: "They might as well work for Hermann Goering, I mean, they're running so much propaganda,
SF News Immigrant Song What's been happening is the INS has been cracking down on immigrants throughout the Bay Area. It seems to be really willy-nilly to as they've been pretty much sweeping people up in nets
misc It's a Hard Knock Life in California To determine all this stuff, the people behind the study, the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (got that?), factored in things like level of income, types of families, language and education.
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Big Mouth Strikes Again Now why would somebody running for office say something so dumb? After all, rule #1 of running for an election is to try and not piss off people whose vote you want. Well,
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
SF News Political Junkie: Sanity Alert! We are very sad to report to you that Chris Daly is in the Chron today -- but not for hauling off and hitting anyone, or yelling at someone so loud that the
SF News Happy May Day It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia,
