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SAN FRANCISCO—La Cocina Municipal Marketplace opened its doors on Monday, April 5, the marketplace is the first female-led food hall to open in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The food hall will be run by La Cocina, a non-profit kitchen incubator with a mission to help foster businesses run by working class women of color and immigrant women. The food...

SAN FRANCISCO—Pedestrian Antonio Durano who was killed on Saturday, April 3 while crossing a street in San Francisco was identified by the San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office. Durano, a San Francisco resident was struck by a vehicle around 1:10 p.m. Saturday near  Third and Folsom Street, authorities indicated. An officer from the San Francisco Police Department who was off duty during...

SAN FRANCISCO—In a 10-1 vote on Tuesday, April 6, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that will require businesses to re-hire thousands of workers laid-off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of hiring new employees. The “back-to-work” ordinance was pushed by Supervisor Gordon Mar, who represents District 4 of the city.  Restaurants, hotels with at least 100...

UNITED STATES—I know I am not the only American who was happy to see some extra income courtesy of the federal government in the form of a stimulus check, but for those lucky to receive that $1400, those with children received an extra $1400 per dependent, what did you do with it? For me, those funds went right into...

UNITED STATES—If there was ever a game that I had a TON of fun playing with my siblings as a kid, it had to be the Super Nintendo classic, “Zombies Ate My Neighbors.” This game is so much fun, a challenge and just what video games should be. It has a very simple premise you have to rescue your...

HOLLYWOOD—Dare I say it, I have found a new guilty pleasure on Tuesday, one that is not Tyler Perry’s “The Haves and the Have Nots.” Yes it seems so and it’s “The Oval.” This week the drama inside The White House continued with the episode, ‘Don’t Believe Your Eyes.’ We left off on a cliffhanger with Kyle confronting Lilly...

HOLLYWOOD—The drama continued this week on “Queen Sugar” with its latest episode ‘June 3, 2020.’ Things kicked off with a follow-up to where things ended last week with Charley asking for help from her former husband, Davis.  Davis was beating on the door, but Charley was unable to move or respond. He broke a glass and realized his ex...

SAN FRANCISCO—The Stanford Clinical Virology Lab recently identified a "double mutant" COVID-19 variant in the Bay Area, as first reported by the SF Chronicle. India was the first to report the variant in March 2021. The SF Chronicle said "double mutant" is "when the variant carries two mutations that helps latch itself onto cells" and currently, it is unknown if...

UNITED STATES—On Friday, April 2, Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner, Robert D. Manfred Jr., announced that the 2021 All-Star Game and draft would be moving to the Colorado Rockies Stadium in Denver. The event was to be held at the Atlanta Braves stadium in Georgia. “I have decided the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by...

CALIFORNIA—Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday, April 6 that the state of California can fully reopen on June 15 if two conditions are met: hospitalization rates are low and enough coronavirus vaccines are available for anyone age 16 and older who want it. The state of California has administered 20 million vaccines. The governor said in a news conference that...