G. Allen Johnson April 28, 2021Updated: April 28, 2021, 4:42 pm
Children watch “Toy Story 2” at the Balboa Theater, where guests are treated on the weekends to a jazz show and movie at their parklet. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle
On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, the sounds of live jazz wafted up and down Balboa Street in the Outer Richmond District as a small crowd sipped beer, munched on popcorn and moved with the rhythm.
During the final set from Danny Brown and the Noise All-Stars in front of the closed entrance to the Balboa Theater, Emily Bridwell and her two young children arrived. As the musicians packed up their instruments, workers wheeled a big-screen TV out to the theater’s parklet, where Bridwell’s children plopped down to watch a free showing of “Toy Story 2.”
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With enough signatures certified to put the recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom on the fall ballot, the first thing that comes to my mind is one of my favorite Spanish phrases:
desmadre.
It’s one of those Swiss Army words that people use to describe different, sometimes contradictory things. So
desmadre can be a giant mess. A rollicking good time. Righteous work. A hopeless morass.
California is always a
desmadre. But a recall will unleash a
desmadre of democracy that will make the 2003 voter takedown of Gov. Gray Davis seem as solemn as a Supreme Court hearing.
The world will descend upon the Golden State once again and launch a thousand think pieces about why this most consequential of states keeps blowing itself up. Hundreds of millions of dollars in ads, mailers, and social media campaigns will flood our senses for the next couple of months. And the candidates! There will be serious candidates, joke candidates, and dummy candidates, while everyone waits f
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April 25, 2021, 8:23 p.m. ET
On Wednesday, I learned a new way to get a news article erased from much of the internet.
If the article shows your home or apartment, says what city youâre in and you donât like it, you can complain to Facebook. Facebook will then ensure that nobody can share the article on its giant platform and, as a bonus, block you from sending it to anyone in Facebook Messenger.
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University of California Health (UCH) announced today (April 26) that it has administered one million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, marking a significant milestone in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than 60,000 people in California.
“We’ve been in a race between the spread of the virus and the pace of vaccination since the moment the first shipment of vaccine arrived in mid-December. Our goal was and is clear – get shots into the arms of Californians as quickly as possible, beginning with those at the highest risk of exposure and serious illness,” said Carrie L. Byington, M.D., an infectious disease expert and executive vice president of UCH. “The million-shot milestone is symbolically meaningful and an event to celebrate with all of our employees, students, and trainees. There isn’t a moment to rest because the pandemic is not over.”