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With LGBTQ issues again a flashpoint in the country’s cultural and political arenas, the new leader of a statewide humanities organization in California is aiming to amplify the voices of LGBTQ individuals and organizations.

In 2023 - 2024, Sisters in Cinema will grant over $330,000 to Black women filmmakers through a range of programs.

Held May 7-8, in-person and livestream programs promise to lift spirits and bring hope and fun with top authors, timely conversations, kids' events and more.

The Other California tells small town stories of the San Joaquin Valley and the people who live there. Season One begins March 18.

A taped interview about Kellys Cove with former Sunset District resident and athlete Patrick F. Cunneen by Woody LaBounty in 2013.

Interview Description — Gary Silberstein Gary Silberstein was born in 1942 and grew up in San Franciscos Richmond District, the son of a dentist. He attended Lowell High School and first surfed at Kellys Cove when he was around sixteen years old. He went into the water and immediately wiped out. Kellys Cove surfers Gary Silberstein and Jim Bonaldi, 2007. - "Ocean Beach was/is a harsh mistress, as you know. I just progressively got more involved out there as I got better at surfing, and beg...

Jim Gallagher at Ocean Beach. - Photograph by Dennis ORorke Jim Gallagher grew up as the oldest in a family of twelve children in San Franciscos Richmond District. Born during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and being part of such a large family, Jim was motivated to start working at a young age. He changed high schools twice to have better hours for jobs. As a teenager, around work and school hours, Jim began swimming, body surfing, and eventually board surfing at Baker Beach, China Beach...

In 2010, Mark Lukach wrote a fine article for the Ocean Beach Bulletin about the annual reunion of surfers at Kellys Cove, Ocean Beachs northernmost meeting of sand and sea just below the Cliff House. Lore, legend, and some long memories identify this patch of rock, sand, and eddying swells as the birthplace of San Francisco surfing, where over the years inner-tube paddlers gave way to longboarders on wooden planks, who passed a metaphorical torch to todays neoprene-clad riders of fish-tails an...