Tony Bravo May 7, 2021Updated: May 7, 2021, 11:06 am
A fnnch honey bear mural on a wall on Mission Street in San Francisco. Photo: Scott Strazzante
For years, you’ve seen them featured in murals, pasted on boarded storefronts, and in the windows of homes and businesses: images of bear-shaped bottles of honey in an array of guises like ballerina tutus, Bay Area sports teams gear, sunglasses and a gold chain honoring hip-hop group Run-DMC.
Now this legion of honey bears has become among the most polarizing figures in San Francisco. As has fnnch, the alias of the artist who created and marketed the bears to mass proliferation across the city.
Blighted San Francisco Diagnoses Its ‘Perilous Trifecta’ and Bungles the Cure
San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks, and first responders dart through the chaos to revive overdose victims.
The city has become a web of contradictions. There are thousands of new millionaires, and, by the latest estimates, 18,000 people in and out of homelessness. The headquarters of Uber, Twitter, and Square are blocks away from the open-air drug markets of the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and SoMa. Wealthy families attending an art opening at the Civic Center have to cross through the tent encampments that line the sidewalks.
San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks, and first responders dart through the chaos to revive overdose victims.
The city has become a web of contradictions. There are thousands of new millionaires, and, by the latest estimates, 18,000 people in and out of homelessness. The headquarters of Uber, Twitter, and Square are blocks away from the open-air drug markets of the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and SoMa. Wealthy families attending an art opening at the Civic Center have to cross through the tent encampments that line the sidewalks.
旧金山逾六成市民 接种第一剂疫苗 | 旧金山紧急管理局 | 梅爱恩 | 中共病毒 epochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from epochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When the San Francisco Public Health Department put out a desperate plea for any surplus COVID-19 vaccines last week, Humboldt County — which has been.