Comedian Maria Bamford returns to SF Sketchfest s virtual 2021 event. (Courtesy of Pat Mazzera / spinningplatters.com) 22 Fun Things to Do This Week (1.25.21)
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Jan 24, 2021
Raise your hand if you could use a solid belly laugh! Yeah, we thought so. Get ready to LOL at SF Sketchfest s Festpocalypse, a virtual showcase of standup comedy, music, and more with headliners Maria Bamford, Kids in the Hall, David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, and more this week.
Plus, DIY a Causwells cheeseburger, stream Sundance Film Festival flicks, and enjoy the hundreds of magnolias now blooming at San Francisco Botanical Garden.
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ALBANY â The group redrawing the stateâs Senate, Assembly and congressional districts will receive $1 million lawmakers allocated for the work in previous state budgets, officials said, after potentially unconstitutional funding delays set the commission back several months in completing the mandated elective maps.
Reapportionment of the state Legislatureâs 63 Senate and 150 Assembly districts occurs every decade following the U.S. Census.
The state is expected to pay the 10-member Independent Redistricting Commission after months of delays in funding caused by New Yorkâs mounting $15 billion revenue shortfall due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The shortfall is expected to mount to more than $30 billion over two years and more than $62 billion over four years.
The experts praise the accomplishments of 2020 and hope for a kinder, gentler industry in the future
Nancy Kruse
I truly look forward to all of our exchanges, Bret, but I especially enjoy our annual look at the most interesting foods, flavors and culinary happenings of the past year. Last December, 12 months that now seem like 12 years ago, we chewed over burgeoning vegan options and CBD infusions in utter ignorance of the looming disaster that would soon shut down the country and devastate our industry. Its unprecedented, seemingly unrelenting impact on restaurateurs has been very well documented in the pages of Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality, as has the speed and grace, the agility and invention with which they have responded. These have been a true source of hope and pride that will endure long after this pandemic scourge finally ends.