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San Diego illustrator accused of defacing SF Chinatown murals; artist calls it hate crime
Vandal targets SF Chinatown murals, artist considers it hate crime
A vandal has struck at least twice in San Francisco s Chinatown in Kerouac Alley, defacing a series of murals there. The artist calls it a hate crime, and now is working to restore the works. She also says she knows who is behind the vandalism.
SAN FRANCISCO - A vandal has struck at least twice in San Francisco s Chinatown in Kerouac Alley, defacing a series of murals there.
The muralist calls it a hate crime, and now is working to restore the art.
Sam Whiting and Nora Mishanec February 23, 2021Updated: February 25, 2021, 10:24 pm
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at his apartment in North Beach in March 2018. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle 2018
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the first poet laureate of San Francisco, was so beloved that on Tuesday, Feb. 23, a day after his death at age 101, Supervisor Aaron Peskin closed the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors with a four-minute memorial sermon that went uninterrupted.
Peskin touched on the great poet’s internal contradictions as both a Navy man and a pacifist, and his abiding belief that the funkiness of North Beach must be protected, which Ferlinghetti himself did by cranking his red jalopy truck up and down the steep hills and along Columbus Avenue. By the end of his speech, Peskin was visibly emotional.
In ghost town San Francisco, explorer discovers signs of life
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We landed a spacecraft on Mars a few days ago, but you know what they say all news is local. So I took a walk to see how things are going in our own little corner of the planet. The reports are all bad: San Francisco is dying, it’s a ghost town. Everybody’s moved away.
But after a daylong unscientific investigation, I have to agree with what Mark Twain supposedly said on hearing of his own obituary: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” You could say the same about San Francisco.