SF Beer Week event to share rarely seen historic photos of city
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Fort Point Beer Company is hosting an event called SF Landmarks Demystified for this year s California Beer Week, in which the Western Neighborhoods Project will showcase rare, historic photographs of S.F.Sarah Chorey/Fort Point Beer Co.
This year, SF Beer Week won t be its usual abundance of beer-tasting galas, all-you-can-eat dim sum beer brunches and boozy yoga classes. Not only has COVID-19 driven most of the hop-fueled events to pivot to virtual, but beer week is also now a statewide event, transforming into California Craft Beer Week (Feb. 12-21).
While we re at it, how about renaming San Francisco?
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Abraham Lincoln High School, named for the signer of the Emancipation Proclamation, is one of 42 public schools that will undergo a name change.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
Just over two weeks ago, Nancy Pelosi began a speech calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. She began by quoting Abraham Lincoln. “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves .”
Thirteen days later, the San Francisco school board voted to impeach Lincoln, seven other presidents of the United States, three former mayors of San Francisco and two dozen other notable people by removing their names from public schools because they were either racists or conquistadors or had some connection to slavery, racism or oppression. Mission High School and Presidio Middle School were also on the list. Even a mythical place is getting the ax: El Dorado. And forget the Alamo.
Raina Telgemeier s books are events. But she ll never forget indie bookstores
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Author Raina Telgemeier signs copies of her graphic novels at Green Apple Books in San Francisco.Courtesy Raina Telgemeier
San Francisco graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier has grown in popularity with every new release. Her latest illustarted memoir “Guts” was the top-selling book in the entire United States when it came out in October 2019, leapfrogging recent releases from Malcolm Gladwell and Stephen King.
But she still keeps returning to an aging school desk at Green Apple Books on Clement Street in San Francisco, which has sold thousands of signed books from Telgemeier since she moved back to the city in 2015.