Gingerbread monolith appeared at Corona Heights Park + more good news around the Bay
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Unfortunately, the mysterious monolithâor gingerlith âcrumbled in just a day.
Plus, Leo Carson will build another bust of Breonna Taylor; a San Francisco Symphony horn player is researching COVID-19; and more good news to start the new year.
Sculptor Vows To Rebuild After Vandalized Breonna Taylor Bust In Oakland Goes Missing, CBS SF
In less than 24 hours, the community raised $21,000 to secure the bronze needed for sculptor Leo Carson to recreate his bust of Breonna Taylor, which was ruined just two weeks after it was installed near Oakland s City Hall. Read more.
Joshua Kosman December 29, 2020Updated: December 30, 2020, 12:12 am
San Francisco Symphony horn player Mark Almond. Photo: Kira Doherty
Many people cultivate a side hustle, an interest outside their main career that can generate extra income, personal satisfaction or both. But it takes a certain amount of foresight or maybe simple good luck for someone to have a sideline in virology when a viral epidemic suddenly breaks out.
Someone, say, like Mark Almond, the San Francisco Symphony’s new associate principal French horn player.
Almond officially started his job at the beginning of September, but because of the coronavirus, chances to actually perform have been scarce. The orchestra’s live concerts are canceled through next summer, leaving only one-off projects such as the recent “Throughline” broadcast.