Bay Briefing: The vaccine hunters
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I got vaccinated messages written by people who had gotten their vaccines are seen taped to a rolling door at a warehouse at the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market being used as a vaccine hub on Friday, March 19, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Thursday, April 1, and Bay Area musicians are looking back at a year without in-person live shows. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. “We will get to you”
Mukesh Aggarwal struggled to find a vaccine appointment for his parents. Tracking all the various sites run by myriad government agencies, pharmacies and health providers for an appointment, especially when they were snapped up so quickly, was frustrating.
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04/01/2021 09:15 AM EDT
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Oakland’s Alley doesn’t miss a beat going virtual
For music lovers, the piano bar is family in the best sense, and they won’t let it slip away
By Emma Silvers
Oakland’s Alley doesn’t miss a beat going virtual
For music lovers, the piano bar is family in the best sense, and they won’t let it slip away
By Emma Silvers
By Emma Silvers | San Francisco Chronicle
The first time Jacqualine Simpkins set foot in the Alley, she felt overcome, and not in a good way. It was 1995, and she was visiting Oakland from her home in Bellevue, Ohio, finally seeing the Prohibition-era piano bar owned by her uncle and his longtime girlfriend. For the past few years, they’d been talking up the place, trying to convince her to move out and help run it.