Cat people shed stress with S.F. festival s flurry of feline videos
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Dozens watch the start of CatVideoFest at the Roxie Theater after a long pandemic closure and a period of viewing cat videos at home.Brontë Wittpenn/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Assistant manager Jake Ryan takes tickets as cat-loving fans enter the Roxie Theater.Photos by Brontë Wittpenn/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A poster reads “Cat Video Fest” outside of the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, Calif. on Sunday, July 25, 2021. The festival has returned to the theater after a one-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show features homemade videos of cats and their owners along with cat videos that have gone viral on YouTube and social media platforms.Brontë Wittpenn/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Published May 4, 2021 at 12:00 AM PDT Listen • 52:00
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The Small Business 30 Day Challenge is encouraging San Franciscans to shop local all of May.
On this edition of Your Call, we’re kicking off San Francisco’s Small Business Week by celebrating small business owners and talking about the challenges they’ve faced during the pandemic. Mayor London Breed has challenged all San Franciscans to only shop local for the month of May.
Small businesses in San Francisco have seen their total revenue decrease by nearly 50 percent compared to January 2020. How have you supported small businesses during the pandemic, and if you’re a small business owner, what has the past year been like for you and what relief do you still need in order to recover and reopen?
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Cinemark is marketing its auditoriums for booking by families and small groups of friends. Photo: Cinemark
Movie theater screens are lighting up across the Bay Area once again, but don’t expect a Hollywood ending just yet. The cinematic atmosphere in the Bay Area is more like a David Lynch film: strange, surreal and disjointed.
On the plus side, major theater chains AMC Theatres and Cinemark have reopened, as Alameda and Solano counties this week joined San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, San Mateo and Napa counties in advancing to the second-most-restrictive category of California’s reopening blueprint, from purple (widespread) to red (substantial). Alameda and Sonoma counties remain in the purple tier.
G. Allen Johnson February 5, 2021Updated: February 11, 2021, 1:08 pm
“CODA” plays on the opening night of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival at Fort Mason Flix in San Francisco. . Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and this year’s Sundance Film Festival might be the beginning of an evolutionary period for one of the most important events on the world’s film calendar.
“We need to make sense of this festival that just happened,” said Tabitha Jackson during a wrap-up event on Feb. 3, the final day of her first Sundance as festival director. “A festival is a gathering, a conversation, a celebration contained within a moment. It is ephemeral. That’s part of the magic of Sundance.