The San Francisco Bay Area Rainbow PUSH Coalition will hold its second annual Candidate's Forum to give voters to get an opportunity to hear from candidates for Mayor, District attorney and Sheriff of San Francisco.  Veteran award-winning journalist Belva Davis will moderate the forum. The public is invited to Calvary Hill Community Church, 141 Industrial Street in San Francisco, CA 94124, 6 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Confirmed participants to date include: Sherriff's candidates: Chris Cunnie, Ross Mirkarimi, and Paul Miyamoto;District Attorney candidates: Sharmin Bock, Bill Fazio, and Trinh Vu Vuong; Mayoral candidates: Jeff Adachi, Michela Alioto-PierMayor, Cesar Ascarrunz, John Avalos,Terry Joan Baum, David Chiu, Paul Currier, Dennis Herrera, Emil Lawrence,Wilma Pang,Joanna Rees,Phil Teng, and Leland Yee.  

Belva Davis

We are honored to have Ms. Davis, a very accomplished and trusted journalist as our    moderator." "Rainbow P.U.S.H. is pleased to convene this meeting between the community and the candidates " said Reverend Dr. Joseph Bryant, San Francisco Bay Area Rainbow PUSH Affiliate Director and Senior Pastor of Calvary Hill Community Church.  "This will not be a debate. Candidates will each be given ample time to present their platforms to the public in a conversational way," added Dr. Bryant.

Don Sanchez of ABC 7 gives a report on the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.  Click image to see the story.

Note from the office of Jackie Wright:
Congratulations to Al Dixon, chairman and the LHT Board of Directors, General Manager Shirley Howard Johnson, Artistic Director Steven Anthony Jones, the actors and artisans of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.  The late founders Quentin Easter & Stanley Williams would be proud of the theatre's landing in Union Square at 450 Post Street.   Read Sandra Varner's background on the theatre's season.  Click Here.

The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is one of the longest running minority led theater companies in the nation.  The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is our theatre.
It is named after the author of "A Raisin in the Sun" who, while living in the Bay Area, wrote the award winning Broadway play. It is multicultural in spirit and reality!  It's a brand that everyone in the Bay Area can be proud of and should support.  The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is a light to dispel ignorance.  The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is an educator of youth and others learn via its programs and plays.  The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is a convener opening doors for all cultures to gather and experience each other. The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is entertaining! The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is an enterprise that creates jobs for actors, artisans, taxi drivers, waiters, hotel workers as it generate tourism.  The special LHT make up session for season ticket holders at Neiman Marcus with Celebrity Make Up Artist Ricky Wilson of Christian Dior arranged by Shirley Howard Johnson, LHT General Manger is just one example of the enterprising opportunities with the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.    The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is a place of honor to bring dignitaries from around the world and locally to engage in San Francisco culture.  The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is more than meets the eye. Sign up for season tickets, www.lhtsf.org .  Consider the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre for your fundraiser--Group Tickets--can make a difference in how easy it can be for you to raise awareness and funds for your organization.  Corporations make diversity fun, call Jackie Wright at 415 525 0410.  The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has a new home.  It's your home.  Let's take care of home! The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre--with your involvement--the best is yet to come!

Great times at one of the subscription parties.  Click photo to see more photos. 

Megan Hamilton of Supervisor Malia Cohen's Office presents Steven Anthony Jones and Shirley Howard Johnson a Certificate of Honor. Jacquie Taliaferro (l) & Jackie Wright (r) hosts of the subscription party celebrate the moment.

How Much Is Lunch Worth With Willie L. Brown Jr. and Friends?

Fmr. Mayor Willie Brown at Le Central Restaurant the home of his power lunches  with Wilkes Bashford & Harry De Wildt often written about by the late Herb Caen. Photo by Kelly Armstrong

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr., and his regular Le Central lunch partners: haberdasher Wilkes Bashford and philanthropist Harry De Wildt have agreed to have a power lunch to benefit San Francisco State University's Hospitality and Tourism Department. Kelly Armstrong, an Advisory Board member since 2002 with SFSU's Hospitality Management and Tourism Department, persuaded the three friends to allow a luncheon with them to be auctioned off to raise money during the university's 15th Annual Fundraiser "Taste of the Bay " October 26, 2011. Le Central's owner; Paul Tanphanich agreed to donate the lunch.   

"This is such a great opportunity for students like myself to interact with political and community powerbrokers like Mayor Brown, Wilkes Bashford and Harry De Wildt ," said Helen de Bos, Event Chair. "We hope people will come out and support the "Taste of the Bay" and get a bidding war started all for the sake of program needs and scholarships for our students." "Taste of the Bay: Fun, Food, & Friends!"  READ MORE   

SFSU Board Members Karen Kaupke, Kelly Armstrong, Man Kim & Dr. Janet Sim (r) congratulate Presenting Sponsor of Taste of the Bay Nancy Mar (c). Photo by Board Member,Jackie Wright.