Mayor London N. Breed and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman Tuesday announced that the City is in advanced negotiations to purchase the existing building and parcel at 1939 Market Street to convert it to new affordable housing. The project will provide 100% permanently affordable housing and will likely serve low-income seniors in the area. The property is located at the intersection of Duboce Avenue and Market Street.
Chip Walter – Author of “Immortality, Inc: Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever;” Robert Hariri – Co Founder, Human Longevity, Inc.; Cynthia Kenyon – Vice President of Aging Research, Calico and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UCSF; Aubrey de Grey – Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation and Vice President of New Technology Discovery, AgeX Therapeutics Inc. are speakers at the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley in Palo, Alto, January 30, 2020.
Can we live forever? A group of renowned scientists and journalists will reveal the groundbreaking research and visionaries who are trying to answer that very question. They will discuss rejuvenation, stem cell research, and the findings of others who are redefining our understanding of life, aging, and mortality.
On 1.24.20 "Our Voices Our Stories" present Ingrid Rojas Contreras, one of 2019's hottest authors who will read from and discuss her award winning novel, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree.
"Making A Difference for All San Franciscans," Mayor London Breed invites citizens to join her for her inauguration on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.
Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post’s reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker will tackle the unique case of the Trump presidency. They will argue that “rather than being an accidental creature of chaos, Trump’s first term is a careful and purposeful pattern of disorder.” Leonnig and Rucker will draw on in-depth interviews, first-hand witnesses, and previously never before-seen material. Read More.
What better time to launch a program to give back to the community than the Christmas Season? December 15th in the historic Jones Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco's legendary Fillmore District, Grammy nominated piano virtuoso Ricardo Scales begins his "Get to Know Me" Concert Series that will be a platform for emerging artists to work with established artists to create and grow their brand. Read more.
Thanksgiving is celebrated with Turkey Dinners, Football and Parades in the United States of America. Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises gives a salute to military families, who sacrifice much for the nation as they fight and defend against enemies. The mementos of war are not always weapons, as Wright shows from a Thanksgiving Day Menu from the jungles of Vietnam in 1963. Read The 11/28/2019 issue of Wright Enterprises Community Spotlight.
Anh Lę, an independent journalist, gives his perspective on the Congressional Impeachment Hearings.
"Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor" is a short documentary by directors Jackie Wright and Jack LiVolsi that tells the story of love, war, forgiveness, racial reconciliation, and hope. "My father was born in Jacksonville. Due to his death at 32 years on March 9, 1964 early in the Vietnam War and his being an Honor Guard for then Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara on my Dad's last of more than 300 missions, I saw news articles in the Florida Times Union and The Florida Star, the local Black newspaper. More than 50 years later, I am thrilled the Jacksonville International Film Festival is including his story," said Jackie Wright, President of Wright Enterprises.