Former U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, who also was a long-standing Mission poet, is this yearâs winner of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement. The 74-year-old Herrera was U.S. poet laureate from 2015-2017. He also served as California poet laureate from 2012-2014. He is best known for such collections as âHalf the World in […]
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Artist spotlight: Aspiring muralist Mario Cid Gonzalez
In this artist spotlight, we profile the aspiring Mexican muralist Mario Cid Gonzalez. Although not a full-time artist yet, Mario Cid Gonzalez has been painting murals throughout the Mission District since he arrived from Mexico 2011. âWhen I arrived here, I was attracted to the art that was here in San Francisco and I said, […]
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Poem: Lady Liberty
The memories of civilizations admire the fine craftsmanship of your posture. Solid hope of monumental perceptibility: the strategy of your beauty the waist of your mystic smile confronts an enemy of humanity. Through the gymnastic images of your liberating torch, you ascend to the blue of the firmament to proudly wave your historic figure. The […]
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PODCAST: Remembering Pelé
On this episode of Radio Teco News, we talk about the Brazilian icon, Pelé, who passed away in December of 2022. El Tecolote reporter Mara Cavallaro joins us to talk about her fellow Brazilian and what Pelé meant to her.
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Community leaders urge people to get tested, vaccinated before federal emergency expires
Mara Cavallaro reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community for El Tecolote via Report for America. Photos by Benjamin Fanjoy. When the COVID vaccine arrived at the Unidos en Salud testing site on 24th and Capp, Susana Rojas brought her whole family to get vaccinated. âYou name it, I brought them,â […]
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Latina and Chinese cross-cultural projects come to fruition in San Franciscoâs Chinese New Year Parade
How I Keep Looking Up, a project organized by the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCCSF) and created by artist and social practitioner Christine Wong Yap, came to fruition on a rainy, windy Saturday night when the immigrant women all braved the weather to complete the one and a half mile walk for this […]
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Cops of color donât keep us safe. Abolish the police
When George Floyd was murdered by police on May 25, 2020 â his death was captured on video by bystanders and shared widely via social media â we hoped for real change. We hoped to never again see such brutality. Our hope was real. It pushed the idea of police abolition further into the mainstream […]
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A photographic memory: How Joe Ramos captured the Missionâs cultural renaissance of the 70s and 80s
âI was a weird kid,â says Joe Ramos, laughing. His words are not without reason. There werenât many children his age â if any â photographing everyday life in a Salinas Valley labor camp. Born in Salinas on June 21, 1949 and raised by a Filipino father and Mexican mother in the farmworker community of […]
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Mission murals and the women who continue to inspire
âAs children, we used to just play around the plants, and learn how to make bouquets and flower arrangements and things like that ⊠really appreciating the beauty of nature,â Susan Kelk Cervantes, founder and director of Precita Eyes Muralists, says. Cervantes was influenced to become an artist from a young age and was later […]
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Memories of indelible women
A large part of the first 20 years of my life were spent in the company of six females. There were eight of us living in that rented house in the country. My maternal great-grandmother, Margarita, was the eldest. My mother, Elba, was a busy woman: a Physical Education teacher and a well-known athlete. She […]