OUNCE OF PREVENTION
In “Trigger Points,” Mark Follman studies the threat assessment experts use to try to identify and apprehend mass shooters before they ever load a round.
BUCKING THE ODDS
Stockton, CA, was always on the “worst” lists, where no one expected anything good to happen. Now that’s all changed, thanks in large part to the determination of Michael Tubbs.
‘LET IT GO’
Post-pandemic, San Francisco clubs and nightlife are beginning to return to vibrant life. “I want it to feel like we’re coming home,” party promoter and activist Juanita More says.
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
A new book makes the case for how Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin raised their sons to become extraordinary leaders.
‘Their Presence’
When Dawoud Bey started photographing black subjects he wanted to show them in a positive light. Then he decided to “just try and describe clearly the people in front of me.”
PASSION PLAY
“I hadn’t seen a play or history of my people," says Patricia Cotter—so she wrote ‘The Daughters’ which evokes a grand sweep of lesbian history, including the Daughters of Bilitis.
SPACE
The creation of Compton’s Transgender Cultural District is to stop the displacement of trans people from a place they were traditionally welcomed in, and to teach trans history.
PIONEER
One of the first female cartoonists to succeed in a male-dominated field, Robbins somehow also found time to make clothes for Mama Cass and show up in a Joni Mitchell song.
Voices
When Peter Sellars and John Adams conceived ‘Girls of the Golden West,’ their opera about the 1850s Gold Rush, they were inspired by the modern-day gold rush in Silicon Valley.
FUNNY LINES
An exhibition of the cartoons of Roz Chast, currently at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, celebrates her unique blend of familial love and laughter.