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MCCLA had previously planned to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/mission-cultural-center-for-latino-arts-slashes-staff-and-programs/\">reopen\u003c/a> in late January with limited hours, but the organization ran out of money before those plans could be realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, MCCLA would have continued,” said a staff member with the San Francisco Arts Commission. “But we received records stating it had no staff and was insolvent, which violates the lease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He spoke on Tuesday while inside the otherwise empty 37,000-square-foot building, explaining why the City stepped in to secure the building during the extended closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is expected to remain closed for at least two years. 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We’ll organize, and we’ll work together. We have great leadership in the community that we can tap from to form a new board.”[aside postID=arts_13985413 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA_COVER-1020x574.jpg']With no staff and no operating funds, MCCLA outlined several drastic options in an email sent to the Arts Commission and obtained by \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dated Jan. 14, the \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/FW_-Extreme-Scenario-Planning-from-MCCLA-Jan-14-2026_Redacted.pdf\">email\u003c/a>, titled “Extreme Scenario Planning from MCCLA,” lays out what its authors describe as “grim” facts in an attempt to persuade the City to advance grant funds so the center could remain open until June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signed by MCCLA’s interim, part-time executive director, Jentzsch, and Sánchez, the email describes a cash-flow crisis so severe that, without immediate funding, the organization warned it would collapse within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MCCLA is burning $50k/mo ($12k/week) more than revenue and has no revenue,” wrote Jentzsch and Sánchez, adding that $300k would “keep the Center from folding before June 30, 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the unlikely disbursement of all outstanding SFAC grants, the email warned, “MCCLA will not be able to easily resume programmatic activities or restart utilization of the space by the public for any purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the authors wrote, “the current situation prevents MCCLA from generating revenue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If SFAC can commit to eventually release even a portion of the outstanding grant amounts,” they added, “we can extend lines of credit OR begin to ask other potential donors in good faith for their support. Without new funding, MCCLA will be insolvent January 20th.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"998\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec1-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Arts stands closed in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2026, days after the organization ran out of operating funds and shuttered its doors indefinitely. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without the requested funds, Sánchez and Jentzsch outlined four possible options: declaring bankruptcy; merging with other arts nonprofits such as SoMa Arts or Galería de la Raza; creating an interim oversight structure and fiscal sponsorship by a “mission-aligned organization or even SFAC itself”; or a complete “retool” of MCCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its height, MCCLA served approximately 20,000 students a year. 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She resigned on Dec. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Te clarified that “SFAC granted MCCLA $490k in relocation funding to help MCCLA prepare for the move.” This amount was on top of their annual operating grant, which this past year was $682k,” he said.[aside postID=arts_13985512 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/260113-CounterPulse-07-BL_qed.jpg']“It was the responsibility of the organization to plan for and fundraise for any additional amount of funds the organization estimated they needed ($2-4m) to temporarily relocate for the duration of the planned retrofit work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 1977, MCCLA has paid $1 a year in rent as part of an agreement between Latino activists and the City to reactivate a space that once housed a furniture store. In return, the organization was responsible for daily operations and building maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the arts and education hub became home to La Raza Graphics and later Mission Graphics, which produced posters and flyers by major artists including Calixto Robles, Ester Hernández, Juana Alicia and Herbert Sigüenza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The posters documented history, announcing festivals, marches and concerts throughout the Mission District and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, a small group of volunteers rushed to the center’s poster archives to pack and safeguard as much of the historic, and potentially revenue-generating, artwork as possible. The mood was somber, frantic and quietly purposeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just saw an ’80s immigration poster that could be so current,” said Eva Martínez, MCCLA’s volunteer lead archivist, underscoring the works’ enduring relevance. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, MCCLA would have continued,” said a staff member with the San Francisco Arts Commission. “But we received records stating it had no staff and was insolvent, which violates the lease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He spoke on Tuesday while inside the otherwise empty 37,000-square-foot building, explaining why the City stepped in to secure the building during the extended closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is expected to remain closed for at least two years. MCCLA had planned to relocate this June in preparation for the City retrofitting the building beginning in early 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"998\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec2-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julián Díaz, 65, a 40-year Mission District resident, looks inside the closed Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Arts in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2026. “It’s sad,” Díaz said. “I’ve always walked by the building and saw what it did for the kids.” \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, distraught Mission community leaders planned to meet next Monday to consider possible paths forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moment of transition is a wake-up call that we can’t sit on our laurels and just enjoy what other generations have worked for,” said Francisco Herrera, a day laborer leader whose nonprofit, Nuevo Sol, took shape in meetings held at the Mission Cultural Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to work as hard, if not harder, than they did in the ’60s and ’70s to win and sustain institutions like the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Instituto Familiar de la Raza and so many Mission organizations that exist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be OK,” said MCCLA board president and Mission businessman Bob Sánchez, even after interim Executive Director Dereck Jentzsch resigned Sunday after two weeks in the part-time role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of agitation in the community right now,” Sánchez admitted. “But our community has a lot of strengths. We’ll organize, and we’ll work together. We have great leadership in the community that we can tap from to form a new board.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With no staff and no operating funds, MCCLA outlined several drastic options in an email sent to the Arts Commission and obtained by \u003cem>El Tecolote\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dated Jan. 14, the \u003ca href=\"https://eltecolote.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/FW_-Extreme-Scenario-Planning-from-MCCLA-Jan-14-2026_Redacted.pdf\">email\u003c/a>, titled “Extreme Scenario Planning from MCCLA,” lays out what its authors describe as “grim” facts in an attempt to persuade the City to advance grant funds so the center could remain open until June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signed by MCCLA’s interim, part-time executive director, Jentzsch, and Sánchez, the email describes a cash-flow crisis so severe that, without immediate funding, the organization warned it would collapse within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“MCCLA is burning $50k/mo ($12k/week) more than revenue and has no revenue,” wrote Jentzsch and Sánchez, adding that $300k would “keep the Center from folding before June 30, 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the unlikely disbursement of all outstanding SFAC grants, the email warned, “MCCLA will not be able to easily resume programmatic activities or restart utilization of the space by the public for any purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the authors wrote, “the current situation prevents MCCLA from generating revenue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If SFAC can commit to eventually release even a portion of the outstanding grant amounts,” they added, “we can extend lines of credit OR begin to ask other potential donors in good faith for their support. Without new funding, MCCLA will be insolvent January 20th.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"998\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MissionCulturalCenterElTec1-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Arts stands closed in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2026, days after the organization ran out of operating funds and shuttered its doors indefinitely. \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta for El Tecolote/CatchLight Local)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without the requested funds, Sánchez and Jentzsch outlined four possible options: declaring bankruptcy; merging with other arts nonprofits such as SoMa Arts or Galería de la Raza; creating an interim oversight structure and fiscal sponsorship by a “mission-aligned organization or even SFAC itself”; or a complete “retool” of MCCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its height, MCCLA served approximately 20,000 students a year. Its historic legacy includes more than 10,000 prints documenting Mission District events over five decades, Day of the Dead celebrations, Carnaval and exhibitions honoring women artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, then-Executive Director Martina Ayala reported that flood damage in the building had forced her to lay off staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the City disputes that characterization. “The City covered a majority of flood repair costs,” said Coma Te, SFAC communications director. “To suggest the laying off of staff is related to the flood damage seems inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the City’s planned 2027 retrofit approaching, Ayala said she needed to raise $4 million for the center’s relocation by this summer. She resigned on Dec. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Te clarified that “SFAC granted MCCLA $490k in relocation funding to help MCCLA prepare for the move.” This amount was on top of their annual operating grant, which this past year was $682k,” he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It was the responsibility of the organization to plan for and fundraise for any additional amount of funds the organization estimated they needed ($2-4m) to temporarily relocate for the duration of the planned retrofit work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 1977, MCCLA has paid $1 a year in rent as part of an agreement between Latino activists and the City to reactivate a space that once housed a furniture store. In return, the organization was responsible for daily operations and building maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over time, the arts and education hub became home to La Raza Graphics and later Mission Graphics, which produced posters and flyers by major artists including Calixto Robles, Ester Hernández, Juana Alicia and Herbert Sigüenza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The posters documented history, announcing festivals, marches and concerts throughout the Mission District and San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, a small group of volunteers rushed to the center’s poster archives to pack and safeguard as much of the historic, and potentially revenue-generating, artwork as possible. The mood was somber, frantic and quietly purposeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just saw an ’80s immigration poster that could be so current,” said Eva Martínez, MCCLA’s volunteer lead archivist, underscoring the works’ enduring relevance. Martínez is also a volunteer archivist with Acción Latina, the nonprofit publisher of El Tecolote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what’s going to happen,” Martínez said. “So we don’t want to take a chance of not being able to get documents, computers or organizational files.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he boxed posters, local historian Chris Carlsson reflected on the artwork in front of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are an essential part of this neighborhood,” said Carlsson, author of Hidden San Francisco, adding that the works represent “a huge legacy of the social struggles that define our place in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The archival collections will be temporarily rehoused in board president Sánchez’s warehouse in Hayward and at La Raza Community Resource Center, as organizers continue searching for additional local storage options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday, Feb. 8,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070878/watch-super-bowl-lx-santa-clara-2026-levis-stadium-nfl-tickets-parking-bag-policy\"> the Bay Area will host another Super Bowl\u003c/a> — where the Seattle Seahawks will face off against the New England Patriots in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if you don’t intend to be anywhere near Levi’s Stadium itself on Super Bowl Sunday, the big game — which will draw \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/one-text-could-change-your-super-bowl-week\">an estimated 90,000 fans\u003c/a> to the Bay, according to the Bay Area Host Committee — will mean not just heavier traffic on the region’s roads overall, but a score of road closures and detours in Santa Clara that have already begun ahead of Super Bowl LX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re assuming the worst travel impacts will be restricted to the South Bay, you should know: there’ll be several official Super Bowl events taking place in San Francisco and San José over the next week that will mean street closures and traffic detours in those cities that could affect your commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are all of the street closures, route changes and anticipated traffic impacts to be aware of leading up to the Super Bowl, what to expect on Super Bowl Sunday itself and which roads will even remain closed well into February in the aftermath of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: If you need to get around this coming week, especially on Super Bowl Sunday itself, public transit, which is generally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070878/watch-super-bowl-lx-santa-clara-2026-levis-stadium-nfl-tickets-parking-bag-policy\">less affected by the following traffic closures and detours\u003c/a>, may be your best bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most up-to-the-minute information on road closures, see \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayareasuperbowl.com/getting-around\">sfbayareasuperbowl.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11671429\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;font-size: 16px\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-459889074-e1527640015234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy traffic on U.S. 101 in Mill Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#StreetclosuresinSantaClara\">Street closures in Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#StreetclosuresinSanFrancisco\">Street closures in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#StreetclosuresinSanJose\">Street closures in San José\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhattoknowaboutBayAreaairportsandtheSuperBowl\">What to know about Bay Area airports and the Super Bowl\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Traffic around the South Bay — and Bay Area generally — for Super Bowl LX\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 8\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re wondering, “What time is Super Bowl LX?” Kickoff is at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfl.com/super-bowl/event-info/gameday-guide\">3:30 p.m. PST\u003c/a> on Feb. 8. However, gates to Levi’s Stadium open several hours before, at 11:30 a.m — meaning you can expect the traffic from event attendees and dedicated tailgaters to begin on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how long the Super Bowl will last — and when exit traffic will begin — that’s far less clear. A 2017 analysis from \u003cem>The Verge\u003c/em> found that in previous years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/4/14403598/how-long-is-the-super-bowl\">the average length of the Super Bowl was just under four hours\u003c/a>, but there’s no way to predict the exact length of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regardless of when it ends, remember that the “Super Bowl’s over” traffic won’t be limited to Santa Clara: Wherever you are, the roads and public transit systems will gradually fill up with Bay Area residents leaving Super Bowl watch parties to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"StreetclosuresinSantaClara\">\u003c/a>Santa Clara street closures around Levi’s Stadium\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stars & Stripes Drive closure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Now through Feb. 22\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca 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src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several cars are on the road along with people crossing the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1149\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-800x479.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-1020x610.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-1536x919.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rush-hour traffic piles up between Bryant and Third streets in San Francisco on May 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NFL Culture Club at The Pearl 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\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 5-7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Super Bowl weekend will also bring \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/1d671366-3a6c-40d7-9fe0-7f6d0325b717/Map+of+Road+Closures+around+Bill+Graham+Civic+Auditorium+From+Thursday+2%2F5+to+Saturday+2%2F7?format=1000w\">traffic detours and closures around Civic Center.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl private event at Grace Cathedral\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 6\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/9f00cb9d-fad5-4bc0-b9f1-dc62efddf790/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+1.45.13%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=1000w\">minor detours and closures\u003c/a> in this patch of Nob Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Taste of NFL at The Hibernia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/b1708e81-3397-44bd-9ba4-f98b0e9f0e74/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+1.47.08%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=1000w\">more widespread street closures \u003c/a>in the Tenderloin the day before the Super Bowl for this event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private event at the Ferry Building \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 5-7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/b804ac13-817b-4543-8e97-b45e1eeec69a/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+1.48.11%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=1000w\"> no parking permitted \u003c/a>around the Ferry Building for these three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Bridge aerial shot with traffic. The San Francisco city skyline in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the Express Lanes START trial program, a person can get 50% off if they drive alone in an I-880 Express Lane. If two people are in your car, the discount will be 75%. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"StreetclosuresinSanJose\">\u003c/a>San José street closures around Opening Night\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Jan. 31 through Feb. 9\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayareasuperbowl.com/super-bowl-lx-events/super-bowl-opening-night-fueled-by-gatorade\">The Super Bowl LX Opening Night event\u003c/a> will be held Feb. 2 at the San José McEnery Convention Center, which means a whole bunch of closures and route changes around this area. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/2c66d02a-f3bc-4e6a-8ae2-a5f14a9ca9ad/Road+Closers+and+Detours+in+the+area+around+the+Mcenery+Convetion+Center?format=1000w\">Closure of eastbound San Carlos Street\u003c/a> …\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/cf98d6aa-5c1d-4dc1-ad39-fcef3f0ad8b0/Road+Closures+On+February+2nd+around+McEnery+Convention+Center?format=1000w\">… then westbound San Carlos Street closure (Feb. 2)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/9d7867bd-da76-4111-969c-e9b11eeb875a/Road+Closure+around+San+Jose+McEnery+Convention+Center?format=1000w\">continues (Feb. 3-9)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/2ef1ccea-85a3-4e10-b14a-dadfa4568908/Road+Closers+and+Detours+around+Hilton+San+Jose+from+January+31+to+February+9?format=1000w\">Access to Hilton San José\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/81a9438e-0b43-4f3c-b969-c59660834f6e/Road+Closures+around+San+Jose+University?format=1000w\">Closure of Humboldt Street affecting access to San José University\u003c/a> (Feb. 1-7)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhattoknowaboutBayAreaairportsandtheSuperBowl\">\u003c/a>Don’t forget the traffic around the Bay Area’s airports\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Super Bowl will be drawing fans from around the United States — and many of them will be flying into San José Mineta International Airport, San Francisco International Airport and Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means you can expect higher-than-usual traffic on the roads around SJC, SFO and OAK in the run-up to Super Bowl Sunday — and after, too. According to an SFO spokesperson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/regional-airports-look-to-score-a-touchdown-as-21307786.php\">Monday is the busiest Super Bowl-related travel day\u003c/a>, as attendees head home the day after the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re catching a flight before, during or after Super Bowl Sunday, you should also be prepared for above-average crowds within the Bay Area’s airports — so arrive early to make sure you make it through the TSA security line in time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069729/no-real-id-tsa-fee-fine-feb-1-how-to-pay-requirements-passport-california-sfo-oak\">especially if you don’t yet have a REAL ID\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may also want to brace for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/regional-airports-look-to-score-a-touchdown-as-21307786.php\">possible flight delays at SJC, too\u003c/a>, due to temporary flight restrictions to manage demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are all of the street closures, route changes and anticipated traffic impacts to be aware of leading up to the Super Bowl, what to expect on Super Bowl Sunday itself and which roads will even remain closed well into February in the aftermath of the big game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember: If you need to get around this coming week, especially on Super Bowl Sunday itself, public transit, which is generally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070878/watch-super-bowl-lx-santa-clara-2026-levis-stadium-nfl-tickets-parking-bag-policy\">less affected by the following traffic closures and detours\u003c/a>, may be your best bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most up-to-the-minute information on road closures, see \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayareasuperbowl.com/getting-around\">sfbayareasuperbowl.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11671429\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;font-size: 16px\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/GettyImages-459889074-e1527640015234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy traffic on U.S. 101 in Mill Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#StreetclosuresinSantaClara\">Street closures in Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#StreetclosuresinSanFrancisco\">Street closures in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#StreetclosuresinSanJose\">Street closures in San José\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#WhattoknowaboutBayAreaairportsandtheSuperBowl\">What to know about Bay Area airports and the Super Bowl\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Traffic around the South Bay — and Bay Area generally — for Super Bowl LX\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 8\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re wondering, “What time is Super Bowl LX?” Kickoff is at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nfl.com/super-bowl/event-info/gameday-guide\">3:30 p.m. PST\u003c/a> on Feb. 8. However, gates to Levi’s Stadium open several hours before, at 11:30 a.m — meaning you can expect the traffic from event attendees and dedicated tailgaters to begin on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for how long the Super Bowl will last — and when exit traffic will begin — that’s far less clear. A 2017 analysis from \u003cem>The Verge\u003c/em> found that in previous years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/4/14403598/how-long-is-the-super-bowl\">the average length of the Super Bowl was just under four hours\u003c/a>, but there’s no way to predict the exact length of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But regardless of when it ends, remember that the “Super Bowl’s over” traffic won’t be limited to Santa Clara: Wherever you are, the roads and public transit systems will gradually fill up with Bay Area residents leaving Super Bowl watch parties to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"StreetclosuresinSantaClara\">\u003c/a>Santa Clara street closures around Levi’s Stadium\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stars & Stripes Drive closure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Now through Feb. 22\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stars+and+Stripes+Dr,+Santa+Clara,+CA+95054/@37.4064675,-121.968941,19z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x808fc9b636681aa5:0xcf870246caa6b46f!8m2!3d37.4066497!4d-121.968937!16s%2Fg%2F11b6gl_n9g?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDEyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\">Stars & Stripes Drive\u003c/a> outside Levi’s Stadium has been closed since Jan. 5 and will remain off-limits to the public through Feb. 22.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The nearby Great America Transit Station — which serves VTA, Amtrak and Capitol Corridor networks — will remain open, but parking, shuttle and Uber/Lyft pickup and dropoff are relocated to the parking areas at 2111 West Tasman Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/0b57ef5c-12cd-4ea0-8162-4c375c1efa3b/City+of+Santa+Clara+Bike+Detour+-+Jan+5+-+Feb+22?format=1000w\">Bike detours in place\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tasman Drive closure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Now through Feb.13\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tasman Drive is now closed east of the Great America Parkway through Feb. 13, necessitating several vehicle detours in Santa Clara, including Highways 101 and 237:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca 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href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/39bbfde1-49aa-4a2b-b5b5-687d307f0928/Santa+Clara+Bike+Detour+Super+Bowl+Sunday-+Feb+8?format=1000w\">Expanded bike detour on Feb. 8 due to Great America Parkway closure\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/39d8035a-d3cf-4b64-9b7d-66cacbd9ce12/Santa+Clara+Jan+28%2B+Comms+Package+-+1-21-26_Page_03.png?format=1000w\">Access to the Hilton Santa Clara\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/d332af70-7ff9-43fa-91e6-e70d5391a864/Santa+Clara+Jan+28%2B+Comms+Package+-+1-21-26_Page_04.png?format=1000w\">Access to Yellow 1 garage\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail closure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: now through Feb. 10\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/0d1d7b3e-f0ba-43a6-9ad0-969a47a35a52/Santa+Clara+Pedestrian+Detour+-+Jan+29-Feb10?format=1000w\">Pedestrian detour\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/9aff8e15-64e5-4194-8988-4bfdc3f35a6a/Santa+Clara+Bike+Detour+-+Jan+28-Feb+10?format=1000w\">Bike trail detour\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"StreetclosuresinSanFrancisco\">\u003c/a>San Francisco street closures for Super Bowl events\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl Experience at Moscone Center \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Jan. 30-Feb 10\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nfl.com/super-bowl/event-info/super-bowl-experience/\">The Super Bowl Experience\u003c/a> will be held at Moscone Center Feb. 3-7, and this means several closures in the surrounding area around Yerba Buena Gardens and Union Square:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/100ab573-649e-402f-bd35-6b41ad283901/Moscone+Center+Super+Bowl+Experience+Street+Closures?format=1000w\">Daytime street closures \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/e1de024f-f82a-4fc7-a161-8ae6f5b74fa0/Moscone+Center+Super+Bowl+Experience+Overnight+Street+Closer?format=1000w\">Overnight street closures\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11929219\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several cars are on the road along with people crossing the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1149\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-800x479.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-1020x610.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS37097_IMG_3297-qut-1536x919.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rush-hour traffic piles up between Bryant and Third streets in San Francisco on May 13, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NFL Culture Club at The Pearl \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 4-7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This four-day event at Dogpatch venue The Pearl will mean \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/8e383ab7-f207-4401-b654-729850ddf962/Screenshot+2026-01-23+at+1.53.21%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=1000w\">more minor closures.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Marina: NFL Honors and Studio 60 at the Palace of Fine Arts \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 5-7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/39d4ade9-9f52-4785-88ee-e83683728870/Palace+of+Fine+Arts+NFL+Honors+Map+of+Road+Closers?format=1000w\"> closures and (smaller) detours\u003c/a> for these two events over the Super Bowl weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BAHC Live! at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and a Super Bowl private event at San Francisco City Hall \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 5-7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Super Bowl weekend will also bring \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/1d671366-3a6c-40d7-9fe0-7f6d0325b717/Map+of+Road+Closures+around+Bill+Graham+Civic+Auditorium+From+Thursday+2%2F5+to+Saturday+2%2F7?format=1000w\">traffic detours and closures around Civic Center.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Super Bowl private event at Grace Cathedral\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 6\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/9f00cb9d-fad5-4bc0-b9f1-dc62efddf790/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+1.45.13%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=1000w\">minor detours and closures\u003c/a> in this patch of Nob Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Taste of NFL at The Hibernia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll find \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/b1708e81-3397-44bd-9ba4-f98b0e9f0e74/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+1.47.08%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=1000w\">more widespread street closures \u003c/a>in the Tenderloin the day before the Super Bowl for this event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Private event at the Ferry Building \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Feb. 5-7\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expect\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/b804ac13-817b-4543-8e97-b45e1eeec69a/Screenshot+2026-01-21+at+1.48.11%E2%80%AFPM.png?format=1000w\"> no parking permitted \u003c/a>around the Ferry Building for these three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Bridge aerial shot with traffic. The San Francisco city skyline in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/BayBridgeTrafficGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the Express Lanes START trial program, a person can get 50% off if they drive alone in an I-880 Express Lane. If two people are in your car, the discount will be 75%. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"StreetclosuresinSanJose\">\u003c/a>San José street closures around Opening Night\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When: Jan. 31 through Feb. 9\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbayareasuperbowl.com/super-bowl-lx-events/super-bowl-opening-night-fueled-by-gatorade\">The Super Bowl LX Opening Night event\u003c/a> will be held Feb. 2 at the San José McEnery Convention Center, which means a whole bunch of closures and route changes around this area. These include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/2c66d02a-f3bc-4e6a-8ae2-a5f14a9ca9ad/Road+Closers+and+Detours+in+the+area+around+the+Mcenery+Convetion+Center?format=1000w\">Closure of eastbound San Carlos Street\u003c/a> …\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/cf98d6aa-5c1d-4dc1-ad39-fcef3f0ad8b0/Road+Closures+On+February+2nd+around+McEnery+Convention+Center?format=1000w\">… then westbound San Carlos Street closure (Feb. 2)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/9d7867bd-da76-4111-969c-e9b11eeb875a/Road+Closure+around+San+Jose+McEnery+Convention+Center?format=1000w\">continues (Feb. 3-9)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/2ef1ccea-85a3-4e10-b14a-dadfa4568908/Road+Closers+and+Detours+around+Hilton+San+Jose+from+January+31+to+February+9?format=1000w\">Access to Hilton San José\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/678d63d21448c064ff06f050/81a9438e-0b43-4f3c-b969-c59660834f6e/Road+Closures+around+San+Jose+University?format=1000w\">Closure of Humboldt Street affecting access to San José University\u003c/a> (Feb. 1-7)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"WhattoknowaboutBayAreaairportsandtheSuperBowl\">\u003c/a>Don’t forget the traffic around the Bay Area’s airports\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Super Bowl will be drawing fans from around the United States — and many of them will be flying into San José Mineta International Airport, San Francisco International Airport and Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means you can expect higher-than-usual traffic on the roads around SJC, SFO and OAK in the run-up to Super Bowl Sunday — and after, too. According to an SFO spokesperson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/regional-airports-look-to-score-a-touchdown-as-21307786.php\">Monday is the busiest Super Bowl-related travel day\u003c/a>, as attendees head home the day after the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re catching a flight before, during or after Super Bowl Sunday, you should also be prepared for above-average crowds within the Bay Area’s airports — so arrive early to make sure you make it through the TSA security line in time, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069729/no-real-id-tsa-fee-fine-feb-1-how-to-pay-requirements-passport-california-sfo-oak\">especially if you don’t yet have a REAL ID\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may also want to brace for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/regional-airports-look-to-score-a-touchdown-as-21307786.php\">possible flight delays at SJC, too\u003c/a>, due to temporary flight restrictions to manage demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard not to feel glum reading the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070573/a-generation-orphaned-by-war-ukrainian-children-grow-up-amid-loss-and-recovery\">news headlines from Ukraine\u003c/a> these days, even if you’re not Ukrainian or Ukrainian American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the same time, the conflict can feel far away. And yet, in the late 19th century, the Bay Area was home to a Ukrainian man who was exactly the type of revolutionary dissident Russia wanted to silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a historical marker commemorating him in, of all places, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/garin_honcharenkos_santuary.pdf\">Garin Regional Park\u003c/a>. Tony Divito of San Mateo passed a road sign nearby on his commute, calling attention to that marker and wondered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted to know the backstory,” he told Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer leads to a man of many disparate layers; a devout Orthodox priest, a relentless dissident and outlaw, a groundbreaking publisher, and subsistence farmer. The life of Agapius Honcharenko reads like an epic thriller, albeit one that ends improbably on a quiet hilltop farm tucked high in the Hayward Hills. But let’s start at the very beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A keen intellect and empathetic soul\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The man who came to be known in the Bay Area as Agapius Honcharenko was born Andrii Humnytsky in 1832. The son of an Orthodox priest, he displayed a keen intellect at a young age and caught the attention of the highest-ranking church official in Ukraine at the time, becoming his personal assistant. As a consequence, young Humnytsky bore witness to the hardships endured by peasants and serfs, agricultural laborers bound to their lords’ estates. The very word “slave” comes from the word “Slav.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was appalled by the poverty in these villages,” said Jars Balan, a researcher at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01005_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057937\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01005_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01005_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01005_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01005_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Oleg Kepeshchuk of the Greek Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception video calls a friend to show them the view of the burial site where Ukrainian patriot and exiled orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko and his wife Albina are buried at Garin Regional Park in Hayward on Sept. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Humnytsky delivered his ordination sermon, Balan said, he called on the church to melt down all the gold and precious jewels, “and use the money to feed, to help the poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of talk did not go over well in 19th-century Ukraine. Still, Humnytsky would not cool his revolutionary jets. He got acquainted with — and radicalized by — fellow countrymen who, decades before, were involved in a failed attempt to overthrow the czar, the emperor of Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humnytsky’s boss saw trouble brewing, so he sent him out of the country. Because Ukraine was part of Russia at the time, he sent Humnytsky to serve in the chapel of the Imperial Russian Consulate in Greece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there, too, Humnytsky fell in with like-minded revolutionaries. He started writing for a dissident journal called \u003cem>Kolokol\u003c/em>, in English, \u003cem>The Bell\u003c/em>.[aside postID=news_12070415 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-15_qed.jpg']After publishing searing articles calling for the emancipation of serfs and criticizing the Orthodox Church’s support for tsarist autocracy, Humnytsky was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russian authorities imprisoned him in the hold of a warship, which set sail for what is now Istanbul. According to his later recollections, Humnytsky arranged a daring escape with the help of his family back in Moscow. He would recall years later, “I escaped for an eternal glory, to be a Kozak in the free world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode marked the start of a life on the run from Russian justice. Repeatedly over the years that followed, Humnytsky would pop up in a new location, work all sorts of odd hustles, make friends with anarchists, dissidents, and revolutionaries, and then the Russians would catch up with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, he returned to Greece for additional professional spiritual training on the remote peninsula of Mount Athos, home to the world’s largest monastic community. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site today. Back then, it was an excellent place to hide from the Russians. He had a facility with languages, so in London, he was a Russian language tutor to Greeks, and a specialist in old coins at the British Museum. In Cairo, he organized sightseeing tours — and survived a knifing paid for by the local Russian consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By his early thirties, Humnytsky decided to try his luck on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A new life in America\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1865, he landed in Boston, headed to New York, then New Orleans. Around this time, Andrii Humnytsky changed his name to Agapius, or Ahapi, Honcharenko, to seem more Greek and avoid detection from the Russians. But even in the United States, wherever he went, local Russians eventually figured out Father Agapius was not actually a Greek with remarkably good command of Russian. Balan, who wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://ia800309.us.archive.org/25/items/journalofukraini3334cana/journalofukraini3334cana.pdf\">well-regarded study\u003c/a> of Honcharenko’s life, calls him a “renegade monastic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While in New York, Honcharenko married the daughter of one of the Italian radicals he met, a young school teacher named Albina Citi. The match was not to the liking of her anti-religious family, Balan said, “but they were in love, and they wanted to go to the West Coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071447\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1289px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/E6B7271A-ABCD-48CC-AE56-C2102783C328_1_201_a.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071447\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/E6B7271A-ABCD-48CC-AE56-C2102783C328_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1289\" height=\"2090\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/E6B7271A-ABCD-48CC-AE56-C2102783C328_1_201_a.jpeg 1289w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/E6B7271A-ABCD-48CC-AE56-C2102783C328_1_201_a-160x259.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/E6B7271A-ABCD-48CC-AE56-C2102783C328_1_201_a-947x1536.jpeg 947w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/E6B7271A-ABCD-48CC-AE56-C2102783C328_1_201_a-1263x2048.jpeg 1263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1289px) 100vw, 1289px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the photos used to illustrate the book Ahapius Honcharenko “Alaska Man,” by Wasyl Luciw, Ph.D. And Theodore Luciw, M. A., published in Toronto by Slavia Library in 1963. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jars Balan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And so it was that Honcharenko arrived in San Francisco in the 1860s, bringing with him typesetting skills he had honed in London. He purchased Cyrillic fonts and launched the \u003ca href=\"https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/13652/file.pdf\">\u003cem>Alaska Herald\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which included a Ukrainian-language supplement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper became a vital resource for Ukrainian and Russian émigrés alike, providing news to people living far from home. But Honcharenko couldn’t resist publishing some biting commentary as well. Here’s an excerpt of an issue celebrating the publication’s second year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From the day of its birth it assumed a certain attitude, and it has unflinchingly maintained its position and consistency during these two years. It has struggled hard and bitterly because it was on the side of right and justice, and they who champion the oppressed seldom find their work either cheerful or remunerative.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem for Honcharenko was that he was a critic of imperial malfeasance wherever he saw it. Eventually, he bit the hand that fed him, which in this case was none other than the U.S. government, a primary backer of the \u003cem>Alaska Herald\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the administration that the Americans set up had problems with corruption,” Balan explained. “[Honcharenko] was critical of the way the American administration treated Native people. He had some environmental concerns. When he became critical of what was going on in Alaska, they pulled the funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church relocated its U.S. base of operations from Sitka in Alaska to San Francisco in California. It came to their attention that a renegade priest was holding services in the city, and that’s when Honcharenko and his wife decided to decamp for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A quieter life\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Honcharenko sold his printing press, bought a 40-acre farm in the hills above \u003ca href=\"https://www.haywardareahistory.org/agapius-honcharenko\">Hayward\u003c/a>, named the place “Ukraina,” and settled into a relatively calm life for the next 40-odd years. He led weekly Orthodox church services on the farm for local and visiting Slavic immigrants, conducted baptisms and weddings. His homestead became a small but significant hub for Ukrainian-American life on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last years of his life were hard. The couple’s daughter died when she was just ten years old. The subsistence farm didn’t produce enough food to live on. However, Agapius and Albina Hocharenko had given so much to so many over the decades that when they were in need, a lot of locals returned the favor.[aside postID=news_12068602 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-EARTHQUAKECOTTAGES00030_TV-KQED.jpg']Still, Honcharenko continued to write, publish, and mentor émigrés. His farm briefly hosted a utopian colony, a dream of community that ultimately failed, but further cemented his reputation among the diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple also gardened. They sent numerous samples of plants and vegetables to the editors of the \u003cem>California Horticulturalist and Floral Magazine\u003c/em>, who wrote back to praise the “monster squash,” and “some of the finest sugar table corn and nutmeg melons we have ever tasted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His life was amazing,” Balan said. “He was eccentric, he was quirky. He had strange ideas about some things; there’s no doubt. But when you look at the trajectory of his life, it’s an amazing story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honcharenko died in 1916 at the age of 84, shortly after his wife. Although his passing was noted in the local papers and inspired a couple of \u003ca href=\"https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/17172/file.pdf\">biographies\u003c/a>, it wasn’t until 1997 that the California Historical Resources Commission designated his farm and gravesite as a state historical landmark. A cairn and plaque followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906285/ukrainians-in-california-devastated-by-russian-invasion\">sizable\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942336/despite-a-year-of-suffering-some-silicon-valley-companies-tied-to-ukraine-remain-optimistic\">organized\u003c/a> local Ukrainian-American community in the Bay Area, some of whom gather on a mile-long hike every year to \u003ca href=\"https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/1025\">\u003cem>Ukraina\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to honor Honcharenko’s memory. They sing in Ukrainian and offer prayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01016_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057938\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01016_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01016_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01016_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250927-UKRAINIANFARM01016_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taras Turiv’s (left) daughter, Victoria (right), wears a Ukrainian flag at the burial site where Ukrainian patriot and exiled orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko and his wife Albina are buried at Garin Regional Park in Hayward on Sept. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Software engineer Alla Kashaba was among the 20 or so in attendance the last time. She lives in Los Altos now, but comes originally from Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine. “He was [a] very interesting person, and I hope someday, someone will make an interesting movie about him, like, adventure movie,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This whole story was news to Bay Curious question asker Tony Divito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we’re incredibly fortunate and lucky to have him as part of Bay Area history,” Divito said. “It goes with our history of allowing refuge, of allowing people from desperate situations to come here and thrive here and contribute to our society, our community,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gglueck\">\u003cem>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>We start today’s episode in Garin Regional Park – high in the hills overlooking Hayward. If you drive over this way, you might pass by an intriguing sign. That’s what happened to Tony Divito of San Mateo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Divito: \u003c/strong>I saw a sign for a Ukrainian farm in Hayward. I just wanted to know the backstory.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOlivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Deep in the park is California registered historical landmark #1025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VOICE: “Ukraina” is the site of the farm and burial place of the Ukrainian patriot and exiled orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko (1832-1916) and his wife Albina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: It’s a serene setting now, but the life of this guy – Agapius Honcharenko – was anything but. He spent much of his life fleeing Russian forces, traveling the globe and stirring up revolutionary inklings in his wake. Not exactly the image you might expect from an orthodox priest. Today on the show, we’ll delve into what made Honcharenko so notable that more than 100 years after his death, he’s still celebrated by local communities. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride! I’m Olivia Allen-Price. You’re listening to Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor Message\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>In the 19th century, all sorts of curious characters washed up on California’s shores, looking for fortune, a fresh start, or in the case of Father Agapius Honcharenko … a safe place to hide. KQED’s Rachael Myrow found a group of people who gather every year to honor him. She went to find out why…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing in Ukrainian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The mood was contemplative, even somber, at the 9th annual Park Ukraina Hike and Panahdya — a memorial service for Honcharenko. Representatives from local Ukrainian churches hiked a mile to offer prayers over the grave of a remarkable man who established a farm here on this hilltop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Man reading a prayer in Ukrainian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Software engineer, Alla Kashaba was among the 20 or so in attendance. She lives in Los Altos now, but comes originally from Karghiv, in eastern Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alla Kashaba: \u003c/strong>He was very interesting person, and I hope someday someone will make an interesting movie about him, like, adventure movie. All about how he hide from Russian forces? I don’t know how to translate this. All across the globe. So he was running from them in London, in Egypt, in Jerusalem, and ended up in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Intriguing, no?? Let’s step back in time to understand what exactly this man was running from. Born Andrii Humnytsky in what is now central Ukraine in 1832, this guy was destined to become an Orthodox priest like his father. He certainly caught the eye of the highest-ranking church leader in Ukraine at the time, a man named Metropolitan Philaret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>The Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine at that time, Metropolitan Philaret, saw that this guy was smart and capable, and made him his personal assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>That’s Jars Balan, a researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. He’s written the definitive research paper on our man Humnytsky, and he spoke at the unveiling of that plaque in Hayward. Balan says, from childhood, Humnytsky felt a fierce pride in his Ukrainian ancestry and his Christian spirituality. He took the monastic name Agapius, derived from the Greek word \u003cem>agape\u003c/em>, meaning selfless love, and pretty much from the start, his politics leaned progressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>Because he got to travel around with the Metropolitan, he visited a lot of communities, and he was appalled by the poverty in these villages. This is still a time of serfdom, and the church even had serfs, and he found that appalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The word SLAV is where English speakers get the word slave, because Slavs became synonymous with enslavement in the Middle Ages. A serf, for those of you not up on your Eastern European history, is an agricultural laborer bound to work on their lord’s estate. Humnytsky hated the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>In fact, when he was [in] his first level of ordination, and he gave his ordination sermon, he called on the church to melt down all the gold and precious jewels, all the golden precious metals, and use the money to feed, to help the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Sounds Christian in the OG sense, but this talk did not go over well in mid-19th-century Ukraine. Still, Humnytsky would not cool his revolutionary jets. He got acquainted with – and radicalized by – locals who, decades before, were involved in a failed attempt to overthrow the czar, the emperor of Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humnytsky’s boss, the Metropolitan, saw trouble brewing, so he sent him out of the country. Because Ukraine was part of Russia at the time, he sent Humnytsky to serve in the chapel of the Imperial Russian Consulate in Greece. But there, too, Humnytsky fell in with like-minded revolutionaries. He started writing for a dissident journal called \u003cem>Kolokol\u003c/em>. In English, \u003cem>The Bell\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After publishing searing articles calling for the emancipation of serfs and criticizing the Orthodox Church’s support for Tsarist autocracy, Humnytsky was arrested and imprisoned in the hold of the Russian warship, which set sail for what is now Istanbul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>He managed to arrange an escape when they were holding him in Istanbul. He had an aunt who was in Moscow. She had some connections, managed to pull a few strings, maybe pay a few bribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>In his memoirs written decades later, the dissident priest recalled his optimism as a young man:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice actor reading from Humnytsky’s memoirs: \u003c/strong>“I escaped for an eternal glory, to be a Kozak in the free world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Things didn’t quite pan out that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>In point of fact, this episode was just the start of a life on the run from Russian justice. Repeatedly over the years that followed, he’d pop up in a new location, work all sorts of odd hustles, and then the Russians would catch up with him. For instance, he had a facility with languages, so in London, he was a Russian language tutor to Greeks, and a specialist in old coins at the British Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>How he picked up the specialty, I’m not sure, but I said he was a very bright guy and interested in history and archeology and theology and all kinds of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>It’s around this time that Humnytsky began using “Honcharenko” as his nom de plume. And – I mean, you can’t make this stuff up, this guy was extraordinarily bright – he picked up a craft – typesetting – that would come in handy later in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan:\u003c/strong> …in a printer shop and learned how to print. He translated a rare sort of, I think it was a 15th century book called Stoflau // calling for reforms in the Orthodox Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Troublemaker, right? And remember, everywhere Humnytsky goes, he makes friends with anarchists, dissidents and revolutionaries. But he never lost his passion for spirituality. In fact, he returned to Greece for additional professional training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of monks chanting\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>…on a remote peninsula in the northeast. It’s home to the largest monastic community in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site today, and an excellent place to hide from the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meant Humnytsky was now able to lead prayers, conduct marriages and baptisms, and otherwise tend to lay people’s spiritual needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humnytsky bounced around for years. Jerusalem, the mountains of Lebanon, Cairo, where he survived a knifing paid for by the local Russian consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after, he decided to make a break for the New World, quite likely because he wanted to put as much space as he could between himself and the Russians. In 1865, in his early thirties, he landed in Boston, headed to New York, then New Orleans. But even on this side of the Atlantic, local Russians would eventually figure out Father Agapius was not actually a Greek with remarkably good command of Russian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, Andrii Humnytsky changed his name – not just his nom de plum – to Agapius, or Ahapi, Honcharenko, to avoid detection from the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, while in New York, he married the daughter of one of the Italian radicals he met in the U.S., a young school teacher named Albina Citi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>Not to the liking, particularly of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Her deeply anti-religious family was put off by this…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>… bearded orthodox priest in wearing cassocks and things. But they were in love, and they wanted to go to the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So, in his mid-30s, Honcharenko landed in San Francisco with his wife, Albina. Remember how he learned about printing in London? He bought a set of Cyrillic fonts and launched the \u003cem>Alaska Herald\u003c/em> — with a Ukrainian-language supplement. That was one of the very first Ukrainian publications in North America, and a must-read for Ukrainian expats from New York to Siberia. A must-read for a lot of Russian expats, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>He was successful in getting the paper going. He got funding from the American government initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Here’s an excerpt of an issue celebrating the publication’s second year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice reading from newspaper article: \u003c/strong>From the day of its birth it assumed a certain attitude, and it has unflinchingly maintained its position and consistency during these two years. It has struggled hard and bitterly because it was on the side of right and justice, and they who champion the oppressed seldom find their work either cheerful or remunerative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>OK, so Honcharenko could get a little strident and self-aggrandizing…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice reading from newspaper article: \u003c/strong>Of course, it has encountered severe hostility at the hands of those whom it has exposed; of course, it has made enemies for itself by the score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The problem for Honcharenko was that he was a critic of imperial malfeasance wherever he saw it, and eventually, he bit the hand that fed him, none other than the U.S. government, a primary backer of the Alaska Herald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>Because the administration that the Americans set up had problems with corruption. He was critical of the way the American administration treated Native people. He had some environmental concerns. When he became critical of what was going on in Alaska, they pulled the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church relocated its U.S. base of operations from Sitka in Alaska to San Francisco in California. And it came to their attention that a renegade priest was holding services in the city. And that’s when the couple decided to decamp for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Honcharenko sold his printing press, bought a 40-acre farm in the hills above Hayward, named the place “Ukraina,” and settled into a relatively calmer life for the next 40-odd years. He led weekly Orthodox church services on the farm for local and visiting Slavic immigrants, conducted baptisms, and weddings. The couple also gardened. They sent numerous samples of plants and vegetables to the editors of the \u003cem>California Horticulturalist and Floral Magazine\u003c/em>, who wrote back to praise the “monster squash,” and “some of the finest sugar table corn and nutmeg melons we have ever tasted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>His life was amazing. He was eccentric, he was quirky. He had strange ideas about some things; there’s no doubt. But when you look at the trajectory of his life, it’s an amazing story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>He continued to publish articles and even a memoir in 1894. His homestead became a stopping place for fellow countrymen passing through. For half a minute, a small group of dreamers tried a utopian colony on his land. The venture failed, but it burnished Honcharenko’s reputation and ensured his lasting memory in the Ukrainian diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>There are stories that say, no, no, he exaggerated or that he made up stories about his life and everything like that. He might have exaggerated certain things, but there are a lot of things that my research has shown actually were based in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The last years were hard. Their daughter died when she was just ten years old. The subsistence farming wasn’t enough to subsist on. But they’d given so much to so many over the decades, a lot of locals returned the favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>They were very poor at the end, and really dependent on the charity of ranchers in the surrounding community who took an interest in him and helped the two of them out in their last years. So his life wasn’t any easy life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Honcharenko died at the age of 84 in 1916, a little over a year after his wife. His death was front-page news in several papers, and his life inspired a couple of biographies, but it wasn’t until 1997 that the California Historical Resources Commission designated his ranch and gravesite a state historical landmark, and a couple years later, a cairn and plaque honoring Honcharenko were unveiled there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sounds from the celebration: \u003c/strong>Odyn, dva, tray. Slava Ukraini! Slava Ukraini! Hey, I want to hear it again! Slava Ukraini! Slava Ukraini! OK, that’s better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Back at Garin Regional Park, the group of Ukrainian-Americans we met at the start of this story takes a group photo, with the Ukrainian national salute that translates to “Glory to Ukraine!” This bucolic hilltop with its historic marker and park panels tells the broad arc: émigré priest, dissident publisher, gentleman farmer. Ukrainians here and abroad remember, but what about the rest of us? This whole story is certainly news to our question-asker, Tony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Divito: \u003c/strong>I think we’re incredibly fortunate and lucky to have him as part of Bay Area history. It goes with our history of allowing refuge, of allowing people from desperate situations to come here and thrive here and contribute to our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>His story was just, like, epic. Right? Like it’s, you know…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Divito: \u003c/strong>It deserves, you know, a series. Like a television mini-series or an audiobook of some sort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Hit me up for the writers’ room, guys!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was KQED’s Rachael Myrow. Special thanks to Gabriela Glueck, who literally went the extra mile up that hill to help us report this story, and to Dan Brekke, who read Honcharenko’s archival writings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Divito sent in today’s question, and I want you to be like Tony! Head to \u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">BayCurious.org\u003c/a> to submit a question you’ve been wondering about. We are always on the lookout for great questions and yours could be what we tackle on next! 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Repeatedly over the years that followed, Humnytsky would pop up in a new location, work all sorts of odd hustles, make friends with anarchists, dissidents, and revolutionaries, and then the Russians would catch up with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, he returned to Greece for additional professional spiritual training on the remote peninsula of Mount Athos, home to the world’s largest monastic community. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site today. Back then, it was an excellent place to hide from the Russians. He had a facility with languages, so in London, he was a Russian language tutor to Greeks, and a specialist in old coins at the British Museum. In Cairo, he organized sightseeing tours — and survived a knifing paid for by the local Russian consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By his early thirties, Humnytsky decided to try his luck on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A new life in America\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1865, he landed in Boston, headed to New York, then New Orleans. Around this time, Andrii Humnytsky changed his name to Agapius, or Ahapi, Honcharenko, to seem more Greek and avoid detection from the Russians. But even in the United States, wherever he went, local Russians eventually figured out Father Agapius was not actually a Greek with remarkably good command of Russian. 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It has struggled hard and bitterly because it was on the side of right and justice, and they who champion the oppressed seldom find their work either cheerful or remunerative.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem for Honcharenko was that he was a critic of imperial malfeasance wherever he saw it. Eventually, he bit the hand that fed him, which in this case was none other than the U.S. government, a primary backer of the \u003cem>Alaska Herald\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the administration that the Americans set up had problems with corruption,” Balan explained. “[Honcharenko] was critical of the way the American administration treated Native people. He had some environmental concerns. When he became critical of what was going on in Alaska, they pulled the funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church relocated its U.S. base of operations from Sitka in Alaska to San Francisco in California. 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He spent much of his life fleeing Russian forces, traveling the globe and stirring up revolutionary inklings in his wake. Not exactly the image you might expect from an orthodox priest. Today on the show, we’ll delve into what made Honcharenko so notable that more than 100 years after his death, he’s still celebrated by local communities. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride! I’m Olivia Allen-Price. You’re listening to Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor Message\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>In the 19th century, all sorts of curious characters washed up on California’s shores, looking for fortune, a fresh start, or in the case of Father Agapius Honcharenko … a safe place to hide. KQED’s Rachael Myrow found a group of people who gather every year to honor him. She went to find out why…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing in Ukrainian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The mood was contemplative, even somber, at the 9th annual Park Ukraina Hike and Panahdya — a memorial service for Honcharenko. Representatives from local Ukrainian churches hiked a mile to offer prayers over the grave of a remarkable man who established a farm here on this hilltop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Man reading a prayer in Ukrainian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Software engineer, Alla Kashaba was among the 20 or so in attendance. She lives in Los Altos now, but comes originally from Karghiv, in eastern Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alla Kashaba: \u003c/strong>He was very interesting person, and I hope someday someone will make an interesting movie about him, like, adventure movie. All about how he hide from Russian forces? I don’t know how to translate this. All across the globe. So he was running from them in London, in Egypt, in Jerusalem, and ended up in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Intriguing, no?? Let’s step back in time to understand what exactly this man was running from. Born Andrii Humnytsky in what is now central Ukraine in 1832, this guy was destined to become an Orthodox priest like his father. He certainly caught the eye of the highest-ranking church leader in Ukraine at the time, a man named Metropolitan Philaret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>The Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine at that time, Metropolitan Philaret, saw that this guy was smart and capable, and made him his personal assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>That’s Jars Balan, a researcher at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. He’s written the definitive research paper on our man Humnytsky, and he spoke at the unveiling of that plaque in Hayward. Balan says, from childhood, Humnytsky felt a fierce pride in his Ukrainian ancestry and his Christian spirituality. He took the monastic name Agapius, derived from the Greek word \u003cem>agape\u003c/em>, meaning selfless love, and pretty much from the start, his politics leaned progressive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>Because he got to travel around with the Metropolitan, he visited a lot of communities, and he was appalled by the poverty in these villages. This is still a time of serfdom, and the church even had serfs, and he found that appalling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The word SLAV is where English speakers get the word slave, because Slavs became synonymous with enslavement in the Middle Ages. A serf, for those of you not up on your Eastern European history, is an agricultural laborer bound to work on their lord’s estate. Humnytsky hated the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>In fact, when he was [in] his first level of ordination, and he gave his ordination sermon, he called on the church to melt down all the gold and precious jewels, all the golden precious metals, and use the money to feed, to help the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Sounds Christian in the OG sense, but this talk did not go over well in mid-19th-century Ukraine. Still, Humnytsky would not cool his revolutionary jets. He got acquainted with – and radicalized by – locals who, decades before, were involved in a failed attempt to overthrow the czar, the emperor of Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humnytsky’s boss, the Metropolitan, saw trouble brewing, so he sent him out of the country. Because Ukraine was part of Russia at the time, he sent Humnytsky to serve in the chapel of the Imperial Russian Consulate in Greece. But there, too, Humnytsky fell in with like-minded revolutionaries. He started writing for a dissident journal called \u003cem>Kolokol\u003c/em>. In English, \u003cem>The Bell\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After publishing searing articles calling for the emancipation of serfs and criticizing the Orthodox Church’s support for Tsarist autocracy, Humnytsky was arrested and imprisoned in the hold of the Russian warship, which set sail for what is now Istanbul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>He managed to arrange an escape when they were holding him in Istanbul. He had an aunt who was in Moscow. She had some connections, managed to pull a few strings, maybe pay a few bribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>In his memoirs written decades later, the dissident priest recalled his optimism as a young man:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice actor reading from Humnytsky’s memoirs: \u003c/strong>“I escaped for an eternal glory, to be a Kozak in the free world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Things didn’t quite pan out that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>In point of fact, this episode was just the start of a life on the run from Russian justice. Repeatedly over the years that followed, he’d pop up in a new location, work all sorts of odd hustles, and then the Russians would catch up with him. For instance, he had a facility with languages, so in London, he was a Russian language tutor to Greeks, and a specialist in old coins at the British Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>How he picked up the specialty, I’m not sure, but I said he was a very bright guy and interested in history and archeology and theology and all kinds of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>It’s around this time that Humnytsky began using “Honcharenko” as his nom de plume. And – I mean, you can’t make this stuff up, this guy was extraordinarily bright – he picked up a craft – typesetting – that would come in handy later in his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan:\u003c/strong> …in a printer shop and learned how to print. He translated a rare sort of, I think it was a 15th century book called Stoflau // calling for reforms in the Orthodox Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Troublemaker, right? And remember, everywhere Humnytsky goes, he makes friends with anarchists, dissidents and revolutionaries. But he never lost his passion for spirituality. In fact, he returned to Greece for additional professional training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of monks chanting\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>…on a remote peninsula in the northeast. It’s home to the largest monastic community in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site today, and an excellent place to hide from the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meant Humnytsky was now able to lead prayers, conduct marriages and baptisms, and otherwise tend to lay people’s spiritual needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humnytsky bounced around for years. Jerusalem, the mountains of Lebanon, Cairo, where he survived a knifing paid for by the local Russian consulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after, he decided to make a break for the New World, quite likely because he wanted to put as much space as he could between himself and the Russians. In 1865, in his early thirties, he landed in Boston, headed to New York, then New Orleans. But even on this side of the Atlantic, local Russians would eventually figure out Father Agapius was not actually a Greek with remarkably good command of Russian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around this time, Andrii Humnytsky changed his name – not just his nom de plum – to Agapius, or Ahapi, Honcharenko, to avoid detection from the Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, while in New York, he married the daughter of one of the Italian radicals he met in the U.S., a young school teacher named Albina Citi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>Not to the liking, particularly of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Her deeply anti-religious family was put off by this…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>… bearded orthodox priest in wearing cassocks and things. But they were in love, and they wanted to go to the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So, in his mid-30s, Honcharenko landed in San Francisco with his wife, Albina. Remember how he learned about printing in London? He bought a set of Cyrillic fonts and launched the \u003cem>Alaska Herald\u003c/em> — with a Ukrainian-language supplement. That was one of the very first Ukrainian publications in North America, and a must-read for Ukrainian expats from New York to Siberia. A must-read for a lot of Russian expats, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>He was successful in getting the paper going. He got funding from the American government initially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Here’s an excerpt of an issue celebrating the publication’s second year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice reading from newspaper article: \u003c/strong>From the day of its birth it assumed a certain attitude, and it has unflinchingly maintained its position and consistency during these two years. It has struggled hard and bitterly because it was on the side of right and justice, and they who champion the oppressed seldom find their work either cheerful or remunerative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>OK, so Honcharenko could get a little strident and self-aggrandizing…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice reading from newspaper article: \u003c/strong>Of course, it has encountered severe hostility at the hands of those whom it has exposed; of course, it has made enemies for itself by the score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The problem for Honcharenko was that he was a critic of imperial malfeasance wherever he saw it, and eventually, he bit the hand that fed him, none other than the U.S. government, a primary backer of the Alaska Herald.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>Because the administration that the Americans set up had problems with corruption. He was critical of the way the American administration treated Native people. He had some environmental concerns. When he became critical of what was going on in Alaska, they pulled the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church relocated its U.S. base of operations from Sitka in Alaska to San Francisco in California. And it came to their attention that a renegade priest was holding services in the city. And that’s when the couple decided to decamp for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Honcharenko sold his printing press, bought a 40-acre farm in the hills above Hayward, named the place “Ukraina,” and settled into a relatively calmer life for the next 40-odd years. He led weekly Orthodox church services on the farm for local and visiting Slavic immigrants, conducted baptisms, and weddings. The couple also gardened. They sent numerous samples of plants and vegetables to the editors of the \u003cem>California Horticulturalist and Floral Magazine\u003c/em>, who wrote back to praise the “monster squash,” and “some of the finest sugar table corn and nutmeg melons we have ever tasted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>His life was amazing. He was eccentric, he was quirky. He had strange ideas about some things; there’s no doubt. But when you look at the trajectory of his life, it’s an amazing story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>He continued to publish articles and even a memoir in 1894. His homestead became a stopping place for fellow countrymen passing through. For half a minute, a small group of dreamers tried a utopian colony on his land. The venture failed, but it burnished Honcharenko’s reputation and ensured his lasting memory in the Ukrainian diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>There are stories that say, no, no, he exaggerated or that he made up stories about his life and everything like that. He might have exaggerated certain things, but there are a lot of things that my research has shown actually were based in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The last years were hard. Their daughter died when she was just ten years old. The subsistence farming wasn’t enough to subsist on. But they’d given so much to so many over the decades, a lot of locals returned the favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jars Balan: \u003c/strong>They were very poor at the end, and really dependent on the charity of ranchers in the surrounding community who took an interest in him and helped the two of them out in their last years. So his life wasn’t any easy life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Honcharenko died at the age of 84 in 1916, a little over a year after his wife. His death was front-page news in several papers, and his life inspired a couple of biographies, but it wasn’t until 1997 that the California Historical Resources Commission designated his ranch and gravesite a state historical landmark, and a couple years later, a cairn and plaque honoring Honcharenko were unveiled there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sounds from the celebration: \u003c/strong>Odyn, dva, tray. Slava Ukraini! Slava Ukraini! Hey, I want to hear it again! Slava Ukraini! Slava Ukraini! OK, that’s better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Back at Garin Regional Park, the group of Ukrainian-Americans we met at the start of this story takes a group photo, with the Ukrainian national salute that translates to “Glory to Ukraine!” This bucolic hilltop with its historic marker and park panels tells the broad arc: émigré priest, dissident publisher, gentleman farmer. Ukrainians here and abroad remember, but what about the rest of us? This whole story is certainly news to our question-asker, Tony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Divito: \u003c/strong>I think we’re incredibly fortunate and lucky to have him as part of Bay Area history. It goes with our history of allowing refuge, of allowing people from desperate situations to come here and thrive here and contribute to our community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>His story was just, like, epic. Right? Like it’s, you know…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tony Divito: \u003c/strong>It deserves, you know, a series. Like a television mini-series or an audiobook of some sort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Hit me up for the writers’ room, guys!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was KQED’s Rachael Myrow. Special thanks to Gabriela Glueck, who literally went the extra mile up that hill to help us report this story, and to Dan Brekke, who read Honcharenko’s archival writings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Divito sent in today’s question, and I want you to be like Tony! Head to \u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org\">BayCurious.org\u003c/a> to submit a question you’ve been wondering about. We are always on the lookout for great questions and yours could be what we tackle on next! Again, head to \u003ca href=\"http://baycuious.org\">BayCurious.org\u003c/a> to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, Dan Brekke and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. See ya next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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More than 5,200 of United Educators of San Francisco’s 6,000 members participated, according to the union.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If called, the strike would be the first in San Francisco since 1979, and threatens to upend school operations indefinitely. Superintendent Maria Su has said schools could not open safely without striking staff, and that — if campuses are forced to close — the academic year could be extended into the summer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The time is now for the district to act,” UESF President Cassondra Curiel said in a statement. “What comes next is ultimately up to the district and their actions, but San Francisco educators are making it clear that we are more than willing to do everything we can for our community.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UESF won’t strike until it receives a fact-finding report from a neutral party, part of a state-mandated mediation process between the district and union, next week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Curiel said that the union is committed to reaching a deal that meets its core demands, including fully-funded dependent healthcare, wage increases and contract language affirming SFUSD’s sanctuary commitments for immigrants. Earlier this week, she said the district hasn’t indicated it plans to meet their requirements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The district and the union remain very far apart. That is a driving concern,” Curiel told KQED. She said this week’s vote brings the union closer to a strike than it has been in 20 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time the union held a final strike vote like this week’s was in 2006. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,000 teachers, paraeducators and other school staff, has been negotiating a new two-year contract with the district since March of last year. 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SFUSD also said it offered a way to fully fund health benefits, but Curiel said the union has not gotten any such proposal in writing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12070455 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/250318-PrivateSchoolRates-13-BL_qed.jpg']“These ideas did not go nearly far enough, and … came with huge concessions our team knew our members would never stand for,” the union said in a statement. “We remain prepared to hear any real solutions the district may formally bring to the table that will stabilize our district for our students, educators, and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiel said the union is still willing to negotiate with the district, but that it “has not shown any actions that lead to actual attempts to avoid [a strike].”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Since] the last real proposal that we were passed, [it] has been months,” she continued. “The district could change that effort. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">UESF won’t strike until it receives a fact-finding report from a neutral party, part of a state-mandated mediation process between the district and union, next week. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Curiel said that the union is committed to reaching a deal that meets its core demands, including fully-funded dependent healthcare, wage increases and contract language affirming SFUSD’s sanctuary commitments for immigrants. Earlier this week, she said the district hasn’t indicated it plans to meet their requirements.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The district and the union remain very far apart. That is a driving concern,” Curiel told KQED. She said this week’s vote brings the union closer to a strike than it has been in 20 years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The last time the union held a final strike vote like this week’s was in 2006. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037008\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-11-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Maria Su speaks during a press conference at the school district offices in San Francisco on April 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">United Educators of San Francisco, which represents 6,000 teachers, paraeducators and other school staff, has been negotiating a new two-year contract with the district since March of last year. Educators are currently working under a deal that expired in June.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The parties mutually agreed to move into a two-part mediation process in November. Last week, they wrapped up the second step of that mediation process without a deal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We are disappointed to share that we did not reach an agreement with UESF after today’s fact-finding session,” Su said in a message to families Friday. “Despite the District’s creative suggestions, UESF did not offer any counter, and terminated our Fact Finding session at 4:30 p.m.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The district said it’s offered UESF 6% raises over three years — pay increases the union said are contingent on giving up extra preparation periods for advanced placement course teachers and a sabbatical program for veteran educators, which they don’t want to lose. SFUSD also said it offered a way to fully fund health benefits, but Curiel said the union has not gotten any such proposal in writing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“These ideas did not go nearly far enough, and … came with huge concessions our team knew our members would never stand for,” the union said in a statement. “We remain prepared to hear any real solutions the district may formally bring to the table that will stabilize our district for our students, educators, and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Curiel said the union is still willing to negotiate with the district, but that it “has not shown any actions that lead to actual attempts to avoid [a strike].”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“[Since] the last real proposal that we were passed, [it] has been months,” she continued. “The district could change that effort. We’re taking steps to be prepared.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next week, the fact-finding panel, which is made up of a representative for the union, district and neutral chair, will issue its non-binding recommendations. The union also must choose to accept or reject a final offer from the district.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After that, it could call a strike at any time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not yet known which schools would shutter during a strike, or for how long. Su said in a message to families that SFUSD is committed to meeting its minimum number of instructional days, and could extend the academic year if necessary.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is an incredible show of strength and unity,” the union said in a statement. “The urgency of our demands has never been clearer.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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They also approved a bill, written by Wiener, to prohibit local and federal law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058936/masking-bill-fuels-california-legal-battle-over-federal-immigration-agents\">from wearing masks\u003c/a> on duty — which is currently facing a legal challenge from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 747’s supporters said it would give Californians a chance to hold federal officials accountable in a way that can be difficult under current law.[aside postID=news_12070480 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/CA-TRUMP-VOTERS-4-KQED-1020x574.jpg']“Today we are deliberating an issue to try to solve and also remedy the fear that folks are living with,” Senate President pro Tem Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, said. “In combination with the fact that we have not seen due process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener argued that existing law makes it difficult for victims to receive damages in federal court. 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"content": "\u003cp>In San Francisco’s historic \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/north-beach\">North Beach\u003c/a> neighborhood, city officials are finally addressing one of residents’ most pressing concerns — pizza boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the tourists and locals alike who flock to Washington Square Park, many come with boxes of fresh, steaming pizza from nearby Tony’s Pizza Napoletana or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13959808/golden-boy-pizza-north-beach-sf-late-nig\">Golden Boy\u003c/a>. But upon finishing the delicious pie, a struggle often ensues: Diners’ now-empty cardboard containers can’t be easily tossed into city trash cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, pizza eaters have had to bend or flatten and squash the cumbersome boxes into circular metal bins — and some, neighbors said, just dump them instead — but no longer. Beginning Friday, the park’s corners have brand new receptacles designed specifically to tackle the cheesy challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In North Beach, pizza, that’s serious business,” said Sal Coniglio, CEO of Recology, the city’s waste management contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is partnering with San Francisco’s Department of Public Works on the pilot project, which includes two of the specialty bins installed at the park’s edge on Stockton Street at both Union and Filbert streets on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-09-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-09-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-09-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-09-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-09-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees eat pizza during the unveiling of a new trash can designed specifically to accommodate pizza boxes on the corner of Washington Square Park in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood on Jan. 23, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new metal bins are hard to miss, reading “pizza drop off” and wrapped in blue and green designs by San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102978/a-guide-to-san-francisco-murals-and-the-artists-who-make-them\">muralist Sirron Norris\u003c/a>. Three sides of each have slits designed specifically to accommodate pizza boxes — at least those from Slice House, Flour + Water, Golden Boy and Tony’s, all of which christened the bin on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cans address a significant gripe of nearby business owners and neighbors. Pizza boxes often get dumped on sidewalks and park benches, or piled up on trash cans, contributing to more residual litter, said Peter Kwan, a longtime resident and board member of North Beach Neighbors, who has countless photos to prove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you come out to this park, especially in the summer, every single weekend, it is well enjoyed and well loved,” said San Francisco Supervisor Danny Sauter, whose district includes North Beach. “But the problem with that is that means after the weekend, you’re going to see this park littered with pizza boxes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director of Public Works Carla Short said that when people try to throw away boxes, they often clog the city’s standard green bins.[aside postID=news_12069424 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250908-VAILLANCOURTFOUNTAINREMOVAL-10-BL-KQED.jpg']“Then that can starts to overflow, and then we end up with trash around it and that spreads,” she said. “North Beach is a vibrant neighborhood in San Francisco, and we want our city to look its best. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892202/watch-saint-coltrane-a-short-film-about-the-san-francisco-church-built-on-a-love-supreme\">Saint John Coltrane \u003c/a>African Orthodox Church Global Spiritual Community begins \u003ca href=\"https://www.coltranechurch.org/\">Sunday mass\u003c/a> with the blow of a conch shell. Then the saxophone comes in, blaring the opening notes of John Coltrane’s jazz masterpiece, \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Byzantine-style portrait of Coltrane is displayed on the altar. He’s wearing a white robe and clutching his soprano saxophone, a gold halo glittering above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the service, the church band alternates between saxophone, bass and drum solos in a kind of makeshift jazz concert. Later, the sermon offered by His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King is a mix of traditional Christian teachings and references to Coltrane. It’s a fusion that King and his wife, the Most Reverend Mother Marina King, call “Coltrane Consciousness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven,” King said. “We want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church, as it’s often called, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/Item%202e.%20LBR-2021-22-019%20St.%20John%20Coltrane%20Church.pdf\">oldest \u003c/a>Black jazz organization in San Francisco now. And it has taken a windy path to achieve that longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A baptism of sound\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church’s origins date back to the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings had recently moved to San Francisco as a young couple in love. Upon arrival they were met with a vibrant music scene, with jazz venues dotting the city. The Fillmore District became known as “The Harlem of the West” for its abundance of Black-owned nightclubs and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Mother Rev. Marina King sings during Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music,” King said. “You could leave your house on a Friday night and you wouldn’t have to come home until Sunday afternoon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 18, 1965, the Kings celebrated their first wedding anniversary by going to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a North Beach club called The Jazz Workshop. King knew the doorman, who seated them in the front row despite them being underage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Coltrane and his band entered the room, King said he felt the energy around him shift, “like [the band was] walking on a carpet of air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was immediate,” Mother Marina agreed. “You could feel the presence, that energy. And then [Coltrane] lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings said they were rendered speechless throughout Coltrane’s set, hardly touching their drinks as they were transported to a spiritual realm beyond the jazz club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgJ-igwuSQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From fans to worshippers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They started out by hosting listening sessions with friends in their home. They’d cook up a pot of beans and some cornbread to share, then pour over music, interviews and liner notes from jazz greats like John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 17, 1967, Archbishop King was out at a jazz club when he learned that Coltrane had died. The Kings’ daughter, Pastor Wanika King-Stephens, remembers walking into the living room the next morning to find that her dad and uncle had stayed up all night listening to Coltrane’s music.[aside postID=news_11954252 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/062723-Wanda-Salvatto-07-RT-KQED-e1687904264135-1020x680.jpg']“They killed John,” King-Stephens recalled her father saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction in the earlier years of his fame. But Archbishop King believed Coltrane’s death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America. This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. Throughout the 1960s, the city’s so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">redevelopment for urban renewal\u003c/a>” ” program targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s redevelopment project brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that had once defined the Fillmore District. Jazz clubs shuttered, minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes, and the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings, though, were passionate that people still needed to hear this music. Motivated by an era of Black consciousness and political activity, they opened “The Yardbird Club,” a jazz club based out of their basement. The name paid homage to the jazz musician Charlie “Yardbird” Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This makeshift venue functioned as a space where artists visiting San Francisco could experiment with new sounds, much like the city’s jazz clubs had once done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But around 1969, something shifted for the Kings. It wasn’t just about saving the music or the culture anymore. It was about saving souls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of studying Coltrane, they came to believe that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King greets congregants after Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We hear John Coltrane saying, ‘My music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being,” King-Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings went all in on their devotion. “The Yardbird Club” became “The Yardbird Temple.” They didn’t just revere Coltrane anymore — they worshiped him, believed him to be the second coming of Christ and cited \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> as his most sacred text.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A higher power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Coltrane composed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in the aftermath of heroin and alcohol addiction. Though he had risen to fame by the 1950s, Coltrane’s substance abuse made him unreliable. Miles Davis famously fired Coltrane from his band because of it. Coltrane had hit rock bottom and his music career was foundering because of it. So, he got clean — went cold turkey — and heard the voice of God.[aside postID=news_11881696 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/E-40.DeFremery-1020x682.jpg']Coltrane described this experience in the album’s liner notes: \u003cem>“During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of God a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965, marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was his declaration to God and an expression of his commitment to love and the divine. For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums — a four-note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2000/10/23/148148986/a-love-supreme\">message\u003c/a> that you can find \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music,” King said. “I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Marina agreed. “Every time I hear it, there’s something new,” she said. “There’s always life there. It’s in the music. The magic is in the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic and His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King pause to speak with churchgoers following Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Psalm\u003c/em> — offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. It’s many different feelings,” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 1970s: A period of transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Now a religious community, the Kings surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything was falling into place, and the Kings “felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music memorabilia adorns the space in preparation for Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Black Panther Party also became supporters of the church. Its co-founder, Huey P. Newton had become a mentor to Archbishop King and encouraged him to fuse politics, culture and religion. After moving to a storefront on Divisadero Street, the church began hosting programs that mirrored The Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King-Stephens said the church’s free food program was “one of my [her] favorite things in the whole world.” Seven days a week, church members would prepare free vegetarian meals for hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out, we’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings believed that to be right with God was to be right with the people. Inspired by San Francisco’s hippie movement in the 1970s, they also hosted free yoga classes, practiced vegetarianism, and started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Coltrane has an album entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwrV0qCX1LU&list=RDGwrV0qCX1LU&start_radio=1\">\u003cem>Om\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and we literally took that as John saying, ‘I am Om,’” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They studied the Sufi mystic, Inayat Khan, who believed music and sound to be the world’s life source, and incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We embrace the unity of religious ideas,” King said. “If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz musician and composer Alice Coltrane in 1970. \u003ccite>(Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1974, the Kings met Alice Coltrane, John’s widow. She had converted to Hinduism after her husband’s death and came to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings joined her spiritual community in San Francisco, the Vedantic Center, and began worshipping her as the wife of God. They adopted Hindu names and sang backup on her early devotional \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759TXOUIpjQ\">records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1981, Coltrane filed a $7.5 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/24/nyregion/notes-on-people-coltrane-s-widow-sues-san-francisco-church.html\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. She eventually dropped the lawsuit, but it set the Kings on a new path. The incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, which wanted to expand to the West Coast. To join, the Kings had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Culture keepers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The church joined the A.O.C and became the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in 1982. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane church leaned into its status as public-facing leaders and keepers of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city,” King said.[aside postID=news_12059962 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/Jello-Biafra-of-the-Dead-Kennedys-performing-at-the-Mabuhay-Gardens-.jpg']They have traveled around the world, including to the \u003ca href=\"https://jazzajuan.com/en/\">Antibes Jazz Festival\u003c/a> in France — where Coltrane himself famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuhPVb175Y&list=RDlWuhPVb175Y&start_radio=1\">performed\u003c/a> A Love Supreme in 1965. The Kings were joined onstage by Carlos Santana, an early supporter of the church. Several travel guides even named them a top destination when visiting San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings and their church were vocal advocates on issues including environmental racism and police brutality, continuing the work that had long been part of their ethos. But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church. They were forced to leave their Divisadero storefront, the church’s home for nearly 30 years, after their rent more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/coltrane-church-holds-last-service-at-longtime-3239485.php\">doubled\u003c/a>. They also had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was our home,” King-Stephens said. “And then, I watched that whole community change. And I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for a whole year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking to the future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First, to the Fillmore, where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from around the world can worship together. At the end of Sunday mass, Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked the community for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building — what they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic (center) closes Sunday mass in a burst of joy and laughter at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings are in their eighties and looking towards the future of the church. Their daughter plans to usher the church into its next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the first sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations and philosophies. In fact, King often said that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he said, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then at the same time, the church never changes,” King said. ”It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> John Coltrane on the saxophone is like nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He grew up in North Carolina in the 1930s…where the church was a big part of his life. Both of his grandfathers were ministers. But his calling was different. After high school, he moved to Philadelphia with his mother, where his music career started to take off. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>By the mid-1950s, Coltrane was gaining recognition among other jazz musicians for the way he played, skipping scales in a style that became known as “sheets of sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane in a 1960 radio interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>There’s some set things I know, some harmonic devices that I know that will take me out of the ordinary path if I use these. But I haven’t played them enough, and I”m not familiar enough, to take the one familiar line, so I play all of them so I can acclimate my ear. So I can hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He was a famously hard worker, practicing fingering, breath control…even specific notes for hours at a time. He was even said to fall asleep with his horn in his mouth. He caught the attention of some of the most famous jazz artists of his day… playing with folks like Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>When I started it it was a little different because I started through Miles Davis and he was an accepted musician, you see. They got used to me in the States now when they first heard me when I was here they did not like it I remember. It’s a little different. They’re going to reject it at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But throughout these years of success, Coltrane struggled with alcohol and heroin addiction. Miles Davis famously fired him from his band for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, the story goes, Coltrane got clean, cold turkey, an experience he describes in the liner notes of his masterpiece, \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965. Here’s Denzel Washington reading them in the documentary \u003cem>Chasing Trane\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denzel Washington reading Coltrane: \u003c/strong>During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of Gd a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>A Love Supreme marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was Coltrane’s declaration to God, his commitment to love and the divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it has become the sacred text of a church in San Francisco — the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, Global Spiritual Community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening riff of A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Today on Bay Curious, we’re going to church to learn how a jazz musician came to be revered as a saint and how the Coltrane Church has been a part of many cultural movements over the decades, transforming alongside the city. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Don’t go away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>The Coltrane Church has been worshipping John Coltrane’s music, philosophy, and at times, even the man himself for 60 years. Reporter Asal Ehsanipour takes us to Sunday mass to learn more about what that sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church Mass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church opens Sunday mass with the blow of a conch shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of conch shell blowing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Then the saxophone comes in, blaring the opening notes of John Coltrane’s \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>On the altar is a Byzantine-style portrait of John Coltrane. He’s wearing a white robe and clutching his soprano saxophone. A gold halo glitters above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the service, the band alternates between sax, bass, and drum solos in a kind of makeshift jazz concert. Later, the sermon offered by His Eminence the Most Reverend Franzo W. King is a mix of traditional Christian teachings, and references to Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King during mass: \u003c/strong>Jesus is the Lord of lords and the king of kings. And that one John Will.i.am Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For Archbishop King and his wife, the Most Reverend Mother Marina, the music and their worship is one and the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The mission of the church is to paint the globe with Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltraine is that anointed sound. So we want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings first heard the power of that testimony in 1960s San Francisco — as a young couple in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>One weekend, 1965, Franzo and Marina planned to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They wanted to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a club in North Beach called The Jazz Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>You had to be 21 and we were both underage, but I knew the doorman. And he took us right up front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>As soon as Coltrane entered the room, the Kings felt the energy around them shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>When they walked out, it was almost like they were walking on a carpet of air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina: \u003c/strong>It was immediate. You could feel the presence, that energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane music starts here\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And then he lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>From the first note, we were lifted into another place beyond the confines of that jazz club. And when we finished, our drinks were still on the table, the ice had melted. I don’t remember us even talking to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>I didn’t know exactly how to react to it. I was just in the moment of experiencing a new experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We couldn’t keep it to ourselves. We had to give testimony, we had to tell people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And tell people they did. Franzo and Marina had actually created a space to share their favorite music with friends — in a way, their first iteration of the Coltrane Church. Pastor Wanika King-Stephens still remembers those evenings her parents used to host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>Really what that entailed was our listening clinic that took place in my parents’ living room. My mom would put on a pot of beans and make some cornbread and have people come over and they would sit and listen to the music of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina poured over liner notes and interviews, spent hours absorbed in the music, analyzing it together. Then came July 17, 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>When John Coltrane died I came into the living room to find my dad and my uncle and they had been up all night. Listening to Trane and just talking about him and the music and so when I came in the room, I’m like, “what’s what’s wrong?” You know, they said, you know, “they killed John.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction. But to Franzo, his death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. The city’s so-called “urban renewal” project was in full swing and it targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Redevelopment brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that defined the Fillmore in the 40s and 50s. Jazz clubs shuttered. Minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes. And the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated. Franzo, though, was passionate that people needed to hear this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And it was during that period, too, where so-called black consciousness was coming out. It was just a very high cultural, political things going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So he and Marina mobilized. They opened what was essentially an underground jazz club — from their basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane had been outspoken about the “corporatization” of jazz. It was just \u003cu>one\u003c/u> example of how he’d grown into an icon for the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane’s song Alabama plays \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane’s 1963 song, Alabama, about the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham that killed four African American girls. Coltrane composed it to the rhythm of Martin Luther King Jr.’s eulogy following the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>So we’re living in these times of turmoil, yes it comes out in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But eventually, something shifted. For the Kings, the work stopped being about saving the music or the culture. It was about saving souls. Because after years of studying Coltrane, it had become clear to them that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>And we hear John Coltrane saying, my music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings went all in on their devotion. They converted the jazz club into a temple. Now they didn’t just revere Coltrane. They worshipped him. Believed he was the second coming of Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>That he’s more than just a musician, but he is a prophet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And that \u003cem>A Love Supreme \u003c/em>was his sacred text — his doctrine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme starts playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums, a four note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a message that you can find A Love Supreme everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music. I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music. And you find that in the sound of the music, you find it in the name of the compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgment, Resolution, Pursuance, and Psalm —\u003c/em> offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. Every time I hear it, there’s something new. There’s always life there. It’s in the music, the magic is in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated, and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And we just felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the Spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Around this time, The Black Panther Party was gaining traction. Started in Oakland in 1966 its co-founder Huey P. Newton had become a kind of mentor to Franzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P. Newton: \u003c/strong>The Black Panther Party for self defense is organized now throughout the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Newton in 1968 describing the mission of the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P Newton: \u003c/strong>And we advocate that all Black people in America are taught what politics is all about and what our history is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Newton encouraged the Coltrane Church to fuse politics and culture with religion. And in 1971, the Kings opened their first permanent location in a storefront on Divisadero St. From there, they started hosting social programs, similar to the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>The food program was one of my favorite things in the whole world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Pastor Wanika says that seven days a week, they’d give free vegetarian meals to hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We would sing songs, you know, \u003cem>‘Serving the people makes me mighty glad. [fade under] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out. We’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina believed that to be right with God was to be \u003cem>\u003cu>right\u003c/u>\u003c/em> with the people. So they also hosted free yoga classes and donated clothes to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We kind of learned that stuff from the hippies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The vibe was Flower Power, psychedelics…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The Grateful Dead…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Utopian communes based out of old Victorian houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The so-called hippie movement was a powerful thing and we were very much a part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And like the hippies, the Kings started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening notes of “Om” by John Coltrane – 00:00\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>John Coltrane has an album entitled Om. I thought of that as far as one of the albums that meant so much to us, especially early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane’s “Om” playing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And we literally took that as John saying, “I am Om.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>By the mid-70s, the Kings began shifting away from Christianity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We embrace the unity of religious ideas. If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King chanting\u003cem>: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>That’s something that we learned from Alice Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Alice Coltrane, John’s widow, had been immersed in Hindu spirituality for years and had come to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings met her here and eventually joined her \u003cu>new\u003c/u> religious community called the Vedantic Center. Franzo and Marina began worshipping Alice as the wife of God and adopted Hindu names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Wanika remembers when her parents made that shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>So we go from jazz to Sanskrit and chanting and singing, you know, Hare Krishna and Shiva, Lord Shiva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings sang backup on Alice’s early devotional records, like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But in the early 80s, their relationship splintered. Alice filed a 7.5 million dollar lawsuit against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. Alice eventually dropped the lawsuit, but the incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, who wanted to expand to the West Coast. For the Kings, it was actually kind of similar to the temple they’d first opened except they had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>For me, John was always just sort of evolving in my consciousness. So for him to go from God to Saint was not a big stretch for me. It’s like, great, okay. I can swing with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So in 1982, they became the \u003cem>\u003cu>Saint\u003c/u>\u003c/em> John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane Church leaned into its status as public facing leaders. Keepers, if you will, of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They traveled around the world. Like to the Antibes Jazz Festival in France — where Coltrane himself famously performed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Carlos Santana joined us on the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And even on airlines, we would say, hey, I saw your church advertised on United Airlines, and it would, you know, it was like a goal of places you need to see in San Francisco, and it would be the St. John Coltrane Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church when they were forced out of their Divisadero storefront. Their home of nearly 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>It was awful, it was awful. I mean, I know I never saw it coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Their rent more than doubled, and they had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We had to leave, and that was our home. That was our home. And then I watched that whole community change. And I just, I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for, like, a whole year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First to the Fillmore where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church mass: Hallelujah! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King during service: \u003c/strong>This next composition is entitled Tune Gene, and it means “He who comes in the glory of the Lord.” So I want you to clap your hands, pick up your tambourines. Do we have any dancers? You know, King David danced before the Lord with all the power of his might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Now, Archbishop King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from just about anywhere can worship together. On the day I visit, they’ve come from New York, Seattle, and closer to home, Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King in the service: \u003c/strong>This is the St. John Will-i-am Coltrane African Orthodox Church Global Spiritual Community. Amen. So we all are family, amen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>At the end of Sunday mass Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building. What they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So this church needs your money. Amen. Some of y’all are holding on to God’s money now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina are in their 80s and are looking towards the future of the church, how it can live beyond them. Their daughter, Pastor Wanika, plans to take it over, to continue sharing the church’s message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So Coltrane Consciousness is a love supreme, a love supreme, a love supreme. That’s what this coltrane consciousness is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Since Archbishop King and Mother Marina’s sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations, philosophies. In fact, Archbishop King often says that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he says, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And then at the same time, the church never changes. It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That story was reported by Asal Ehsanipour. You can attend mass at the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church every Sunday at the Magic Theater at Fort Mason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced at member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven,” King said. “We want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church, as it’s often called, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-09/Item%202e.%20LBR-2021-22-019%20St.%20John%20Coltrane%20Church.pdf\">oldest \u003c/a>Black jazz organization in San Francisco now. And it has taken a windy path to achieve that longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A baptism of sound\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane Church’s origins date back to the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings had recently moved to San Francisco as a young couple in love. Upon arrival they were met with a vibrant music scene, with jazz venues dotting the city. The Fillmore District became known as “The Harlem of the West” for its abundance of Black-owned nightclubs and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Mother Rev. Marina King sings during Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music,” King said. “You could leave your house on a Friday night and you wouldn’t have to come home until Sunday afternoon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 18, 1965, the Kings celebrated their first wedding anniversary by going to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a North Beach club called The Jazz Workshop. King knew the doorman, who seated them in the front row despite them being underage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Coltrane and his band entered the room, King said he felt the energy around him shift, “like [the band was] walking on a carpet of air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was immediate,” Mother Marina agreed. “You could feel the presence, that energy. And then [Coltrane] lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings said they were rendered speechless throughout Coltrane’s set, hardly touching their drinks as they were transported to a spiritual realm beyond the jazz club.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/MAgJ-igwuSQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/MAgJ-igwuSQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From fans to worshippers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They started out by hosting listening sessions with friends in their home. They’d cook up a pot of beans and some cornbread to share, then pour over music, interviews and liner notes from jazz greats like John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 17, 1967, Archbishop King was out at a jazz club when he learned that Coltrane had died. The Kings’ daughter, Pastor Wanika King-Stephens, remembers walking into the living room the next morning to find that her dad and uncle had stayed up all night listening to Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They killed John,” King-Stephens recalled her father saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction in the earlier years of his fame. But Archbishop King believed Coltrane’s death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America. This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. Throughout the 1960s, the city’s so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">redevelopment for urban renewal\u003c/a>” ” program targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s redevelopment project brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that had once defined the Fillmore District. Jazz clubs shuttered, minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes, and the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings, though, were passionate that people still needed to hear this music. Motivated by an era of Black consciousness and political activity, they opened “The Yardbird Club,” a jazz club based out of their basement. The name paid homage to the jazz musician Charlie “Yardbird” Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This makeshift venue functioned as a space where artists visiting San Francisco could experiment with new sounds, much like the city’s jazz clubs had once done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But around 1969, something shifted for the Kings. It wasn’t just about saving the music or the culture anymore. It was about saving souls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of studying Coltrane, they came to believe that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068329\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-6_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King greets congregants after Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We hear John Coltrane saying, ‘My music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being,” King-Stephens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings went all in on their devotion. “The Yardbird Club” became “The Yardbird Temple.” They didn’t just revere Coltrane anymore — they worshiped him, believed him to be the second coming of Christ and cited \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> as his most sacred text.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A higher power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Coltrane composed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in the aftermath of heroin and alcohol addiction. Though he had risen to fame by the 1950s, Coltrane’s substance abuse made him unreliable. Miles Davis famously fired Coltrane from his band because of it. Coltrane had hit rock bottom and his music career was foundering because of it. So, he got clean — went cold turkey — and heard the voice of God.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Coltrane described this experience in the album’s liner notes: \u003cem>“During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of God a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965, marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was his declaration to God and an expression of his commitment to love and the divine. For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums — a four-note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2000/10/23/148148986/a-love-supreme\">message\u003c/a> that you can find \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music,” King said. “I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Marina agreed. “Every time I hear it, there’s something new,” she said. “There’s always life there. It’s in the music. The magic is in the music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-5_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic and His Eminence Archbishop Franzo W. King pause to speak with churchgoers following Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Psalm\u003c/em> — offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. It’s many different feelings,” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The 1970s: A period of transformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Now a religious community, the Kings surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything was falling into place, and the Kings “felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Music memorabilia adorns the space in preparation for Sunday mass at the St. John Coltrane Church at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Black Panther Party also became supporters of the church. Its co-founder, Huey P. Newton had become a mentor to Archbishop King and encouraged him to fuse politics, culture and religion. After moving to a storefront on Divisadero Street, the church began hosting programs that mirrored The Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King-Stephens said the church’s free food program was “one of my [her] favorite things in the whole world.” Seven days a week, church members would prepare free vegetarian meals for hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out, we’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings believed that to be right with God was to be right with the people. Inspired by San Francisco’s hippie movement in the 1970s, they also hosted free yoga classes, practiced vegetarianism, and started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John Coltrane has an album entitled \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwrV0qCX1LU&list=RDGwrV0qCX1LU&start_radio=1\">\u003cem>Om\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and we literally took that as John saying, ‘I am Om,’” Mother Marina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They studied the Sufi mystic, Inayat Khan, who believed music and sound to be the world’s life source, and incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We embrace the unity of religious ideas,” King said. “If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-74258876-scaled-e1768939107671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1420\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz musician and composer Alice Coltrane in 1970. \u003ccite>(Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1974, the Kings met Alice Coltrane, John’s widow. She had converted to Hinduism after her husband’s death and came to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings joined her spiritual community in San Francisco, the Vedantic Center, and began worshipping her as the wife of God. They adopted Hindu names and sang backup on her early devotional \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759TXOUIpjQ\">records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in 1981, Coltrane filed a $7.5 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/24/nyregion/notes-on-people-coltrane-s-widow-sues-san-francisco-church.html\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. She eventually dropped the lawsuit, but it set the Kings on a new path. The incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, which wanted to expand to the West Coast. To join, the Kings had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Culture keepers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The church joined the A.O.C and became the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church in 1982. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane church leaned into its status as public-facing leaders and keepers of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city,” King said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They have traveled around the world, including to the \u003ca href=\"https://jazzajuan.com/en/\">Antibes Jazz Festival\u003c/a> in France — where Coltrane himself famously \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuhPVb175Y&list=RDlWuhPVb175Y&start_radio=1\">performed\u003c/a> A Love Supreme in 1965. The Kings were joined onstage by Carlos Santana, an early supporter of the church. Several travel guides even named them a top destination when visiting San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kings and their church were vocal advocates on issues including environmental racism and police brutality, continuing the work that had long been part of their ethos. But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church. They were forced to leave their Divisadero storefront, the church’s home for nearly 30 years, after their rent more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/coltrane-church-holds-last-service-at-longtime-3239485.php\">doubled\u003c/a>. They also had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was our home,” King-Stephens said. “And then, I watched that whole community change. And I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for a whole year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Looking to the future\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First, to the Fillmore, where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from around the world can worship together. At the end of Sunday mass, Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked the community for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building — what they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251221_JohnColtraneChurch_December_GH-8_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Marlee-I Mystic (center) closes Sunday mass in a burst of joy and laughter at the St. John Coltrane Church in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Kings are in their eighties and looking towards the future of the church. Their daughter plans to usher the church into its next chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the first sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations and philosophies. In fact, King often said that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he said, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then at the same time, the church never changes,” King said. ”It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> John Coltrane on the saxophone is like nothing else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He grew up in North Carolina in the 1930s…where the church was a big part of his life. Both of his grandfathers were ministers. But his calling was different. After high school, he moved to Philadelphia with his mother, where his music career started to take off. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>By the mid-1950s, Coltrane was gaining recognition among other jazz musicians for the way he played, skipping scales in a style that became known as “sheets of sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane in a 1960 radio interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>There’s some set things I know, some harmonic devices that I know that will take me out of the ordinary path if I use these. But I haven’t played them enough, and I”m not familiar enough, to take the one familiar line, so I play all of them so I can acclimate my ear. So I can hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>He was a famously hard worker, practicing fingering, breath control…even specific notes for hours at a time. He was even said to fall asleep with his horn in his mouth. He caught the attention of some of the most famous jazz artists of his day… playing with folks like Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Coltrane: \u003c/strong>When I started it it was a little different because I started through Miles Davis and he was an accepted musician, you see. They got used to me in the States now when they first heard me when I was here they did not like it I remember. It’s a little different. They’re going to reject it at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But throughout these years of success, Coltrane struggled with alcohol and heroin addiction. Miles Davis famously fired him from his band for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, the story goes, Coltrane got clean, cold turkey, an experience he describes in the liner notes of his masterpiece, \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>, which came out in 1965. Here’s Denzel Washington reading them in the documentary \u003cem>Chasing Trane\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Denzel Washington reading Coltrane: \u003c/strong>During the year 1957, I experienced by the grace of Gd a spiritual awakening which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life. At that time, in gratitude, I humbly ask to be given the means and the privilege to make others happy through music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>A Love Supreme marked a turning point in Coltrane’s career. The album was Coltrane’s declaration to God, his commitment to love and the divine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it has become the sacred text of a church in San Francisco — the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, Global Spiritual Community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening riff of A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Today on Bay Curious, we’re going to church to learn how a jazz musician came to be revered as a saint and how the Coltrane Church has been a part of many cultural movements over the decades, transforming alongside the city. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Don’t go away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>The Coltrane Church has been worshipping John Coltrane’s music, philosophy, and at times, even the man himself for 60 years. Reporter Asal Ehsanipour takes us to Sunday mass to learn more about what that sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church Mass\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church opens Sunday mass with the blow of a conch shell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of conch shell blowing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Then the saxophone comes in, blaring the opening notes of John Coltrane’s \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme plays\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>On the altar is a Byzantine-style portrait of John Coltrane. He’s wearing a white robe and clutching his soprano saxophone. A gold halo glitters above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the service, the band alternates between sax, bass, and drum solos in a kind of makeshift jazz concert. Later, the sermon offered by His Eminence the Most Reverend Franzo W. King is a mix of traditional Christian teachings, and references to Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King during mass: \u003c/strong>Jesus is the Lord of lords and the king of kings. And that one John Will.i.am Coltrane is that anointed sound that leaped down from the throne of heaven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For Archbishop King and his wife, the Most Reverend Mother Marina, the music and their worship is one and the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The mission of the church is to paint the globe with Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Coltrane Consciousness is acknowledging that the music and the sound of John Coltraine is that anointed sound. So we want everybody to become aware of the power of this music, of this man, that testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings first heard the power of that testimony in 1960s San Francisco — as a young couple in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The music was as hip as you could get, and we were trying to be hipsters and being into this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>One weekend, 1965, Franzo and Marina planned to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They wanted to see The John Coltrane Quartet at a club in North Beach called The Jazz Workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>You had to be 21 and we were both underage, but I knew the doorman. And he took us right up front.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>As soon as Coltrane entered the room, the Kings felt the energy around them shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>When they walked out, it was almost like they were walking on a carpet of air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina: \u003c/strong>It was immediate. You could feel the presence, that energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane music starts here\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And then he lifted his horn. We were right in front, and he pointed right at our table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>From the first note, we were lifted into another place beyond the confines of that jazz club. And when we finished, our drinks were still on the table, the ice had melted. I don’t remember us even talking to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>I didn’t know exactly how to react to it. I was just in the moment of experiencing a new experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We were caught in a windstorm of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. It was a powerful thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They call this experience their “sound baptism.” From then on, their calling would be to spread John Coltrane’s gospel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We couldn’t keep it to ourselves. We had to give testimony, we had to tell people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And tell people they did. Franzo and Marina had actually created a space to share their favorite music with friends — in a way, their first iteration of the Coltrane Church. Pastor Wanika King-Stephens still remembers those evenings her parents used to host.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>Really what that entailed was our listening clinic that took place in my parents’ living room. My mom would put on a pot of beans and make some cornbread and have people come over and they would sit and listen to the music of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina poured over liner notes and interviews, spent hours absorbed in the music, analyzing it together. Then came July 17, 1967.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>When John Coltrane died I came into the living room to find my dad and my uncle and they had been up all night. Listening to Trane and just talking about him and the music and so when I came in the room, I’m like, “what’s what’s wrong?” You know, they said, you know, “they killed John.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Coltrane died from liver cancer, most likely fueled by his drug and alcohol addiction. But to Franzo, his death symbolized the systems of racism that targeted Black men in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was a time of heightened tension for San Francisco’s Black population. The city’s so-called “urban renewal” project was in full swing and it targeted low-income neighborhoods with minority residents for demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The redevelopment came in with the Negro removal and devastated the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Redevelopment brought an end to the “Harlem of the West” that defined the Fillmore in the 40s and 50s. Jazz clubs shuttered. Minority and elderly residents were forced from their homes. And the city’s Black-owned music scene was decimated. Franzo, though, was passionate that people needed to hear this music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And it was during that period, too, where so-called black consciousness was coming out. It was just a very high cultural, political things going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So he and Marina mobilized. They opened what was essentially an underground jazz club — from their basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coltrane had been outspoken about the “corporatization” of jazz. It was just \u003cu>one\u003c/u> example of how he’d grown into an icon for the Black Power movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Coltrane’s song Alabama plays \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Coltrane’s 1963 song, Alabama, about the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham that killed four African American girls. Coltrane composed it to the rhythm of Martin Luther King Jr.’s eulogy following the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>So we’re living in these times of turmoil, yes it comes out in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But eventually, something shifted. For the Kings, the work stopped being about saving the music or the culture. It was about saving souls. Because after years of studying Coltrane, it had become clear to them that his music, his activism — his whole belief system — was really a declaration of faith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>And we hear John Coltrane saying, my music is the spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings went all in on their devotion. They converted the jazz club into a temple. Now they didn’t just revere Coltrane. They worshipped him. Believed he was the second coming of Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>That he’s more than just a musician, but he is a prophet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And that \u003cem>A Love Supreme \u003c/em>was his sacred text — his doctrine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Love Supreme starts playing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>For 32 minutes and 47 seconds, Coltrane’s saxophone pulses and intertwines with piano and drums, a four note bassline bedded beneath the sound. It’s played in all 12 keys, sending a message that you can find A Love Supreme everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We hear the Lord speaking to us in this music. I’ve had John Coltrane through the music call my name. So we have revelations that come through the music. And you find that in the sound of the music, you find it in the name of the compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina say the album’s four song titles — \u003cem>Acknowledgment, Resolution, Pursuance, and Psalm —\u003c/em> offer a formula for how to reach a higher power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>The way his notes are moving and the way the sounds are connected, it’s almost like a rumble. It’s like a war. Sometimes he’s pleading your case. Every time I hear it, there’s something new. There’s always life there. It’s in the music, the magic is in the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina surrendered themselves to Coltrane. They prayed, meditated, and fasted for days at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And we just felt like we were in the right place at the right time, and that the Spirit of God was really heavy in this part of the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Around this time, The Black Panther Party was gaining traction. Started in Oakland in 1966 its co-founder Huey P. Newton had become a kind of mentor to Franzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P. Newton: \u003c/strong>The Black Panther Party for self defense is organized now throughout the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Here’s Newton in 1968 describing the mission of the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Huey P Newton: \u003c/strong>And we advocate that all Black people in America are taught what politics is all about and what our history is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Newton encouraged the Coltrane Church to fuse politics and culture with religion. And in 1971, the Kings opened their first permanent location in a storefront on Divisadero St. From there, they started hosting social programs, similar to the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>The food program was one of my favorite things in the whole world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Pastor Wanika says that seven days a week, they’d give free vegetarian meals to hundreds of people. The lines snaked around the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We would sing songs, you know, \u003cem>‘Serving the people makes me mighty glad. [fade under] \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We would go to Safeways and the supermarkets and the stuff that they would throw out. We’d take it out, put it in a tub, clean it, and serve it to the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Franzo and Marina believed that to be right with God was to be \u003cem>\u003cu>right\u003c/u>\u003c/em> with the people. So they also hosted free yoga classes and donated clothes to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We kind of learned that stuff from the hippies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The vibe was Flower Power, psychedelics…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The Grateful Dead…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Utopian communes based out of old Victorian houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>The so-called hippie movement was a powerful thing and we were very much a part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>And like the hippies, the Kings started borrowing from Eastern spirituality, led by Coltrane’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Opening notes of “Om” by John Coltrane – 00:00\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>John Coltrane has an album entitled Om. I thought of that as far as one of the albums that meant so much to us, especially early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sound of Coltrane’s “Om” playing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And we literally took that as John saying, “I am Om.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>By the mid-70s, the Kings began shifting away from Christianity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>We embrace the unity of religious ideas. If you want to say that Buddha is the light, we don’t have a problem with that.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They incorporated Sanskrit chanting in their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King chanting\u003cem>: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>That’s something that we learned from Alice Coltrane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Alice Coltrane, John’s widow, had been immersed in Hindu spirituality for years and had come to San Francisco to deepen her practice. The Kings met her here and eventually joined her \u003cu>new\u003c/u> religious community called the Vedantic Center. Franzo and Marina began worshipping Alice as the wife of God and adopted Hindu names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Wanika remembers when her parents made that shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>So we go from jazz to Sanskrit and chanting and singing, you know, Hare Krishna and Shiva, Lord Shiva.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>The Kings sang backup on Alice’s early devotional records, like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Singing \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But in the early 80s, their relationship splintered. Alice filed a 7.5 million dollar lawsuit against the Coltrane Church for copyright infringement and using her husband’s name and likeness without permission. Alice eventually dropped the lawsuit, but the incident drew the attention of the African Orthodox Church, who wanted to expand to the West Coast. For the Kings, it was actually kind of similar to the temple they’d first opened except they had to recharacterize Coltrane from their God incarnate to a patron saint. They agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>For me, John was always just sort of evolving in my consciousness. So for him to go from God to Saint was not a big stretch for me. It’s like, great, okay. I can swing with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>So in 1982, they became the \u003cem>\u003cu>Saint\u003c/u>\u003c/em> John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. Now part of an organized religious movement, the Coltrane Church leaned into its status as public facing leaders. Keepers, if you will, of San Francisco culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>I think this is something people need to understand that this church has been an ambassador for this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They traveled around the world. Like to the Antibes Jazz Festival in France — where Coltrane himself famously performed \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em> in 1965.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>Carlos Santana joined us on the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King: \u003c/strong>And even on airlines, we would say, hey, I saw your church advertised on United Airlines, and it would, you know, it was like a goal of places you need to see in San Francisco, and it would be the St. John Coltrane Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>But the year 2000 marked yet another shift for the Coltrane Church when they were forced out of their Divisadero storefront. Their home of nearly 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>It was awful, it was awful. I mean, I know I never saw it coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Their rent more than doubled, and they had to end their free food program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wanika King-Stephens: \u003c/strong>We had to leave, and that was our home. That was our home. And then I watched that whole community change. And I just, I tell you, I couldn’t drive through that neighborhood without crying for, like, a whole year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>They’ve relocated a few times since then. First to the Fillmore where they were one of just a handful of jazz institutions left. But they were evicted from that space too, before moving to their current location out of Fort Mason’s Magic Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of Coltrane Church mass: Hallelujah! \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mother Marina King during service: \u003c/strong>This next composition is entitled Tune Gene, and it means “He who comes in the glory of the Lord.” So I want you to clap your hands, pick up your tambourines. Do we have any dancers? You know, King David danced before the Lord with all the power of his might.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Now, Archbishop King and Mother Marina see the church as a kind of Mecca, where Coltrane disciples from just about anywhere can worship together. On the day I visit, they’ve come from New York, Seattle, and closer to home, Redwood City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King in the service: \u003c/strong>This is the St. John Will-i-am Coltrane African Orthodox Church Global Spiritual Community. Amen. So we all are family, amen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>At the end of Sunday mass Archbishop King and Mother Marina asked for donations. They’re trying to raise money to buy a building. What they hope will be a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So this church needs your money. Amen. Some of y’all are holding on to God’s money now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Archbishop King and Mother Marina are in their 80s and are looking towards the future of the church, how it can live beyond them. Their daughter, Pastor Wanika, plans to take it over, to continue sharing the church’s message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>So Coltrane Consciousness is a love supreme, a love supreme, a love supreme. That’s what this coltrane consciousness is all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asal Ehsanipour: \u003c/strong>Since Archbishop King and Mother Marina’s sound baptism in 1965, the Coltrane Church has had different names, locations, philosophies. In fact, Archbishop King often says that as the seasons change, so do the needs of the people. Change, he says, is baked into the very essence of the church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Archbishop King: \u003c/strong>And then at the same time, the church never changes. It remains constantly rooted in love and \u003cem>A Love Supreme\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music fades out\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That story was reported by Asal Ehsanipour. You can attend mass at the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church every Sunday at the Magic Theater at Fort Mason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced at member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is made by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks for listening. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/ZUh1Bsth8-A?si=PTZ2K3iIUmhwGT_J&t=1418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To watch the video on YouTube, click here\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of San Francisco serving as a punching bag for political pundits, Mayor Daniel Lurie is adamant that those who wanted to see the city fail are now eating their words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all stuck it out during a brutal time,” Lurie said Wednesday night at KQED’s Mission District headquarters. “People bet against us, and that was a bad bet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political outsider who had never worked in government before becoming mayor, Lurie said crime has decreased to historic lows and proudly praised what he described as “a different vibe in City Hall.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6022\">He joined\u003c/a> KQED’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/politicalbreakdown\">Political Breakdown\u003c/a>\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for an in-depth discussion about his administration one year into his four-year term and what he’s focused on for the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are off to a strong start. One year of momentum is good, but it is not enough. We still have a long way to go” the mayor said. “I know the challenges we’re all facing on our streets, not only with public safety but the behavioral health crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On behavioral health and San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Overdoses in the city have leveled off, but remain at high and devastating levels. Lurie acknowledged San Francisco still has a long way to go to provide adequate housing and mental and behavioral health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure on the city’s care system came to a tragic flashpoint in December, when a social worker at San Francisco General Hospital was stabbed by a patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was maybe the worst day for me of my first year, without question, and the days that followed,” Lurie said, revealing that he held the hand of the slain social worker, Alberto Rangel, before he died. “Those who are taking care of us shouldn’t fear for their safety at any point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070742\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One year into his term, Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"729\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer during a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incident has led to much debate over how the city should allocate resources to better protect first responders. Lurie said that the hospital could benefit from more security, but also said keeping services that help vulnerable populations easy to access is an important part of getting people to utilize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nurses and social workers at SF General are incredible people,” he said, “and I want to keep them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie pointed to the need for increased locked subacute beds, which the city is currently working to increase at San Francisco General, and other tools like conservatorship and court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when asked about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Care Court program, Lurie didn’t seem enthusiastic about its results. “It’s a whole process, DPH and judges have to get involved,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On homelessness and outdoor drug use\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of Lurie’s first legislative moves was passing an ordinance giving the mayor more powers to bypass certain bureaucratic approvals to speed up contracting and funding services that address drug addiction and recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9dHECqx2JmsJ8xxjcQiQHEkA68?domain=sf.gov\">Breaking the Cycle plan\u003c/a>, the mayor has also set up a mental health drop-in center in the Tenderloin and is planning to open another stabilization center this spring, where police can drop off people they find on the street experiencing a drug-related crisis.[aside postID=news_12070144 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260116-NEWSOMLURIEPRESSER-14-BL-KQED.jpg']“I am far from satisfied, but I am really optimistic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor also moved to integrate the city’s various street outreach teams under one agency and moved to stop providing safer \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/0XlPCyPmRxsArQQ5iyF7HxSByv?domain=sf.gov\">smoking supplies\u003c/a> outdoors and mandate counseling in exchange for any harm reduction supply distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has cleared more tent encampments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">fueling high approval numbers\u003c/a> in Lurie’s first year. But the results have been met with some pushback from supervisors who said they’ve seen homelessness and street-level crime shuffle to neighborhoods in their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take all of us to send a message that we aren’t going to tolerate this behavior in our city. We still have work to do at 16th [Street], 24th [Street] and SoMa,” Lurie said. “It is better, but we have a long way to go. The Mission deserves better, the Tenderloin deserves better … If something bad happens, it’s on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Donald Trump and the Bay Area’s billionaires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Trump administration walked back its plans to send the National Guard to San Francisco as part of an immigration enforcement blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor leaned on his connections to billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who made headlines when he said the president should send troops to the city just days before backpedaling, to convince the president to hold off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070745\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"102\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Marc after those comments, and I said those are comments that may have been true a few years ago, but people lost the plot on San Francisco,” Lurie said of his conversation with Benioff. “They weren’t seeing what we were seeing, which is that crime was going down, and the economic recovery was going in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He carefully acknowledged that he continues to worry about the possibility of a future enforcement blitz in the city and residents’ safety. But the mayor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">never publicly mentioned President Donald Trump\u003c/a> by name, and hosts pressed him on his strategy Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know you two are trying to get something out of me,” Lurie said to the hosts. “I’m going to try to stay clear of as much noise as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On budget woes and affordability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is facing a nearly $936.6 million budget deficit in the next two fiscal years, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Joint_Report_FY_26-27_through_FY_29-30.pdf\">city report\u003c/a> released in December 2025. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064324/its-devastating-more-than-100m-for-housing-homeless-at-risk-under-new-hud-policy\">Trump administration’s cuts\u003c/a> through the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ are also projected to pull nearly $300 million from the city’s budget for programs like food assistance and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to fade on any San Francisco values as long as I’m mayor,” he said, still avoiding responding directly to questions about the Trump administration and federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie is backing a property tax to fund MUNI, which is also facing a fiscal cliff, and is also working with Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan on a regional funding proposal for BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"437\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026, as he marks one year in office amid debates over public safety and City Hall reforms. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“MUNI is non-negotiable. We need to fund it,” Lurie said, marking a shift from previous comments suggesting MUNI should be responsible for addressing its own challenges. “We do not want to see service cuts, and this proposal has such a broad base of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016350/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-commits-to-1-annual-salary\">takes a $1 salary\u003c/a> as mayor, said he’s focused on making San Francisco more affordable for working families. During his recent State of the City address, the mayor detailed his plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069711/san-francisco-expands-child-care-subsidies-to-tackle-affordability-issues\">increase child care subsidies\u003c/a>, a welcome shift to many middle-income households. But the plan, funded through a ballot measure voters passed in 2018, is projected to run out of dollars by 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On housing, Lurie faced one of his toughest legislative battles last fall with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066478/san-francisco-passed-a-new-zoning-plan-how-will-it-change-the-city\">plan to upzone\u003c/a> residential neighborhoods to make way for more housing. Supporters say it’s needed to build more homes in areas that have avoided development for decades, and in order to meet state housing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the plan could lead to real estate speculation that could displace low-income residents and small businesses, and fails to protect all of the city’s rent-controlled housing stock from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a lawsuit and other interest from community groups around a potential ballot measure to challenge the zoning plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been litigated for years in San Francisco, and there are people that want no new housing in their neighborhoods,” Lurie said. “It’s a tired argument. And that’s the politics of the old, and that’s what we are trying to fight against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On westside politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the city’s Richmond District and other neighborhoods went without power for several days this winter, Lurie, who often maintains a calm demeanor, said the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric failed to adequately communicate the issue with the city and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What upset me the most was the communication,” he said, noting that it was difficult for residents to claim the offer of a hotel room during the widespread power outage. “We were going to give vouchers to people and told them to call 211 and they were not going through. They were being told they don’t qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s first year has brought fresh faces to the Board of Supervisors, as he navigated recalls and his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064108/mayor-daniel-luries-pick-for-sunset-supervisor-resigns-after-1-week\">appointment flop last fall in Beya Alcaraz\u003c/a>, who briefly represented the Sunset District before resigning after one week on the job amid controversy that marked the mayor’s first real, widely acknowledged misstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070744\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An audience listens as Mayor Daniel Lurie joins \u003cem data-start=\"409\" data-end=\"430\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for a wide-ranging conversation at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I made a mistake. I did not set her up for success, and that is completely on me,” Lurie said, adding that he could have “done a better job of vetting” and that his administration beefed up its search process in making his next pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel terrible about that, and I let the people of D4 down, and I think they have a good representative now who is working very hard,” he said, referring to the current District 4 supervisor, Alan Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for one of the city’s other ongoing power struggles, whether to put cars back on the Great Highway or leave it open as a public park, called Sunset Dunes, Lurie stayed out of the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if voters should weigh in on the issue again in a 2026 ballot measure, he said: “That’s up to the people… this is one of those things where you probably won’t like the answer. We have a billion-dollar budget deficit that I’m focused on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Instagram and economic recovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lurie has earned a reputation as the city’s hype man on social media, particularly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048631/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-is-all-over-instagram-is-he-saying-enough\">Instagram\u003c/a>, where he frequently promotes San Francisco’s economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night, Lagos and Shafer played one of Lurie’s social media videos where he speaks with a Tenderloin falafel shop owner, hyping up a local business owner with his signature tag line, “Let’s go, San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get to meet people like him and get little hits of inspiration from small business owners. It’s incredible,” Lurie said, crediting some of the younger members on his staff who are helping drive his social media strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070739\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with Political Breakdown hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer during a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These people are working their tails off and I want them to have a partner in City Hall,” he said, referring to the businesses. “This is a way to get our message out unfiltered and I think it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business vacancies remain high and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067981/san-francisco-recovery-slumps-as-the-future-of-its-downtown-mall-hangs-in-limbo\">downtown revitalization\u003c/a> remains one of his top concerns. And Lurie still doesn’t have an answer for what should happen to the now-empty mall at Powell and Market streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do not want me dictating what goes into a mall or what goes into that center,” he said, adding that his administration is focused on “creating conditions” that make businesses want to develop the site into something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are hearing the news about San Francisco,” he said. “They are investing in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even with his growing social media presence, Lurie has managed to dodge one of the internet’s current crazes: \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in a lightning round of questions if he’s seen the wildly popular gay hockey show, Lurie said: “I haven’t watched it. Apparently I need to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6022\">Watch the conversation on Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On behavioral health and San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Overdoses in the city have leveled off, but remain at high and devastating levels. Lurie acknowledged San Francisco still has a long way to go to provide adequate housing and mental and behavioral health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pressure on the city’s care system came to a tragic flashpoint in December, when a social worker at San Francisco General Hospital was stabbed by a patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was maybe the worst day for me of my first year, without question, and the days that followed,” Lurie said, revealing that he held the hand of the slain social worker, Alberto Rangel, before he died. “Those who are taking care of us shouldn’t fear for their safety at any point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070742\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-26-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One year into his term, Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"729\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer during a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incident has led to much debate over how the city should allocate resources to better protect first responders. Lurie said that the hospital could benefit from more security, but also said keeping services that help vulnerable populations easy to access is an important part of getting people to utilize them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nurses and social workers at SF General are incredible people,” he said, “and I want to keep them safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie pointed to the need for increased locked subacute beds, which the city is currently working to increase at San Francisco General, and other tools like conservatorship and court-ordered treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when asked about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Care Court program, Lurie didn’t seem enthusiastic about its results. “It’s a whole process, DPH and judges have to get involved,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On homelessness and outdoor drug use\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of Lurie’s first legislative moves was passing an ordinance giving the mayor more powers to bypass certain bureaucratic approvals to speed up contracting and funding services that address drug addiction and recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9dHECqx2JmsJ8xxjcQiQHEkA68?domain=sf.gov\">Breaking the Cycle plan\u003c/a>, the mayor has also set up a mental health drop-in center in the Tenderloin and is planning to open another stabilization center this spring, where police can drop off people they find on the street experiencing a drug-related crisis.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I am far from satisfied, but I am really optimistic,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor also moved to integrate the city’s various street outreach teams under one agency and moved to stop providing safer \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/0XlPCyPmRxsArQQ5iyF7HxSByv?domain=sf.gov\">smoking supplies\u003c/a> outdoors and mandate counseling in exchange for any harm reduction supply distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has cleared more tent encampments, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">fueling high approval numbers\u003c/a> in Lurie’s first year. But the results have been met with some pushback from supervisors who said they’ve seen homelessness and street-level crime shuffle to neighborhoods in their districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to take all of us to send a message that we aren’t going to tolerate this behavior in our city. We still have work to do at 16th [Street], 24th [Street] and SoMa,” Lurie said. “It is better, but we have a long way to go. The Mission deserves better, the Tenderloin deserves better … If something bad happens, it’s on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Donald Trump and the Bay Area’s billionaires\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the Trump administration walked back its plans to send the National Guard to San Francisco as part of an immigration enforcement blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor leaned on his connections to billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who made headlines when he said the president should send troops to the city just days before backpedaling, to convince the president to hold off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070745\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-40-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"102\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Marc after those comments, and I said those are comments that may have been true a few years ago, but people lost the plot on San Francisco,” Lurie said of his conversation with Benioff. “They weren’t seeing what we were seeing, which is that crime was going down, and the economic recovery was going in the right direction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He carefully acknowledged that he continues to worry about the possibility of a future enforcement blitz in the city and residents’ safety. But the mayor has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">never publicly mentioned President Donald Trump\u003c/a> by name, and hosts pressed him on his strategy Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know you two are trying to get something out of me,” Lurie said to the hosts. “I’m going to try to stay clear of as much noise as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On budget woes and affordability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is facing a nearly $936.6 million budget deficit in the next two fiscal years, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Joint_Report_FY_26-27_through_FY_29-30.pdf\">city report\u003c/a> released in December 2025. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064324/its-devastating-more-than-100m-for-housing-homeless-at-risk-under-new-hud-policy\">Trump administration’s cuts\u003c/a> through the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ are also projected to pull nearly $300 million from the city’s budget for programs like food assistance and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to fade on any San Francisco values as long as I’m mayor,” he said, still avoiding responding directly to questions about the Trump administration and federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie is backing a property tax to fund MUNI, which is also facing a fiscal cliff, and is also working with Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan on a regional funding proposal for BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with \u003cem data-start=\"416\" data-end=\"437\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026, as he marks one year in office amid debates over public safety and City Hall reforms. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“MUNI is non-negotiable. We need to fund it,” Lurie said, marking a shift from previous comments suggesting MUNI should be responsible for addressing its own challenges. “We do not want to see service cuts, and this proposal has such a broad base of support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead, Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016350/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-commits-to-1-annual-salary\">takes a $1 salary\u003c/a> as mayor, said he’s focused on making San Francisco more affordable for working families. During his recent State of the City address, the mayor detailed his plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069711/san-francisco-expands-child-care-subsidies-to-tackle-affordability-issues\">increase child care subsidies\u003c/a>, a welcome shift to many middle-income households. But the plan, funded through a ballot measure voters passed in 2018, is projected to run out of dollars by 2032.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On housing, Lurie faced one of his toughest legislative battles last fall with his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066478/san-francisco-passed-a-new-zoning-plan-how-will-it-change-the-city\">plan to upzone\u003c/a> residential neighborhoods to make way for more housing. Supporters say it’s needed to build more homes in areas that have avoided development for decades, and in order to meet state housing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the plan could lead to real estate speculation that could displace low-income residents and small businesses, and fails to protect all of the city’s rent-controlled housing stock from demolition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already a lawsuit and other interest from community groups around a potential ballot measure to challenge the zoning plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been litigated for years in San Francisco, and there are people that want no new housing in their neighborhoods,” Lurie said. “It’s a tired argument. And that’s the politics of the old, and that’s what we are trying to fight against.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On westside politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the city’s Richmond District and other neighborhoods went without power for several days this winter, Lurie, who often maintains a calm demeanor, said the utility company Pacific Gas & Electric failed to adequately communicate the issue with the city and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What upset me the most was the communication,” he said, noting that it was difficult for residents to claim the offer of a hotel room during the widespread power outage. “We were going to give vouchers to people and told them to call 211 and they were not going through. They were being told they don’t qualify.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s first year has brought fresh faces to the Board of Supervisors, as he navigated recalls and his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064108/mayor-daniel-luries-pick-for-sunset-supervisor-resigns-after-1-week\">appointment flop last fall in Beya Alcaraz\u003c/a>, who briefly represented the Sunset District before resigning after one week on the job amid controversy that marked the mayor’s first real, widely acknowledged misstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070744\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An audience listens as Mayor Daniel Lurie joins \u003cem data-start=\"409\" data-end=\"430\">Political Breakdown\u003c/em> hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for a wide-ranging conversation at a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I made a mistake. I did not set her up for success, and that is completely on me,” Lurie said, adding that he could have “done a better job of vetting” and that his administration beefed up its search process in making his next pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel terrible about that, and I let the people of D4 down, and I think they have a good representative now who is working very hard,” he said, referring to the current District 4 supervisor, Alan Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for one of the city’s other ongoing power struggles, whether to put cars back on the Great Highway or leave it open as a public park, called Sunset Dunes, Lurie stayed out of the fray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if voters should weigh in on the issue again in a 2026 ballot measure, he said: “That’s up to the people… this is one of those things where you probably won’t like the answer. We have a billion-dollar budget deficit that I’m focused on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On Instagram and economic recovery\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lurie has earned a reputation as the city’s hype man on social media, particularly on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048631/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-is-all-over-instagram-is-he-saying-enough\">Instagram\u003c/a>, where he frequently promotes San Francisco’s economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday night, Lagos and Shafer played one of Lurie’s social media videos where he speaks with a Tenderloin falafel shop owner, hyping up a local business owner with his signature tag line, “Let’s go, San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get to meet people like him and get little hits of inspiration from small business owners. It’s incredible,” Lurie said, crediting some of the younger members on his staff who are helping drive his social media strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070739\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260121-LuriePBLive-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with Political Breakdown hosts Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer during a KQED Live event in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These people are working their tails off and I want them to have a partner in City Hall,” he said, referring to the businesses. “This is a way to get our message out unfiltered and I think it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business vacancies remain high and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067981/san-francisco-recovery-slumps-as-the-future-of-its-downtown-mall-hangs-in-limbo\">downtown revitalization\u003c/a> remains one of his top concerns. And Lurie still doesn’t have an answer for what should happen to the now-empty mall at Powell and Market streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You do not want me dictating what goes into a mall or what goes into that center,” he said, adding that his administration is focused on “creating conditions” that make businesses want to develop the site into something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are hearing the news about San Francisco,” he said. “They are investing in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even with his growing social media presence, Lurie has managed to dodge one of the internet’s current crazes: \u003cem>Heated Rivalry\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked in a lightning round of questions if he’s seen the wildly popular gay hockey show, Lurie said: “I haven’t watched it. Apparently I need to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/6022\">Watch the conversation on Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The first weeks of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069387/no-alcohol-tips-stop-drinking-dry-january-good-for-you-timeline\">the new year \u003c/a>can feel tough in many ways — not least financially. And if your wallet continues to feel the strain after the holiday season, rest assured, you’re not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-cities-dominate-list-expensive-places-20238581.php\">the cost of living here \u003c/a>\u003cem>is \u003c/em>an ever-present concern for so many in the Bay Area — and some days it feels like just leaving your home costs money — luckily, this region still offers a surprising amount of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022427/things-to-do-in-the-bay-area-families-events-live-music-listings-newsletters\">things to do that are 100% free.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you find you’ve exhausted all the usual options for free activities around the Bay Area, we’ve rounded up some extra ideas for things to do in San Francisco and beyond in the coming week that require no admission fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to free activities in:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#EastBay\">East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#NorthBay\">North Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SouthBayandPeninsula\">South Bay and Peninsula\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>A few free things to do in San Francisco this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Explore Fort Point\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/fopo/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">no entrance fee required \u003c/a>to tour this San Francisco national park structure that dates from 1853, most famous today as a filming location for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller \u003cem>Vertigo\u003c/em>. The parking lot is free, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058363\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fort Point, a signature landmark located beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, on April 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(EyeEm Mobile GmbH/iStock via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make the most of a museum free day \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many local museums have regular monthly free days; for example, the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor both offer free admission for Bay Area residents every Saturday. You can also get free access to many museums with your EBT card or to certain local locations every first full weekend of the month with a Bank of America or Merrill bank card. For more, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\">our full list of Bay Area museums’ free days.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sketch in a gallery \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the de Young Museum, you’ll find \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/events/sketching-in-the-galleries\">free art materials – and a stool – provided on certain Saturdays\u003c/a> as part of their Sketching in the Galleries program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take a tour of the Coit Tower Murals \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start your Saturday or Wednesday morning with \u003ca href=\"https://sfcityguides.org/tour/coit-tower-murals/\">an in-depth guided tour, courtesy of SF City Guides, to Coit Tower’s stunning murals \u003c/a>honoring the working people of 1930s California. Learn more about the 26 contributing artists, Lillie Coit herself and the folks who’ve taken care of the art over the years (sign-up in advance is required).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visit Golden Gate Park’s Bison Paddock \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head to the western end of John F. Kennedy Drive and marvel at the majestic ladies of \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/facilities/facility/details/bison-paddock-224\">the Bison Paddock\u003c/a>. (The herd has been all-female since the 1990s, after multiple escapes led by males.) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">A mainstay of Golden Gate Park since 1891\u003c/a>, these San Francisco icons offer a glimpse into America’s wild history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11497001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11497001 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3.jpg\" alt=\"A bison at Golden Gate Park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bison at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tour the Mission District’s free art galleries …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission is peppered with fantastic independent small galleries that highlight the work of local artists and are free for all to visit. This very walkable list includes: The Drawing Room, City Art Cooperative Gallery, Rossi Mission SF, Incline Gallery, Voss Gallery, Artist’s Television Access, MRKT Gallery and Luna Rienne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… and then go for a stroll through the Mission’s alley murals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, muralists, graffiti artists and other community members have collectively covered the walls of many of the neighborhood’s alleyways — with different alleys developing specific themes. You can learn about the migration history of the Mission’s various diasporas at Balmy Alley (accessible on 24th Street between Treat Avenue and Harrison Street), get a walkthrough of the many social justice movements present in the Bay Area at Clarion Alley (accessible on Mission Street between 17th and 18th streets) and see how different generations of the city’s graffiti artists have covered large parts of both Lilac and Cypress Streets, along 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-scaled-e1769018300454.jpg\" alt=\"Aztec dancer in traditional dresswith head raised dances with others in a Mission District alley surrounded by colorful murals\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie Gutierrez (foreground), director of Danza Azteca Coyolxauhqui, and other Aztec dancers commemorate the Day of the Virgin Guadalupe by dancing in front of murals depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe around the Mission District during Paseo Artistico on Dec. 9, 2017. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watch the sunset from Bernal Hill \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch as the setting sun lights up each corner of San Francisco from above at \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/facilities/facility/details/Bernal-Heights-Park-151\">Bernal Hill\u003c/a>, with vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Bruno Mountain and across the bay on clear days. The park is free, small and easy to navigate, but never feels overly crowded with visitors, plus it’s dog-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take a free dance class \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s UN Plaza hosts \u003ca href=\"https://sfciviccenter.org/event/un-plaza-fitness-classes-dance-yoga-strength-more/\">free dance classes\u003c/a> soundtracked to all different types of genres, from salsa to K-pop, but be aware that RSVPs are usually required. ODC in the Mission District also has \u003ca href=\"https://odc.dance/dance101\">free dance classes\u003c/a>, taught through Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visit the San Francisco Cable Car Museum \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See historic cable cars and learn how they operate at this small-but-worth-a-visit free museum on Nob Hill’s Mason Street. After your visit, you can stroll into neighboring Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go to Musee Mecanique\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pick counts as \u003cem>almost\u003c/em>-free, since the Musee’s array of old-timey arcade games, attractions and photo booths admittedly require varying levels of quarters (available from the change machines) — but entry is no-cost, and even just wandering this sprawling Fisherman’s Wharf warehouse is a vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"EastBay\">\u003c/a>A few free things to do in the East Bay this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get a free workout in Claremont Canyon \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the costs of a gym membership or class feel prohibitive, it’s good to remember that the Bay Area is blessed with many steep trails that offer a semi-punishing workout with a glorious view at the end as your reward. \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/stonewall-panoramic-trail-to-viewpoint\">The Stonewall-Panoramic Trail in Berkeley’s Claremont Canyon\u003c/a> is, rightly, a classic example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12022193 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate, as seen from Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Explore Mountain View Cemetery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is this historic Oakland cemetery full of picturesque views and elaborate crypts, but it also offers the chance to pay your respects to a plethora of Bay Area legends, including Black Panther Bobby Hutton, poet Ina Coolbrith, architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886781/californias-trailblazing-female-architect-built-lavishly-lived-simply\">Julia Morgan\u003c/a>, rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967351/mac-dre-20-years-death-furly-ghost-bay-area\">Mac Dre\u003c/a> and actor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13932485/tributes-angus-cloud-euphoria-oakland-osa-kehlani-zendaya-kev-choice-jwalt\">Angus Cloud\u003c/a>. It’s also the final resting place of Elizabeth Short, aka \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia\">the Black Dahlia\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pay a visit to Rosie the Riveter \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This museum on the Richmond waterfront — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/rori/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park\u003c/a>, to acknowledge its full name — explores the lives of local people on the WWII home front, and has no entry fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SouthBayandPeninsula\">\u003c/a>A few free things to do in the South Bay and the Peninsula this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birdwatch at the Baylands \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter is one of the best times to get into birdwatching, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloalto.gov/Departments/Community-Services/Parks-Open-Space-Golf-Division/Neighborhood-Parks/Baylands-Nature-Preserve\">Palo Alto’s Baylands Nature Preserve\u003c/a> boasts hundreds of bird species that call its nearly 2,000 acres of marshland home. The preserve is entirely free to enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-1536x982.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-1920x1227.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth graders from Jane Lathrop Middle School in Palo Alto line the banks of San Francisquito Creek to help plant 500 native wetland seedlings as part of a “Save The Bay” restoration project at the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bring a picnic to the Pulgas Water Temple \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t want to spring for\u003ca href=\"https://filoli.org/\"> a visit to Filoli\u003c/a>? The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpuc.gov/learning/come-visit/pulgas-water-temple\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> is a small slice of garden heaven that’s completely free, with a serene tree-lined pool and Instagram-worthy Corinthian design that pays tribute to the extensive network that brings fresh mountain water all the way from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Bay Area. Monday through Friday, the parking lot is open and free to enter — but on weekends, you’ll have to walk or bike around half a mile to the grounds via Cañada Road from Highway 92 or Edgewood Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"NorthBay\">\u003c/a>A few free things to do in the North Bay this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Try magnet fishing in Santa Rosa’s Lake Ralphine …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… or anywhere you feel like dropping a cheap neodymium magnet attached to a long rope (note: check for any local prohibitions in that area first) and seeing what ancient metal objects you can pull out of the water. It’s that simple — but sure, you can read \u003ca href=\"https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoor-gear/a39679643/everything-you-need-to-get-started-in-magnet-fishing/\">a long explainer\u003c/a> if you’d like.[aside postID=news_11943906 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS47523_009_SanFrancisco_SkyStarWheel_03042021-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003cstrong>Bring a picnic to Bartholomew \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craft a picnic according to your personal budget and take it to the Bartholomew Estate just outside the town of Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While outside food isn’t permitted in the patio or grounds directly outside the winery, there is a whole hillside of spots with picnic tables — and trails — \u003ca href=\"https://www.bartholomewestate.com/hiking/\">across the street in Bartholomew Park\u003c/a>, where you get the same fancy view without buying a bottle (although you can do that too, of course.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gravity Hill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put your car in neutral on \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/8AiVX2qj73d7yUg56\">Lichau Road in rural Sonoma County\u003c/a> just east of Rohnert Park, and then question reality as you watch it slowly roll uphill. Yes, \u003cem>uphill\u003c/em>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Carly Severn, Rae Alexandra, Gabe Meline, Sarah Wright, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, Nisa Khan and Emily DeRuy contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to free activities in:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#EastBay\">East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#NorthBay\">North Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#SouthBayandPeninsula\">South Bay and Peninsula\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>A few free things to do in San Francisco this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Explore Fort Point\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/fopo/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">no entrance fee required \u003c/a>to tour this San Francisco national park structure that dates from 1853, most famous today as a filming location for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller \u003cem>Vertigo\u003c/em>. The parking lot is free, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058363\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fort Point, a signature landmark located beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, on April 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(EyeEm Mobile GmbH/iStock via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make the most of a museum free day \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many local museums have regular monthly free days; for example, the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor both offer free admission for Bay Area residents every Saturday. You can also get free access to many museums with your EBT card or to certain local locations every first full weekend of the month with a Bank of America or Merrill bank card. For more, check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943906/how-to-find-free-museum-tickets-in-the-bay-area\">our full list of Bay Area museums’ free days.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sketch in a gallery \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the de Young Museum, you’ll find \u003ca href=\"https://www.famsf.org/events/sketching-in-the-galleries\">free art materials – and a stool – provided on certain Saturdays\u003c/a> as part of their Sketching in the Galleries program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take a tour of the Coit Tower Murals \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Start your Saturday or Wednesday morning with \u003ca href=\"https://sfcityguides.org/tour/coit-tower-murals/\">an in-depth guided tour, courtesy of SF City Guides, to Coit Tower’s stunning murals \u003c/a>honoring the working people of 1930s California. Learn more about the 26 contributing artists, Lillie Coit herself and the folks who’ve taken care of the art over the years (sign-up in advance is required).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visit Golden Gate Park’s Bison Paddock \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head to the western end of John F. Kennedy Drive and marvel at the majestic ladies of \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/facilities/facility/details/bison-paddock-224\">the Bison Paddock\u003c/a>. (The herd has been all-female since the 1990s, after multiple escapes led by males.) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">A mainstay of Golden Gate Park since 1891\u003c/a>, these San Francisco icons offer a glimpse into America’s wild history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11497001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11497001 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3.jpg\" alt=\"A bison at Golden Gate Park\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Bison_3-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bison at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Erasmo Martinez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tour the Mission District’s free art galleries …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission is peppered with fantastic independent small galleries that highlight the work of local artists and are free for all to visit. This very walkable list includes: The Drawing Room, City Art Cooperative Gallery, Rossi Mission SF, Incline Gallery, Voss Gallery, Artist’s Television Access, MRKT Gallery and Luna Rienne.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>… and then go for a stroll through the Mission’s alley murals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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You can learn about the migration history of the Mission’s various diasporas at Balmy Alley (accessible on 24th Street between Treat Avenue and Harrison Street), get a walkthrough of the many social justice movements present in the Bay Area at Clarion Alley (accessible on Mission Street between 17th and 18th streets) and see how different generations of the city’s graffiti artists have covered large parts of both Lilac and Cypress Streets, along 24th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11931036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11931036\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/012_Calle24_PaseoArtistico_12092017_7693-scaled-e1769018300454.jpg\" alt=\"Aztec dancer in traditional dresswith head raised dances with others in a Mission District alley surrounded by colorful murals\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louie Gutierrez (foreground), director of Danza Azteca Coyolxauhqui, and other Aztec dancers commemorate the Day of the Virgin Guadalupe by dancing in front of murals depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe around the Mission District during Paseo Artistico on Dec. 9, 2017. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Watch the sunset from Bernal Hill \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch as the setting sun lights up each corner of San Francisco from above at \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/facilities/facility/details/Bernal-Heights-Park-151\">Bernal Hill\u003c/a>, with vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Bruno Mountain and across the bay on clear days. The park is free, small and easy to navigate, but never feels overly crowded with visitors, plus it’s dog-friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take a free dance class \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s UN Plaza hosts \u003ca href=\"https://sfciviccenter.org/event/un-plaza-fitness-classes-dance-yoga-strength-more/\">free dance classes\u003c/a> soundtracked to all different types of genres, from salsa to K-pop, but be aware that RSVPs are usually required. ODC in the Mission District also has \u003ca href=\"https://odc.dance/dance101\">free dance classes\u003c/a>, taught through Zoom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visit the San Francisco Cable Car Museum \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See historic cable cars and learn how they operate at this small-but-worth-a-visit free museum on Nob Hill’s Mason Street. After your visit, you can stroll into neighboring Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Go to Musee Mecanique\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pick counts as \u003cem>almost\u003c/em>-free, since the Musee’s array of old-timey arcade games, attractions and photo booths admittedly require varying levels of quarters (available from the change machines) — but entry is no-cost, and even just wandering this sprawling Fisherman’s Wharf warehouse is a vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"EastBay\">\u003c/a>A few free things to do in the East Bay this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get a free workout in Claremont Canyon \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the costs of a gym membership or class feel prohibitive, it’s good to remember that the Bay Area is blessed with many steep trails that offer a semi-punishing workout with a glorious view at the end as your reward. \u003ca href=\"https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/stonewall-panoramic-trail-to-viewpoint\">The Stonewall-Panoramic Trail in Berkeley’s Claremont Canyon\u003c/a> is, rightly, a classic example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12022193 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_Oakland-Fires_DMB_02798-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Gate, as seen from Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve. \u003ccite>(David M. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pay a visit to Rosie the Riveter \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This museum on the Richmond waterfront — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/rori/planyourvisit/fees.htm\">the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park\u003c/a>, to acknowledge its full name — explores the lives of local people on the WWII home front, and has no entry fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"SouthBayandPeninsula\">\u003c/a>A few free things to do in the South Bay and the Peninsula this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birdwatch at the Baylands \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter is one of the best times to get into birdwatching, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.paloalto.gov/Departments/Community-Services/Parks-Open-Space-Golf-Division/Neighborhood-Parks/Baylands-Nature-Preserve\">Palo Alto’s Baylands Nature Preserve\u003c/a> boasts hundreds of bird species that call its nearly 2,000 acres of marshland home. The preserve is entirely free to enter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040916\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-1020x652.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-1536x982.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/BaylandsGetty-1920x1227.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sixth graders from Jane Lathrop Middle School in Palo Alto line the banks of San Francisquito Creek to help plant 500 native wetland seedlings as part of a “Save The Bay” restoration project at the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bring a picnic to the Pulgas Water Temple \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t want to spring for\u003ca href=\"https://filoli.org/\"> a visit to Filoli\u003c/a>? The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpuc.gov/learning/come-visit/pulgas-water-temple\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> is a small slice of garden heaven that’s completely free, with a serene tree-lined pool and Instagram-worthy Corinthian design that pays tribute to the extensive network that brings fresh mountain water all the way from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Bay Area. Monday through Friday, the parking lot is open and free to enter — but on weekends, you’ll have to walk or bike around half a mile to the grounds via Cañada Road from Highway 92 or Edgewood Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"NorthBay\">\u003c/a>A few free things to do in the North Bay this winter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Try magnet fishing in Santa Rosa’s Lake Ralphine …\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… or anywhere you feel like dropping a cheap neodymium magnet attached to a long rope (note: check for any local prohibitions in that area first) and seeing what ancient metal objects you can pull out of the water. It’s that simple — but sure, you can read \u003ca href=\"https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoor-gear/a39679643/everything-you-need-to-get-started-in-magnet-fishing/\">a long explainer\u003c/a> if you’d like.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bring a picnic to Bartholomew \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craft a picnic according to your personal budget and take it to the Bartholomew Estate just outside the town of Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While outside food isn’t permitted in the patio or grounds directly outside the winery, there is a whole hillside of spots with picnic tables — and trails — \u003ca href=\"https://www.bartholomewestate.com/hiking/\">across the street in Bartholomew Park\u003c/a>, where you get the same fancy view without buying a bottle (although you can do that too, of course.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gravity Hill\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put your car in neutral on \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/8AiVX2qj73d7yUg56\">Lichau Road in rural Sonoma County\u003c/a> just east of Rohnert Park, and then question reality as you watch it slowly roll uphill. Yes, \u003cem>uphill\u003c/em>!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Carly Severn, Rae Alexandra, Gabe Meline, Sarah Wright, Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí, Nisa Khan and Emily DeRuy contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been one year since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump’s\u003c/a> second term began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, those 12 months have brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061191/activists-federal-agents-clash-at-coast-guard-base-during-immigration-crackdown\">clashes with federal officers\u003c/a>, threats to local landmarks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048367/can-trump-really-reopen-alcatraz-delegation-heads-to-island-to-make-case\">Alcatraz \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027864/trump-moves-slash-presidio-trust-agency-runs-historic-sf-park\">Presidio\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052452/you-cant-trust-anyone-in-oakland-fear-of-ice-raids-grips-day-laborers\">fear of deportation\u003c/a> to many immigrant communities and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060511/massive-no-kings-crowds-return-to-bay-area-streets-rebuking-trump\">plenty of protests\u003c/a> here in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the anniversary of Trump’s second inauguration, people across the Bay Area joined \u003ca href=\"https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/free-america-weekend?page=4\">hundreds of walkouts\u003c/a> nationwide organized by Women’s March — a movement that began with the feminist protests in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered Tuesday afternoon at Civic Center Plaza in downtown San Francisco to protest what organizers described as the administration’s violent actions in Venezuela, harsh immigration enforcement and authoritarian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Brooks came with more than a dozen members of her church, the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Francisco, each wearing a photo of a person who recently died in ICE custody around their necks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a really sad story that people are being picked up and they’re not taken care of correctly and they’re dying in ICE custody,” Brooks said, adding that she “just wants the Trump administration to follow the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Van Soelen (left) and Tamika Bowman (right) chant against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thirty-two people \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">died in ICE custody in 2025\u003c/a>, the most in two decades, according to an analysis by \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in an inflatable frog costume — a symbol of resistance to immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn987yqnee9o\">popularized at protests\u003c/a> in Portland, Oregon, last year — Judy Wedekind carried a sign that read, “ICE are the domestic terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very inspired by the Portland frog. I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” Wedekind said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said attending the rally was her way of “doing her part to support the resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants said the rally was part of a broader effort to show solidarity and take action on issues related to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks from Venezuela to Minnesota know that they’re not alone,” said Jane Martin, organizing director at Bay Resistance, one of the groups organizing the San Francisco rally. “We want to give folks here in the Bay who are outraged and upset about what’s happening a place to come and take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd protests against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026, calling attention to immigration enforcement, U.S. actions in Venezuela, and what organizers described as authoritarian rule. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin said Tuesday’s march represents a new strategy in resisting the Trump administration, beyond marching and “symbolic action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re trying to move towards now is actually more non-cooperation and disruptive action that can actually prevent this regime from continuing to attack our communities,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin pointed to a planned \u003ca href=\"https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/\">general strike \u003c/a>in Minneapolis on Friday, in protest of the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070016/why-a-bay-area-attorney-says-immigrants-rights-are-being-violated-in-minneapolis\">immigration enforcement crackdown\u003c/a> by the Trump administration there, as an example. She said Tuesday’s walkout was part of “building up and flexing those muscles,” with a goal of organizing “as big of an action as we can this May Day.”[aside postID=news_12070016 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-JAMES-COOK-EF-01-KQED.jpg']Recent polling indicates that a majority of Americans disapprove of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_qsNv5iE.pdf\">poll\u003c/a> of U.S. adults by The Economist and YouGov showed that 47% of respondents said they believed ICE was making Americans less safe, as opposed to 34% who said ICE made Americans safer. In a recent Quinnipiac University National \u003ca href=\"https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3944\">poll\u003c/a>, 53% of U.S. voters said they thought the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE officers in Minneapolis earlier this month was not justified, while 35% thought it was justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good’s death led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069104/bay-area-immigrant-defense-groups-report-surge-in-support-after-minneapolis-ice-killing\">surges in support and interest\u003c/a> in rapid response and immigration enforcement legal observer training in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Herrera, the co-director of the Nuevo Sol Day Labor and Domestic Workers Center in San Francisco — which is co-organizing Tuesday’s march — called the killing a “public execution,” and a “deliberate attack to intimidate our communities right out of the workbook for dictators in Latin America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070545\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00340_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francisco Xavier Martín del Campo wears a pin that says “No to Empire” at an ICE protest in front of City Hall on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Trump called off a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">planned immigration enforcement surge\u003c/a> in the Bay Area last October after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie urged him to “rethink” the plan, Herrera said immigrant communities here are still living in fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re seeing is people not willing to go out in the neighborhood because now you just need to be brown and you’re going to be picked up,” Herrera said. “ There’s a tremendous drop in the local economy because people are afraid to go to a restaurant or go shopping. So, it’s having a ripple effect that is harshly damaging our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said he is grateful for the wider community that has stepped up to support immigrant communities through programs like\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055084/california-volunteers-stand-guard-at-day-laborer-corners-amid-ice-sweeps\"> Adopt-A-Corner\u003c/a>, which help protect day laborers from immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More than a resistance, I think we are moving forward and pressing for democracy,” Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanika Mahajan, a co-organizer of the rally, said activists across the country are looking to places like the Bay Area and Minneapolis to see how they respond to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I think it’s really about learning from each other. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds gathered Tuesday afternoon at Civic Center Plaza in downtown San Francisco to protest what organizers described as the administration’s violent actions in Venezuela, harsh immigration enforcement and authoritarian rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Brooks came with more than a dozen members of her church, the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Francisco, each wearing a photo of a person who recently died in ICE custody around their necks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a really sad story that people are being picked up and they’re not taken care of correctly and they’re dying in ICE custody,” Brooks said, adding that she “just wants the Trump administration to follow the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00101_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Van Soelen (left) and Tamika Bowman (right) chant against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thirty-two people \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline\">died in ICE custody in 2025\u003c/a>, the most in two decades, according to an analysis by \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressed in an inflatable frog costume — a symbol of resistance to immigration agents \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn987yqnee9o\">popularized at protests\u003c/a> in Portland, Oregon, last year — Judy Wedekind carried a sign that read, “ICE are the domestic terrorists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very inspired by the Portland frog. I think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” Wedekind said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said attending the rally was her way of “doing her part to support the resistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants said the rally was part of a broader effort to show solidarity and take action on issues related to immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that folks from Venezuela to Minnesota know that they’re not alone,” said Jane Martin, organizing director at Bay Resistance, one of the groups organizing the San Francisco rally. “We want to give folks here in the Bay who are outraged and upset about what’s happening a place to come and take action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260120-SFPROTEST00355_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd protests against ICE in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza on Jan. 20, 2026, calling attention to immigration enforcement, U.S. actions in Venezuela, and what organizers described as authoritarian rule. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin said Tuesday’s march represents a new strategy in resisting the Trump administration, beyond marching and “symbolic action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ What we’re trying to move towards now is actually more non-cooperation and disruptive action that can actually prevent this regime from continuing to attack our communities,” Martin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin pointed to a planned \u003ca href=\"https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/\">general strike \u003c/a>in Minneapolis on Friday, in protest of the ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070016/why-a-bay-area-attorney-says-immigrants-rights-are-being-violated-in-minneapolis\">immigration enforcement crackdown\u003c/a> by the Trump administration there, as an example. She said Tuesday’s walkout was part of “building up and flexing those muscles,” with a goal of organizing “as big of an action as we can this May Day.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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