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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“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. We want to make sure that we can make it easy for [people] to do the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime city residents might shudder at the mention of a new trash can solution, given the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906815/the-sordid-saga-of-san-franciscos-trash-cans\">long and expensive history\u003c/a> of failed attempts to tackle littered streets. In 2007, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom declared the city had “too many” bins, vowing to remove half. A decade later, the city determined there were too few, and opted to place — or replace — almost 40 on streets in the Mission District, to the tune of $1,600 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, since 2021, city officials have been working on a garbage bin redesign, which first made headlines after three custom prototypes cost \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/20-000-trash-cans-No-kidding-S-F-looks-to-16331284.php\">$12,000 to $20,000 a piece\u003c/a>. In 2022, they selected the “Slim Silhouette,” a futuristic-looking canister with stainless-steel rods and small openings for trash and recyclables, which will cost an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/s-f-awards-trash-can-contract-worth-up-to-10m-to-only-qualified-bidder/\">$1,375\u003c/a> each to mass produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The saga has racked up a bill of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-may-halt-rollout-of-new-trash-cans-18621606.php\">half a million dollars\u003c/a> already, not including the \u003ca href=\"https://newspack-missionlocal.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SE10558-Notice-of-Intent-to-Award.pdf\">$10 million contract\u003c/a> awarded last year to actually produce the new bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But North Beach’s new designer receptacles aren’t expected to significantly cost the city, which is currently facing a nearly $1 billion budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-04-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-04-BL_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-04-BL_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-04-BL_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260123-PIZZATRASHCANS-04-BL_QED-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Danny Sauter speaks 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>Recology, which designed the bins, also paid for their fabrication. The city will only cover installation costs and routine collection services, which Sauter’s office said don’t require any additional budget allocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short said the project is currently in a pilot phase, but depending on how well-used and effective it is, it could be expanded in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, it seems like residents are enjoying the novelty. After Jeff Garfield finished his slice around 1 p.m. Friday, he dropped his empty container in one of the brand-new bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It made a very pleasant plop sound, sort of similar to the plop sound that the pizza made from Tony’s that went right down into my stomach,” he said. “It just plopped right in there and settled down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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 spoken out 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 spoken out 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. 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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>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. Right now, we’re all looking to Minneapolis and how they’re calling for a general strike on Friday,” Mahajan said. “We’re going to see what happens and how that might even have the potential to spread across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfusd\">school district\u003c/a> is expanding a tutoring program that more than doubled students’ reading proficiency rates last year, a bright spot in the district’s push to raise literacy scores after pandemic-era disruptions and changes to the reading curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, the district and San Francisco Education Fund rolled out short, individualized tutoring sessions for struggling students across a dozen of its highest-needs schools, but the district’s significant funding cuts and looming state and federal budget constraints posed a problem. SF Ed Fund said it had a waitlist of more than 800 students, without money to pay for the services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s set to change this week, after the district and nonprofit announced Tuesday that they would be able to clear those waitlists, and more than double the total number of students participating, with new city funding through San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and Their Families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the single most effective literacy intervention we have, and this expansion allows us to do what we know works,” said Ann Levy Walden, CEO of the SF Ed Fund. “With strong public partnership and clear goals, and in collaboration with the work of the district and its teaching staff, we’re able to deliver real, measurable gains for students who benefit most from support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expansion comes as SFUSD is trying to meet a lofty goal to raise districtwide literacy rates among third-graders to 70% by 2027. The rate of third-graders reading at or above grade level dropped year-over-year from 49% to 47% in spring 2025, according to the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/DLVPD8638224/%24file/%5BBOE%20Final%5D%2020250930_%20PMR%20-%20Goals%201%2C2%2C3.pdf\">most recent literacy proficiency data\u003c/a>\u003cu>, \u003c/u>the lowest percentage since schools returned fully to in-person instruction in the 2021-2022 school year after the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-53-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A classroom at Yick Wo Alternative Elementary School in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The initial phase of the program provided about 1,250 students with short personalized tutoring sessions at least three days a week. Seventeen early literacy interventionists worked in 12 schools, across which the percentage of participating students reading at grade level jumped from 24% to 54% in five months. The biggest gains were among kindergartners, with proficiency rates topping 71%, and at Sanchez Elementary, which saw proficiency levels nearly quadruple, from 15% to 59%, SF Ed Fund said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walden said that while the tutoring alone is not a “silver bullet” to boost reading proficiency, it is highly effective when coupled with a strong curriculum and classroom support. The district r\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/press-releases/2024-03-28-sfusd-adopts-new-pk-8-language-arts-core-curriculum-2024-25-school-year\">olled out new literacy curricula\u003c/a> for transitional kindergarten through eighth grade for the first time in 20 years in 2024, which then-Superintendent Matt Wayne said was “research-based” and aimed at meeting the district’s 70% proficiency rate next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pilots run in some SFUSD schools in 2023, the programs were found to include more grade-appropriate assignments and stronger instruction than the district’s previous programs, it said at the time.[aside postID=news_12067247 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/250818-SFUSDFirstDay-24_qed.jpg']Now, DCYF is allocating city Student Success Fund dollars to expand the tutoring program to 1,440 more students, focusing on second- through fourth-graders, who are in a pivotal window for literacy development, according to SF Ed Fund. The city fund was created by Proposition G, which voters passed in 2022 to provide SFUSD schools with grants paid for by residents’ excess property tax revenue. The goal was to invest in schools where students were struggling with the academic and social/emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High-impact literacy tutoring helps students build confidence, strengthen critical thinking, and develop the skills they need to thrive in school and beyond,” said Sherrice Dorsey-Smith, executive director of DCYF. “By investing Student Success Fund dollars and working in close partnership with our SFUSD and SF Ed Fund partners, we are expanding access to these services, bringing students off waitlists, and delivering more robust, coordinated support for students and families across San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding will pay for tutors — employed through private providers Chapter One and Braintrust Tutors — to work at additional elementary schools that SFUSD considers those with highest needs. During the initial rollout last spring, tutors were sent to priority schools, which have less than 50% of students meeting literacy standards and more than 50% qualifying as low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is bringing on an additional 19 tutors for a total of 36 across 20 schools. SF Ed Fund said tutors will start at eight “high potential schools” that weren’t a part of last year’s rollout, including: Paul Revere School in Bernal Heights; Carver, Drew and Malcolm X elementary schools in Bayview-Hunter’s Point; César Chávez and Bryant elementary schools in the Mission; and Visitacion Valley and El Dorado elementary schools in Visitacion Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>A spokesperson for SF Ed Fund said most schools’ new tutors will begin next week, while some are expected to start the first week of February, pending hiring and scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said the focus on these campuses aims to address significant literacy disparities across certain groups of students: While just about half of SFUSD students are reading at grade level, only 7% of English language learners, 26% of Latinx and 19% of Black students met state standards for third grade, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This expansion enables us to focus resources on the grade levels and school communities where high-impact tutoring can most effectively accelerate literacy development — helping students catch up, stay on track, and build a strong foundation for future learning,” Superintendent Maria Su said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, DCYF is allocating city Student Success Fund dollars to expand the tutoring program to 1,440 more students, focusing on second- through fourth-graders, who are in a pivotal window for literacy development, according to SF Ed Fund. The city fund was created by Proposition G, which voters passed in 2022 to provide SFUSD schools with grants paid for by residents’ excess property tax revenue. The goal was to invest in schools where students were struggling with the academic and social/emotional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“High-impact literacy tutoring helps students build confidence, strengthen critical thinking, and develop the skills they need to thrive in school and beyond,” said Sherrice Dorsey-Smith, executive director of DCYF. “By investing Student Success Fund dollars and working in close partnership with our SFUSD and SF Ed Fund partners, we are expanding access to these services, bringing students off waitlists, and delivering more robust, coordinated support for students and families across San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new funding will pay for tutors — employed through private providers Chapter One and Braintrust Tutors — to work at additional elementary schools that SFUSD considers those with highest needs. During the initial rollout last spring, tutors were sent to priority schools, which have less than 50% of students meeting literacy standards and more than 50% qualifying as low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD is bringing on an additional 19 tutors for a total of 36 across 20 schools. SF Ed Fund said tutors will start at eight “high potential schools” that weren’t a part of last year’s rollout, including: Paul Revere School in Bernal Heights; Carver, Drew and Malcolm X elementary schools in Bayview-Hunter’s Point; César Chávez and Bryant elementary schools in the Mission; and Visitacion Valley and El Dorado elementary schools in Visitacion Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250421-SFUSDCentralCuts-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\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>A spokesperson for SF Ed Fund said most schools’ new tutors will begin next week, while some are expected to start the first week of February, pending hiring and scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said the focus on these campuses aims to address significant literacy disparities across certain groups of students: While just about half of SFUSD students are reading at grade level, only 7% of English language learners, 26% of Latinx and 19% of Black students met state standards for third grade, according to the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This expansion enables us to focus resources on the grade levels and school communities where high-impact tutoring can most effectively accelerate literacy development — helping students catch up, stay on track, and build a strong foundation for future learning,” Superintendent Maria Su said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/pg-e-cut-power-two-s-f-neighborhoods-21297632.php\">will cut power\u003c/a> to two San Francisco neighborhoods next week to finalize repairs to the Mission District substation damaged by a major fire last month, causing an unprecedented, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068177/pge-outage-leaves-130000-across-san-francisco-without-power\">widespread blackout\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first planned outage will begin Monday after midnight in the Civic Center area and could last up to 12 hours, affecting about 3,600 customers. PG&E said power should be restored by noon at the latest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second outage, which will occur on Tuesday shortly after midnight, will affect about 14,000 customers in the Richmond District and will last around two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive unplanned outage the weekend before Christmas knocked out power for more than 130,000 city residents across wide swaths of the city, snarling traffic and transit and sparking outrage \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068307/scott-wiener-revives-push-for-san-francisco-to-break-with-pge-after-massive-outage\">against the utility company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate Bueler, a fourth-generation San Francisco resident who lives in the Richmond District, said she hoped the outage would revive calls to break up PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really shining a light on the fact that PG&E is not appropriate for us any longer. And I hope that there’s calls for public power,” Bueler said. “Power monopoly doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070213\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cables leading from PG&E generators at 24th Street and Balboa Street in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the blackout, PG&E installed generators outside of the PG&E building, on the corner of 24th Avenue and Balboa Street, to shore up power in the Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The generators, which were operational from Dec. 21-28, created a din that disturbed some residents, day and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The constant diesel fumes, noise and general disruption without an end date or communication from PGE has been nuts,” one neighborhood resident posted on Reddit.[aside postID=news_12069285 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_19032839240667-c3ea9c8607ab8c46c7dcbc486a7c0f917e3d5a08-1020x764.jpg'] The company said it will remove the generators when final repairs to the substation are completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caitlin Starke, who moved to the Richmond two weeks ago and has a baby, said she did not receive any communication about the planned outage from PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had heard of last month’s blackout but said she didn’t know that was the cause of the disruptive generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s someone parked in a truck right on my block, and it’s blinking lights at all hours of the day,” she said. “I think I’m slowly losing my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068177/pge-outage-leaves-130000-across-san-francisco-without-power\">lists instructions\u003c/a> to prepare for a planned outage on their website, including charging personal devices, preparing a battery-powered flashlight and stocking bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Alan Wong and Connie Chan posted a map on Instagram displaying planned outage zones. Bueler said the map was hard to navigate: “You can’t even read the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to hold a public hearing with PG&E next month, where affected residents and business owners can raise concerns about response and claims with company representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070212\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-PGE-GENERATORS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">PG&E generators at 24th Street and Balboa in San Francisco on Jan. 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong and Chan, who oversee the Sunset and Richmond districts respectively, have both held meetings with business owners to help them file claims. Restaurants were hit especially hard in the December blackout, losing refrigerated inventory and holiday weekend revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we return to normal operations, we expect this will help avoid some of the brief outages that customers in the Richmond District/Golden Gate Park area have experienced in the last couple of weeks,” PG&E said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know these outages have been frustrating for our customers, and we’ve been working tirelessly during this time to inspect equipment and develop plans to provide the reliability that our customers expect and deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that the generators were still operational. The story has been updated to reflect that they have not been in use since Dec. 28. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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But what if that belief simply isn’t true?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help make her point, she brings in reinforcements: retired pilot Keith Koch, who flew commercially for 40 years, fields questions about turbulence all the time. Turbulence, he explains, rarely moves a plane more than a few feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as your seatbelt is on, you’re perfectly safe in turbulence,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His claim is backed by \u003ca href=\"https://ral.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/docs/eick-turbulencerelatedaccidents.pdf\">data\u003c/a>: deaths from turbulence are very \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2024/05/21/turbulence-deaths-climate-change/73787876007/\">rare\u003c/a>, and no modern commercial aircraft has been lost to turbulence alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmerman offers a reframing tool to help shift people out of fear and into fact. Instead of saying “turbulence scares me,” she suggests: “I upset myself when there’s turbulence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067124\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251213-FEAROFFLYING00367_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251213-FEAROFFLYING00367_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251213-FEAROFFLYING00367_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251213-FEAROFFLYING00367_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251213-FEAROFFLYING00367_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain Daniel Stellini gives a presentation at the Fear of Flying workshop at the Reflection Room at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It sounds subtle, but the shift matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I give the power to turbulence,” she says, “that means every time I’m in a turbulent flight, I scare \u003cem>myself\u003c/em>!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to recognize that the plane isn’t the source of the panic — it’s what you think about the plane that causes your adrenaline to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to retrain their brains to respond differently, the group has to expose themselves to the very thing they think is dangerous: the inside of a plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you going to be less afraid of dogs unless you meet a dog?” she asks. “How are you gonna be less afraid of flying unless you get on a plane?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Exposure, the good kind\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the second day of the clinic, participants gather at United Airlines’ Technical Operations building just north of SFO. They wear bright orange safety vests, walk across the tarmac toward a maintenance hangar and gather beneath the tail of a 787 — also known as “the Dreamliner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they observe the massive aircraft. Just seeing the outline of the emergency exit door triggers a familiar sense of dread and entrapment for Vance, who practices Zimmerman’s reframing.[aside postID=news_[aside postID=news_12065518 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-SFOEATING-31-BL-KQED.jpg']“It’s just an airplane,” she tells herself. “Airplanes don’t harm anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A metal staircase is rolled up to the 787’s back entrance. One by one, participants climb inside. They wander down the aisles, absorbing from all senses. One person peers into the oven in the galley. Another taps the top of each seatback. 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As the plane accelerates down the runway, Vance gives herself a pep talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in charge. I’m the boss,” she whispers. “I have God on my side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_7701-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_7701-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_7701-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_7701-2000x2667.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_7701-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_7701-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_7701-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collette Vance looks out the window before takeoff from San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Evan Roberts/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nearby, there are other nervous flyers from the clinic. Paul is seated just in front of her, and Sarah and Katherine are across the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the seat belt sign is off, volunteer instructor Koch is free to move about the cabin and check in with each participant. He’s wearing his pilot’s uniform: crisp white shirt and tie, navy blazer, and wings pinned near his lapel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hardest thing you did was show up on day one,” he tells Vance. “If you show up on day one, there’s a really high chance you’ll end up here on day four — right where you are, on an airplane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plane begins its descent into Seattle. It sinks in for Vance that she made it through the flight without a panic attack, and her excitement swells. She leans forward to Paul, seated in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the plane lands, do you wanna clap and cheer?” she asks. “Pass it down to everybody.” He does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looks out her window as the ground gets closer and closer. As the wheels hit the runway, the clinic group erupts with cheers and congratulations. Someone jokes that they wish this group could join them on every flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Seattle airport, they all eat lunch together at a Chinese restaurant and get fortune cookies. On the flight back to SFO later that day, Colette opens hers and shrieks with excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her fortune reads: “You will travel to many exotic places in the next few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.evandavidroberts.com/\">\u003cem>Evan Roberts\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> was a 2025 Summer Fellow with \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/people/evan-roberts\">\u003cem>KALW,\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> where he first reported this piece.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When her almost 3-year-old daughter started going to a Spanish-language preschool in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> this month, Sarah Klevan’s child care expenses doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just two afternoons per week of early learning costs $575 per month, but when tacked on to after-school programs, Klevan and her husband are already paying for their 6-year-old son, there was little room left in their budget for anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next to the mortgage, child care takes a big chunk of the couple’s monthly expenses, even when she and her husband earn six figures as a policy researcher and public school librarian, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really lucky to have family nearby [to provide backup care],” she said. “I really don’t think it would not be feasible for us to live here otherwise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is trying to make life a little more affordable for middle- and upper-middle-income earners like them by expanding access to child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069997\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SFCHILDCARESUBSIDIES00041_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SFCHILDCARESUBSIDIES00041_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SFCHILDCARESUBSIDIES00041_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SFCHILDCARESUBSIDIES00041_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Klevan (right), a mother of two, gets her daughter Bea (left) ready to be picked up by her grandpa in San Francisco on Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under a plan Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Wednesday, parents who earn up to $311,000 per year for a family of four, or 200% of the area median income, will qualify for 50% discount at \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/early-learning-for-all/\">more than 500 city-funded early childhood education and care programs\u003c/a> starting in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a family of four earning less than $233,000 per year, or up to 150% of the area median income, will immediately qualify for free child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to remove a huge burden for working parents,” Lurie said Thursday at his state of the city speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged that a family of four needs to earn over $160,000 a year just to meet their basic needs, and vowed to make San Francisco the first major city in the nation to offer universal access to child care.[aside postID=news_12069608 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/019_KQED_RichmondHousing_08162022_qed.jpg']“Families are being forced to make impossible choices — delaying having children, sacrificing savings, or leaving the communities they call home,” he said. “I will not let that be the future of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news offered relief for Klevan, who qualifies for child care subsidies under the new eligibility requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a huge difference for our family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subsidies will help her pay for more hours of preschool for her daughter, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $550 million in unspent money and ongoing funds from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco\">commercial real estate tax that voters approved in 2018\u003c/a> will pay for the expanded subsidies. The goal of the tax measure, dubbed Baby Prop C, was to provide early education and care for all children under 5 years old. But revenue from the measure was tied up by a lawsuit that was resolved in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city began by first offering free child care to low-income families, then tuition assistance to families earning between 111% to 150% of the area median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan also called for increasing the eligibility threshold to cover families making up to 200% of the area median income, but the city didn’t offer a timeline. 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In his first State of the City Address, Lurie boasted that pride in the city is rebounding just as well as the economy, but stressed that too many working families are still struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordability has been a challenge in San Francisco for a long time, but as the federal government cuts support and drives up costs on everything from the price of groceries to insurance premiums and child care, the pressure is building,” Lurie said to a who’s who of California politics, including former Mayor London Breed, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis and State Controller Malia Cohen. “Families are being forced to make impossible choices, delaying having children, sacrificing savings or leaving the communities they call home. I will not let that be the future of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordability has been a central issue for Democrats. Lurie said he spoke to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, after his recent election and wished him success. When asked by this reporter if he would support a proposed state wealth tax to drive his affordability agenda, Lurie said he “has concerns” that the plan would drive wealthy residents and their tax dollars away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune who had never held public office before becoming mayor, has earned a reputation for coining taglines like “Let’s go, San Francisco,” which he employs in a steady flow of social media videos promoting the city’s recovery. On Thursday, he underscored how longstanding public safety challenges have eased in the last 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citywide, crime is down nearly 30% and homicides are at an all-time low since 1954. Like many municipalities, San Francisco has struggled to recruit and retain police officers over the last five years. Lurie, who prioritized public safety in the city’s most recent budget, said applications to join the police department are up 54% and ranks are growing for the first time since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12070020 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees listen to Mayor Daniel Lurie speak during a State of the City address at Rossi Park Ball Field in the Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is the foundation for San Francisco’s recovery, and it will always be my north star as mayor,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie campaigned on promises to clean up the city’s streets and find solutions to the ongoing overdose epidemic and outdoor drug use, which has been a point of friction for residents and business owners alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office has taken controversial moves to change the way the city addresses street-level challenges, including increasing arrests of drug users and dealers, ramping up tent encampment clearings and shifting some funding reserved for long-term homelessness solutions toward temporary shelters to move people off the streets faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those moves were met with criticism from some homeless advocates, Lurie touted the changes.[aside postID=news_12069724 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/SanctuaryCitySFTrumpAP-1020x725.jpg']“Homelessness has been a challenge in San Francisco for as long as I can remember. But fentanyl changed everything and caught our city flat-footed,” Lurie said. “Under my administration, we have changed our approach. We stopped freely handing out drug supplies and letting people kill themselves on our streets. It is not a basic right to use drugs openly in front of our kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is currently working to open a facility, called a RESET Center, staffed by law enforcement and health workers, to provide an alternative to jail and emergency room beds for people struggling with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those changes to street conditions, Lurie said, have helped draw businesses and conferences to the city, and encouraged other major events, like a Dead and Company concert series over the summer and the recent announcement that Vanderbilt University will open an outpost in San Francisco on the California College of the Arts campus after it closes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Foot traffic is expanding from Japantown to Stonestown,” he said, referring to bustling shopping centers. Lurie did not, however, mention the empty San Francisco Centre mall on Market Street, which has remained a sore spot for downtown recovery advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite major fundraising efforts by groups like the nonprofit Downtown Development Corporation and boosts from Lurie’s philanthropic ties as founder of the Tipping Point Community, many storefronts remain empty downtown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Downtown is the centerpiece of our recovery,” he said. “Yes, we are on the way back. But we still have work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070022\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260115-SOTC-BL03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie gives remarks during a State of the City address at Rossi Park Ball Field in the Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A big part of that work ahead, Lurie said, is continuing to make the city more affordable. He underscored the need for MUNI and BART funding, accessible City College programs and streamlined permitting for small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent some time last week with the members of Local 38. One of the plumbers—a guy born and raised in San Francisco—he’s got two kids, loves the city, loves his job. He came up to me and said, ‘We couldn’t make it work. Now, I’m commuting over an hour each way five days a week. What has to change so families like mine can live here?’” the mayor shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is expanding child care subsidies, and Lurie pointed to efforts to add affordable housing across the city. One of his key legislative wins so far was passing a controversial rezoning plan that allowed for taller and denser buildings across the city.[aside postID=news_12069772 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/011426_SF-VA-CUTS-_GH_013-KQED.jpg']Supporters say the plan will help cut red tape to make building more housing for all income levels easier while meeting state housing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics point to how critical rent-controlled units could be demolished under the plan to make way for market-rate housing that many low-income residents can’t afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to fight to bring down the cost of utilities for those families. And we will maintain a range of down payment and loan support programs to assist educators and first responders striving to become homeowners and build generational wealth in the communities they serve,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without naming President Donald Trump, whom Lurie has avoided naming since taking office, the mayor also said the city is facing a time of “unprecedented fear and insecurity.” In the fall, the Trump administration called off 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 to get through to the president. On Thursday, the mayor received a standing ovation when pointing out that the city managed to stave off the federal law enforcement action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, who was later expected to head to Fisherman’s Wharf to cut the ribbon at the opening of a new Taco Bell Cantina, wrapped up his speech with the same sign-off he uses for his prolific Instagram posts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just getting started, and we are not going to leave anyone behind,” he said. “Let’s go, San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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