Janice Mirikitani, poet, San Francisco church leader, dies

Those distributors with new movies this weekend will find they can easily blame any soured performance at the box office on the delta variant and vax cards being required at NYC, San Francisco and New Orleans cinemas.

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with seven companies bidding, Universal Television has landed the rights to The San Francisco Chronicle article “The Jessica Simulation: Love and Loss In the Age Of A.I.” to develop as a limited series, sources said. It will be written and executive produced by Blindspot creator Martin Gero under his overall deal at the studio for his Quinn’s House production company.

It would be inaccurate to call Jonathan Majors a rising star. Since his breakout role as Mont, a tender San Francisco playwright subverting the stereotypes of Black masculinity, in the Sundance darling, “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” he’s been on an enviable pace.

San Francisco Chronicle, the death is being investigated by Police Department homicide detectives in the city.In a further statement to the Chronicle, the rapper’s family said: “We are in a deep state of grief and processing this loss.

It’s fascinating to watch local governments—New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans—rush to enact Covid vaccine requirements for entry to the publicly accessible spaces of private business, including, yes, movie theaters.

LGBTQ+ venues across the US are sending a clear message to patrons; ‘Get  the jab if you want to party.’ Gay bars and nightclubs are increasingly requiring  would-be-revellers to supply not only a valid form of photo ID but also proof  of vaccination in order to gain entry. Recent reports that several attendees of the LGBTQI+ street fair Folsom Street Market in  San Francisco on July 25, tested positive for COVID-19, seem to have spurred more queer venues to mandate proof of jabs for entry into

Variety.The “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” crooner’s tour was originally set to relaunch in September in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The additional affected dates include New York, Maryland, Oklahoma and Canada.

Netflix said Thursday that its limited series Colin In Black & White, created by Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick, will premiere on October 29, 2021.

Jane Fonda explored running for governor in this year’s recall election, but ultimately decided to support Gavin Newsom, who is trying to retain his seat in the Sept. 14 election, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe gold rush surrounding non-fungible token (NFT) digital collectibles continues: MakersPlace, a marketplace for buying and selling digital artwork and other creations, has raised $30 million in funding from investors including rapper Eminem and Sony Music Entertainment.San Francisco-based MakersPlace, which launched in 2018, announced that it raised $30 million.

Jordan Moreau New York City will require proof of vaccination for people going to indoor activities like restaurants, gym and performances, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.The program will launch August 16 and will be enforced beginning September 13.

Home run hang! Ava Phillippe and her boyfriend, Owen Mahoney, took themselves out to the ballgame for an adorable date night.

OMFG —  Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe‘s daughter Ava has taken the term “mini-me” to a whole new level!

It’s no secret that Ava Phillippe looks JUST like her mom, Reese Witherspoon, but fans also think that her hunky boyfriend, Owen Mahoney, looks like her father, Ryan Phillippe. Ava and Owen attended a San Francisco Giants game on July 31, and she posted a selfie of them in the crowd together. “He’s a Giants fan…and I’m a garlic fries fan,” she captioned the pic. Fans immediately began flooding the comments section with comments about the two looking like Reese and Ryan.

Ethan Shanfeld The Jewish Film Institute has selected six projects for its second cycle of Completion Grants Program, Variety has learned.JFI, the Bay Area curatorial voice for Jewish film and media, announced the grants at the virtual awards ceremony for the 41st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.This year, JFI has awarded $100,000 in film completion grants, ranging from $5,000 to $30,000, to filmmakers who are expanding and evolving the Jewish story for audiences “everywhere in every genre —

If you also thought the photo below was a pic of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, you aren’t alone.

While everyone knows Margaret Cho is multitalented (she counts actress, comedian, musician, author and fashion designer among her many job titles, after all!), there’s a lot that even the biggest fans don’t know about the Good on Paper actress.

Greg Knapp was an assistant coach with the New York Jets, Denver Broncos, and several other teams in a 25-year NFL coaching career.After playing as a quarterback at Sacramento State University and briefly in the NFL, Knapp began his coaching career at Sacramento State. His first NFL coaching job was for the San Francisco 49ers, and he moved on to coach the Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, and Houston Texans.