Lunar New Year 2025
San Francisco’s Chinese New Year parade rings in the Year of the Snake with the largest Lunar New Year celebration
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Local City College Filmmakers Reimagine SF History
Play It Like It’s ’54 masterfully recreates 1950s San Francisco. Using an exquisite color palette and deep-cut locations—some unfamiliar even to locals—the film transforms North Beach and Chinatown into the backdrop for lovers Jean and Vivian.
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San Francisco Celebrates the Remarkable Life of a Chinese American Icon
On March 11th, 2022 the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) announced the long-awaited return of Chinatown’s native son: The We Are Bruce Lee: Under the Sky, One Family exhibition.
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Mayor Breed Awards $4.7 Million to AAPI and Latino Cultural Groups
$400,00 will fund the “We Are Bruce Lee” exhibit at the Chinese Historical Society of America, with another $600,000 for an art gallery and welcome center adjacent to the exhibit. Other grantees include the Mission District’s Carnaval, the Chinatown Festival of Lights, and small businesses in Chinatown.
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Autumn Moon Festival Entices Crowds Back to Chinatown
After a year’s hiatus, the Autumn Moon Festival in Chinatown brought out crowds of people to Grant Avenue during the weekend of Sept. 11-12, offering hope to local businesses and performers who have struggled to rebound from the economic losses of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreAsian Coalition Celebrates Year of The Pig
By Jerusha Kamoji jkamoji@gmail.com Photos by Peter J. Suter The City College of San Francisco Asian Coalition (AC) had
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Chinatown center elevators fixed after strong earthquake disrupts them
By Santiago Mejia The Guardsman The elevators at City College’s Chinatown center have been restored following today’s early morning magnitude-6.1 earthquake.
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Restoration policy may be last chance to maintain accreditation
By Samantha Dennis The Guardsman City College has applied for restoration status and if granted, would allow them
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Pelosi decides to join the fight
Pressed against the glass frame of City College’s Chinatown North Beach center on the morning of Jan. 6, faculty, staff and students listened attentively for updated accreditation information and supporting words from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
Read MoreChinatown subway loved and hated
A handful of small businesses and many residents along the Stockton Street corridor through Chinatown will be forced to relocate by the end of the month due to the city’s new plan to extend the MUNI T-Third Line.
The Central Subway Project has surprisingly become one of the more conscientious topics affecting the mayoral race.
Read MoreCity College instructor runs for mayor of San Francisco
After placing fourth in the 2007 San Francisco mayoral race, City College music instructor Wilma Pang says she is “sitting pretty” to win this November with the help of a new voting process called ranked-choice voting.
Read MoreChinatown: New campus groundbreaking continues despite rainy weather
“These are tears of joy coming down from heaven,” said board of trustees President Lawrence Wong about the rain that did not dampen the spirits of the crowd at the Chinatown / North Beach Campus groundbreaking on Nov. 1.
Read MoreChinatown Design Approved
In a unanimous decision, City College’s board of trustees approved the final design of the Lot 5 for the new Chinatown/North Beach campus on Thursday July 10, putting an end to a long delay.
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