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Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress says she was inspired to bring a labyrinth to the church when San Francisco was in the midst of the AIDS Crisis.
A circular labyrinth on the tiles outside of the Grace Cathedral. Text on the right reads: Artress says she was inspired to bring a labyrinth to the church when San Francisco was in the midst of the AIDS Crisis. "It was just really such a very frightening time," she says. "I knew it intuitively that we needed something that people could do together, prayerfully, or as a meditation, however you understand the labyrinth, and to be able to do something non-verbally. The labyrinth really became a very, very important tool, and it has been ever since."
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Grace Cathedral is considered by many to be the center of the modern labyrinth movement, dating back to the installation of the Chartres labyrinth replica in 1991.
An open space that shows the circular labyrinth pattern on the floor of the Grace Cathedral. Behind the labyrinth are rows of dark brown pews. Text at the top reads: Grace Cathedral is considered by many to be the center of the modern labyrinth movement, dating back to the installation of the Chartres labyrinth replica in 1991. The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress, who was the church's Canon Pastor at the time, brought the first labyrinth to Grace in canvas form first. One was eventually set into the stone floor of the church, and another put outside the cathedral so that visitors may walk it anytime.
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Mini 🧵: If you do a lot of walking or hiking in the Bay Area, there's a chance you've stumbled upon a labyrinth. #BayCurious listener, Kate, noticed there seemed to be a lot of them in the Bay, and wanted to know if there's any connection between them and why there are so many.
A circular labyrinth made out of rocks on the edge of a cliff at Lands End park in San Francisco. The cliff overlooks the ocean. Text over the image reads: Why are there so many Labyrinths in the Bay Area?
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📸 Bay Area residents seeking to grieve & process the recent spate of mass shootings across CA — incl. those in Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park and Oakland — gathered at a vigil in Oakland’s Chinatown to honor the many lives lost to senseless gun violence. Photo: Beth Laberge/KQED
A black and white photo of a man with a beard and a white shirt in a silver frame sits on a table. There are other frames visible, including one to the right that says "Concord farm worker, family member, friend, beloved." A lit candle, a small glass and a bowl of what appears to be rice are also on the table.
An older woman in black jacket with red dots places incense next to bunches of flowers. The flowers are on a grass field next to a sidewalk, and buildings are visible in the background.
A woman wearing a black and white shirt and dark jeans squats as she places a bunch of flowers on a grassy field.
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KQED’s all-original dating game returns to the stage for more loving fun this Valentine’s Day in San Francisco, and we want YOU to play cupid! 💘 Come to KQED headquarters Thurs, Feb. 14 and help our brand new contestant find a lucky date. Get tix now: kqed.org/event/2785
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LA Congressmember Adam Schiff, who raised his national profile as a key player in the impeachments of former President Donald Trump, says he’s running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Dianne Feinstein.
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Los Angeles Democrat Adam Schiff — a Key Trump Critic — Running for Feinstein's Senate Seat
Congressmember Adam Schiff, who raised his national profile as a key player in the impeachments of former President Donald Trump and the House committee that investigated efforts to overturn the 2020...
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We’re hiring! We’re looking for folks to fill a number of roles, including: • Engagement Producer, Latinx Initiative • Media Systems Architect/IT Network Administrator Interested in applying, or want to see the full list of current openings? Head to: kqed.applytojob.com/apply.
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🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking w/
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Aviation is responsible for over two percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, and for technological reasons it’s one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonize. But California – an early adopter...
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On Black Panther activist and educator Angela Davis' birthday, take a look back at
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Archive footage from 1975 of her highlighting the importance of developing a movement to fight injustice and defend civil liberty. 📽️: KQED Archive
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Things were quiet on the islands for a few years, but food scarcity prompted entrepreneurial men during the Gold Rush to venture out to the Farallons in search of supplies. What they found? Eggs. Lots and lots of eggs 🥚
A group of men clean a week's haul of seabird eggs. Text over the image reads: Things were quiet on the islands for a few years, but interest in them picked up again during the Gold Rush. Food scarcity prompted entrepreneurial men to venture out to the Farallons in search of supplies. Because the islands are the largest seabird nesting colony south of Alaska, what they found there were eggs. Lots and lots of eggs.
A crane-like device that was used to haul small boats safely onto the island. Text over the image reads: The eggs they collected turned out to be a hot commodity in protein-starved San Francisco, and the egg hunters quickly found themselves quite rich. By the early 1850s, about a half-million eggs were gathered each year. Egg collecting became so lucrative that in 1863 two men were killed in “The Great Egg War.” But just as with the fur seals, overharvesting of eggs caused damage to the animal world. The wild murre population plummeted. Eventually, the federal government ruled all commercial eggers off the islands.
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The first people known to live on the islands arrived in 1819. They came to the islands to harvest fur seals.
An illustration of the Farallons featured in the 1874 book “Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel in the Evening Land, etc. Illustrated” by J.W. Boddam-Whetham. Text over the illustration reads: The first people of the Bay Area were wary of the Farallons. Local tribes called them the Islands of the Dead, and it’s said they never stepped foot on them. The first people known to live on the islands arrived in 1819. They were Russian fur hunters and members of the Aleut community, who likely were working as enslaved people.
Seals on Farallon Islands. Text under the image reads: They lived on the Southeast Farallon, which is the only island large enough to support humans. They came to the islands to harvest fur seals — the warm pelts were in high demand in Russia. By 1834 the fur seal population was decimated. The animals that survived abandoned the island.
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🧵: Situated 27 miles west of the Golden Gate, the Farallon Islands is often obscured by fog or marine layer — but on the clearest of days they emerge as a blurry silhouette on the horizon line. A Bay Curious listener wanted to know: What is the history of the Farallon Islands?
A history of San Francisco's wild, raw Farallon Islands.
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The first time I saw an all-black Victorian, I was scandalized. It looked awesome, but is it sacrilege? This week on #BayCurious we'll learn about a time in Bay Area history when dark, monochromatic colors weren't unusual on these old Victorians. Episode drops tomorrow!
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UPDATE: Prosecutors will charge a farmworker accused of killing seven of his coworkers and former coworkers in back-to-back shootings on Monday at two Half Moon Bay mushroom farms with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
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7 Farmworkers Killed in Half Moon Bay Shooting Massacre: What We Know So Far
An employee of one of the two agricultural facilities where the shootings occurred was arrested and taken into custody within several hours. The rampage, believed to be a workplace violence incident,...
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“It’s said all the time, ‘Only in America. No. 1 in gun ownership, No. 1 in gun deaths.’ It’s not even complicated,” Gov.
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7 Farmworkers Killed in Half Moon Bay Shooting Massacre: What We Know So Far
An employee of one of the two agricultural facilities where the shootings occurred was arrested and taken into custody within several hours. The rampage, believed to be a workplace violence incident,...
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The undersea world has often been depicted as a dangerous place filled with lethal predators, but what's it really like? Tune in to KQED 9 on Jan. 25 at 8PM for "Nature: Soul of the Ocean" to get a never-before-seen look at life underwater. Photos courtesy of Howard Hall.
A sea turtle underwater being cleaned by tang fish.
A manta ray in the deep ocean. At the top of the image, a beam of light is shining down onto the manta ray.
A rock fish underwater in a kelp forest.
A humpback whale and calf in the deep ocean.
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