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Axios
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival announces 2025 line-up
The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with over 100 free performances from May through October in downtown San Francisco. State of play: Programming includes outdoor music, theater, circus, dance, poetry and children's programs that aim to spotlight the Bay Area's rich heritage and creativity. Driving the news: The opening concert will take place May 10 with Grammy-winning La Santa Cecilia headlining and San Francisco's very own La Doña as the opener. Other events include a Storytellers' Showcase with youth-serving nonprofit 826 Valencia, the Native Contemporary Arts Festival, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Vân-Ánh Võ's Blood Moon Orchestra, Parangal Dance Company and more. New this year will be a first Thursday dance night series in the Yerba Buena East Garden. Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers will perform at the first one on July 3. All programs take place outdoors in Yerba Buena's main and children's gardens. The intrigue: The YBGF is also launching a new poet-in-residence program with Nia Pearl as the inaugural participant. Pearl, a poet, writer and environmental justice advocate, will be involved in the Poetic Tuesdays series and help curate interactive writing workshops. The residency will also create site-specific poetry in response to musical performances and the gardens environment throughout the festival. What they're saying:"We are proud of the role Yerba Buena Gardens Festival has played in ... helping make downtown San Francisco a culturally vibrant place for everyone," the festival's executive and artistic director Linda Lucero said in a news release.
CBS News
13-03-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Minnesota craft brewery industry worried about impact of 25% steel, aluminum tariffs
The president's new 25% tax on foreign steel and aluminum is designed to get people to buy American-made, but it's expected to drive up costs on your next car, new homes and possibly even local craft brews. Part of Minnesota's heart is its nearly 200 craft breweries. "Brewers are the masters of the pivot. Constantly having to deal with different challenges," Bob Galligan, who works with the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild, said. The Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild says the next pivot on tap could be because of the new tariffs. "The tariffs are going to be throwing off a lot of money to this country," President Trump said. The tariffs could be a buzzkill for places like La Doña Cerveceria, which uses aluminum cans for 40% of what they produce, with the other 60% mainly going in steel kegs. "Everything's kind of up in the air," Dicky Lopez, the head brewer for La Doña Cerveceria, said. "You just wake up and just wonder what's going on here." So the haze caused them to take proactive measures. "We ordered ahead knowing it was going to go into place," Lopez said. La Doña says trends like Dry January, the decrease in popularity for drinking as a whole, but also a rise in prices of their cans from their supplier leading up to the tariff implementation, has caused their supply to be a little bit lower. "No brewery wants to increase the prices on anything," Galligan said. As for solutions, the industry hops to each other. "We've been in this together forever. I got started at Surly. Just from there, learning from other brewers, it's a competition," Lopez said. "If we make better beer, everybody makes better beer."
CBS News
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
San Francisco Music Week creates opportunity to connect with cultural scene
For Chicana musician La Doña, music is more than a career. Growing up in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, La Doña's roots run deep in the Bay Area's vibrant cultural scene, which she describes as unique. "I think that it is very different from other places where you might find a more robust music industry," she said. "Just because, we are used to really supporting each other and uplifting each other." This sense of empowerment from her community has helped La Doña rise as an artist. But the multifaceted musician also points out that the city's infrastructure has not always been conducive to artists' success. That's why she says she is thrilled to participate in SF Music Week. "I think that we deserve and really should put energy and resources into creating those spaces." By "spaces," La Doña refers to opportunities where creative professionals can gather and collaborate in meaningful ways. This aligns with the goals of the new San Francisco Mayor's Office, which is working to support the local arts and entertainment ecosystem. Through the San Francisco Music Week, an event put on in partnership with the Noise Pop Music Festival, SF Live and the SF Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the city aims to foster stronger and mutually beneficial connections within the music business. "We continue our work to identify how to continue to support San Francisco's comeback, and how to leverage our great arts and entertainment ecosystem that we have here," said Ben Van Houten with the Office of Economic & Workforce Development. "Doing a week to showcase SF music and the music business is one way we're making that happen." For La Doña, participating in SF Music Week is an opportunity to share a consistent message with fellow artists and fans alike. "It's my priority to teach people that they can find themselves through music," she said. "Not necessarily through fame, not necessarily through even being a professional musician. But just driving home the message that the most important relationships are relationship to self, craft and community." It's this deep connection to her craft and her community that keeps La Doña singing and drives her passion for both music and the people who support her.
