San Francisco
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A major West Coast intellectual center.
Also, a center of gay culture.
Known for its history of major earthquakes.
Site of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Dean loves working Trans*cendent because it reminds her of stories she’s heard about old-school lesbian bars like the Lexington in San Francisco where tight-knit groups of regulars held court night after night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
On Wednesday morning, a sea of people snaked around a downtown warehouse in San Francisco, waiting to get into the hottest event in town: the Claude Founder House, hosted by Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The rate at which flu tests are coming back positive since the season’s start has been high in the San Francisco Bay Area and moderate in Southern California and the Sacramento Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Researchers at UC San Francisco have now developed a potential alternative that could allow those cancer-fighting cells to be reprogrammed directly inside the body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
However, unlike a similar ordinance adopted in Boston, San Francisco’s policy applies only to public employment, not to private vendors that do business with the city or county of San Francisco.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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