SF backs away from harm reduction and Housing First
Plus: A grunge Cinderella reckons with the '90s, Bay Area Dance Week beckons, Karyn Gabriel's ceramic mantras
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Today's headlines:
SF backs away from harm reduction and Housing First
By Tim Redmond
Plus: Fighting back against budget cuts to job training, affordability, and public health. That's The Agenda for April 19-26.
How ‘absurd grunge Cinderella’ Melissa Auf der Maur embraced her wild ’90s
By Joshua Rotter
Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist's intense memoir 'Even the Good Girls Will Cry' peels back rock icon mythos.
Karyn Gabriel’s ceramic sculptures ask, ‘Is beauty important?’
By Mary Corbin
Drawn to the mantra of repetition and the stillness of nature, the Marin artist lets each work 'percolate on its own timeline.'
Bay Area Dance Week celebrates leaps and bounds of local scene
By Mary Carbonara
'Let’s just have fun and enjoy being in our bodies in a joyful space,' says co-director Dudley Flores, whose 'One Dance' kicks things off.
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