Virtual gymnastics meets provide a travel-free way to compete
A pandemic innovation, virtual competitions have allowed some sports, including acrobatic gymnastics, to reduce travel this year while continuing training and competition.
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Inspired by family, golfer Jake Beber-Frankel navigates first year at Stanford
Freshman Jake Beber-Frankel says he’s inspired by his grandfather, New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Max Frankel.
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Reporter’s Notebook: A year into the pandemic, hopeful signs emerge
Peninsula Press reporters, who are stationed across the country, provide snapshots of what life is like now more than one year into the coronavirus pandemic.
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After COVID-19 shut down baseball, minor leaguers eye an April return to the field
This week marks one year since minor league baseball players were asked to go home after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down their season in 2020. As players gear up to play again in April, some are reflecting on what the past year has been like.
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Immersive video tour: Chochenyo Park commemorates Black, Indigenous history
ALAMEDA — This immersive video story features the voices of Alameda community members who played a role in renaming the city’s Jackson Park to Chocenyo Park.
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Bay Area coronavirus cases decline
This visualization takes a look at coronavirus cases in three Bay Area counties.
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Oil Drilling on California’s Federal Lands Set to Resume After 8 Years, Sets up Early Test of Biden Administration
The Trump administration had gone ahead with plans to approve new oil drilling leases on public lands in California. The decision opened more than 1.5 million acres to drilling and ended an eight-year moratorium on federal land leasing in the state. The first seven parcels, 35 miles outside Bakersfield total 4,333.58 acres and are slated to go on sale Dec. 10.
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Coronavirus and winter make it harder to solve Santa Cruz’s homelessness problems
Santa Cruz, a beach town that promotes a legacy of tolerance — “Keep Santa Cruz Weird” is the slogan on T-shirts — hasn’t been able to solve a persistent problem with homelessness. As city officials, nonprofits and activists struggle for answers, the onset of winter poses even more threat to those who find shelter in the open. Looming over everything this year is a resurgent coronavirus.
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Girls Leadership Nonprofit Works to Lessen COVID-strain for Girls of Color
As Senator Kamala Harris was blazing the campaign trail in August, a non-profit based in her hometown released a study that shows Black and Latinx girls are considerably more likely than their peers to identify as leaders. They are also more likely to have role models in their lives who identify as leaders.
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Behind the Scenes of Spotify Wrapped
Music streaming service Spotify launched its annual “Wrapped” campaign — a data-driven feature that showcases the artists and genres that people listened to the most, individualized reports of user data highlighting users’ top songs and podcasts of the year, how many minutes users spent streaming music and podcasts, and cultural trends that shaped 2020.
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San Francisco’s only Chamorro Restaurant Persists Amid Pandemic
At Prubechu’, on the corner of 18th and Mission booming reggae music, bursts of laughter, and a sunny outdoor patio make diners feel as if they’re in the Pacific.
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Bay Area coronavirus cases decline
This visualization takes a look at coronavirus cases in three Bay Area counties.
Year after year, best picture nominees go to dramas
Between 1930 and last year’s awards, 88 percent of best picture nominees were dramas, compared to 53 percent of feature-length films as a whole.
When fewer people watch the Super Bowl on TV, will the ads survive?
In the last two years, advertisers spent less on Super Bowl advertisements than they had in previous years. To understand this trend, we turned to data on game viewership and time spent watching only Super Bowl advertisements on YouTube.