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As the founder of a social media movement, Ambreen Tariq navigates authenticity and allyship

In 2018, Ambreen Tariq’s story of the outdoors is camping, hiking and sightseeing. It is a promise of an annual trip to Shenandoah National Park on her birthday and skies that swirl slate blue into pink. It is a solid social media following and a demanding side-hustle. It is a hashtag. But twenty years ago,

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Wellness sells: Four sound meditation practitioners explain what it’s like to heal for a living

SAN FRANCISCO — Sound meditation is becoming a lucrative business in the San Francisco Bay Area. The practice consists of therapeutic concerts performed with ancient, tribal instruments such as Tibetan or crystal singing bowls, planetary gongs, flutes, chimes and didgeridoos.

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Protesters and artists demand Marin Theatre Company action after production of ‘Thomas and Sally’

A group led by black women artists in the Bay Area has written an open letter of complaint about the way the Marin Theatre Company handled protests and concerns over its fall production of “Thomas and Sally,” which closed on Oct. 29.  More than 1,600 black female and male artists have signed the letter, mainly from

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