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Nov 14, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Francine Brevetti
Award-winning San Jose high school senior Sreekavya Nimishakavi isn’t an ordinary 17-year-old. She introduced a new Model United Nations into her school system; developed a floating cities prototype for the construction industry; organized donations of feminine hygiene products to be sent to India and supported a coding marathon for teens.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Francine Brevetti
Pop singing great Tony Orlando will be at the Hellenic Charity Ball in San Francisco this week to celebrate his Greek roots and accept honors from the Elios Charitable Foundation. Orlando, whose full name is Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis, imagines that his late Greek-American father “would be busting his buttons” upon hearing about the Nov. 9 black-tie event at the Ritz Carlton.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Francine Brevetti
During this week’s First Thursday Art Walk in San Francisco’s Tenderloin Museum, neighbors and guests celebrated “Tenderloin Blackness,” an upbeat exhibition about the notable personalities who made the area a hub for Black people. “People think of the Tenderloin as a place where only the homeless, drug addicted, and drug dealers live.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
indiacurrents.com | Francine Brevetti
A video of an athlete in Cameroon changed the life and aspirations of San Jose high school student Satvik Rao. Now Rao, through a sports nonprofit he founded, is changing the lives of Bay Area children. Several months ago, when Rao watched Nkwain Kennedy dribble on a YouTube video in his makeshift gym, he marveled at Kennedy’s yet-to-be fulfilled dream to play in the National Basketball Association.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Francine Brevetti
Del Seymour, a man who brought job readiness skills to the down and out in San Francisco, is celebrated “Mayor of the Tenderloin,” a new book by San Francisco writer Alison Owings. Seymour was a drug addict, dealer and pimp in the neighborhood where he eventually went straight and brought others with him.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Francine Brevetti
A video of an athlete in Cameroon changed the life and aspirations of San Jose high school student Satvik Rao. Now Rao, through a sports nonprofit he founded, is changing the lives of Bay Area children. Several months ago, when Rao watched Nkwain Kennedy dribble on a YouTube video in his makeshift gym, he marveled at Kennedy's yet-to-be fulfilled dream to play in the National Basketball Association.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Francine Brevetti
A video of an athlete in Cameroon changed the life and aspirations of San Jose high school student Satvik Rao. Now Rao, through a sports nonprofit he founded, is changing the lives of Bay Area children. Several months ago, when Rao watched Nkwain Kennedy dribble on a YouTube video in his makeshift gym, he marveled at Kennedy’s yet-to-be fulfilled dream to play in the National Basketball Association.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Francine Brevetti
When the stage musical “Mrs. Doubtfire” opened in 2019, it gave Rob McClure the challenge of transforming himself into a beloved character firmly identified with the late Robin Williams. McClure is playing the role again, opposite his wife Maggie Lakis, in the show’s national tour at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre through July 28. McClure admits it was both an “honor and terrifying” to recreate the part played by Williams in the hit 1993 movie.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
localnewsmatters.org | Francine Brevetti
From California’s last grizzly bear to the kelp forest of the coastline, the California Academy of Sciences’ newest exhibition “California: State of Nature” illustrates the state’s magnificent biodiversity and the human role in maintaining it. Divided into sections focusing on forests, coastal areas, desert and the urban environment, the expansive exhibit includes interactive displays, sensory experiences, stylized artwork and copious animal specimens.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
piedmontexedra.com | Francine Brevetti
From California’s last grizzly bear to the kelp forest of the coastline, the California Academy of Sciences’ newest exhibition “California: State of Nature” illustrates the state’s magnificent biodiversity and the human role in maintaining it. Divided into sections focusing on forests, coastal areas, desert and the urban environment, the expansive exhibit includes interactive displays, sensory experiences, stylized artwork and copious animal specimens.
