Olivia Cruz Mayeda
Local News Fellow at San Francisco Chronicle
Culture Writer @NPR’s Bay Area Station KQED
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4 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Olivia Cruz Mayeda
Softgood Studio jeweler Emilie Jehng sets out pieces of crafted jade used to make rings at her studio in Berkeley. More young couples are eschewing diamond engagement rings in favor of those featuring jade. Jessica Christian/S.F. ChronicleHoracio Lopez and Summer Li at their wedding ceremony. Courtesy Jessica WoodWhen Emilie Jehng was a teenager in San Jose in the early 2000s, jade wasn’t cool.
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1 month ago |
kqed.org | Olivia Cruz Mayeda |Otis Taylor
May 22Failed to save articlePlease try againRise East did it. In 2023, Rise East — anchored by a collective of nonprofits known as the 40×40 Council — received a $50 million grant from Blue Meridian Partners, a national philanthropic organization. But there was a catch: The money could only be unlocked if Rise East raised $50 million from local donors. On the Thursday episode of Forum, Rise East formally announced it had surpassed the goal.
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1 month ago |
sfchronicle.com | Olivia Cruz Mayeda
Installation view of the Ruth Asawa retrospective exhibit at SFMOMA. Jana Ašenbrennerová/For the S.F. ChronicleEarlier this month, I stood in front of the redwood doors of Ruth Asawa’s house and realized I loved her — as much as I could love someone I’d never met. The doors led nowhere, standing off their hinges in a white-walled gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s new retrospective of the late Bay Area artist’s work.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
sfchronicle.com | Olivia Cruz Mayeda
Arianna Khmelniuk laid out hundreds of small bottles with labels like "galaxolide ipm 10%" and "cedarwood virginia eden 10%" on an ochre table in her Richmond lab. She selected one and passed it to her perfume-making workshop attendees. "What do you feel when you smell it?" she asked. "It smells like a dead seagull," said one participant, who hoped to make a fragrance that evoked a cold, misty ocean. "Yes!" Khmelniuk exclaimed.
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Feb 23, 2025 |
sfchronicle.com | Olivia Cruz Mayeda
The Rev. Deborah Lee stood in a San Francisco church under a pale blue ceiling dotted with dark blue stars.
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