California
For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable
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Families living with chronic diseases have little choice but to pay more for the medicine, supplies, and food they need to stay healthy.Bay Area
New CDC guidelines: no need to test or quarantine students without symptoms
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New guidance focuses on community levels of infection.Arts & Entertainment
Pass the Remote: ‘League’ on TV, ‘Paper Girls,’ plus Cinequest’s return to San Jose
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Cinequest returns, after a pandemic hiatus, with 220 films -- 130 of which are world or national premieres.Arts & Entertainment
Review: Devi S. Laskar’s challenging novel ‘Circa’ captures the ’70s-’80s Indian American immigrant experience
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“Circa” narrates the family life of Heera Sanyal, an Indian American teen living in Raleigh, North Carolina, who only sees how different she is from everyone else.Bay Area
California colleges now have centers to help students with basic needs like food and housing
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A new law funds staffing for basic needs hubs at all community colleges. UC and CSU campuses already have similar state-funded support centers.Arts & Entertainment
Best Bets: San Jose Jazz Fest, Herb Alpert, and Sondheim’s ‘Follies’
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Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here.Arts & Entertainment
‘Young, Gifted and Black’ traveling exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum
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The exhibition features 51 pieces of art by emerging artists of African descent that deal with identity, politics, and art history.COVID-19
California monkeypox response is bumpy, but builds on COVID lessons
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Monkeypox tests and vaccines are in short supply as public health officials grapple with red tape and short supplies.Around Town
