Evelyn Shauf has lived at 42 Sycamore St. in the Mission for 38 years and is facing eviction.

After a two year hiatus due to Covid-19 restrictions, the parol festival returned to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

On its 20th year, the Parol Lantern Festival held a milestone celebration last Dec. 10 at the Yerba Buena Gardens, while rain did not deter Kapwa Garden’s second annual Halo Halo Holidays.

More recently, there has been a push for greater recognition of the contributions made by Filipino Americans throughout history.

More Filipino representation is coming to San Francisco - from local Fil-Am artists who are creating murals to a giant arch way signifying the official Filipino cultural district in the city.

The annual parol lantern festival and parade is a must-see Filipino community event in San Francisco during the holiday season.

In 2018, the Gerbode Foundation in partnership with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded Panis $50,000 to create her new dance, “Man@ng Is Deity.” After a long and enriching pandemic journey, the final work — part film screening, part live dance performance — premieres Friday, Dec. 3, at ODC Theater.

What is currently a parking lot owned by Nordstrom’s at Sixth and Stevenson Streets was slated to become a residential high-rise, but was denied on appeal as supervisors did not trust the geotechnical review.

Three hundred banners were installed to highlight the diversity of the community and to celebrate their strength amid the pandemic and spike in Asian hate crimes.

A new streetscape project, a collaboration between city departments, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District plans to turn about 800 feet of Minna and Natoma Streets into an arts corridor, with help from designs by five local artists.

[people. power. media] lays out a revolutionary framework to achieve equity in city planning.

After more than 50 years of moving around, West Bay will soon have its own permanent home in the neighborhood it has long served.

Businesses in San Francisco’s Filipino Cultural District were hit hard by the pandemic. But the cultural district is there to help the recovery start where it’s needed most.

Members of the Asian American community are signing up for self-defense thanks to San Francisco community leaders.

The SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District celebrates their five-year anniversary with plans for racial equity programming and a brand new garden in the heart of the South of Market neighborhood.

Hella calamansi trees, a revamped school bus painted with a giant bird’s head and flowing curls of colorful feathers, and turquoise-purple everything—that’s what you’ll find at 967 Mission Street in San Francisco, an old parking lot turned art and wellness pop-up.

Undiscovered SF’s Sunday street markets continue to offer a COVID-19-safe weekend outdoor shopping experience in San Francisco's SOMA Pilipinas culture district, helping to buoy participating vendors and put unique products in the hands of shoppers.

THOSE walking down Folsom and Howard streets in San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood can get a brief lesson in the Abakada alphabet, which was once taught as part of the Philippine national language.

Peñaranda also helped pick out the publication name. “Liwanag” is Tagalog for “light,” or “clarity.” Their theme was connection to heritage, but their goal was to embed the Filipinx-American experience within the national conversation. They didn’t just want Filipinx and Filipinx-Americans reading it, they wanted people all over America thumbing through its pages.

The Planning Commission unanimously approved a resolution calling for the Planning Department to center racial and social equity in its work by developing strategies to counter structural racism in collaboration with communities of color. It also instructed staff to alter its hiring practices to reflect The City’s demographics and to build establish metrics to track accountability.