The Dark Side Of The Suburbs

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 The Margins: San Francisco's Poorest Exiled To The Suburbs SAN FRANCISCO -- Close your eyes and think about poverty in America. What does it look like? What space does it occupy? The picture is probably something like this: racial minorities living in crowded inner city slums. That vision may have once been largely accurate. But now, in a post-recession world buffeted by persistently high unemployment and a housing market yet to regain its footing, poverty has taken a profoundly a different shape. In places like the San Francisco Bay Area, it's been moving from areas surrounding the high-rises of city centers into the formerly empty spaces on their outskirts. WE'LL MISS YOU, WOODY! PHOTOS: The Most Awe-Inspiring Art From This Year's Burning Man Bad News For California Drug Addicts AMAZING VIDEO: Daredevil Takes On SF Landmarks With His Bike U.S. Officials Sound Worldwide Alert For Yosemite Disease Risk BLOG POSTS George Heymont: Nothing Could Be Finer Than an Evening With Barbara Cook Today, many singers who are a fraction of Barbara Cook's age wish they could sing with the wisdom, phrasing, and musical intuition of an artist whose voice has maintained its sweetness and purity for so many years Derek Beres: The Mythology of Burning Man My sojourn to the festival in the desert verified something: This is the most widespread example that America has at consciously creating a modern mythology. Perry Garfinkel: San Francisco's Top 5 Asian Restaurants Doing New Spins on Traditional Dishes Many of the eateries are concentrated in the city's Mission District, a once seedy neighborhood that was the stronghold of the city's large Latino community, now slowly but surely being overtaken by trendy shops and all variety of ethnic dining options. Many also tout their California inspirations: namely fresh, organic, local, seasonal and sustainable produce. Vanita Gupta: It's Time to Discuss Criminal Justice Reform It's time to stop gambling away taxpayer dollars on the failed drug war and start implementing rational, evidence-based, cost-effective, humane criminal justice policies. Amanda Reiman: Incrimination Without Representation: The Silence of the Senate on Medical Marijuana It is simply unacceptable to stand on the sidelines while unelected prosecutors put patients at risk, destroy jobs, undermine California's tax base, and hand large parts of the medical marijuana market back over to violent drug traffickers and crime syndicates.

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