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SFGATE reporter Michelle Robertson on Banksy's critique of an art world he actively participates inPhoto of Starting at $40 a ticket and reaching $70 on weekends, the new — unauthorized — “Art of Banksy” touring exhibit has landed at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, and tickets are already selling out quickly. Brought to the city by Starvox Exhibits, the same group responsible for the “Immersive Van Gogh” show that came to San Francisco in 2021, “The Art of Banksy” brings together more than 100 artworks by the secretive, anonymous artist, with the value of the pieces totaling more than...

Read a smattering of national and even international news headlines and you can see it: San Francisco has an image problem. It’s not just conservative media slamming the city. The New York Times, the Economist, even British-based publications like the Independent and Sunday Times have run recent stories on the state of San Francisco, ranging from its highly visible housing issues to its shoplifting problems. “Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional,” reads a headline from the Economist. “Crime is basically legal in San Francisco,” says another headline from the Daily Mail. The New York Times, meanwhile, just ran...

A Bakersfield woman is suing the hospital treating her husband for severe COVID-19 in order to force doctors to give the patient ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug typically used to treat roundworm infections that physicians say is not an effective nor safe treatment for COVID. The woman's husband is intubated in the COVID unit at San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield, according to the complaint, which was obtained by Courthouse News and filed Sept. 17. The plaintiff is not seeking monetary or compensatory damages. The complaint says the patient was admitted to the hospital a month ago for shortness of breath...