The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts yesterday that it is eliminating 27 staff positions, over a third of its total staff, due to the significant financial impact caused by the coronavirus shutdown.For the past three months, YBCA’s payroll expenses have been supported by a $1.5 million Paycheck Protection Program loan. Those funds have now run out.The YBCA saw a $3.5 million decrease in gross revenue in the 2019–20 fiscal year. In addition, for the 2020–21 fiscal year, the YBCA is projecting a loss of $6.8 million in gross revenue from its rental program, annual fundraisers and anticipated...…The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts yesterday that it is eliminating 27 staff positions, over a third of its total staff, due to the significant financial impact caused by the coronavirus shutdown.For the past three months, YBCA’s payroll expenses have been supported by a $1.5 million Paycheck Protection Program loan. Those funds have now run out.The YBCA saw a $3.5 million decrease in gross revenue in the 2019–20 fiscal year. In addition, for the 2020–21 fiscal year, the YBCA is projecting a loss of $6.8 million in gross revenue from its rental program, annual fundraisers and anticipated...WW…

It gives me zero pleasure to say “I told you so,” but after this country lost so many of what Variety once called “ozoners,” drive-ins — the only movie theaters left open during this surreal pandemic summer — are back.Based out of San Rafael, and with six theaters across the country, West Wind Drive-ins represent “the largest drive-in chain in the world.” They operate the closest drive-in to San Francisco: the Solano D-I near Concord.There’s easy access to this two-screen D-I from three different East Bay freeways, and it’s blessedly located outside the marine layer. If you go, it’s an...…It gives me zero pleasure to say “I told you so,” but after this country lost so many of what Variety once called “ozoners,” drive-ins — the only movie theaters left open during this surreal pandemic summer — are back.Based out of San Rafael, and with six theaters across the country, West Wind Drive-ins represent “the largest drive-in chain in the world.” They operate the closest drive-in to San Francisco: the Solano D-I near Concord.There’s easy access to this two-screen D-I from three different East Bay freeways, and it’s blessedly located outside the marine layer. If you go, it’s an...WW…