Where the 1960s "psychedelic" look came from

When you picture hippies, you probably picture bell bottoms, long hair, and LSD. You might also think of a very specific graphic design and illustration style, seen on concert posters and album covers: curly, cloudy, barely legible lettering, trippy color combinations, and decorative meandering borders.

Tale of two cities: How San Francisco is flattening the curve while NYC becomes a global coronavirus epicentre

Two of America's most popular cities had notably different approaches to the coronavirus. The outcomes are now being seen

Danielle Zoellner @dani__zoellner

Two weeks into social distancing and early data has indicated San Francisco's coronavirus curve could be flattening.

Prior to the regulations, the Bay Area officials were concerned with how Covid-19 infections would impact the community.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and five mayors in the surrounding Bay Area issued a stay-at-home order on 16 March in response to concerns, an unprecedented move at the time. Then California Governor Gavin Newsom quickly followed his city mayors by ordering a statewide state-at-home order to the nearly 40m residents.

In New York, by comparison, the current US epicentre for the pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo waited to issue a stay-at-home order. It went into effect almost a week later on 22 March. This order was in partnership with Connecticut and New Jersey to help combat the spread of the virus.

How San Francisco erased a neighborhood

With an explosion of tech companies and startups in recent decades, San Francisco has struggled with a massive affordable housing crisis. But the beginnings of that crisis go back much further than Silicon Valley. In 1968, a group of predominantly Filipino elders in San Francisco launched a battle to protect their home from eviction. Called the International Hotel, their home ended up in the crossroads of a city prioritizing the “Manhattanization” of its downtown area. Their fight for their neighborhood would evolve into a nearly decade-long protest with thousands of supporters and become a symbol of the campaign for affordable housing for decades to come.

Inflatable “Trump Chicken” dressed like a prisoner to sail off coast of San Francisco