Day Around the Bay: Construction Begins on City College's Diego Rivera Performing Arts Center

"The official groundbreaking ceremony for the new Diego Rivera Performing Arts Center at City College is on Thursday, and site preparation work has already begun. The new building, in planning stages for two decades, will house a new 600-seat theater for the campus and will become the prominent new home for Rivera's truly awesome, monumental 1939 mural "Pan American Unity," which was on display at SFMOMA from 2021 to 2024, but which had otherwise resided at City College since 1942 in a less-than-visible home."

"An internal memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now asserting broad authority for ICE agents to bust into people's homes without a judge's warrant. They can do this, the memo suggests, based on an administrative warrant to arrest someone who has been given a final order of removal, though this policy will likely face court challenges. [Associated Press]"

City College is breaking ground on the Diego Rivera Performing Arts Center; site work has begun. The building will include a 600-seat theater and will house Rivera’s 1939 mural Pan American Unity, returned from SFMOMA. A CVS at Van Ness and Turk appears not to be closing. Eileen Gu will be grand marshal of the Lunar New Year Parade on February 17. An ICE memo asserts authority to enter homes without a judge’s warrant based on administrative arrest warrants. Supreme Court signals point to a likely ruling against Trump’s attempt to remove Fed governor Lisa Cook. National Park Service cuts have left Yosemite understaffed to deter risky visitor behavior.

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