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Patricia Corrigan

Patricia Corrigan is a longtime newspaper reporter, book author and freelance writer based in San Francisco.

LiquidView screens have been installed at the Rhoda Goldman Plaza senior living facility in San Francisco. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inTech

‘Shark Tank’ digital windows offer seniors realistic vistas

by Patricia Corrigan March 17, 2026March 18, 2026

Mitch Braff appreciates a room with a view.  The award-winning filmmaker, entrepreneur and founder of the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation has at times worked in a windowless office in San […]

Jacob Shaul, 18, a senior at San Francisco University High School, teaches a class as part of Mode to Code, a free coding education program taught by high school students, at Live Oak School in San Francisco. (Courtesy Jacob Shaul)
Posted inEducation

Teen’s volunteer-run project teaches coding to younger kids and seniors, too

by Patricia Corrigan March 5, 2026March 5, 2026
Ellie Freeman in 2022, the first year she attended Girls Make Games summer camp. (Courtesy)
Posted inGames

This 15-year-old is living her dream as a video game designer

by Patricia Corrigan March 4, 2026March 4, 2026
Mollie Stone's round challah
Posted inFood

Where to buy round challah, honey cake, entrees, sides, more for Rosh Hashanah

by Patricia Corrigan September 9, 2025September 9, 2025
A sign at Dayenu Judaica gift shop shows that there is a 30% storewide sale in the San Francisco JCC on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inJudaica

After 21 years in S.F.,  Dayenu Judaica’s owner decides to fold

by Patricia Corrigan May 23, 2025June 13, 2025
Micah Bloom poses with his game “Jewopoly,” a Jewish take on the game Monopoly, at his home in San Francisco, May 2, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inGames

‘Pass go’ and visit Brisket Place in S.F. teen’s Jewopoly game

by Patricia Corrigan May 12, 2025May 14, 2025
a middle-aged woman wearing a yarmulke sits with a very elderly man who is laying in a hospital bed
Posted inIdeas

Choosing how to die: Film and talk at Sherith Israel will probe assisted death

by Patricia Corrigan March 13, 2025March 13, 2025
Mandy Aftel takes a whiff at her Aftel Archive of Curious Scents. (Foster Curry)
Posted inTalking With ...

Scent creator and curator Mandy Aftel on the essence of perfume — from frankincense to wet dog

by Patricia Corrigan January 29, 2025January 29, 2025
Steve Silberman (center) receives an inclusion awareness award at a fundraiser for Chabad of Cole Valley's Community for Jewish Seniors program in 2017, as he stands next to Rabbi Nosson Potash (left) and the late Ken Kramarz, a longtime director of Camp Tawonga. (Courtesy Potash)
Posted inObituaries

Steve Silberman, San Francisco science writer who pioneered autism rights, dies at 66

by Patricia Corrigan September 9, 2024September 9, 2024
Joel Roster at Contra Costa Community Theatre in El Cerrito, Mar. 1, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
Posted inTheater

Contra Costa Civic Theatre’s new artistic director promises a more authentic ‘Fiddler’

by Patricia Corrigan March 4, 2024March 4, 2024

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