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A life of resilience: Escaping Soviet antisemitism, Tatyana Yasnovsky built a life in San Francisco as she practiced psychiatry  

March 19, 2025 0 Comments

For Tatyana Yasnovsky, a retired psychiatrist and émigré from the former Soviet Union, her arrival in America in the mid-‘70s was joyous and unforgettable, Prompted to leave Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to escape Russia’s pervasive antisemitism, Yasnovsky’s family endured ostracism and the loss of their jobs when they applied for exit visas. They then spent ...

With more than 28,000 movies and TV shows on hand, Colin Hutton’s Video Wave store has survived the onslaught of Netflix and Amazon Prime

February 24, 2025 0 Comments

It was a rainy winter afternoon, and it wasn’t until Video Wave, the last standalone movie rental store in San Francisco, had been open for about 30 minutes that the first customer wandered in. A young man named Mateo looked around and quickly spied a copy of “Extras,” a collection of episodes of an obscure ...

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