https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/22/dear-san-francisco-opens-at-former-beach-blanket-babylon-venue/

Shana Carroll and Gypsy Snider kept hearing the same complaints about San Francisco whenever they returned home to the Bay Area.

“Every time we’d come back, the friends and family we’d be staying with so often would say, ‘Oh, my God, it’s not like what it used to be. The soul of the city is gone. It’s changed so much,’” says Carroll, who co-founded 7 Fingers, the Montreal-based circus arts company, with Snider in 2002. “And we’d come back and feel like, ‘Well, actually, it still really feels the same.’