I’ll ask you, have you ever been to a bad Cirque du Soleil?
Now, supposedly we had a bad one blow through town a few years back down at the Cow Palace. Your local MSM Arts crew was non-enthusiastic – not all of them wanted to go review it, see? So comped tickets made it all the way down to people involved with lesser blogs, such as your truly.
And I’ll tell you, C du S in that ugly, ugly Daly City concrete blockhouse was awesome. They had like 17 bits to do and 16 of them were very impressive or better. And keep in mind that this was an older show that was put on not under the big tent.
So now we have a brand new show coming to town starting November 15th, 2013.
The time to buy tickets for it is right now. You’ll thank yourself later on.
All the deets:
AMALUNA UNDER THE BIG TOP ACCESS TICKETS BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE
Bonjour. Time is quickly running out for the pre-sale ofAmaluna in Northern California — tickets will be made available to the general public on June 14.*
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If you remember back in the day, back in 2010, when the British Columbia zipline graced San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza, then you know what a frisson it created. It was evanscent, it was free.
Now, last year, back in 2010, the rides were free, so people were lining up at 3:00 AM. But this year, the cost will be $29, so that will certainly cut down on the riff-raff, and therefore surely shorten the queue.
(And oh, our friends from up in the Great White North just told me that they will be highly disappointed if Edwin Lee, San Francisco’s once (and future?) Mayor chickens out, if he blows off his obligation. Other Mayors have done it and it all worked out fine. See below for one example…)
Hours: Open daily (7 days a week!) from 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.*
Price: $29 (all ages)
Age: 6 years+
Weight: 65lbs – 275lbs
First come, first serve
All guests are required to sign an Assumption of Risks and Release of Liability Agreement (coming soon) before zipping. Under 19 requires signature by a parent or guardian.
The ziplines are gravity fed, so guests do not have to worry about controlling their own speed. Guides are stationed at each tower to connect (launch platform) and disconnect (landing platform) each and every guest. Age restrictions apply and guests must weigh more than 65 pounds and no more than a maximum of 275 pounds.
When: Summer 2011 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. *
Where: Justin Herman Plaza at Embarcadero Square, San Francisco, California
* times may vary on certain days”
Will you have the guts to climb a temporary tower (80 feet tall!) just like this one from 2010 to earn the right to tell your friends you rode the Justin Herman Plaza Zip Line?
But first, you’ll need to wait in line next to the abysmal Vaillancourt Fountain, sign a waiver, and get harnessed up.
Le mise-en-scene.
You’ll ascend the 80 foot tower and encounter a friendly Canadian guide at the top. If you need a pep talk, you’ll get one:
You’ll soon be steadying your nerves by glancing at your jump buddy…
…and then you’ll be off, into the wild bleu.
Sisters doing it for themselves:
Can you see the nervous giggles? There’s your team bonding right there.
And this is what it felt like last year. Everything zooms by with a quickness, and there’s a loud buzzing above your noggin. Some people go upside-down even.
And they’ll totally let you bring a camera to make your own YouTube:
You owe it to yourself to try.
Don’t dissappoint lovely Ashleigh. She brought her Olympic Gold all the way down here last year just so you’d consider Vancouver as the starting point for your next vacation:
Well this is what the first visit of the Disney Wondercruise ship looked like last week when she sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time…
Click to expand – Jimmy DeFlippo / Disney
… and this is what she looked like when berthed at Pier 35:
I’ll tell you, back in the day fans needed to work hard to track the peregrinations of their favorite celebrities. But that’s all changed now thanks to San Francisco-based JustSpotted.com, which:
“…aggregates social data in real-time and collects submissions from spotters, provides real-time updates and allows millions of fans to connect with their favorite celebrities.”
O.K. fans, get to your stalking.
“JustSpotted.com Adds Celebrity Blog and Other Features
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5, 2010 – AJ Asver, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of JustSpotted, announces the latest features to be deployed at JustSpotted.com, a newly launched website and the definitive source for breaking celebrity news. The site, which aggregates social data in real-time and collects submissions from spotters, provides real-time updates and allows millions of fans to connect with their favorite celebrities.
“JustSpotted pushes the boundaries of what can be done with real-time social data,” says Asver. ”We have taken the celebrity spotting phenomena, which already occurs on Facebook and Twitter, and have made it more accessible.”
JustSpotted is a San Francisco-based technology company that aggregates publicly available information from websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. The company’s proprietary technology filters the aggregated information and collects credible comments on celebrity sightings, delivering a real-time newsfeed of the activities and locations of over 10,000 celebrities. JustSpotted allows fans and celebrities to connect and to share information with each other.
JustSpotted’s new features will provide a unique and interactive experience for fans and for celebrities.
The JustSpotted Blog, one of six new features to be deployed at the site, will include feature articles and real-time news on celebrity sightings. The first blog will feature JustSpotted’s most prominent celebrity, Justin Bieber, and utilize tweets to chronicle his whereabouts over the last month.
JustSpotted’s Search by Location feature will allow visitors at the site to view celebrity sightings in a specific area by typing the location in the search bar.
The Fan Button feature will allow visitors to instantly become a “fan” of a celebrity and will offer a real-time feed of the latest sightings of the celebrity.
The Globe Spotters map will show celebrity sightings in real-time, information which JustSpotted will aggregate from other websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. With the reported sightings, JustSpotted’s fluid world map will show the locations of celebrities in real-time.
About JustSpotted
JustSpotted.com offers real-time updates of celebrities for their fans. It is the one-stop destination for fans to view over 700 celebrity sightings everyday. JustSpottedis celebrity friendly. The company, which offers page-branding and mobile updates, partners with celebrities. By developing direct relationships between JustSpotted and celebrities, the site will publish exclusive information that is provided directly by the celebrities.