As seen on Post Street by Dave Golden:
Wow.
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Japantown Sumo by San Francisco Photographer Dave Golden
Monday, September 10th, 2012Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition
Thursday, August 30th, 2012At the very least, you owe it to yourself to read the Yelp and ApartmentRatings reviews before you move in.
Oh look, they have a shuttle bus – it’s a like a private MUNI #38 Geary just for you and your fellow victims:
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But even so, Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition.
In closing, Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition.
PS: Whatever You Do, DON’T Move Into the Fillmore Center Apartment Homes at 1475 Fillmore in the Western Addition
Well, It Looks Like We Have Some Actual Campaigning for District Five Supervisor: Julian Davis Has the Mo
Monday, August 27th, 2012This crowd looks to be the first to gather for any candidate in the D5 race:
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Why don’t you get in on the fun? Here’s the drill:
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Ooh, now let’s check in with weak-willed “Progressive” Christina Olague. Here’s her campaign.
I’ll tell you, if you like Ed Lee’s neo stop-and-frisk policy for the SFPD, then you should vote for Christina Olague, cause, you know, she worked hard to ensure that voters would choose Ed Lee over Supervisor John Avalos in the last mayoral election.
Oh, and here’s her most recent vote of no confidence. Per Samson Wong of AsianWeek:
“EMPRESS HAS NO CLOTHES: Some overconfidence in District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague’s campaign before last week’s August 15 SF Democratic Party county committee endorsement vote. Only days before, Bill Barnes, veteran campaign manager, government staffer and former District 5 candidate himself, came in to corral votes for the supervisor representing Japantown, Haight-Ashbury and Western Addition. One strategic error made – assuming an inflated head count that Olague would snag the important SF Democratic Party endorsement. In reality, no consensus had developed for Olague and her rivals - London Breed of the African American Arts and Culture Complex, Julian Davis of the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center or College Board member John Rizzo. The outcome – a public embarrassment for Olague, the Mayor Ed Lee appointee…”
Or London Breed, that’s the other choice for Ed Lee fans in D5, believe it or not. (She has the support of Republican billionaire Ron Conway, so that’s your big fat clue regarding how she rolls.)
Choose or lose, D5.
Did a Community College Student Buy Dennis Rodman’s Gold Lamborghini to Drive to CCSF Every Day? Here It Is
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012Why would you paint the top half of your Lambo in flaked gold to make it look like a bowling ball?
This vehicle, spotted in San Francisco’s Chinatown last week, is an abomination:
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So Dennis Rodman bought this 2004 Lamboghini Gallardo automatic and then he spent $15,000 to paint the top half in gold flake after an accident and then he sold it last year for $80-something in order to make child support payments?
And then a City College of San Francisco student obtained it as a daily driver to get him to the Main Campus reservoir parking lot each and every day for both the Spring and Fall semesters of 2012?
Really?
OMG. (Please note the tell-tale green CCSF parking sticker in the windshield.)
Let’s hear from a Toyota-driving CCSF student earlier this week:
“saw this lambo today at the school parking lot (ccsf). in fact, it parked 3 cars away from me. easily the most expensive car at ccsf…”
This car is all over town these days, C-Town, J-Town, Upper Haight, Lower Haight, all over.
And just think, when the owner gets around to registering this car (use tax, baby – $7k), that’ll pay for the education subsidy he’s getting by being a stu at troubled CCSF.
Hurray!
Here’s CA plate 6SUG286 during happier times with DR, back in aught-five, back before he accumulated a million bucks worth in unpaid child and spousal support.
Anyway, mail in your photos, gentle readers, when you see this ride about town.
In closing, go CCSF Rams!
Million dollar pig junior / You’re my Bangladesh
I’m crazy dynamite / I’m the cactus man
I drive a Lambourghini / I stop for petrol
You mangle my pig junior / There’s tornadoes in Spain
I’m alone tonight / I’m the cactus man
I drive a Lambourghini / I stop for petrol
Mangle my pig junior / Mangle my pig junior / So far away / So far away…
It Turns Out that Skateboarding IS a Crime – This Sign in J-Town Tells Us So – But It’s Been Cleverly Defaced
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012See? The board icon has become a unibrow and the wheels have become eyes.
And a stickerer has covered over the NO in NO SKATEBOARDS.
See?
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Did you know that people make up their own signs to fool the public into thinking that their official? People do.
(You know what other signs you can see in Japantown these days? “FOR LEASE” signs. Oh well.)
Don’t Miss Today’s Nihonmachi Street Fair in Japantown – Free Festival Continues until 6:00 PM
Sunday, August 5th, 2012All the deets on the 39th Annual.
As it looked yesterday on Post Street:
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Webster Street Stage:
| Sunday, August 5 | |
| 11am | Cherng Loon Lion Dance Yet Another Hero |
| Noon | The Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble |
| 1:00 pm | “Fun & Furry Pooch Doggy Contest” |
| 2:00 pm | SOL |
| 2:45 pm | GroovMekanex / Lil G and Morimoto |
| 3:45 pm | Tracy Cruz |
| 5:00 pm | Rendezvous |
Ho`olaule`a Stage:
| 11am | Mishibana-kai San Francisco & Miwa-kai San Mateo (Japanese |
| Noon | Karikatan Dance Company (Filipino Stick Dancing) |
| 1:00 pm | Mele Ohana (Ukulele) |
| 2:00 pm | Ke ‘Olu Makani `O Mauna Loa (Hula) |
| 3:00 pm | Mango Kingz (Island Reggae) |
| 4:00 pm | Island Touch Band (Hawaiian Contemporary) |
| 5:00 pm | Moana (Hawaiian) |
See you there!
Here’s How SFGov Views the People of San Francisco – Apparently, We’re All Monomaniacal Whiners – Todos Somos Rose Pak
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012Here’s the latest from our Redistricting Task Force.
Did you know that the Tenderloin was this close to Japantown?
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Do you know anybody, I mean a regular person, who goes around talking about the economic compatibility of the residents of one part of town with another?
I don’t.
Troop 58 Sitting on Folding Chairs and Flashing Gang Signs
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
LONDON CALLING! Uh Oh, Sellout Supervisor Christina Olague Isn’t Getting Much Love From District 5 – London Breed Declares
Monday, February 27th, 2012Now let’s see here, who’s going to endorse Sellout Supervisor Christina Olague (she went from being a Green to being a Dem to running a Republican campaign in just few short years – isn’t it ironic, don’tcha think?) when she tries to hold on to the office she was just appointed to as a reward for last year’s Run Ed Run campaign? I don’t know.
But I do know who’s not going to support her, uh, speak of the Devil, Mayor Ed Lee, for example – he says he’s staying out of this one. Oh, and California Attorney General Kamala Harris and an assortment of D5 NIMBY types won’t support Olague neither. I know this ’cause they’re showing up for District 5 native London Breed’s City Hall presser this AM. Deets below.
(Of course it’s very possible Accidental Mayor Ed Lee just might prefer London to win this one, but, frankly, it would be nice to see the Sellout Supervisor go down in flames after just a few months in office.)
Let’s shake things up, baby!
“LONDON BREED TO ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY
FOR DISTRICT 5 SUPERVISOR
Breed will be joined by California Attorney General Kamala Harris, SF Board of Education Member Rachel Norton and District 5 Community Leaders
San Francisco, CA – On Monday February 27th, London Breed, Executive Director of the African American Art & Culture Complex, Fire Commissioner and lifelong District 5 resident, will take out papers at the Department of Elections and announce her candidacy for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Breed will be joined by California Attorney General Kamala Harris and San Francisco Board of Education Member Rachel Norton, as well as community leaders from across District 5 including Ted Loewenberg, President of the Haight Ashbury Improvement Association; Andrea Jadwin, Co-President of the Inner Sunset Neighborhood Association; Jarie Bolander, Past-President of the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association; Richard Hashimoto, President of the Japantown Merchants Association; Leroy King, ILWU pensioner and Reverend Amos Brown, Pastor, Third Baptist Church.
WHAT: London Breed to announce candidacy for District 5 Supervisor
WHERE: SF Department of Elections, City Hall, One Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
WHEN: Monday, February 27th, 11:00am”
When Werewolves Attack: Wacky Japanese “Real Escape Game” Comes to Japantown March 23-25 – Escape From Werewolf Village
Friday, February 24th, 2012All the deets below. Get your tickets here.
“JAPANESE LIVE GAME SENSATION “THE REAL ESCAPE GAME” COMES TO THE BAY AREA FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS AT NEW PEOPLE
Join Other Players At The Bay Area’s J-Pop Culture Venue To Solve Puzzles And Collect Clues To Escape A Mysterious Village Before Werewolves Attack!
San Francisco, CA – NEW PEOPLE, the dynamic San Francisco entertainment destination showcasing the latest examples of Japanese popular culture, brings the newest Japanese live game sensation to the United States for the first time ever with a special installment of “The Real Escape Game: The Escape From The Werewolf Village,” beginning Friday, March 23rd thru Sunday March, 25th.
“The Real Escape Game” is an inventive live game event that requires players to cooperate and use their detective skills to solve multiple mysteries to locate a hidden key in order to escape from a locked room within a limited time. The U.S. edition, “The Escape From The Werewolf Village,” will be staged inside the venue’s spacious 3rd Floor SUPERFROG Gallery at NEW PEOPLE, which will be remade as a mysterious village where werewolves have been known to attack people by night. As villagers disappear one by one, players must work together and use their deductive skills and gather clues to escape before the werewolves attack! The game setting will be accentuated with the use of actors, music, sound effects and lighting elements to add ambiance and immerse players in the environment.
NEW PEOPLE Game Times For “The Real Escape Game”
Friday, March 23rd: 6pm, 9pm
Saturday, March 24th: 2pm, 5pm, 8pm
Sunday, March 25th: 11am, 2pm, 5pm
Advanced tickets are now available for $20.00; Tickets at the door are $25.00. Each game session lasts about 90 minutes. Advance tickets and complete game details are available at: http://www.newpeopleworld.com/2012/01/18/come-play-real-escape-game//
**Note: The Game puzzles require no special skills or knowledge to solve; all puzzles can be solved with use of intuitive logic and deductive reasoning. All aspects of The Game will be conducted in English.
“The Real Escape Game” was first played in Tokyo in 2007 and since then, more than 100,000 participants have played in multiple cities across Japan, China, and Singapore. “The Real Escape Game” was the brainchild of Takao Kato, the founder of the Kyoto-based publishing company, SCRAP. Over 2,300 sessions have been staged to-date with as many as 10,000 participants taking part simultaneously. The Game was recently played by several hundred participants at massive arena venues including the Tokyo Dome and the city’s Jingu Baseball Stadium. The San Francisco session at NEW PEOPLE will be the first time “The Real Escape Game,” has been played in the United States.
“The Real Escape Game has become a big sensation in Japan and is a fun way for people to meet and work together to solve ingenious puzzles,” says Seiji Horibuchi, president and founder of NEW PEOPLE, Inc. “The Real Escape Game is often staged in eclectic settings ranging from small theatres to large sporting arenas to cathedrals. NEW PEOPLE will be transformed into a foreboding village beset with werewolves and ingenious hidden puzzles that players must solve in order to escape! Come meet new friends and try out the latest live game phenomenon from Japan with this fun event happening in March!
About NEW PEOPLE, Inc.
Based in San Francisco, California, NEW PEOPLE, Inc. (http://www.newpeopleworld.com/) offers the latest films, art, fashion and retail brands from Japan through its unique entertainment destination as well as through licensing and distribution of selective Japanese films. NEW PEOPLE Entertainment (www.newpeopleent.com), a film division of NEW PEOPLE, Inc. strives to offer the most entertaining motion pictures straight from the “Kingdom of Pop” for audiences of all ages, especially the manga and anime generation, in North America. Some titles include DEATH NOTE, GANTZ, KAMIKAZE GIRLS, and THE TASTE OF TEA.
