Posts Tagged ‘japantown’
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Hello, ladies. Do you all like getting dolled up on the weekends and going to events? Events like Animation on Display 2012 in J-Town?
Well, then you ought seek out famous San Francisco photographer David Yu, why not?
This could be you!
All photos by and copyrighted by David Yu
I guess I could try to duplicate this style. First I’d be all, well, I need a new camera, maybe one of these, and then I’d need a new lens, maybe one of these, and then I’d need a PhotoShop coach, maybe someone like David Yu, etc…
Tags: 2012, Animation on Display, Animation on Display 2012, aod, aod 12, aod 2012, bay area, california, David Yu, davidyuweb, j-twon, japantown, jtown, photography, photos, portraits, post, San Francisco, shots, street
Posted in art, photography | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
So, yes, January is a very early time to see cherry trees start to blossom but what you’re actually seeing are plum trees.
Now both kinds of trees are pretty much the same thing, so no biggee, but plums come out earlier than cherries – global warming doesn’t have anything to do with that.
Oh, here’s what they look like, rather a bit more pink than cherry, in my experience.
Near Clay and Davis, Financial District:
And here’s a nice shot from Flickr:
Via Son/Jon
Tags: 2010, 2011, 2012, april, balmy, bay area, bloom, blooming, blossom, blossoms, california, cherry, Cherry Blossoms, climate change, day, February, Festival, flowers, global warming, golden gate park, ground, groundhog, hanami, hog, january, Japanese, japantown, march, plum, plum blossoms, post, sakura, San Francisco, spring, street, tree, trees, warm, winter
Posted in flora | 5 Comments »
Friday, October 21st, 2011
Well, I have a guess as to which film this will be.
Hey, what’s this? Is it South African mega-honey Charlize Theron?
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How odd, how did that get here?
Anyway:
“The Sundance Kabuki on Post @ Fillmore will host a special sneak screening of a major motion picture set to release later this year AND THAT IS ALL WE CAN TELL YOU! We are not allowed to tell you the title, but we can tell you that talent (stars) from the film and the director will be there to talk about the film and what makes this film so special and so different from any other movies these MAJOR award winners have done before.
Tickets are first come, first serve. RSVP to KabukiSneak@gmail.com
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas 1881 Post Street @ Fillmore
Tuesday October 25, 7.30 pm
Sundance Kabuki 1881 Post Street
Validated Discount Parking
Please note, seating is available on a first come, first serve basis and is not guaranteed. We suggest you arrive early.
Reminder, only those 21and over may sit in the balcony at the Sundance Kabuki.
One piece of information is that the film is rated R!”
So, if you liked Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), and/or Up in the Air (2009) and you want to meet the dude behind them and you like waiting in line with your friends like for hours in cold, dreary, windblown, forever-Starbucks-free Japantown, then don’t delay, email now.
Tags: 1881 post, 1881 Post Street, Charlize Theron, Collette Wolfe, comedy, december, director, drama, dramedy, Elizabeth Reaser, fillmore, film, Hettienne Park, J. K. Simmons, japantown, Jason Reitman, Juno, KabukiSneak@gmail.com, Mavis Gary, movie, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, post, Preview, R., rated, sneak peek, street, Thank You for Smoking, unreleased, Up in the Air, young adult
Posted in film | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
[This is a post within a post within a post, Inception-style - you'll be able to follow along, I'm sure. And since we're talking about the aughts, leave us remember nobody ever had 5500 signatures opposing the Starbucks proposal back around 2004-2005. I guess it's always O.K. to lie if you know you're on the correct side of an argument, or something.]
The rising tide that is the Starbucks Effect, that would have lifted all boats in Japantown, didn’t roll in a half-decade back, so this large space at Post and Webster has been unused since then.
Oh well.
Deets below.
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Here’s how things looked five months ago:
Well, new evidence closes the books on this one – the former Japantown Bowl location will soon host a dental office on its first floor.
So, the somnolent Land of Wind and Ghosts that is San Francisco Japantown will remain the somnolent Land of Wind and Ghosts at least for a little while longer. [Cue tumbleweeds.] Maybe things will change in J-Town when potential condo buyers get in the mood to spend $100,000 extra on neighborhood impact fees the way they were before the real estate crash.
And then we’ll be able to afford to undue the mistakes of Redevelopment. Maybe in a year or two or five or ten…
Oh well:
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All the deets:
Now I’ll tell you, Japantown would have been better off over the years if the Japantown Bowl had stayed the Japantown Bowl. (‘Cause bowling’s back, baby! Or something.) Anyway, what we got instead at 1600 Webster at Post was a bunch of condos up top with shuttered retail space below.
Back about six years ago, Starbucks was willing to come in and boy, man, that would have been great for Japantown. But the preservationists weren’t having it, oh no. Not at all. So what we got was about a decade of zero (0) tenants at the ground level on the northeast corner of Post and Webster. Oh well.
(I don’t drink the Starbucks myself, but S’Bucks isn’t about coffee, so the location of nearby cafes hidden up in the malls (concrete and clay and general decay and oh yes, not earthquake safe) don’t matter. You missed the point, people. It’s not Starbucks, it’s the Starbucks Effect – that’s what you needed and it’s what you still need.)
But now, the times they are a changing. Take a peek at the construction going on now and you’ll say, “Gee, it looks like it’s going to be a dentist office.”
Check it:
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Well guess what. It very well could be a dental office. This is from a couple years back but it’s the best I can do:
“22-Dec Tenant improvements for New Dental San Francisco 1600 Webster Street #C 916-772-4192 Dr. Nataly Viderman, DDS 0685-055 San Francisco 1600 Webster Street #C Office…$240,000″
No matter, whatever goes in isn’t going to make J-Town look less like a ghost town on those cold, windblown Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday nights.
How to make a Concrete Ghost Town: Redevelopment + Mindless, Doctrinaire Preservationism.
(And the funny thing is that Japanese people looooooove Starbucks – they just can’t get enough)
Is that what you want, a dentist’s office? O.K. fine.
Tags: 1600 webster, 2011, bay area, blue northern, california, chain, coffee, construction, dental, dentist, dr., fast food, japan town, japantown, Nataly Viderman, post, protest, San Francisco, stabucks, task force, webster
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
The SFPD has just fleshed out this story of a trip to Japantown gone wrong.
Turns out the guy trying to fence(?) the booty is less than 18 years old.
Anyway, all the deets:
“SFPD Arrest Suspect by way of Smartphone GPS Technology
11-106
Posted Date: 9/30/2011
San Francisco Police Officers at Northern Station arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery by way of GPS technology.
The suspect who cannot be identified due to the fact he is a juvenile, was taken into custody on September 29, 2011 and charged for possession of stolen property.
In this incident, the victim was walking home from work on the 1600 block of Post St. at 11:00 p.m. when she was suddenly shocked in the neck by a stun gun. The suspect then stole her belongings, which included a Smartphone. Shortly after, a group of good Samaritans came to the victim’s aid and she was able to call the police.
Responding officers arrived on scene and asked the victim if she subscribed to a GPS tracking device on her Smartphone. The victim stated, “Yes”.
A tracking device is a service that allows subscribers to track their Smartphone when their device is either stolen or lost. Using GPS technology, the officers were able to track the Victim’s stolen Smartphone to the area of 7th St and Market.
Officers responded to the area and were able to track down the Smartphone through its tracking device software.
The officers were able to detain the suspect who had the Smartphone in his possession. The suspect was placed under arrest for possession of stolen property.”
Well, I guess this is a happy ending…
The intersection of 7th and Market Street in San Francisco is the world capitol of black market iPhone sales:
Via JonathanPercy – click to expand
Hurray!
Tags: 1600, 2011, 7th, arrested, bay area, black, block, Buchanan, california, cell, department, dept., GPS, gun, intersection, iphone, japantown, juvenile, laguna, lost, males, market, mug, mugging, night, phone, police, possession, post, property, robbery, San Francisco, sell, SFPD, shocked, smartphone, software, stolen, street, stun gun, suspect, taser, tracking, twitter, victim, youths
Posted in crime | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
I guess the hated concrete Peace Pagoda is getting honored here:
I won’t tell you which particular sign I notice.
BTW, the empty corner space at Webster and Post is going to be a large dentist’s office (boy, won’t that draw people to J-Town!) instead of the bustling coffee shop that almost went in six years ago…
Oh well…
Tags: 2011, bay area, japantown, pagoda, peace, post, reconquista, San Francisco, signage, signs, starbucks, street, tower
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
See?
That’s pretty green, huh?
I think it’s celery something, but they change the menu so much I can’t find the name of this starter online:
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And oh yes, please don’t steal their unique chopsticks, no matter how tempted you might become…
Tags: 2011, appetizer, bay area, Bushi-Tei, california, celery, chef, chopsticks, color, dinner, green, greenest, Japanese, japantown, MICHELIN, post, restaurant, San Francisco, spork, star, starter, steal, stick, stolen, street, wood, wooden
Posted in food and drink | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
You gotta click to expand this one.
Wow:
Via –Mark–
Tags: 2011, bay area, BTSSB, california, contest, eyes, fashion, Festival, Green Eyes, gren, j-pop, J-Pop Summit Festival, japantown, mark, Pink Umbrella:, post, San Francisco, street, summit, umbrella
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Answer: Sure, it’s legal, more or less, why not?
See?
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As seen at Daiso, our relatively new 100-yen store. (Blade Runner, you were way off about The Future, BTW.)
So, mangia, mangia!
In other words, It’s All Good.
Ah memories:
As some people say, “I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to sell expired food.”
But, generally, it’s not.
As here, on Post Street at Ichi Ban Kan, where stuff that’s past its “Best If Used By Date” gets a fat discount and a special section and a pink label:
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Nothing illegal here, srsly.
Enjoy!
Tags: 2011, bay area, best if used by, california, daiso, date, dating, drink, expired, expired freshness, food, grocery, Ichi ban Kan, illegal, japantown, kintetsu, lega, mall, old, post, San Francisco
Posted in food and drink | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Oh dear, I guess Carolyn Alburger already posted a photo of those famous Bushi-Tei chopsticks, you know, the ones so unique that high-end diners swipe them. So, I’m not really adding anything here:
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(Honestly, I missed the photo that she posted. Don’t know how that happened…)
Darn, this means that I’m just another free-loading internet wantrepreneur, another aggregator.
So, I guess alls that left to do is send out a misleading, hyped-up, SEO-optimized, Huffington Post-style Tweet and then I’ll watch the $$$ roll in…
No, I can’t do it! I gots to add value before this post is done.
Let’s see here, Bushi Tei’s chopsticks look like Harry Potter wands, like mini-Elderwands. (There, I’ve started the rise from mere internet wantrepreneur, mere aggregator, up to the lofty perch of blogger, of content creator. Hurray! Whew, that was close.)
But wait, there’s more.
OMG, handmade Pocky!
“Chocolate Pot de Creme – Blackberry and Elderflower: Handmade Pocky” by Pastry Chef Yuko Fujii:
These Pockies are the cutest things I’ve seen since those mini choco burgers that Spork gives you to ease the pain right at the time you realize you dropped $80-something at a revamped KFC. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And, last I heard, their Original Recipe Pull Apart Rolls with whipped honey butter and sea salt are still free, price on the menu is listed as $0.00. Hurray! Oh yes, please don’t steal Spork’s hefty, metal, straight-outta-Pusan sporks neither.)
I was going to save these Pockies for another post, but I sure don’t want anybody to call me the “A-word.”
Anyway, bushi tei is swinging for the fences up there on Post Street – I mean, they had a Michelin star(!) for a while, right? (And let me tell you, you won’t find too many of those in District 5, let me tell you.)
And now, bushi-tei has a new chef, I understand, so who knows what the future will bring.
Fin
Tags: 2011, bay area, Bushi-Tei, california, chef, chocolate, chopsticks, dinner, handmade, Harry Potter, homemade, Japanese, japantown, MICHELIN, Pastry Chef, pocky, post, restaurant, San Francisco, shopstick, spork, star, steal, stick, stolen, street, wood, wooden, Yuko Fujii
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