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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Actually, Harvey is Tevye the Dairyman, but you know what I mean. Now let’s say that you have $30 – maybe you worked for it, or you just got your unemployment check, or that trust fund came through - it doesn’t matter. I’d have no qualms about directing you to use that dough to go see old-school Fiddler on the Roof at SHN’s bustling Golden Gate Theatre before the show ships out on February 21st.
Might take you a few moments to adjust to his famous voice, so there you go. No matter, Harvey is hilarious, he raises the roof, he’s the real deal.
Our Golden Gate single handedly puts the theatre into the Theatre District. The roomy seats give the big-boned and long-femured of us plenty of kneeroom compared what they have at the nearby Orpheum:
And if you see the show tonight, you’ll also get to see elements of the Westboro Baptist Church in some sort of protest out front as you’re walking in. Bonus.
See you there!
[UPDATE: And now, you can go there two hours before the show to try to get nonresellable $30 rush tickets, which I'm guessing would be for better-than-average seats. Anyway, the deets on that, after the jump.]
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Tags: 1, 2010, 6th, address, broadway, Dance, February, fiddler, fiddler on the roof, ggt, golden gate, golden gate theatre, harvey fierstein, harvey firestein, harvey firestien, january, jones, market, play, roof, San Francisco, shn, show, singing, song, street, tevye, theater, tickets
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Oh man, the scalpers on craigslist are already at full speed, but I just now found out that Harvey Fierstein will star in Fiddler on the Roof from January 27th to February 21st at SHN’s grand, stylish and palatial Golden Gate Theatre.
It’s going to be mega.
What’s that, you have a few concerns about Harvey as Tevye? Well then read on, below.
Here’s interviewer Boris Kachka’s recent Q&A with the feisty Fierstein:
Q. Some people have been asking, “Can Harvey actually sing in a serious role like this?” You were playing Hairspray’s Edna for comedy, after all.
A. If I had played Edna for laughs, I don’t think I would have gotten the Tony. So that’s people’s prejudice, and to me that’s just stupid.
Q. What about when people say you’re too raspy?
A. You know, Boris, you’re asking me questions that are really pissing me off. What a stupid thing to say. It’s like saying Shelley Winters is too fat to play—that’s who I am.
O.K. then.
It’s his dream role, after all.
Will spending your $30 to see Fiddler from the side balcony be a better investment than the $15 it’ll take to go see headache-inducing Avatar in 3D?
Yes, probably.
See you there at the GGT!
Tags: 1, 2010, 6th, address, broadway, Dance, February, fiddler, fiddler on the roof, ggt, golden gate, golden gate theatre, harvey fierstein, harvey firestein, harvey firestien, january, jones, market, play, roof, San Francisco, shn, show, singing, song, street, tevye, theater, tickets
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
About 20-something ornamental bricks rained down from the top of the old Hibernia Bank Building at 1 Jones Street on McAllister near Market yesterday evening, bringing out a mess of SFPD and SFFD personnel. (Get up to speed on this building at SF Curbed and the Socketsite.)
The mise-en-scene. Bricks fell from both of the traingular areas you can see near the top. Click to expand:
See where the bricks used to be, way up high?
Here are some of them on the sidewalk of the west side of Jones Street:
Some of the bricks that landed on the sidewalk at about 30 MPH:
Do you ever want worried-looking police captains and firefighting battalion chiefs hanging out in front of your building in front of yellow tape? No, you do not:
The SFFD made “soundings” as part of its investigation. Did that cause more blocks to fall? Possibly. Is that a Good Thing, that they fell yesterday instead of today on the noggins of passersby? Yes. Why did this masonry fall? Is there a possible suspect in this scene? Yes.
Is Albert Pissis rolling over in his grave about now?
“…Hibernia Bank at 1 Jones Street, completed in 1892, was exceptionally advanced, not only for San Francisco but for the country at large. It appeared a year before the Chicago Columbian Exposition swept the nation with renewed appreciation for classical grandeur and order. With its crisp and dignified detailing, its scholarly composition and white Sierra granite walls, capped with a then-gilded dome, the bank appeared like a manifesto near the incoherent City Hall and the adjacent jumble of brick and wood commercial structures. Architect and Engineer reflected in 1909 that “the (Hibernia Bank) became famous at once and marked an epoch in San Francisco architecture and placed its designer in the forefront of his profession, where he has remained ever since. The building from the first to last shows no sign whatever of immaturity.”
Tags: 1, bricks, brokedown palace, Captain, fire, Hibernia, hibernia bank, jones, market, mcallister, police, San Francisco, sffd, SFPD, street, tenderloin
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
The San Francisco 8 case regarding the death of John Victor Young in 1971 is now 87.5% finished, so only the fate of final defendant Francisco Torres remains undecided. (These legal proceedings seem to get more attention outside of San Francisco County than inside, so the average resident is still probably ignorant of what the term “SF8″ means.)
Will the famous Bernal Hill slogan need to be updated?
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It’s not easy getting a handle on things, based on what I’ve read. If the deputy AGs can establish a fingerprint match on a lighter, then what does that, by itself, prove about what Francisco Torres was actually doing on August 29, 1971?
To Be Continued…
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
See yesterday’s news conference in the “crime-ridden” Tenderloin / Adam’s Block area concerning Light Emitting Diode (LED) streetlights here with photos taken by Bill Wilson, and read all about this new technology here. The United States Department of Energy and PG&E have recently helped San Francisco conduct a beauty contest of competing brands of LED lights – read the gritty nitty here (.pdf, you might need to right click, Save File As… or whatever).
The upshot is that it’s not really worth pulling out existing street lighting to install LED lights. You can save a few bucks a month in electricity by converting a streetlight to LED and there are other benefits as well, so it appears we’ll eventually, slowly convert over with the hope that prices of these new kind of bulbs will go down.
Take a look at the Before and After:
That’s a scene from the test in Outer Sunset. The first shot is lit with your typical High Pressure Sodium (HPS) streetlight. See how everything looks yellow, just like the background of all your nighttime photos taken outside? That’s due to sodium’s low color temperature, around 2000K or so. The same area lit by LED shows a more natural look, probably 4000-something Kelvin. If LED’s do nothing else, they’ll improve night photography in San Francisco.
And here are the LEDs in action:
Hello lamppost,
What cha knowing?
I’ve come to watch your diodes glowing.
And speaking of the DoE, big ups to America’s new Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu. He just recently labored as a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and he used to be the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
More deets about the new lights in San Francisco after the jump.
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The Hibernia Bank Building (San Francisco Landmark #130) at One Jones Street and McAllister recently got a powerwash scrubbing - it seems this green and white elephant is beginning to wake up.
Back in the 1990s this was the place for students at nearby UC Hastings College of Law to buy their Mary Jane. Then the SFPD’s Tenderloin Task Force (TTF) moved in, then Eddie Murphy filmed Metro (1997) , then the TTF moved out, then nothing.
Here lie the Sons of Ireland, the turning world has sung their souls to sleep:
Let’s hope everything looks spiffy when the 158th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade blows by this Saturday, March 14, 2009.
Wake up hibernus Hibernia, wake up. Spring is coming.
Tags: 1, 130, bank, building, closed, Hibernia, jones, landmark, mcallister, one, police department, San Francisco, SFPD, street, tenderloin task force, ttf
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Well here it is, the Joseph Eichler Summit, a somewhat Republican condo building at triple-nine Green Street near Jones.
The obvious question is this: why is it so ugly?
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And from the San Francisco Chronicle’s John King, via Google Search, we get an answer:
“From the 24th on up, each floor flares out one foot beyond the one below.”
“…it has a tired look. A bumpy one, too, as many owners enclosed their balconies to gain a few more feet of living space.”
So there you have it. The Taipei 101-style flaring + the random enclosures = ugly.
Tags: 999, 999 green, green eichler, Joe, jones, joseph, street. ugly
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
By now you’ve seen the latest viral video recreating Indiana Jones’ famous Boulder Dash? From the Gootube:
“We built a huge LEGO boulder and then made our friend dress up as Indy and run from it. Fun times!
(How respectful the Youtube poster was of our corporate overlords, taking care to CAPITALIZE corporate names.)
Anyway, it sure got plenty of Diggs.
However, some have alleged that the giant Lego ball was styrofoam and that the makers merely sought to promote a new game. (Who knows, you might like it.)
Irregardless, this has led to confusion on the Internets.
From Flickr via tillwe, are these LEGO bricks or not? (Commenter Phill says nay. Commenter Martin says it’s Duplo.)
Some appear to have lost their faith in the Web:
Viral is so mid-2000s, now it’s just being exploited and we’re all gonna hate it.
And the famous Laughing Squid is now trying to give credit to the entire crew that pieced together all 5 million Legos, to no avail.
Was Teak Motion Visuals or Teak Films Production behind this corporate subterfuge? Some think Sausalito’s Butler Shine and Stern (wouldn’t it be nice to be “hanging out on a fucking sailboat, while getting paid coupla hundred an hour“) may have had a hand in it.
Only Time Will Tell.
But in the meantime and while we’re on the topic, take a look at Teak Motion Visuals’ attempt at verisimilitude. How contrived does this scene appear on a scale from 1 to 10? Can’t you just see the guy with a baseball cap plotting out the most effective bouquet of garbage?
Are we really suppose to listen to this Amazing Group of Talented Creatives, and then ”Clean the Bay” and “Start With This Beach?” This particular beach at Crissy Field? Srsly? Until the sexy but trash-strewn drunkfest known as the Bay to Breakers Footrace gets rerouted, the Crissy Field Protection Area will never look like that. (If you want real, then check out San Francisco’s Warm Water Cove - it still looks like this.)
The makers of these contrived bits probably had a good time getting paid to do them, but when you start fibbing and shilling… Will this LEGO stunt end up on the list of Great Examples of Guerilla Marketing Gone Wrong?
Fail
Epic Fail.
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