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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
[Whoops, spoke too soon - turns out that the SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle's Katie Baker was en la casa. The conspiracy of silence broken.]
Despite all the obituaries written earlier this year, The Bay Citizen celebrated its launch yesterday at the Great American Music Hall. Some TBC editors on the scene were fretting about getting a new batch of “stately idiom” finished up for the following morning, but a good time was had by all.
They literally rolled out the red carpet in the Tenderloin last night:
Who was there? Everybody. (Everybody excepting some of the hAtERz in local media who feel any new investment should go to existing concerns, you know, the ones that employ the hAtERz themselves. The hAtERz that showed somehow even managed to generate, with noticeable effort, Mona Lisa smile/smirks for the camera.) The place was packed from the get-go, baby. Check out the Party Pix from E.B.Boyd showing who all was there.
Standing room only:
Bay Citizen CEO Lisa Frazier (pronounced fraze-yah) started things off by inviting Founder Warren Hellman to play a song.
Lois Beckett snapped the chorus and here are the full lyrics to the sing-a-long tune Hardly Strictly News. Note the A-A-B-B rhyming scheme. Also note:
“We met with Lisa Frazier who pronounced ‘for now it will be free’/
A multi-layered news hub is the only way to be.”
What, “for now?” Uh oh:
Click to expand. It’s quite legible at 1200 pixels.
Anyway, F. Warren appeared to be somewhat irked by the constant chatter of the assembled throng. Oh well.
Here’s the mise-en-scene from up on the catwalk:
A big thank you to all the founding investors, founding members, patrons, and corporate sponsors. Notably, Dede Wilsey’s name isn’t on this list, so perhaps she just recently kicked in her seven figure donation? (Or let’s call it a $500,000 donation with Uncle Sucker kicking another half mil., mas o menos. That’s the thing with non-profit journalism – the federal govmint lowers your taxes by about 50 cents for every dollar you donate, assuming you pay a lot of taxes in the first place. This is the Unfair Advantage that the Chronicle people complain about. Speaking of which, nothing yet about TBC from the SFC – check for yourself.)
Everybody’s a star:
$5 tote bags just like Trader Joe’s and the KQED, plus loads of free bumper stickers:
The lives of the party:
Anyway, had to bail early to get down to Massive Attack at the Warfield while Arcadio was playing the TBC party. The booze was flowing and the place was still packed when I left, anyway.
Bon Courage, Bay Citizen!
All the deets, after the jump
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Tonight will be your last chance to see the Massive Attack down at the Warfield Theatre on Market Street. Are you giddy yet?
Last night’s effort was epic don’t you know. They tore down the house, but not so much so that they can’t do it again tonight.
Anyway, if you’re not doing anything else…
Tags: $25, 2010, 26, anti pop consortium, Bud, bud light, concert, light, market, martina topley bird, massive attack, may, series, street, theatre, warfield
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Not exactly sure why the Sunday Streets on May 23rd, 2010 seemed so sedate compared with every other Sunday Streets* in San Francisco history.
Starting from the north near AT&T Park, the entire affair looked like a ghost town, with more traffic enforcers and volunteers than participants. Then, when you got down to 3rd Street and Oakdale, you could see things picking up a bit, with live music and whatnot.
Thusly:
Let’s see how June 20th SS down in the Mission turns out. Probably be a bit more lively, one might assume.
*Except for the Ocean Beach one that got rained out, that is.
Tags: 2010, 23, 3rd, Bayview, bicycle, bike, hunters point, may, oakdale, party, San Francisco, street, sunday streets
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
I was headed on down to SiliValley on bidness yesterday and what did I see but this huge C5 Galaxyheading north out of San Francisco International. At first I thought it was an old C141 Starlifter, but no, upon further review, it appears to be a C5 of some sort. Now, I’ve seen military aircraft at Honolulu International HNL (in Hawaii of course, where you can’t drive to the Costco without getting intermixed with active duty military humvees), but never at SFO.
Anyway, you can’t have an Air Force One without a cargo plane or two to come with, right?
Here’s the outside of the flying presidential garage, just after takeoff. It’s a living:
The T-tail is your clue that this isn’t a regular old Boeing or Airbus jumbo. Click to expand
And this is what it looks like from the inside.
Look for photos of Obama’s visit on SFist.com – they’ll be sure to have some shots and reports posted in a timely fashion.
Tags: $25, 24, air force, airplane, barack, c 5, c5, c5a, c5b, c5c, califofrnia, Cargo, deliver, galaxy, jet, limo, limosuine, Lockheed, martin, may, Millbrae, obama, one, plane, president, San Francisco, SFO, U.S., United States
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Here’s the lastest about the much-talked-about media joint The Bay Citizen.
Matt Baume gives fresh details of everthing a potential freelancer could want to know at this point;
CEO Lisa Frazier today extends a final invitation to get on board before launch. See below; und
Kevin Montgomery gives us a sneak peek* on what the site might look like.
That’s the wind-up, and here’s The Pitch:
Dear LADIESMAN217:
The Bay Citizen’s launch is just two days away, and we can’t wait! Some exciting things have happened over the last few weeks:
We now have fourteen journalists in our newsroom, including twelve full-time journalists and two paid summer interns from the UC Berkeley Journalism School;
Our reporters are busy producing stories on topics including the environment and land use, health and science, education, arts and culture, and more;
We’ve started hosting partner meetings to explore collaborations with local independent media organizations, bloggers, and writers;
We recently moved into our new office at 126 Post Street in San Francisco
Become part of Bay Area history
You still have time. Until midnight on Wednesday, you can become a Founder of The Bay Citizen by donating $50 or more. As a Founder, your name will be permanently listed on our website and you’ll also receive two tickets to our launch party this Wednesday evening at the Great American Music Hall, where you’ll get the chance to meet hundreds of other founding members.
Become a Founder now!
And, don’t forget to check out www.baycitizen.org on Wednesday morning when it goes live.
With thanks,
Lisa Frazier, CEO
P.S. Our long-term sustainability depends on support from community members like you. Thank you for supporting The Bay Citizen.
See you there!
*I had a similar experience over the weekend when I decided to visit my giant Toyota sitting in the shop getting fixed. Even though the place was closed I was able to walk right in and take it for a quick test drive – now they told me last week my car would be ready this coming Wednesday but I wanted a sneak peek. Fuck man, the brakes sounded like shit! All screeching metalicky and whatnot. I called them up today and it turns out that they’re saying the new pads are coming in Tuesday. I don’t know, man, maybe they’ll get it done proper, but that’s a lot of work they still have to do…
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Word comes from John Arntz, Director of the San Francisco Department of Elections:
“Today is the last day to register to vote or change any registration information for the upcoming June 8, 2010 Consolidated Statewide Direct Primary Election. To facilitate last-minute registration, the Department of Elections will be open until 8 p.m. tonight to accept registration cards.”
So, maybe you’re not registered or maybe you’re registered not to your liking…
Either way, act today.
Look how much fun the political process voting can be:
Anyway, choose or lose:
“SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 2010 – Today is the last day to register to vote or change any registration information for the upcoming June 8, 2010 Consolidated Statewide Direct Primary Election. To facilitate last-minute registration, the Department of Elections will be open until 8 p.m. tonight to accept registration cards.
Ways to register to vote for before today’s deadline:
1. Download, complete and mail a Voter Registration Form from the Secretary of State’s website.
2. Visit any one of the following locations to pick up a form: post offices, public libraries, some City and County offices, or the Department of Motor Vehicles. Complete and mail the form today.
3. Come to the Department of Electionson the ground floor of City Hall. After 6 p.m., voters must enter City Hall through the front entrance on Polk Street (Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place).
All mailed registration forms must be postmarked with today’s date, May 24, for applicants to become eligible to vote in the June election.
More information on voter registration is available by visiting the Department’s website at www.sfelections.org or calling (415) 554-4411.
Department of Elections
City and County of San Francisco
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 48
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 554-4375
www.sfelections.org
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Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
About 60 people (including two dressed up as cetaceans, plus two dogs – of course, dogs love whales) showed for San Francisco’s part of today’s statewide protest against whaling.
Oddly, our MSM reported on how things went down in Fun Diego – can you believe how different these dispatches are? And this IndyBay bit leaves out the part about “Western culinary imperialism.” Oh well.
Here’s Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi caught in mid-stemwinder:
When Whale They Ever Learn and Nice People Heart Whales:
(Of course, Japan, Norway, and Iceland are the major whaling nations but cetaceans are hunted in the United States and Canada as well. Japan killed a little more than 500 Minke whales the past year and America got about 40 Bowheads, so call that 4000 tons for America and about 3000-something tons for Japan. Both of these species are not endangered, Or So They Say.)
Anyway, the deets:
Save the Whales Day, May 23, 2010
Demonstration Locations and Contacts
Save the Whales Day
May 23, 2010
Demonstration Locations and Contacts PLEASE CHECK THIS PAGE OFTEN FOR UPDATES
AND MORE DEMONSTRATION LOCATIONS.
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County Location Contact Time
Del Norte Front St. Park Visitors Center nicolagrobe@yahoo.com 11:30 am
Humboldt Eureka, foot of F St. on the plaza pete@humboldtbaykeeper.org 10:00 am
Los Angeles Palisades Park (by pier)
Santa Monica wanconservancy.org 11:00 am
Marin Rodeo Beach at
Ft. Cronkhite Nancy Okada
nxokada@yahoo.com 2:00 pm
Mendocino Ft. Bragg Town Hall
363 Main Street indigoa@mcn.org
www.OceanProtection.org 1:00 pm
Monterey Monterey Bay Park Pelican Network
POB 144
Big Sur, CA 93920
831-667-2025
contact: Jack Ellwanger 10:00 am
Orange County Main Beach Park
Laguna Beach greenp1@cox.net
charlottemasarik@cox.net 10:00 am
San Diego Spanish Landing Park (San Diego Bay, across from the airport, west of Harbor Island Dr.) renee@wildlifezone.net
bruce@sdcoastkeeper.org 11:00 am
Santa Barbara Beach by the Breakwater thegoldndrgn@yahoo.com 10:00 am
Santa Cruz Lighthouse Point on West Cliff Dr. Patricia Matejcek
patacheck@juno.com 11:30 am
San Francisco City Hall Jeremy Pollock: travelswithspider@yahoo.com
lauren.thorpe@greenpeace.org Noon
San Luis Obispo Rock parking lot
Morro Bay wildheartcomm@hotmail.com
sierraclub8@gmail.com 10:00 am
San Mateo Pacifica, next to the Pier on the promenade Nadia Holober, 650-740-3125
nholober@yahoo.com 10:00 am
San Mateo
(2nd location) Poplar Beach,
Half Moon Bay Susan Herhold
towaimea@comcast.net Noon
Sonoma Whale totem sculpture at Doran Beach (just south of Bodega Bay) Gregory Fearon:
gfearon@sonic.net 10:00 am
Ventura Harbor Village Lawn Alan Sanders:
alan@wanconservancy.net
Tags: 2010, 23, bowhead, City Hall, civic center, international whaling commission, iwc, may, meeting, minke, protes, ross miirkarimi, Save the Whales Day, Supervisor, whales
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
So this Jay Yarow fellow is saying how people just threaten to quit Facebook, instead of, you know, actually quitting Facebook. Feel free to take that as a kind of challenge. I did.
Anyway, the upshot is that quitting Facebook is easy-peasy, a lot easier than dealing with FB, certainly. The place is like a favor bank where you make deposits without any chance of withdrawal. Somebody’s telling me about some event they want the whole world to know about but I need to sign in again today? Why’s that? And Facebook always asks if I want to make FB my homepage – why on Earth would I do that?
Is there some way to stop getting queried by FB about making it my browser start page?
Yes there is. You just need to cancel your account, forever. Here’s the response you’ll get when you click on Settings/ Cancel:
Doesn’t that just tug at your heart-strings? Somehow, I think lovely Damion and Fiona will manage just fine without me. And actually, they probably won’t even notice I’m gone since nobody’s going to send a message to people saying how I don’t like them anymore or something.
Just didn’t know what I was getting into. I ended up getting messages from people I was only vaguely aware of. Maybe that’s my fault, as I would routinely accept friend requests. Well, except for one. That was from a state elected official, Betty Yee. I used to drive her around for free in a giant Lexus, but that wasn’t enough so then I started getting solicitations for campaign donations in the mail every couple of months. I think the fact that I threw a few bucks (not that much at all) to more charismatic pols irritated her. Oh well. Anyway, I thought that approving the friend request would send a mixed message, so I didn’t. (You’ll get a chance to vote for her next month, but it doesn’t really matter as she’ll win anyway due to the way the system is set up.) Otherwise, I just went with the flow with FB and I didn’t like where it took me.
Now I know a bunch of older people glommed on to FB tout de suite about a year ago – that probably raised FB’s average user age up, up, up. Do you think the age of the typical user will end up getting near what AOL’s average user age was in its prime? You might be too young to remember the era of You’ve Got Mail, but man, there are a lot of similarities betwixt AOL and FB, is all I’m saying. AOL eventually lost out to the regular Internet – when will FB lose out the regular Internet?
I’ll tell you, my grandmother is too busy for FB what with her going out and enjoying her new Hyundai (Yes, Hyundai!, – is this really America’s best warranty? No se), but what’s it going to be like when the average grandmother clocks in more FB time per day that the typical tween girl? That’s gonna be tough.
Now, here’s a bit from Geroge Orwell. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.” How wrong was that, right? Here’s the Future:
“Poke your Grandma. Stan, why won’t you poke your Grandma?”
(A frat-boy style lexicon of love that might have been appropriate back in the day, back around aught-four, might need to be tweaked a bit, at some point, you think? Moving on…)
AOL’s downward spiral began just after that You’ve Got Mail Tom Hanks / Melanie Griffith joint came out in 1998. How long will FB last after The Social Network comes out in late 2010? Will the kids think you’re cool still after that, FB? You might not be The New Thang after that.
Oh well.
And oh yes, after boldly informing FB about how you really meant it when you clicked on Cancel, they’ll have you log in again and make you pass a CAPTCHA. And then this screen is your payday. But you have to tell them why you’re leaving. Thusly:
And then you’re done.
Forever.
It’s later than you think, FB. Enjoy the ride while it lasts.
Tags: 31, account, aol, betty t yee, betty yee, board, Board of Equalization, boe, california, cancel, election, facebook, fb, fgacebook, friend, may, member, primary, privacy, quitting, request, San Francisco, social network, state, tax, you;ve got mail, zuckerberg
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Let’s check in with our de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, shall we?
The Tut show is off to New Yawk by now, but here’s what the unpacking and repacking process looked like.
So, first, Egyptian specialists monitor the unpacking and inspect for any shipping damage. As seen last year before the show:
Then, you have the spectacle…
…and then you have the repacking. See? Each piece gets inspected for what seems like hours and then gets put back into its own Styrofoam cubby hole. Next stop, Times Square:
(3000 years sitting around in Egypt, then a couple worldwide roadtrips over several decades, and then another 3000 years in Egypt? Don’t think that major pieces of the Tut collection will ever leave Egypt again.)
Anyway, Tut had to clear out to make way for Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay. I don’t know how this all works out, but it seems whenever our European friends clean up their museums and do a little renovating, they send their good stuff to San Francisco for safekeeping. Sweet.
And speaking of firing on all cylinders, our MSM’s arts coverage is functioning as designed, it would seem. Check out this detailed report from Julian Guthrie and Lance Iversen as well as this one from Janos Gereben. Look forward to their reviews. Speaking of which…
This show is going to be awesome. I mean, how could you mess this one up?
Stayed tuned….
Accessible masterpieces, what could be better?
The Fifer. 1866. Édouard Manet (1832-1883). Oil on canvas, 63 3/8 x 38 1/4 inches. RMN (Musée d’Orsay)/Hervé Lewandowski
All the deets, after the jump
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Tags: 2010, 22nd, Arrangement in Gray and Black, Birth of Impressionism, Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, de Young, king, Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, may, museum, painting, San Francisco, tut, uncrating, whistler's Mother
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
[BIKE NOPA has an update. The Examiner has a report indicating the cyclist has only "minor injuries." Could it be that the car got it worse than the guy on the bike?]
A small Ford Focus ZXW station wagon collided with a cyclist at the intersection of Fell and Masonic this afternoon.
This red Cannondale fixie had its fork torn in two.
Tags: 14th, 2010, 5LPX586, accident, bicycle, bike, brakes, cannondale, colma, fell, focus, ford, fork, greem station, green, masonic, may, red, San Francisco, serremonte, SFPD, wagon
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