This is what you missed from the 2012 Miss Chinatown USA Pageant, which was ably recorded by famous bay area photographer David Yu Saturday night.
Here’s 2012 Queen Steffi Hu of Sugar Land, Texas - she’s in the Class of 2015 at Rice University:
And here’s everybody who was in the pageant – this thing was international news, of course:
Check out David’s ridiculously voluminous, contrasty, and colorful album right here on the Facebook
Bon courage, Queen Steffi Hu!
Actually, medians suck, generally. I mean, who are you trying to impress, 23rd Avenue?
Useless trees in the middle of the street, as seen betwixt Cabrillo and Fulton in the Richmond District:
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Who needs animated GIFs, right?
Miss National Asia Queen 2010 Michelle Nguyen says TTFN at the 2011 event:
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Whenever you see this kind of scene on the Streets of San Francisco, odds are it’s just local Ghostbuster Jim Fassbinder and his nightly San Francisco Ghost Hunt.
This highly-rated three-hour tour of the Victorians around Lower Specific Whites Pacific Heights is guaranteed, in a way, and for $20 you can’t beat that.
As seen California Street for the past 13 years. Which one of these people is the ghost?
Here’s your guarantee:
“I really can’t guarantee ghosts. But I can guarantee the San Francisco Ghost Hunt will be nearly three hours of unearthly fun! You’ll see wonderful Victorian mansions and learn the city’s haunted history, be touched time and again by the magic of supernatural beliefs, and hear documented authentic ghost stories presented with passion and drama. You will be amazed to learn a few ways to directly encounter a ghost yourself…if you dare. You will get exercise, fresh air, and have an outstanding good time. The San Francisco Ghost Hunt is: humor and history, emotion and education; with supernatural spookiness! You will be entertained, enlightened and enchanted. That’s absolutely GUARANTEED!”
And they’re baaaaaa-ack for 2011! See?
See you there!
Your 44th Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco Japantown is on, once again, for 2011.
Here was the setup for Day 3 this AM complete with Honda generators and mad sake. You know, this pretty much looks just like every annual village festival in Japan:
But sadly, once again, my Hello Kitty SmartCar wan’t allowed to roll with all the Japanese iron. Oh well:
Here’s your overview, your sked, and your FAQ.
And the Big Parade comes tomorrow, Sunday, April 17th, 2011
And St. Mary’s Medical Center will conduct free medical screenings at the east end on Post near Laguna, same as usual:
It’s on!
All the deets, after the jump
Famous San Francisco photographer David Yu was on hand over the weekend to photograph the 2011 Northern California Cherry Blossom Queen Program.
Get all the deets, after the jump.
Princess Richelle Farley, Princess Kaori Saito, Princess Lauren Kawawaki, First Princess Tamiko Escalante, and Queen Jeddie Kawahatsu along with the gang from the 2010 Queen Program:
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All the deets, after the jump
Your 44th Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco Japantown is on for 2011.
Here’s your overview, your sked, and your FAQ.
And tonight starting at 6:00 PM at the Sundance Kabuki Theatre, there’ll be the NCCBF Queen Program…
…featuring Kaori Saito, Tamiko Escalante, Richelle Farley, Jeddie Kawahatsu, Lauren Kawawaki for 2011:
And on all four days, St. Mary’s Medical Center will conduct free medical screenings at the east end on post near Laguna, same as usual:
It’s on!
All the deets, after the jump
(My Canon 1D Mark Whatever SLR died an early death at 140,000 clicks* possibly due to the fact that I wasn’t ascared of a little (or a lot) of rain. Nowadays I’m def. skittish, but no matter,) you can always count on famous photographer David Yu to be on the scene rain or dry.
As he was last Saturday night in Chinatown and North Beach and SoMA and the Financh and all over.
Check out his gallery of Year of the Rabbit festivities, why not?
Bunnies!
Whoahhh Bundy!
SuperLotto? No thanks! But SuperLotto PLUS? Sounds intriguing…
And look who else was there – it’s your newly-minted Supervisor Malia Cohen:
(Yowser)
And your just-as-newly-minted Mayor Edwin Lee in the official San Francisco staff car, formerly used by General Burkhalter:
See you next year! (In scary, scary 2012, the year of the Dragon.)
*200,000 was the expected number of clicks I believe I was owed. ($300 minimum for a new shutter.) OTOH, my 5D Mark I has probably already exceeded its expected shutter life so I s’pose I shouldn’t complain too much. Living on borrowed time tho.
Of course famous photographer David Yu was on the scene when June Quan was crowned Miss Chinatown USA for 2011.
The Coronation Ball is tonight, see below, and, of course, the big parade is tomorrow night.
(Don’t even take along a brolly to the parade – you’ll stay dry this year, most likely, Gaia willing…) [UPDATE: The Internet MIC just came by my house and tore up my prognosticator license. From now on, I'll leave this kind of stuff to the experts.]
Bon Courage to June Quan and all the participants.
Harrah’s Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Coronation Ball
Friday, February 18, 2011
San Francisco Hilton & Towers
333 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
(415) 982-3000
| 6:00 pm | No Host Cocktails |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
| 8:30 pm | Dancing until midnight |
Tickets: $120
“Congratulations to Miss Chinatown USA pageant 2011 queen June Quan and the court.
Miss Chinatown San Francisco queen 2011
June Quan 關蓮珠
San Francisco, CA
Miss Chinese Chamber of Commerce/First Princess
Casey Him 嚴紫萌
Walnut Creek, CA
Miss San Francisco Chinatown
Lisa Fei 費麟
Berkeley, CA
Second Princess and Miss Talent
Joy Yin Le 樂音
Bellaire, TX
Third Princess
Cynthia Vuong 黃佩芷
Bellevue, WA
Fourth Princess
Anita Wong 黃綺婷
San Francisco, CA
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Yeasterday’s Lantern Parade Festival and Bon Odori Dance in Japantown was well-attended. Here’s some video and here’s the dragon, courtesy of the SFNoobs.
Now, I didn’t stick around for nightfall, but here’s what things looked like early on, under the pouring sun.
The parade coming…
…and going:
People were encouraged to wave their hands in the air like they just didn’t care. (Note Retail for Lease sign in background.)
And here comes the queen and court for the Cherry Blossom Festival Queen Program 2010
Amd here’s what people were carrying:
And here’s the only pol that I saw, Emily Murase. She’s running for the San Francisco Board of Education in November:
All this was taken in by a (mostly) enthusiastic crowd:
Takko, the garlic capital of Japan, sounds like my kind of town:
People were dusting off their summery yukata to join in:
See you next year!
