Posts Tagged ‘sunday’
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
“Some Tips to Help SF Weekly Get Over the Free Parking Obsession.
DOES THE SF WEEKLY HAVE AN “OBSESSION” WITH FREE PARKING? NO. SO YOU’RE WRONG, STREETSBLOG. AND YOU’RE DOING A DISSERVICE TO YOUR 80 OR SO DAILY READERS / COMMENTERS WHEN YOU LIE ABOUT STUFF, RIGHT?
“The folks at SF Weekly seem really upset about the end of free car parking on Sundays.”
BY FOLKS PLURAL YOU MEAN ERIN SHERBERT SINGULAR? YES YOU DO. WRONG AGAIN. AND IS SHE “REALLY UPSET” NO. WRONG AGAIN. AND DOES SHE EVEN “SEEM” TO BE REALLY UPSET? NO. WRONG AGAIN.
The shock is apparently severe enough that Erin Sherbert put up a post yesterday directing readers to sign the petition demanding an absolute end to the SF Municipal Transportation Agency’s expansion of parking meters, launched by the Eastern Neighborhoods United Front (ENUF).
DID SHE “DIRECT” READERS TO DO ANYTHING? NO. WRONG AGAIN.
Many San Franciscans tired of the free parking mess on commercial streets actually aren’t “pissed off about paying for parking on Sunday.”
HOW MANY? ENOUGH TO SUPPORT ADVERTISING ON THE STREETSBLOG? NOPE! THAT CAN”T BE TOO “MANY,” HUH? OH, THAT REMINDS ME, FORK OVER $60K TO ME RIGHT NOW SO THAT I CAN CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN MY UNSUSTAINABLE BLOG!
But in a sign that you don’t need a parking PhD to get why meters make streets work better for everyone, SF Weekly’s readership seemed to welcome the end of free parking on Sundays.
OH A PHD IN PARKING! IF ONLY!
SF’s dysfunctional free Sunday parking regime was a burden to everyone who had to circle the block endlessly for a spot, everyone who had to put up with commercial streets clogged with traffic, noise, and exhaust, and all the merchants who lost business because of the lack of parking turnover.
SO NOW IT”S EASY TO PARK ON SUNDAYS? REALLY? I DON’T THINK SO. PERHAPS ALL THE SPIN COMING FROM SFTMA MUNI DPT SFPARK MIGHT NOT BE 100% ACCURATE? GEE, PERHAPS ORGANIZED RELIGION HAD A LITTLE SOMETHING TO DO WITH FREE SUNDAY PARKING BACK IN THE DAY AND, COME TO THINK OF IT, THESE DAYS (UP UNTIL NOON, ANYWAY) AS WELL. MMMM… AND MAYBE SFMTA MUNI DPT SFPARK WON’T BE CHARGING “ENUF” IN CERTAIN AREAS TO GARNER ALL THE BENEFITS THEY ARE PROMISING. WE’LL SEE….
All told, free Sunday parking was much more “oppressive” than paying a price to use scarce street space for automobile storage.
SING IT, PREACHER MAN!
That’s why supporters of SFPark started their own petition encouraging its expansion. It’s a point we make repeatedly on Streetsblog, and hopefully the editors at SF Weekly got the message coming from their readers.
YOU “REPEATEDLY” MAKE THE SAME POINT ON YOUR UNSUSTAINABLE, MONEY-LOSING BLOG – WHO’S “OBSESSED” NOW?
This post is made possible by a grant from GJEL Accident Attorneys, a Bay Area law firm committed to representing pedestrians and cyclists.
WHAT?
The content is Streetsblog’s own, and GJEL neither endorses nor exercises any editorial control.
WELL, THAT’S REASSURING.
ALL RIGHT, ENJOY YOUR FANTASY LAND, WHILE IT LASTS.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers…
Tags: 2013, Aaron Bialick, bay area, california, ENUF, erin sherbert, gjel, parking, San Francisco, sf weekly, StreetsBlogSF, STRETSBLOG, sunday
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Thursday, September 20th, 2012
See?
“Yerba Buena Family Day is downtown San Francisco’s biggest daylong family block party with free admission to four leading museums including
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Contemporary Jewish Museum,
Museum of the African Diaspora, and
Children’s Creativity Museum
plus a huge array of special art activities for kids and free performances on two big stages courtesy of Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.”
See you there!
And here’s the full sked for our Museum of the African Diaspora:
“Yerba Buena Family Day presented by Target
Sunday September 23, 2012
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
FREE ADMISSION
Five of San Francisco’s top cultural destinations including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora, Children’s Creativity Museum and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival welcome families with a full day of free admission, hands-on art making and special family-friendly performances. It’s an unprecedented opportunity for people of all ages to experience all that downtown San Francisco’s Yerba Buena arts district has to offer.
Here at MoAD we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Music Across the Diaspora from Puerto Rico, Peru and Mexico.
11-5pm | Tour the exhibition Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction!: Celebrating Bay Area Abstract Artists
11-5pm | Experience Music from the Diaspora featuring films from Peru and Mexico in the Celebration Circle
11-5pm | View Henry Louis Gates’ documentary film Black in Latin America in the Wells Fargo Heritage Center
11-1pm | Hear the African Drumming Ensemble for a performance outside of MoAD
12-4pm | Create a Painting with Music in the 3rd Floor Education Center
1-2pm & 4-5pm | Come to a family friendly workshop and performance with Afro Puerto-Rican band Los Pleneros de la 21 in the 2nd floor MoAD Salon
1-3pm | Sidewalk Chalk Art with Jamie Treacy in front of MoAD”
Tags: 2012, admission, bay area, california, CCM, children's creativity museum, contemporary, contemporary jewish museum, day, Family, free, Jewish Museum, jewmu, kids, market, moad, museum, museum of the african diaspora, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 23rd, sfmoma, soma, south, stores, street, sunday, target
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
The Reddit Community is going crazy over this one.
Is this what it would look like if Anne Hathaway / Parker Posey (on the left) and Bobby Flay (on the right) conspired to steal a little violone from San Francisco’s world-famous Conservatory of Music in Civic Center / Hayes Valley?
From yesterday:
“Hey Reddit, my son’s very expensive cello was stolen from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music yesterday. Here are the surveillance pics from security that show a young couple making-off with my son’s primary instrument. FWIW, this instrument is one of the most expensive things I have ever owned. It was stolen around 4:05 PM on Sunday, September 16th, 2012. These people are nonchalantly making-off with a full-size cello that was purchased when my son graduated from a smaller cello when he was 12. We’ve owned it for 11 years. He’s in the collegiate division at the San Francisco Conservatory and it is not only the vehicle for his ability to obtain a classical music degree, but is also his sole source of income, as he uses it in performances and recordings. We’ll be doing a media blitz tomorrow with local stations and the SFPD, but I’m hoping the community can help. Any leads are incredibly appreciated.”
All the photos.
Do you have enough Clues? Who will solve this mystery?
(Is it Mrs. Peacock in the Conservatory with a Revolver?)
Tags: Anne Hathaway, black, Bobby Flay, Bubenreuth, Cat Burglar, Cat Woman, Cello, civic center, clotes, clue, Conservatory of Music, cops, craigslist, dress, exit, franklin, german, gough, hayes valley, images, little, oak, Parker Posey, pawn, photos, police, reddit, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, security, September 16th, shop, shops, son, stairs, steal, stolen, sunday, Surveillance, Travis Young, violone
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
I mean, I assume.
Leave us review:
If you voted for Ed Lee for Mayor, your choice for the next D5 Supervisor is London Breed.*
OTOH, if you voted against Ed Lee for Mayor, your choice for the next D5 Supervisor is Julian Davis. Throw in a couple other choices if you want, but make sure neither one is London Breed or Interim Supervisor and Total Sellout Christine Olague. (Or should I say Christine “8 Washington” Olague? Or should I say Christine “Perjurer Accomplice” Olague?)
Easy Peasy.
Come out and say hi to Julian, I’m sure he’ll be there, this Sunday:
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Hey, is PG&E a “Sponsor” of this event, on September 9th, 2012, the two year anniversary of PG&E’s San Bruno Pipeline Explosion, the one that killed eight souls? I think so.
(I wish San Francisco had just an average kind of utility monopoly instead of motherfucking PG&E. Speaking of which, a while back they inquired about how much it would cost to advertise some PR campaign on this tiny blog. I was like GTFO – I ignored it. Interestingly, presented with a similar offer, the San Francisco Bay Guardian said bring it, and so then PGE’s signature blue banner ads started appearing at SFBG.com, I’m seriously. Ah memories. )
Anyway, see you at Sunday Streets Western Addition 2012.
*I’m sure he’d be delighted to have her on board. Now, she’s a little PO’ed these days about how she kind of got screwed over by Interim Mayor Ed Lee earlier this year, oh and by Willie Brown and Rose Pak and all, but I’m sure Mayor Lee and his minders would adapt to London’s election swimmingly. (Of course Ed Lie said he would stay out of this particular race and of course now he’s now picking sides in D5, you know, just a few months later, but he also said he wouldn’t run for Mayor. In fact that’s why he became Interim Mayor, based on that other promise. Hence the sobriquet Ed Lie.) Anyway, Republican billionaire Ron Conway threw her a few bucks a little while ago – that’s telling, IMO. Oh, and DiFi just endorsed her, and you can’t get any more Establishment than DiFi I don’t think.
Tags: 2012, 8 Washington, bay area, bike, california, Christine Olague, d5, Dianne Feinstein, DiFi, district 5, district five, ed lee, explosion, fillmore, golden gate park, julian davis, London Breed, Mayor, north, panhandle, Perjurer, perjury, pg&e, Pipeline, pregressive, recusal, Ron Conway, Rose Pak, rushmore, san bruno, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Senator, september 9th, sunday, sunday streets, Sunday Streets Western Addition 2012, u. s., walk, western addition, willie brown
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
I couldn’t.
Hey, remember this?
“IF YOU”RE NOT THE MODEL, BE THE PHOTOGRAPHER”
I do.
Anyway, these days I suppose you can be both a model and photographer, why not?
The first one in Golden Gate Park here is easier:
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But this one, spotted just two minutes later, I still haven’t figured out:
Happy Spring!
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, cameras, Girly Photography Day, golden gate park, hayes valley, model, Photograph, Photographer, photography, San Francisco, shoot, smodel, sunday
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Sunday, November 27th, 2011
[UPDATE: Andrea Koskey has more deets on this collision, as does RedditSF - it has a shot from just afterwards. ]
The driver of this car was taking Oak to get back to the Peninsula this afternoon but she ended up flipping her Honda Civic just before Divisadero.
See?
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So as traffic backed up for miles along Oak, the SFPD began its investigation:
The Honda Shadow:
San Francisco’s “Comeback Neighborhood of the Year” is the host of this scene, betwixt abandoned sidewalk sofas and the LaunderLand:
Now I’ll tell you, we were supposed to get a freeway to link up the terminuseses of 101 and 280 with the Golden Gate Bridge, but what we got instead was Fell and Oak with three or four one-way lanes each way timed for 35 MPH. But these days, for various reasons, the Fell/Oak twins don’t play the substitute freeway role as well.
Recently, this intersection at Divis. has become a bottleneck owing to the inefficient* left arrow phase for southbound traffic on Divisadero to allow drivers to get on eastbound Oak. I’m not sure, but this configuration might have confused or upset the Civic driver, who was driving “all squirrelly” near Broderick shortly before this accident.
LBCOT
*Hey, how about a big fat “NO LEFT TURN” sign for southbound drivers on Divisadero? This intersection wasn’t made “for the neighbors,” so there’s no reason for the people who live in this area to have more of a say than those poor, wretched souls who live way out there in the West Bay, you know, the Sunset and the Richmond. This new left turn phase, like the one at Octavia for inbound Market Street drivers, appears to be a sop for DivCo / NoPA / EaPA locals…
Tags: 2011, accident, bank, bay area, bus, buses, california, chase, civic, cops, crash, district, divisadero, driver, ex, fell, flip, flipped, freeway, gray, grey, Honda, investigation, left, lights, motorcycle, mta, Muni, November 27, oak, octavia, officers, only, over, police, red, richmond, San Francisco, sedan, sfgh, SFMTA, SFPD, shadow, silver, street, sunday, sunset, timed, traffic, transit, turn, upside down
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
October 16th, 2011 will be on a Sunday so I’ll prolly be breakin’ in the malls, breakin’ on the streets, natch, but you, you’ve got kids, so you should head down to SoMA for Yerba Buena Family Day 2011.
It’s:
“…San Francisco’s biggest daylong family block party with free admission, special art activities and free performances for children and families at the following venues within 1 or 2 blocks of each other in the Yerba Buena arts district at 3rd Street and Mission Street in downtown San Francisco.”
That means that Target will pick up the tab when you visit the SFMOMA, the Jew Mu, the MoAD and the Children’s Creativity Museum.
Hurray! (Hey Target, why are you taking so long to open down there in Metreon? Or for that matter, Geary and Masonic. C’mon, wiki wiki.)
All right, see you and your fam there!
All the deets:
- Be inspired by the exhibition Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
- Sketch, scribble, and squiggle your way through the wonderful world
of drawing
- Marvel at Harry Houdini’s famous escape acts in the exhibition Houdini: Art and Magic
- Thrill to a live performance by The Magic of Chin-Chin
- Tour the exhibition COLLECTED: Stories of Acquisition and Reclamation
- Make a memory box to take home, participate in a drumming workshop,
and more
- Be among the first to experience the Museum’s freshly redesigned exhibits including the new Imagination Lab
- Create clay animations, music videos, digital art, and more
- Ride the historic carousel for free
- From hula dancers to taiko drummers, enjoy live performances on the
Esplanade Stage in the Gardens from 11 AM – 3:30 PM
- Delight in the clowning of Unique Derique and the grooves of the
Venezuelan Music Project on the Children’s Stage near the Children’s
Creativity Museum from 12 – 3 PM
Tags: 16, 16th, 2011, 3rd, 4th, bay area, california, carousel, children, children's creativity museum, Chin-Chin, COLLECTED, contemporary jewish museum, creativity, dancers, day, drawing, drumming, explored, Family, Family Day, folsom, free, fun, gardens festival, harrison, Houdini: Art and Magic, howard, hula, Imagination, jew mu, jewmu, kids, magic, Magic of Chin-Chin, market, memory box, Metreon, mission, moad, moma, museum, museum of modern art, museum of the african diaspora, museums, october, presented by target, print retrospective, Richard Serra, Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective, San Francisco, sfmoma, sketch, soma, south, stores, Stories of Acquisition and Reclamation, street, sunday, target, Unique Derique, Venezuelan Music Project, weekend, weekends, weeknds, yerba buena, Yerba Buena Family Day 2011, yerba buena gardens
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
1911?
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Or 2011?
You Make The Call…
Tags: 1911, 2011, ascot, autumn, bay area, boys, california, CAPS, children, church, fall, fashion, fillmore, flat, hats, jacket, jackets, north face, San Francisco, street, sunday, western addition, wOMAN
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
Well, it’s that time again to journey down (or up, I suppose) to the southwest corner of San Francisco this Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at 9:00 AM:
“Senator Yee Invites Residents to Annual Community Breakfast
Hundreds of residents expected to attend annual pancake breakfast
Who: Senator Leland Yee
When: Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Where:Armenian American Day School, 825 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, California
What: Senator Leland Yee is inviting all residents of San Francisco and San Mateo County to attend the annual 8th Senate District Community Breakfast. In addition to a free breakfast, residents will be able to meet the Senator and discuss issues affecting the community. RSVP to (415) 557-7857 or (650) 340-8840.”
That’s right, your Senator Leland Yee will don le toque blanche just for you this Sunday:
Hurray!
Tags: 2011, 28th, 825 Brotherhood, annual, Armenian American Day School, august, bay area, breakfast, california, district, eggs, leland yee, Mayor, orange juice, pancake, pancakes, San Francisco, sausage, Senator, state 8th, sunday
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Just hop on over to the Local Bites webpage at our California Academy of Sciences to see what they’ll have in store for you the afternoon of Sunday, August 21, 2011.
See?
“Get a taste of the Academy! Gather with friends and neighbors in the garden for a Sunday afternoon featuring local chefs, music, and fun for all ages. Sample tasty bites crafted by chefs who employ green practices and learn about local farmers markets, organic gardening, Academy landscaping and more!”
All the deets:
“Sunday, August 21
Celebrate the wonderful fruits of August! You’re sure to see and taste some crafty and delicious bites by our next set of famous local chefs – tomatoes, peaches anyone?
Schedule & Location
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
West Garden, California Academy of Sciences |
Pricing
|
| Combo GA Adult |
|
$39.95 (includes Event & Academy General Admission) |
| Combo GA Youth (4-17)* |
|
$34.90 (includes Event & Academy General Admission) |
| Event Only Adult |
|
$19.95 (does not include admission to the Academy) |
| Event Only Youth (4-17)* |
|
$9.95 (does not include admission to the Academy) |
| Member |
|
$14.95 (for members and their guests) |
| Member Youth (4-17)* |
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$9.95 |
| *Children 3 and under are free. |
Buy Tickets
Please Note: JFK Drive is closed to vehicular traffic on Sundays. If you drive, we recommend you enter the Concourse Garage at 10th and Fulton.”
All right, see you there!
(more…)
Tags: 2011, 21, Academy Cafe, academy of sciences, Angela Gong, august, bay area, calacademy, california, California Academy of Sciences, CAS, Catering, chef, Chefs, Craig Stoll, Delfina, DOSA, Eric Magnani, Garden, Global Gourmet, golden gate park, Kelly Degala, Local Bites, Matthew Dolan, Moss Room, museum, Nopalito, San Francisco, science, sunday, sundays, Twenty Five Lusk
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