Monday, July 20th, 2009
This was how 24th Street looked in the ever-sunny Mission District yesterday during the latest installment of Sunday Streets:
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And this is Valencia Street. All the Man could do was look down from his tall buildings – yes, Stick It To The Man, Sunday Streets! Is that Zack “Zack Daddy” Phillips on RollerBlades with a soccer ball? Yes it is:
But here’s the star of Sunday Streets in the Mission II, 2009:
It’s a bicycle built for four, just like what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have. Check out the second stoker’s handlebars – it appears the little tyke has her own brake lever. (Is it a drag brake control like some tandems have? No se.) What she operates is just a V-brake though, she ought to have control of a motorcycle-style disc, thusly.
This rolling science experiment must be Robert “Crazy Rob” Ander son’s [typo on purpose as he's a little touchy, shhhh] worst nightmare. Speaking of which, listen to him yourself here on the KQED. I listened to part of this broadcast on the Levinson and I’ll tell you, C.R.A. appeared to score a direct, if minor, rhetorical hit on the spinning MUNI flacksperson. But this podcast will be the subject of another post in the near future. In the meantime, enjoy.
Host: Scott Shafer
Guests:
- Charlie O’Hanlon, owner of Charlie’s Place on 17th St. in San Francisco
- Jamie Whitaker, vice president of the Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association
- Judson True, media relations manager for the San Francisco MTA
- Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
- Rachel Gordon, reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle
- Rob Ander son, party to the litigation of the EIR, blogger and anti-bicycling activist
Look forward to the next Sunday Streets, coming soon to the The Great Sand Waste of the Outside Lands:
Sunday, August 9: Great Highway
Bike, walk and play next to the Pacific Ocean. Travel from Golden Gate Park to the San Francisco Zoo, along Ocean Beach. 10am-2pm.
Sunday, Sept 6: Great Highway
Bike, walk and play next to the Pacific Ocean. Travel from Golden Gate Park to the San Francisco Zoo, along Ocean Beach. 10am-2pm.
See you there!
Tags: 19, 19h, 2009, bicycles, bikes, blocked, Crazy Rob, district, great highway, july, mission, richmond, shut down, streets, sunday, sunday streets, traffic, walkers, zack phillips, zackdaddy
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
More than 2700 walkers raised more than $6 million this weekend in the 7th Annual San Francisco Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Sign up by tonight for the 2010 walk and save $20 off the registration fee.
Here’s a team in Golden Gate Park. Click to expand:
And here’s the finish line at Speedway Meadow, the place where the 2009 Golden Gate Renaissance Faire won’t happen this year. Check the photos.
Each walker raised at least $1800 in donations from friends. If they didn’t come up with all the dough, then they committed to pay the remainder from their own credit cards. Thusly:
“If you have not yet met your donation minimum you may choose the deferred commitment option to guarantee the minimum donation amount. A deferred commitment is your promise to fundraise for two months after the event in order to meet your minimum of $1,800.”
(That’s a lot of commitment.)
Speaking of which, check out the Yelp ratings – five stars each from the eleven committed alpha females of course, but only three stars from the sole dude, who points out a little history of the event involving Dan Pallotta and Pallotta Teamworks:
“Litigation lasted until 2005, w/ Avon being awarded $19,525,639.00 of it’s $20 million counterclaim. The court determined that Pollatta had lost money running some of the AIDS Rides & used the profitable Breast Cancer Walk money to pay for losses. A few days after the news the company abruptly laid off its entire staff nationwide & closed the doors.”
Hmmm. Rumors, accusations, and finger-pointing abounded when people found out how much of the money raised was being used to pay Pallotta Teamworks for organizing events all over the country. Of course, Mr. Pallotta defended his thesis about how ya gotta spend money to make money, or something like that. Regardless, there was a backlash against Pallotta and his Lexus and his large HQ, and so, Pallotta Teamworks ain’t putting on the show no mo. Anyway…
Congratulations to all the walkers! See you next year!
More deets after the jump.
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