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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Hey, it’s time to start organizing your trip to San Francisco for the Bay to Breakers street party on May 20th, 2012. Do you have your costume ready yet?
Here’s just one house on Fell Street, from last year:
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Here’s your official guide.
Now I’ll tell you, in years past, there were all kinds of controversies regarding this annual tradition. But so far in 2012 I haven’t heard word one in the media about this event. That’s a big green light for you and your friends to come on down this year. The thing that’s changed lately is that you can’t have parade floats to push around anymore. That’s it.
But whatever you do, don’t register. All that does is send money to some hard-core right winger Prop 8 supporting billionaire fitness nut who “bought” this event because he liked participating in it. No, just show up ready to par-TAY.
Oh, and remember, don’t let anybody in some T-shirt push you around. The only people who you need to listen to are in the SFPD, pretty much.
And me – I’ve lived on Fell Street for donkey’s years and I, personally, am inviting you and your cousins and your frat and/or sorority to come on down.
See you soon!
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
I don’t have enough data to make this determination.
As seen yesterday, October 4th, 2011, in the Western Addition – it’s the mansion of patriotic San Franciscans:
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Congratulations, Dr. Saul Perlmutter! You now have “worldwide fame and campus parking.”*
All the deets after the jump.
*Don’t let the Streetsblog people find out about the free on-campus parking perk. I’m seriously.
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
This semi-official “Neighborhood Ambassador” of the 100th running of the Bay to Breakers event somehow got the idea that she should start shutting down the annual after-party on Fell Street all by herself.
She spent a while hectoring these street youth until one of them proffered his hand for a high-five good-bye. (You see, he was too polite just to walk away during the haranguing session.) She left him hanging for a bit with his hand fixed in the air but eventually she responded in kind and then the kids, the Future of America, the people who were doing nothing wrong, felt free to walk away without appearing to be too disrespectful.
The scene on Fell – what happens when you try to end an afternoon party at lunchtime:
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Some of the “Ambassadors” felt it was their job to prevent people from walking across the Panhandle to get to the other side, you know, the same way residents of Fell Street do the other 364 days of the year, However, the citizens of SF mostly managed to ignore these brownshirts.
Good times.
See you next year in 2012, Bay to Breakers!
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
OMG, once again, it’s Bay to Breakers:
“Thank you Bay to Breakers…my naked guy quota for the year has been accomplished in one day.”
O.K. then.
Fell Street in the afternoon – it was house party after house party:
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Via David W Oliver:
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All right, a few NSFW naked people, after the jump.
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Journalists Gerry Shih Jennifer Gollan reveal the street-level policy of the SFPD at the Bay to Breakers when encountering an non-registered partier with alcohol
“If they’re open containers we pour it out,” said an officer who declined to give his name. “If they’re closed we leave them alone. If they’re drunk we take them to the tank, if they fight we arrest them.”
This comports exactly with what I’ve seen. So that’s what you should keep in mind when you show up for the street party in 2012
Now, check it, the cops have already passed through and DPW is still cleaning up Fell Street, but, the party rages on past 1:00 PM:
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After the elite runners finish up at 7:40 AM, it’s an all-out street party for the 415, all day long.
Hurray!
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
You see them, the two “Ask Me” Brownshirts, “monitoring” the historic Bay to Breakers street party – don’t they look a little dejected and pissed off?
Well, guess what? They were, in actuality, dejected and pissed off.
Some people, like the Yes on Prop 8 crew, actually like volunteering for “Christian Billionaire” Philip Anschutz but others aren’t cut out for it.
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Boy, won’t these souvenuir T-shirts help them to remember all the good times they’re not having by trying to rat out people actually having a good time?
No, not actually.
And the “private security,” the ones wearing (I presume) City-issued green and orange safety vests, well, some of them are aging homeless people and others are “at-risk” youth, who feel quite free to hit on unregistered, female, “bandit” party entrants. And oh, smoke marijuana OTJ as well. Oh well.
And all the while, a party rages on the next block over. Meet the real neighbors of the NoPA:
The cool people in the ‘hood open their doors, the uncool people join task forces.
And cry, the uncool people do a lot of crying too.
Oh well.
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Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Lineth Chepkurui (Bib #1) just after descending the Hayes Street Hill:
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Ridouane Harroufi (Bib #24) on Fell Street:
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Well it’s Closing Night already at our 54th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival, so they’ll have a ton of films in the Japantown area and, at the big Castro Theatre, they’ll have On Tour, an “unsentimental homage to the burlesque show.”
Check it out.
“Closing Night
Attend this fabulous new film and enjoy a Closing Night party with special guests to celebrate the wrap of another great Festival. Mix and mingle with a movie-loving crowd at the Closing Night party at the legendary party space the Factory. Dance the night away to music inspired by the Closing Night film and indulge in delicious hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. You must be 21+ to attend the party.
Acclaimed French actor Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in this unsentimental homage to the burlesque show and outsized female personalities barely contained by the proscenium stage. This chatty, bawdy entertainment reminds us that women have real bodies—and they want to run the show. All the women in On Tour—winner of last year’s jury award for Best Director and FIPRESCI prize at the Cannes Film Festival—are authentic American performers of what is dubbed the New Burlesque. Their acts are not only comic, theatric and erotic but also hypnotic, draped knowingly in feather boas, in a wink to audiences who think they’re watching just a striptease.
Keeping the acts and the narrative flowing is the troupe’s manager, Joachim (played by Amalric, in a performance that recalls his lovable alienated misfits in Arnaud Desplechin’s films). A former French TV producer who left France for the United States after some untold disgraces, Joachim has found renewed purpose with a bevy of burlesque queens. He accompanies them to France for a tour of the countryside that will be either a journey of redemption or an utter failure. For the sassy brassy ladies, it’s a different story. They’ve been promised Paris, but they are willing to give their all in the seedy theaters Joachim books for them in backwater towns along France’s west coast. They are pros after all and, in the end, the show must go on. —Beverly Berning”
All right, see you there!
And here are your winners, announced yesterday. Congratulations!
Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners
Investigative Documentary Feature:
Crime After Crime, Yoav Potash (USA 2011)
· Winner receives $25,000 cash prize
Documentary Feature:
Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway (USA 2011)
· Winner receives $20,000 cash prize
Bay Area Documentary Feature:
Better This World, Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway (USA 2011)
· Winner receives $15,000 cash prize and $2000 laboratory services from EFILM Digital Laboratories.
New Directors Award:
The Journals of Musan, Park Jung-bum (South Korea 2010)
· Winner receives $15,000 cash prize
FIPRESCI Prize:
The Salesman, Sébastien Pilote (Canada 2011)
Golden Gate Award Short Film Winners
Narrative Short: Blokes, Marialy Rivas (Chile 2010)
· Winner receives $5,000 cash prize
Documentary Short: Into the Middle of Nowhere, Anna Frances Ewert (Scotland, England 2010)
· Winner receives $5,000 cash prize
Animated Short: The External World, David O’Reilly (Ireland 2010)
· Winner receives $2,000 cash prize and Maya animation software provided by Auto Desk
Bay Area Short, First Prize: Tourist Trap, Skye Thorstenson (USA 2010)
· Winner receives $2,000 cash prize
Bay Area Short, Second Prize: Young Dracula, Alfred Seccombe (USA 2010)
· Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
New Visions: Lost Lake, Zackary Drucker (USA 2010)
· Winner receives $1,500 cash prize and 1,000 feet of Kodak film stock
Work for Kids and Families: Specky Four Eyes, Jean-Claude Rozec (France 2010)
· Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
Youth Work: Z-Man, Nat Talbot (USA 2010)
· Winner receives $1,500 cash prize
Youth Work Honorable Mention: The Snowman Kelly Wilson, Neil Wrischnik (USA 2010)
Youth Work Honorable Mention: The Math Test, Sam Rubin (USA 2010)
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
The 12th Annual San Francisco Cherry Blossom Costume Parade and Contest went off without a hitch yesterday in Civic Center.
It was just like 2009, 2008, 2007, etc. Check out the complete 2010 gallery from raider3_anime, if you’d like.
This shot from official Cherry Blossom Photographer David Yu captures the scene:
Here’s the awards ceremony under the pouring sun.
And here are the winners, starting their journey to Japantown:
Congratulations to all the participants.
See you next year!
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