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Posts Tagged ‘yelp’
Area Religious Organization Claims Not to be Religious on a Big Billboard: “NOT RELIGIOUS? NEITHER ARE WE”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014Official Yelp Map of San Francisco’s “Sketchy” Areas: Now with Annotations! – Bad News for NeMA Building
Friday, January 17th, 2014Check it, “Reviews that mention ‘SKETCHY’ in San Francisco”
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(Now of course there are plenty of other places in town that could similarly be considered “sketchy” by the Yelpers, except the Yelpers would never have a reason to go there.)
Now let’s take a look at these blips on San Francisco’s CT scan:
North Beach – Stay off of Broadway and out of its strip clubs and you should do fine. The epicenter is Kearney and Broadway.
The Tenderloin – This is the big one. AKA the Uptown Tenderloin, per some Berkeley residents. AKA the Twitterloin. AKA the 6th Street Corridor. AKA Downtown. AKA Civic Center. AKA New Market / NeMA. AKA Central Market. AKA Mid-Market. AKA the ‘Loin. The epicenter is Turk and Taylor.
The Fillmore – AKA the Western Addition. The epicenter is the Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits in the Safeway mall.
NoPA – AKA North of Panhandle Area. AKA Northeast of the Panhandle Area. AKA the Divisadero Corridor. AKA DivCo. AKA the Western Addition. The epicenter is the Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits at Hayes, I suppose, but the drug dealers who hang out at McAllister and Divis might disagree.
Lower Haight – AKA Lower Fillmore. The epicenter is Haight and Webster.
16th and Mission – The epicenter is the BART Station.
24th and Mission – The epicenter is the BART Station.
30th and Mission – The epicenter is where they want to build a new BART Station.
The Lower Third – NB: The cross-streets are alphabetized, more or less. The epicenter is Oakdale and Third
END OF LINE.
Turn Off the Dark: Our 88-Year-Old Pacific Telephone Building is Back in Business, Baby! 140 New Montgomery is All Lit Up
Thursday, November 28th, 2013Thusly:
You see, first it was all like this, abandoned, empty:
Then it was all like this, as seen from 225 Bush, a slightly older and slightly shorter building:
And then you could see through the thing, as seen earlier this year:
And now it’s a beacon at night.
I guess it’s called 140NM now? Ok fine.
So, first this building was commercial office space, then they wanted to change it to condos, and then they changed it back to office space, and now I’ll bet they wished they had stuck with the condo idea. Oh well.
Anyway, get all the deets on the Pacific Bell Building right here.
Word on the Street: “EAT DESSERT FIRST” – Courtesy of Highly-Rated “Candybar” on Fulton Near Divisadero – Dessert, Wine, Art!
Thursday, September 26th, 2013I’m thinking it’s not easy to get a four-star Yelp rating from 1100 Yelpers and yet here it is:
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And look at this, they aint never heard of the acronym NoPA:
“Welcome to San Francisco’s First Dessert Lounge
Candybar is located in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco.”
How refreshing!
Oktoberfest By The Bay is Still Horrible, But It Appears to be Better Than Before – Runs Through Sunday
Friday, September 20th, 2013If it weren’t for five-star shill Yelpers, this event would be rated 2.5 stars.
However, if you are a fun person, with a group of friends, and you all expect the event to be a big ripoff but you’re going anyway, there’s a chance you might like Oktoberfest By the Bay at Pier 48.
Prices are actually down from a few years back – that’s why I’m saying it appears to be a better event, less of a ripoff.
Good luck!
Disgruntled Customer vs. Cafe Fayala in the Financh: “50% Off Is Not True!” – A Giant Sign Tells the Story of One Man’s Protest
Tuesday, August 13th, 2013I don’t have a dog in this hunt:
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OTOH, the place has 4.5 Yelp stars…
“8/1/2013 Found this place on Yelp and came with a friend…came back with more friends the next day! I truly love the Salad Bar selection at Chez Fayala because it’s much more than a generic Salad Bar, with options ranging from gourmet salad entrees like kale salad or arugula + grilled red onions salad to different varieties of roasted veggies to Italian/French/Asian foods to fruit salad…and of course the amazing spicy Fried Sea Bass that is lightly sprinkled with sesame sees (this the largest reason while I came back the next day. Craved it badly.) What impresses me is that this all-you-can-serve bar has options like gourmet olives, various styles of homemade hummus, etc. Stuff that isn’t just wholesale, canned Costco material like many other Salad Bars. Payment is by the pound. Those of you who are frequent SF lunch-timers in the FiDi, might have come across Portico. Think of Chez Fayala as Portico on steroids! Lunch rush is bad, and it’s hard to find seats but we managed to find some both times. Just know that till December, the Salad Bar is 50% so most boxes end up between $6-$8. I might find it hard to pay $13 for a regular food box, even though that Fried Sea Bass is top notch. Until then, I’ll enjoy!”
Oh Harsh: Yelp’s Official “Sketchy” San Francisco Map – The Greater Tender- Yammer- Twitter- Loin Featured
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013Via Bluoz comes the news of Yelp’s official “sketchy” areas map.
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Oh NEMA [New Market], will you ever win?
An Oldie But a Goodie: The Store Formerly Known as “T&A Market” on Market Outlasts an Actual T&A Market Next Door
Friday, June 14th, 2013Click here to see how things were in 2010, before the time certain people realized the meaning of “T & A.”
And this is how things are today in 2013:
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You gotta figure the world-famous Market Street Cinema isn’t coming back anytime soon considering its URL has been sold off.
And I worry.
I worry about Mercedes, Porsche, Lexus, and Ferrari, among others.
How will they pay for business school now?
“14 reviewsRating Details
Category: Adult Entertainment [Edit]
1077 Market St(between Jones St & Golden Gate Ave)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Neighborhood: SoMa
(415) 861-2727
What we found out was, as long as you drop a lot of cash, ANYTHING goes in this place. ANYTHING. Once you’re in the “Members Only Lounge”, it’s a whole new world. Yup, Chris Rock obviously had never been to Market Street Cinema, because…yeah. Even the stripper was real with us, she was like, “You can call this a whorehouse, or a party house, or whatever, but guys come in here and spend thousands of dollars, so, we’re still here.” I doesn’t get more real than that.
R.I.P. Reggie Pettus, 73 – The Fillmore’s New Chicago Barber Shop Now Shuttered – Memorial on May 11th, 2013
Monday, May 6th, 2013R.I.P.
Reggie Pettus
Proprietor, New Chicago Barber Shop, 1551 Fillmore
The memorial will be on Saturday May 11th from Noon to 6:00 PM at Duggan’s Funeral Home, 3434 17th St. near Valencia in the Mission District, San Francisco, California 94110 (415) 431-4900.
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“To my great dismay, I stopped by to get my hair cut today, only to find the place boarded up. It seems the barbers have moved on to other places.
Kevin has moved to 1315 Fillmore, just down the street, while Al and Gail have moved to Esquire Barber Shop at 1826 Geary Blvd.
I’ve been getting my hair cut her e since 2006, and it’s a shame to see such a place just disappear. The barbers were nice, remembered me even after I left the city for a couple years, and always fixed me up right. Plus, the moment you walked in you could feel the history of the place, there was a nice feel there.
I wish the staff all the best, and I’ll be seeking out Kevin soon at his new location.”
How the Falun Gong Defeated Google – The Shen Yun 2013 “Extravaganza” Plays San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre
Thursday, March 21st, 2013All right, let’s say you’ve heard about the big Shen Yun 2013 show at our Orpheum Theatre and you want to find out a little about it, m’kay?
So you type into Google and this what you get:
What you won’t get is something like this:
Or Yelp reviews neither, like these:
And you certainly won’t find the official Chinese Communist Party (“Socialism, with Chinese Characteristics!”) website on Shen Yun all that easily, oh no:
Cult Studies [Uh, FYI, CCP, your agitprop website looks a little crude, like it's from your little buddy North Korea, just saying.]
So I guess the lesson to be learned is that if a small group of people want to game Google so that you’ll buy tickets to this show without knowing, in a general way, what it’s about first, then they can.
Things I now know:
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE;
THE BOLD ITALIC IS GANNETT COMPANY, INCORPORATED; and
SHEN YUN 2013 IS FALUN GONG
That’s something to consider when you’re getting the hard sell at San Francisco Costco #144, as seen last week on 10th Street:
Just saying,…
