This podcast about the #ValenciaStreet bike lane, and the hissy fits some business owners are throwing, is a must listen.
BikeCurious and @notjustbikes covered this story better than most of our local news outlets did. If course this type of story isn't unique to #SanFrancisco, but businesses stop complaining when the new lanes bring more business.
One day, I'll visit here with some company. As a lone woman, I try to leave here before sunset because at this time of day, by the time I climb back up the very steep hill trail and walk back to where there are lots of people, it is dark. I'm glad I "chanced" a later time, but still couldn't linger to see how the sky might change. I loved the mist and the rock silhouettes. Straight ahead is the Pacific; behind, to the right, the Golden Gate Bridge.
someone saw my camera in the tray and was like, is that film? lemme hand check the film for you. what film are you shooting? where did you get the waist level finder? i really want one too.
"The House that Art Built” is a historic showcase in San Francisco.
In addition to the exhibition, which features 11 artists associated with the Oakland-based nonprofit Creative Growth, SFMOMA has also permanently acquired more than 100 works created by artists with developmental disabilities.
Late last year, I ran a small project with a nonprofit in San Francisco. We gave out instant film cameras (color and black and white) to 5 people who were either unhoused or who lived nearby in one of the 'SROs'. We did a tiny, tiny exhibition.
I'm still working to figure out how to make this a more regular thing, and how to show their work, because they have such amazing stories to tell.
I learnt yesterday that a former upstairs neighbor who I lived with for eight years was killed in a car accident and her son is in critical condition.
I emailed the current residents of the house to let them know of this tragedy.
The neighbor who just moved here from New York responded to ask why I was bothering her with this information and why should she care about someone she’s never met.
On the bros trying to build cities in Solano and elsewhere:
“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society. … They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”
I like Hayes Valley, but I haven’t been able to stop laughing when I am there and remember that tech bros call this place ‘Cerebral Valley’
I mean it’s a perfectly fine neighborhood, it’s good that it attracts ‘young people’ and you can walk to things. In most places that’s just ‘a neighborhood’, you don’t need to build a literal cult around it
The family played #TicketToRide#SanFrancisco for the first time yesterday, and of course, the 11 YO and 8 YO destroyed Lindsey and I. Oh well, maybe next time lol.