in honor the the closing of Market street to private cars in less than 48 hours, a film covering the same stretch of market, from mid Market to the Embarcadero, 104 years ago, in 1905, before the great earthquake
the last of the Mint Plaza summer lunch time concert series was Friday, September 25, 2009. The printout is different from the online schedule and I think the name of this band was Ritmojito
If you're in the mid Market street area around the Powell Street Cable Cars, between 5th and 6th, and you see flocks of pigeons scattering all over.....Look up, you might see this
This is one big hawk, possibly 3 foot wing span
killed a pigeon yesterday morning and accidentally dropped it on the sidewalk, right in front of two cops. Herb Caen levitates in his grave
This has been reported just about everywhere but here in San Francisco. David de Rothschild is building a boat from plastic bottles down on the Embarcadero and it's been delayed four times already with the latest launch now in November. Here's the latest video from Associated Press
DA Arts at the corner of Minna and 6th Street, in conjunction with The Shooting Gallery
Not many people stop and look at this because it's just a window with nobody there, and there's usually a bunch of crack dealers blocking it. Tenderloin Housing Clinic sponsors and rents the space. Or rather, Randy Shaw decided to use taxpayer money to fund it. Might as well take a look, because you're paying for it
Something that got very little attention in the news, and might have a much larger effect on the Tenderloin. California attorney general Jerry Brown has announced a new prescription drug database. Prescription drugs has been a significant part of Chief Gascons Tenderloin crackdown
Tenderloin sting
302: Total arrests
261: Arrests on suspicion of drug sales to undercover officers
242: Drug dealers arrested on suspicion of selling crack-cocaine, heroin, Oxycodone, Vicodin, morphine, methadone
117: Total drug sales of suspects on parole/probation
by sheer coincidence, it's now two weeks later and yet another tenderloin activist has just posted this video yesterday
and another one from August 17th, same 200 Block of Turk. The same block where the, uh, 'other community activists' like Randy Shaw got the liquor store license pulled