Oakland Streetcar Plan Picking Up Steam

— By Brizz |

Some punk kid put together a detailed proposal for an Oakland streetcar plan for $987, or the same amount the writers of Uptown Almanac spent on alcohol, vegan cookies, and condoms last weekend.  I read about it awhile back, but it seems to be gaining momentum with said punk kid, 20-year-old Stanford student Daniel Jacobson, presenting at the Oakland Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee tonight. These types of proposals usually, inexplicably cost a few hundred grand to put together, so I propose capping city planner ages at 21, when idealism and naivety allow people to create things without wasting a shitload of money. Read more at Oakland North.

Flower Power

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

If you spend more than 2 seconds looking at this, you'll realize why this is one of the raddest cycling stencils in the city.  Petals for hands!  A watering can!  A flag I can't read!  Neat!

Street Food Turns Into Casanova Lounge for Food Dorks

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Do you like Street Food?  Are you single?  Are you shitty at picking up people in bars?  Well, you're in luck.  July 27th at 7pm on Linda and 19th, the street food clan is having a “stop light party.”  That's right, dress your relationship status:

  • Green: Single
  • Yellow: Complicated
  • Red: In a relationship

I'll be the guy dressed in black, the color of my soul, and wearing a messenger bag full of 40oz.  See you there!

A Rally In Support of Johannes Mehserle

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Are you fucking shitting me?  A group of suburban trophy wives and red in the face dudes are getting all hot and bothered about the “injustices” being experienced by the man who murdered involuntarily killed Oscar Grant.  We should protest this protest!

Snap, they're already one step ahead of all us liberal racists wanting step on the rights of white people speaking out against the discrimination they face every day.

Anyway, our East Bay correspondent Kristen Haney will try to swing by the scene Monday afternoon.  Also, check out SF Citizen for more analysis.

Update: Turns Out Our Bathroom Critic Got the Price of Coors at Dirty Thieves Wrong

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Paul, owner of Dirty Thieves, who must have been reading this blog by accident, emailed us a correction:

[The tagger] wrote on our bathroom walls that it is four bucks; we charge three for Coors.  If you were charged four, I apologize.  If you were basing your story on some bathroom graffiti rendering of our menu, well that's still my fault for not painting over the graffiti—it's a tough bathroom to keep clean and an even more difficult to keep the toilet in working condition.  In any case, I own the bar and cannot stomach the idea that someone was charged four bucks for a Coors.  I also own two other bars in sf and will be working at Whiskey Thieves this wednesday (839 Geary) from 5-8.  As penance for, at the very least, not painting over graffiti, I will charge one dollar for Coors during my shift. Once again, 5-8 this Wednesday.

In case you don't understand what he's saying: it's a crime against humanity to be charged $4 for Coors (it is).  Anyway, go drink up for cheap folks!  Might I recommend drinking your non-light Coors as a Stranahan's chaser, which distilled mere blocks away from Coors Field in downtown Denver.

Also: we love bathroom graffiti.

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Someone Has BIG Plans This Week

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Reader Selbst recently found this schedule scribbled down on paper (UPDATE: and has provided us with more details on the find):

FOUND this on my doorstep in the Mission with a heap of sodden blankets and clothes apparently jettisoned from a gypsy RV after a “domestic”. The question is, did she complete the plan and throw out the list or lose the list and the plan and get hooked again?

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