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Remember when Medjool had a roof deck that we all hung out on top of on warm summer night? Me neither. But the folks at Lolinda hope to revitalize the roof, bringing us a most buzzable spot to squander away our evenings. SF Magazine has the details:
Everyone would probably be relaxing in a rooftop restaurant on this glorious Monday, so let’s talk about Lolinda. Since Adriano Paganini opened the restaurant in August, customers have constantly asked when the notorious roof deck will swing back into action. No one has been up there since Medjool closed in early 2012, but we’ve known for a while that Paganini had something special in store. Late last week, he revealed that the roof will be called El Techo de Lolinda, offering a new menu of Latin street food and classic Latin cocktails like mojitos. El Techo will be open for dinner every night of the week, and for brunch on Saturday and Sunday. The whole space has gotten a major overhaul—apparently with some rather fancy and amazing Australian heat lamps.
[Thanks, Sam!]
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On Transit is Alia Salim's borderline perfect record of eavesdropped conversations and other such overheards on BART. While her topics typically involve love, PA systems, and sloppy style, yesterday she captured the plans of a "gently scruffy twenty-something" who recently quit his job, conveniently rattled-off between West Oakland and 19th Street stations for everyone within earshot:
- Start going to yoga (again)
- Start brewing beer (again)
- Start playing guitar (again)
- Build up a touring bike
- Finish the design for his tattoo
- Visit friends in Brooklyn
- Get a one-month internship (up to three months if it were “more of an apprenticeship in something, like, artisan”)
- Travel for a little bit, probably South America
- Learn Spanish (prior to traveling, “obviously; it’s not really worth going if you can’t understand any of the culture”)
- Plant herbs (definitely) and vegetables (with landlord’s permission)
“I’m so proud of you for doing this,” says the girlfriend, Pattagucci and hiking boots. She adjusts her head on his shoulder to better accommodate one of two whimsical pigtails. “It’s so great that you’ve got, like, specific ideas for what you’re going to do.” Then, incredibly, “How did you even come up with all that stuff?”
Admittedly, that sounds like a pretty killer summer. (But where's "exploring new microhoods" and "taking latte art classes"?)
I'm mostly interested in the "Google bus pinatas" (I love candy), but the rest of the copy reads:
In the last several decades, thousands of people have been displaced from the Mission District due to evictions, high rents, rising cost of living, transportation costs, and a lack of access to employment and education. In the last several years, rent for many has almost doubled. This Cinco de Mayo, (May 5th), join with Mission residents to speak out and gather to build a culture of resistance against gentrification in San Francisco and beyond.
San Francisco has long been famous for its masochistic lines for brunch and men's haircuts, which see throngs of well-to-doers thumb tirelessly at their iPhones to pass the time, beta testing the very apps they are paid to develop. However, ahead of Saturday's activist Hallmark holiday, a line for the more populist activity of buying danke herb could be found outside of Apothecarium on Market and Church. (We have no doubt that the city was cured of its collective back pain this weekend.)
Sadly, without iPhones and weed itself to make the dulling process of standing in line more tolerable, these folks were forced to slouch about with arm-crossing sobriety. Truly, this elevates these patient partiers to the very top of the line-waiting meritocracy.
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WBTC reports on Dolores Park's going ons ahead of this weekend's high holiday or whatever:
Sure. Ok. It’s not like this sort of nonsense even surprises me anymore.
You've undoubtedly seen Elliott's work on Valencia's art wall or his iconic squid offering up free cursed pennies, and now you can see it on the walls of Hangr16 on 16th. Elliott briefly filled us in on what he's been up to:
I've spent the past year creating tons of new paintings and concept pieces... it's all coming together for my show "SLAMPOP!" at Hangr16. It's going to be my biggest yet.
It features:
-Lots of wild pop paintings I have been working on this past year
-Limited edition silk screen tshirts of my work "Angular San Francisco"
-Mini Skateboards that I made for Sunken Monkey
-Functional 2D Boomboxes (awesome for the park or carrying around on the street)
-SLAMPOP! Microbrew by my friends at Apostrofides Microbrewery
They'll also have some live music and some repurposed Muni transfer art. See everyone there!
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KRON's resident voice actor and all around wonderful human hater Stanley Roberts received his inevitable assault this week. However, it wasn't from his vilified rabble-rousing Wiggle cyclists, but instead from a crusty pair of dreaded Telegraph Ave. gutterpunks.
After they harassed him for a few minutes during the filming of one of his beloved and helium-pitched "People Behaving Badly" segments, one of them attacked him from behind. From the Oakland Tribune:
"I never saw it coming," he said.
When the first man attacked, Roberts said he turned around, grabbed him by the throat and pushed him up against a wall, telling him to not touch him before he let him go. Roberts then said he tried to walk away but that the men followed him and attacked again.
"Sleeping Bear" Stanley Roberts then woke up from hibernation and fought back, but the resulting brawl left $6,000 in equipment broken, his press pass stolen, and his back sprained. The condition of the dog is not known at this time.
And, of course, this isn't the first time a subject of his creepshot journalism lashed out at the noted vlogger, as old school fans will recall this rather brilliant verbal assault from 2011:
(Thanks Patrick and Amanda for the tips!)
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Why carelessly park your car in the bike lane when you can simply lay down over the curb and brush your hair?
We were so worked up last week over the news that a neighbor was looking to block the Dolores Park renovations because of childhood obesity that we completely overlooked that a separate group of architectural activists appealed to save the park's condemnable bathroom building. And good thing they did. Not only will we be able to continue enjoying those sad walls caked in human shit for years to come, but the sinks are falling right off the walls.
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The Bike Film Festival has been bringing San Francisco some of the world's best cycling shorts right to the Victoria Theater for the past few years. Typically, the BFF has been a two day affair, with sideshows ranging from parties to street fairs all weekend long. However, this year, they're scaling things back a bit, packing all their screenings into one day.
But in spite of their tighter schedule, they're not skimping on quality. To get a taste of the kind of shorts you'll see, give this mini-doc on 1 legged, 1 armed track racer a watch:
Or this clip shot by the San Francisco-based kids at Full Frame Collective and Werehaus:
If that's to your liking, you can get tickets to any individual program for $10, or splurg on a full day pass for $20.
[via MASH]
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