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Ask Curbed SF: What's With the Burning [Redacted]?
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While we're in the nabe, a characteristically outraged Missionite sent in the following tirade. Caution: implied profanity ahead— we decided to beat the moralists to the comment box and do a little preemptive redacting. We're looking out for you, San Francisco.
Dear Curbed SF: Can someone *please* tell me why *someone* keeps burning [redacted] down in the Mission? Like this newspaper box, for instance. I just don't understand! Who the [redacted] sets fire to plastic boxes for fun? And who fails to call the cops when the entire [redacted] block smells like burning rubber? Hell, I guess we're simply immune to it given that the whole neighborhood smells like [redacted] and [redacted], anyway. I wish our [redacted] police force would get off of its sorry [redacted] and *handle this [redacted]* once and for all. Has anyone else noticed this latest neighborhood phenomenon? For [redacted]'s sake! Signed, Smoking in the Mission"
Happy Condo Conversion!: Osento Spa Shutters
Attention, ladies! Osento, the famed Mission pickup spot women's spa at 955 Valencia Street is shuttering. And soon, too— a Curbed reader spotted some permit gibberish affixed to the front gate, as seen here. Subjected to a thorough quiz-down (Curbed operative in the making!) an employee gave the dish: Osento will close its doors as soon as the Planning Department grants the new tenants permission to convert the beloved spa into two condominiums. As far as we've heard, it's a small job— no commercial developer-types have been spotted on-site. Another hit for Mission biz. [Curbed Inbox]
Parents Page Hazmat to Dolores Park Playground
Dolores Park will soon be a safer place for tykes — recovered from an earlier tussle with the city neighborhood parents huddled last week to figure out how to use $1.5 million in city and private funding to fix up the park's playground, which some are worried is knee-deep in lead and arsenic, if not "condoms, syringes, broken glass and cigarette butts." Park purists need not worry — the playground won't be changing much, though a fence might go up to keep those pesky Rottweilers from head-butting toddlers. Meanwhile, the poop scooping crowd will surely delight in new, theft-proof concrete trash cans (the plastic ones were being nabbed left and right). Small consolation because — and there's always a caveat — new public restrooms won't be built until 2011. So much for cleanliness.
· Outrage! Newsom's Fund Shuffle Stings Dolores Park [Curbed SF]
[Image courtesy Flicker photog lechn3r]
Curbed SF's Guide to Pride
This week's Gay Pride celebration has taken on an especially rosy tinge now that same-sex marriage has officially been made legal in the state of California; event organizers are expecting a 1.2 million-person turnout for the festivities. Most of the revelry will take place around Civic Center/ FiDi, though there are a plenty of outlying events. Traffic wise, Curbed SF predicts that this weekend will bring new vitality to the sometimes overused by us term "clusterfuck." See below for a few major events; we've missed gads, surely— supply what we missed, revelers amongst you. Happy Pride, folks.
When: TODAY; 3 pm, march at 7 pm
What: 5th Annual Trans March
Where: Rally begins in Dolores Park with entertainment; march at 7pm circling through the Castro, down Market and back to Dolores Park for additional music and performances.
When: Tomorrow, noon to 6 pm
What: 38th Annual LGBT Pride Festival
Where: Civic Center
When: Tomorrow; 3 pm, march at 7 pm
What: 16th Annual Dyke March
Where: Rally begins in Dolores Park; march departs from there.
When: Tomorrow, noon to 6 pm
What: LGBT Festival, continued
Where: Civic Center; march on Market Street from 10 am to 7 pm on Sunday.
—SPECIAL BONUS GAY PRIDE MADNESS: LA-based online gossip "Queen of All Media" Perez Hilton will grace Westfield San Francisco Centre on Saturday, at 2 pm. Location: Hot Topic, appropriately enough. The chills are simply racing up our spine.
· Additional Pride coverage and events [Bay Area Reporter]
[Image courtesy Carlos Avila Gonzales for the Chron via Flickr photog dreaminof1or2]
Chemtrail Conspiracy Redux
We've all got dioxin in our brains!! But someone out there has just a little more than average. Mission Mission dug up this chemtrail conspiracy theory on Craigslist: "I believe the reason they're dumping over the Mission, Potrero Hill and Bernal Heights districts is because during the rains the rain washes the dioxin down the storm drains and those drains lead out around the Hunter's Point area of the bay. ... You see? So the toxic waste dumpers who dump by plane probably originally planned on scientists thinking the dioxin was coming from the polluted land at the Hunter's Point area." It's all so clear now. [Mission Mission]
Spotted: Google Hoses Down the Mission
[Photo by the inimitable Nick Douglas.]
Spotted on Valencia and 20th: Google "Chemtrails." Someone didn't get the memo about the moths, obvs.
SoMa is Loud. So is the Mission.
Almost a third of SoMa residents are estimated to be "highly annoyed" by neighborhood noise levels, according to a new noise map created by researchers. How they arrived at such a highly scientific conclusion is less clear, but at an average of 70 decibels, being in SoMa sounds something like "a vacuum running within a few feet of a person." But it's not the fault of all that new construction — blame the cars, which flood the nabe every day on their way elsewhere. Other loud nabes: Tenderloin, the FiDi, and Inner Mission. [Examiner]
Danish Design for a Ped-Friendly SF
· Making S.F. into a people-oriented city [SF Gate]
[image via flickr user Anna L Conti]
Skate or Die: Central Freeway Redevelopment en Route
Oh yes indeed, the city is planning to clean up the wasteland beneath the Central Freeway. Calling all ballers, skaters, and designers amongst you: a skate park, basketball court, dog park, walkway/ bikeway for the fixie riders, and other assorted odds and ends are planned for three parcels of land between Mission Street and Market Street. One more in a wave of do-good initatives set to sweep the city in the coming years— bike lanes, better streets... Utopia now, people. The city will strike a deal with Caltrans to complete the redev, as it owns some of the parcel; the agency will have the final word on all plans, which must conform to their "regulations." There's a challenge for you, skate park designers. Design deadline: July 11th. (Ed note: Clarification— a designer— not the design itself— will be chosen from the proposals due on July 11th deadline.)
· Office of Economic and Workforce Development [website]
More Mission Missives: "Don't Blog About Me!"
More "telling it like it is" in the Mission— this gem was spotted on 18th and Dolores. Love. [Curbed Inbox]
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