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Tomorrow, Tuesday, is the day! We open at the ungodly early hour of 11 a.m. so that you can be the second on your block to have your own copy of the English translation of Haruki Murakami’s magnum opus, entitled 1Q84. (If you can’t wait ’til then, some bookshops are putting them on sale 11 hours earlier, at midnight.) […]

By Ashley Hathaway UPDATE: Glen Park band Cradle Duende will play at The Red Poppy Arthouse at 2698 Folsom this Saturday at 8:00. Musicians Morgan Nilsen and Justin Ancheta live in Glen Park and created a sustainable movement they coined “A Call To Localize.” The motivation for its creation grew from a desire they both […]

The Native Plant Sale is a chance to find local plant species that aren’t readily available at garden centers. Our focus and offerings, as always, will be native plants local to San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. These species are adapted to the local climate, soils, and habitats–and are also important to local fauna. This […]

October 2011 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:                  My Policy Work   Dogwalker Legislation This week, I introduced legislation to regulate and create a permitting system for commercial dogwalkers who use city property, including parks. The legislation would require commercial dogwalkers […]

Our beloved annual tradition is back! Saturday, October 29, 2011. 12 pm-3 pm, FREE, Rain or Shine! Sunnyside Conservatory  236 Monterey Blvd between Baden and Congo Bring-Your-Own-Pumpkin. Pumpkin carving kits and tools, including tools for older children, will be provided.  Parents must supervise and accept responsibility for pumpkin carving with children. Co-sponsored by Friends of Sunnyside […]

By Bonnee Waldstein San Francisco Beautiful is an organization in its 64th year of working “to assure that the city retains and enhances its unique and memorable sense of place, balance and diversity as a beautiful, livable, green and vibrant urban center.” This year, in a gala masquerade soiree at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco Beautiful […]

By Murray Schneider Last week world class strummers had laid down their fiddles on the Banjo Stage at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. But you’d hardly know it from the foot stomping and side slapping that accompanied the Black Crown Stringband at Bird and Beckett Books and Records on Sunday, October […]

The condos that languished so long at Bosworth and Rousseau are finally finished and for sale. As their website says, they are Village Terrace Townhomes Offering a wide variety of floor plans, Village Terrace is a new contemporary enclave of 12 stylish townhomes designed and located to satisfy any urban lifestyle. Select a smaller one-bedroom […]

By Murray Schneider, Glen Canyon correspondent As the summer ended on August 24th, the Feds moved on Glen Canyon at 9 A.M. in the morning. Eight volunteers from the Environmental Protection Agency, wielding loppers and hand saws and camouflaged in work clothes, began combating willow encroaching above a seep adjacent to a boardwalk on the […]

By Murray Schneider Lori B. peered from Bird and Beckett’s stage on September 11th, looking a lot like Raggedy Ann. Dressed in a patch-worked-quilt of jerry rigged-patterned layers of squares and polka dots, she ran several fingers through a mop of red hair, which looked as if it were coiffed while fleeing a hurricane. Not […]