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We’ve been storing up a lot of great linkage for ya! Enjoy – Sarah B.
- The Balboa Theater turns 88 this weekend and is celebrating on Sunday with a party and screening of Frank Capra’s 1926 silent film The Strong Man. Festivities begin at 7pm and tickets are $10 (online or at the box office). Happy 88th Balboa!
- New traffic lights are coming to the intersections of 22nd Avenue & Geary, and 26th Avenue & Geary. In a recent Richmond District Transportation Updates email, Supervisor Eric Mar wrote “Located near a Jackie Chan Senior Center, a middle school, and a church, these lights will provide much-needed safety improvements.”
- We wrote last week about the Legion of Honor’s link to the new movie Monuments Men. The museum now has on display Anthony Van Dyck’s Portrait of a Lady (ca. 1620), one of the paintings that Monument Man and Legion Director Thomas Howe Carr, Jr. discovered with the platoon in WWII. The painting was returned to its rightful owner and then passed through various other hands before being donated to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco by Roscoe and Margaret Oakes in the mid-1970s, just a few years after Howe retired.
- In other museum news, the new Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George exhibition opens at the de Young this Saturday. “From 1918 until the early 1930s, O’Keeffe retreated regularly to Alfred Stieglitz’s family estate on Lake George in upstate New York, where she reveled in the discovery of new subject matter and found respite in the rural setting without the distractions of city life.”
- Ireland’s 32 will soon expand their offering to include bites from Baby Blues BBQ. The Geary Street bar is currently renovating their kitchen and Baby Blues plans to take over on Saturday March 1st. Menu items include the Badass Burger (blue cheese, two onions, and applewood-smoked bacon ground into the patty), a “rib tickler” (three smoked pork ribs over coleslaw), grilled shrimp over grits topped with rémoulade and much more. [Tablehopper]
- Muriel Leff mini-park on 7th Avenue just off Geary is hosting a volunteer day on Saturday, February 22 for cleanup and beautification. The park was San Francisco’s first pocket park, established in the former police horse paddock for the Richmond Police Station. The workday runs from 10am until 1pm; lunch and light refreshments provided for those who RSVP to recparkvolunteer@sfgov.org.
- This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Pine United Methodist Church (426 – 33rd Avenue) opening its doors to the LGBTQ community, the first API church to take this historic step. The church is holding a celebration with potluck lunch, music, sharing, community building, and justice-making starting at 1:30pm. The event is free, but please bring a dish to share.
- The RDNC is offering free nutritious cooking classes for parents and kids focused on “Cooking with the Five Flavors”. Remaining classes are February 20th – Bitter, March 27th – Salty, April 10th – Sweet, and May 15th – Sour. Classes begin at 6pm and are FREE and open to everyone. To reserve a spot email sarah@rvbeacon.org or call 415-750-8554.
- The new Yoga Tree on 6th Avenue is hosting a Community Party and Opening Reception this Saturday from 2pm to 4pm. All the details here
yay, more traffic lights on geary.
Ray already beat me verbatim of what I was going to say. So I’ll add “Hooray for stopping and starting your vehicle over and over. I’m glad that people that can afford and need cars for work get penalized even more with their time. Thank you. And don’t forget penalizing the environment! There is a reason why gas mileage ratings are better on the highway than in the City.” (Sarcasm, if that is not apparent).
If people would stop for peds in the crosswalk we wouldn’t need the lights.
Not to mention the lights on Geary are timed. There are lights already at the adjacent intersections to the ones getting new traffic lights here.. the effect will be minimal.