Author: jeff

I’m guessing you care. About San Francisco, about transit, about the future we’ll share together. You do? Good!

Tonight at Mission High School, some notable people will be holding a town hall on some serious issues facing San Francisco. Since you care, you should go!

From Supe. Jane Kim’s Facebook page:

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, CSU Trustee and District 7 BART Board Candidate Lateefah Simon and best-selling author David Talbot will join me in this important discussion about real solutions for our region and our state.

As a San Francisco Supervisor, I have shown that I’m willing to stand up to anyone to fund more transit options and create more affordable housing. And I’ve worked hard to improve existing parks and create new ones, while improving street safety for everyone.

Details
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 from 6:30 to 8:30
Mission High School, 3750 18th St. (take the 33-Stanyan, 22-Fillmore, 14-Mission, 49-Van Ness, 24-Divisadero, or BART to 16th Street Station)

See you there!

Photo by torbakhopper

Were you lucky enough to learn the ins and outs of driving a Muni bus when Driver Doug graced the stage at Muni Diaries Live not once, but twice? No? Well, lemme just tell you, you missed out. Dude has the best insights on how to drive and ride the bus in San Francisco. He’s also written books on the topic.

Now, he’s showing the photos that the art in those books is based on. Here are the details:

Nowhere in Particular: Art by Driver Doug will be showing August 18th through September 19th at the Castro Country Club, 4058 18th Street.

A word from the artist:

“It’s been three years since “The Dao of Doug: The Art of Driving a Bus” has been published and I have learned so much about editing, marketing, podcast and audio recording. So I thought, what is the next best thing I can do to put myself out there and show my creative self to you? The answer came back through my friends in recovery. Post an art show of wall art from photos used as illustrations in my book mixed with natural scenes of beauty from places visited when I’m off the bus and away from traffic. 

On the wall are canvas wrap and semi-gloss photo prints of various sizes jam packed on a wall like cars on a freeway. I hope you like the images I have selected and let’s talk. I hope to create an opportunity to hang wall art at a reasonable price. 8″ x 10″ prints start at $50, with larger print collage semi-gloss photo frames of 20″ x 30″ available for $200.”

Photo by Kevin Wong

On the heels of its successful inaugural campaign, Muni Art and San Francisco Beautiful have announced 10 finalists whose art could be chosen to be displayed on Muni buses. The finalists are:

• Marianne Bland
• Counterpoint Studio (Peter Tonningsen and Lisa Levine)
• DrawBridge: An Arts Program for Homeless Children
• Amos Goldbaum
• Ryan Hungerford
• Todd Kurnat
• Luis Pinto
• Lillian Shanahan
• Monica Tiulescu
• Jon Wessel

According to SFMTA:

In addition to having their art displayed on 100 Muni buses, the artist who receives the most public votes will be awarded $2,000 and each of the remaining four will be awarded $1,250.  The public may cast their votes by visiting the web site, www.neighborland.com/muniart/vote. The voting period ends August 29 at 6 p.m.

Good luck to all of the finalists. We’ll announce the winners at the end of August.

Read about 2015’s winners here.

Photo of last year’s winner, Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, courtesy of SF Beautiful

Oh, this is just delicious. Last week, Muni rider EC let the whole world know that some Muni passengers aren’t taking any shit. No sirree.

As to the situation, EC writes: “People have gotten off my train to yell at this lady who almost ran a pedestrian over.”

As to the photo above, she writes: “The gray haired grandma who chewed her out is my hero for today.”

As it should be. Good luck praying that wrath away.

Bad driver! Bad!