Private 0x000APublic Event
Not everyone loves Outside Lands: What a nice fawning article ["How to Assemble a Successful Music Festival," Lauren Sloss, feature, 8/6]. You forgot to mention the 10 miles of fence put up to close half of Golden Gate Park for a private event for rich kids. Oh and it's a "green event." Party on.
SellOffThatPark
Looks 0x000AFamiliar
Don't forget residents need open spaces: San Francisco is starting to look like Hong Kong, with all the high rise buildings going up on just about every square-foot of land. Hopefully [the city and developers] will leave Golden Gate Park as open space.
Nancy Q.
Okay At 0x000AEvery Size
Author and organizers miss the point of Burning Man: Wow. This is incredibly fat-shaming and fatphobic ["Burner Body Bootcamp," Emilie Mutert, calendar, 7/30]. People have always talked about Burning Man as a place to showcase alternative realities/lifestyles where people can be themselves. Clearly, the people who conceived of this buy into the same ill-informed and messed up beauty standards as everyone else. Fat does not equal unhealthy nor does it equal unattractive. And there definitely are chubby tigers out there. Just saying. I would encourage the author and people responsible for this boot camp to read about the Health at Every Size movement and fat activism and stop perpetuating incredibly damaging messages.
Noelle D.
Blog Comment 0x000Aof the Week
Not everyone loves Bernal Heights: But why ["Too Hot to Handle: Bernal Heights Remains the Hottest Neighborhood in America," Jonathan Ramos, the Exhibitionist, 8/5]? After working and living there, I never understood the attraction, other than its convenience to the freeways and malt liquor.
Rob B.
Correction
The $1.64 million bite the America's Cup took out of Muni's operating budget ["Sunk Costs,' Joe Eskenazi, news, 8/6] was included in the overall $11.5 million loss the city took on the event, not on top of it. Muni, however, was not reimbursed the money. SF Weekly regrets the error.
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