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Friday, April 3, 2015

Queer Film Event, my gaze//yr gaze, Debuts in SF Sunday

Posted By on Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:30 PM

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This Sunday, after the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have crowned a new Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary, and the pastel-hued crowds have left Golden Gate Park, a goodly portion of the Bay Area’s queer arts community will convene at Alley Cat Books for an annual curated film screening, multimedia artist Irwin Swirnoff’s my gaze//yr gaze.

In years past, this free event took place in Oakland, and the role of selector had gone to artists such as Brontez Purnell and Michelle Tea. The San Francisco debut features local actor and performer Rotimi Agbabiaka, who has chosen two films about the gay black experience, Marlon Riggs’s 1991 Tongues Untied and Isaac Julien’s 1989 Looking for Langston.

In picking these films (one of which he has chosen sight unseen), Agbabiaka says he’s trying to create a space for a community that seems to be pushed out, or is otherwise in decline.

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Bay Area Bike Share to Expand Ten-Fold By 2017

Posted By on Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:24 PM

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The Bay Area Bike Share, which right now only scatters 700 bikes across a swath of San Francisco and the Peninsula, will be expanding rapidly in the next two years, under a proposal to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Five Bay Area mayors are calling for a 10-fold increase, or the addition of 6,300 bikes to create a system that serves the entire Bay Area.

The proposal would increase the number of bikes in San Francisco to 4,500, 1,000 in San Jose, 850 in Oakland, 400 to Berkeley, and 100 to Emeryville, with some additional bikes divvied up depending on need and use. This would make the Bay Area Bike Share system one of the biggest and most extensive in the country. This expansion will go a long way to help the bike share system connect other transit options.

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Crime / Drugs Joint DEA/SFPD Drug Task Force In Tenderloin Is Only Arresting Black People

Posted By on Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:15 PM

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The San Francisco Police Department is having a public relations crisis. Scandal has followed scandal: Some of the same crooked cops found guilty of federal corruption charges also exchanged racist and homophobic text messages with other officers still out on the beat.

San Francisco police now appear to be waging the war on drugs that target African Americans.  Every single one of the 37 people arrested for selling minuscule amounts of drugs to undercover cops in the Tenderloin are black, court filings show. A stark racial bias, but there's also a sexist bias: 11 out of 18 suspects arrested in the most recent sting are women. This is evidence of a clear "racial bias," according to defense attorneys, who filed motions to dismiss cases against eight of the alleged drug dealers earlier this week on grounds of selective enforcement and prosecution. 

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Debbie Downer / Environment Drought: How Much Water Will You Have To Save Under New Mandatory Water Restrictions?

Posted By on Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:59 PM

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Earlier today, Gov. Jerry Brown strode across a patch of grass near Lake Tahoe, trailed by a man carrying a long pole. The pole is used to measure snowpack, of which there was none. This was ceremony to confirm what we already knew: there is no snow. 

Snowpack is at an abysmal five percent of normal, which means year four of the worst drought California has ever seen is, well, even worse. 

Brown used the snow-less spectacle as the backdrop to proclaim the state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions. Water use across the state must drop by 25 percent, or consequences — beyond environmental devastation and collapse of the social order — will occur.

But that number is misleading. Do you have to cut your shower by a quarter right now? No — but you may need to cut it by half, or be moved from your home entirely. You may also be asked cut water use less. How does this work, exactly?

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WTF? VIDEO: Passenger Beats Cab Driver With Padlock

Posted By on Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:40 PM

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San Francisco police are looking for a man who was caught on camera assaulting a taxi driver near Civic Center BART yesterday morning. 

On March 31, at about 12:05 a.m., police were called to Seventh and Market streets where a taxi driver was seen bleeding from the head. When police arrived, they learned that the cabbie had picked up the male passenger from Seventh and Townsend streets and was taking him to Civic Center BART station. On the way, the passenger is seen on the video beating the driver with a metal padlock, says Officer Grace Gatpandan. 

What isn't seen in the video is the attempted robbery.

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Really Cool Shit Watch This Badass Artist Use a 3D Pen to Doodle the Golden Gate Bridge (VIDEO)

Posted By on Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:29 AM

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Whether you like it or not, technology is ubiquitous (as are the people who make it). You can't escape the awesomeness and the evilness (take your pick) of technology. Not even artists. 

To be honest, 3D printing/drawing has been one of the many evolving technologies we haven't been able to totally get our head around. Thank God for YouTube. Colorful artist and YouTube user The Official Rainbow Girl posted this very illustrative video of her doodling the Golden Gate Bridge, with the real Golden Gate Bridge in the backdrop, using a 3D pen.

So now we kinda get it: The pen uses plastic which then melts quickly and makes an artist's drawing come off the page. It's hard to explain, so just watch:


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BART Station Closed in El Cerrito After Person Hit by Train (Update)

Posted By on Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:55 AM

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Update 12:41 p.m.: Good news, the BART station is open again, but there are still some residual delays. 

Update 10:43 a.m.:  Train service has resumed on the Richmond line, but the El Cerrito Plaza remains closed and trains will not stop at that station.

Update 10:15 a.m.: BART confirmed that there is a person under the train. Trains are being turned around at North Berkeley and BART has called for bus service. 

Update: There is no service between El Cerrito Plaza and Richmond station and between El Cerrito Plaza and North Berkeley. BART is asking commuters to seek alternate means of transportation.

We're getting word now that there is a "major medical emergency" over in the East Bay, forcing police to close down the El Cerrito Plaza BART station. 

There are no details yet, but BART officials are warning of major delays at El Cerrito Plaza in the Fremont, Richmond and Millbrae directions. 

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