Civic Center
Blog URL sfciviccenter.blogspot.com
Located San Francisco, California USA
Tags photos, classical music, San Francisco politics, art, gay issues, antiwar activism, opera
San Francisco as seen through the Civic Center neighborhood: its politics, arts and characters.
Latest Blog Posts
- Vistas de Buena Vista Park on Nov 20, 2009 in nature
The first public park in San Francisco dates from 1867, when the area between the modern neighborhoods of the Castro and the Haight-Ashbury was called Hill Park.In 1894, the hill was "forested" under the supervision of John McLaren, and renamed Buena...
- The Comedy of Otello on Nov 19, 2009 in SF Opera music
The San Francisco Opera supernumeraries held a season-ending party at Fort Mason last weekend, and the evening ended with a very funny skit by Charlie Lichtman (above, dressed as a deviled egg). Charlie's only spear carrying this year was in Verdi's...
- Meet Vietnam 1: Apocalypse Then on Nov 17, 2009 in art politics
Hundreds of mostly elderly Vietnamese people surrounded San Francisco's City Hall on Sunday and Monday. They were protesting an official trade mission from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that included a reception in City Hall on Sunday afternoo...
- Meet Vietnam 2: Capitalism Now on Nov 17, 2009 in art politics
Though the communists officially won the Vietnam War, from all accounts capitalism is making serious inroads.An exhibit was set up in the North Light Court of City Hall which was open to the public on Monday until it wasn't.The place was being guarde...
- Disgusting Muni Passenger of the Month on Nov 15, 2009 in City Life
The loud cell phone conversation, filled with narcissistic tales of personal woe, was bad enough. However, it was when the young woman above kicked off her sandals on the 47 Van Ness bus this afternoon, and spread her ugly bare feet across the back r...
- Dutilleux and Sibelius at the San Francisco Symphony on Nov 14, 2009 in SF Symphony music
The originally scheduled San Francisco Symphony program for this week looked interesting: "Shoreless River," a new work by the 39-year-old German composer Detlev Glanert, the Schumann cello concerto with the handsome young French soloist Gautier Capu...
- The Decay of The Upper Crust on Nov 12, 2009 in art nature
The sycamores in front of San Francisco's City Hall have received their pruning on one side of the plaza but not the other.Under the newly poodle cut trees, the San Francisco Art Commission signage for Patrick Dougherty's "The Upper Crust" is decayin...
