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
- Strange Japanese Art 2: New People Bazaar Bizarre on Nov 22, 2009 in art City Life Asian Art Museum
Kimo (above) invited me to an art opening on Friday at a new four-story complex on Post Street across from Japantown called New People.The complex had joined up with a group called Bazaar Bizarre SF, which specializes in odd crafts, for a weekend "ve...
- Strange Japanese Art 3: Gothic Lolitas on Nov 22, 2009 in art City Life
A fashionista friend, Anthony Herrera, once despaired after seeing a group of young Japanese tourist women who were decked out in the latest of fashions."It's no fair. Their hair is perfect, their bodies are perfect, and their cutesy fashion is alway...
- Strange Japanese Art 1: Dog Chasing on Nov 21, 2009 in art Asian Art Museum
On a whirlwind tour of the permanent collection of the Asian Art Museum this week, the most interesting "newly on view" section seemed to be in the Japanese wing on the second floor. From the Avery Brundage collection, there is an amazing pair of...
- 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...
