Have a great 4th of July weekend everyone! May the fog lift over the bay in time for fireworks, and may your children sleep through your next-door neighbor’s festivities.
From around the web this week:
If you didn’t have a chance to catch all the SF Homeless Project articles this week, there’s a website you can go to that collected all of them.
Mayor Ed Lee reacted to last week’s cyclists’ deaths by announcing 57 new, high-priority VisionZero projects, which turned out to be a mostly untrue statement. None of the projects are actually new and none address the roads where the cyclists were hit. Nothing is planned for that stretch of JFK Drive, although it is listed as part of the VisionZero High Priority Network (seemingly code for: yep, we know it’s a problem, nope, no plans for it yet.) The other location, Howard Street, already had its VisionZero improvements in place when the motorist hit and ran, which points to the project not being enough to protect cyclists and pedestrians. In the meantime, an officer was hit by a car this week, also in SOMA. Fingers crossed for an updated press conference next week.
So, last year’s whale spectacular in San Francisco Bay wasn’t a quirk: Humpback, gray, and blue whales are back this year, and doing things like breaching under the Golden Gate Bridge/changing the course of people’s lives. It’s still a mystery why they’re here.
There have been several lovely tributes to Bill Cunningham over the past week. My favorites were by longtime New York Times fashion critic, Cathy Horyn (which included the gem that he’d greet her by asking “Who have you offended today, kid?”) and The New Yorker‘s theater critic Hilton Als.
Did you know you could buy Muji clothes for kids online? We bought Bean several pieces from Muji when we visited Japan when she was only 11 months old. She somehow still fits in them; just wore them this week in fact. No, I don’t understand it, but that is some remarkable Japanese engineering.
We made this Orange Marmalade Cake last weekend, and it was a) so simple and b) truly amazing.
National Geographic named the 2016 Travel Photographer of the Year winners. And STUNNING. Obviously. But even more stunning than you’re imagining. It’s all iridescent waters, Mongolian horsemen, and cuddling polar bears.
WHOA, late update: Governor Brown just signed six gun control measures into law. Go read about all of them here.
