How are your loooooong weekend plans shaping up? We’ll be recovering from our busy week (ahhh, night classes you are so fun and also so tiring) and hitting up Carnaval in the Mission. Hopefully, this year, Bean won’t be as terrified by the thunderous low-riders.
Have a great weekend, everyone, and see you back here on Tuesday!
From around the web this week:
So, the denizens of Polk Street are reacting to that Whole Foods 365 coming into the former Lombardi Sports building…by pitching a ban on future formula retail. How do all of you feel about it?
In faster transit where it’s needed news, Van Ness BRT is making a huge step forward in the next few weeks by dropping 9 Muni stops along Van Ness. Well, huge by SF standards. Hopefully, this helps the 47 and 49 on a pretty slow stretch.
In other urban planning news, look forward to some changes on Masonic as well. This is part of the city’s VisionZero plan and will include safer bike paths, wider sidewalks, and a lot of new greenery. All good, except construction is expected to go on for 18 months. Ouch.
Jumping the bay, SPUR held a talk on how to better connect downtown Oakland, its museums and institutions to Lake Merritt. This makes a lot of sense. (Link includes examples from other cities, where sleepy, forgotten attractions were revitalized through connective sidewalks and artwork. Very interesting!)
BART twitter made me laugh. (Seriously, though, could you even imagine BART to Marin?)
The Exploratorium will be freaking us out for the next 3 months. These strandbeests seriously give me the willies.
You can finally live the dream: the Full House (yeah, that Full House) Victorian is for sale. Don’t click through if you want childhood dreams to be kept alive. (It looks nothing like the show. Also costs $4.1 million.)
If you’re having one of those days/weeks/months, you’ll want to check this video out of frolicking baby gorillas.
I loved this post on why teaching kids to clean up is important.
