UPDATE @ 12:39 New art in storefront project on Lower 24th Street and other sites around the city in a pilot Art in Storefronts, according to the mayor’s office. Other places: vacant storefront windows located on Taylor Street
in the Tenderloin, Third Street in the Bayview, and Central Market Street. There’s an August 14 deadline to apply and artists living in the neighborhoods will have an advantage. Get your application here.
Mission Mission’s got the lowdown on sex pigeon t-shirts.
Yes Safari users, that’s Betty Bastidas writing about soccer for the moms at Garfield Park. Here’s your link.
A budget’s been hatched! SF Gate reports $15 billion in cuts including funding for some HIV programs, which will impact Community Clinics in the Mission District. Check back for more reporting on that later this week.
For now the Sacramento Bee adds that it means $6 billion for K-14 and $3 billion for higher ed. Gulp. That means City College’s mission campus and our mission schools, which are already doing poorly, will be hit again.
SF.Streetsblog tells us that construction on the Valencia Street improvement project begins this week. Also don’t forget the meeting Thursday at the Mission Police Station from 9:30 to 11:30 with the artists chosen to propose a public art project to go with the improvements. See Stefania Rousselle’s profiles of the artists Michael Arcega, Brian Goggin and Misako Inaoka.