6 A.M. A biting 46° as day breaks, clear and rising tempertures throughout the day.
The Mission Today
Today is National Napping Day. Nappers better get going, or the best spots in the park will be taken. If you are the kind of person who likes a story after his or her nap, the Porchlight story series continues tonight at the Verdi Club with Beware: Stories of Danger. And it’s film night at the Revolution.
ICE Cold To Cease Fire Proposal
A group of immigrant rights organizations have written to President Obama and the Department of Homeland Security asking that ICE suspend all enforcement operations through the end of the year to encourage immigrant participation in the census. In response, ICE says it will de-prioritize indiscriminate sweeps. Advocates and activists are angry with the Adminisration’s lack of action on the immigration reform coupled with escalating detentions and deportations and Mission District residents are skeptical that even the beloved Obama will be able to get anything through Congress. In a signal that patience has run out in the immigrant and Latino communities, a March on Washington is planned for next Sunday.
Welcome to San Francisco
Now that the sainted New York Times has given up its tourist visa for actual residency in the Bay Area, the gloves are off. The SFAppeal caught the Times napping the other day, it’s field of dreams being a “gourmet ghetto.” Build a parking lot and they will come. This is not a town known for bare-knuckle brutishness in professional sports. but when it comes to writing (any writing!), watch your back.
And News from “Foodie Gulch”
Once known as Arroyo de Dolores, the source of fresh water feeding the Laguna that opened up right around 18th and Guerrero, this is not the first time people have come here looking for a fish dinner. But it’s been a while, so the opening of new raw bar Ebb and Flow was widely anticipated, if for no other reason than to spice up an already hot competition on the block. First reviews are in, and they are positive (or paid for).
This is News?
OK, let’s be fair. It’s not only New Yorkers who can’t handle the SF parking. A Community Engagement Intern for SF Engage discovers that “Mission folk” (authentic natives I presume) are “fed up with parking.” To be sure parking has been a major complaint ever since history began in this little valley, but the problem will only be solved when people ditch their cars, or we’re hit by an asteroid.