For Safari users, here is our feature on how state HIV cuts will impact the city and the Mission District.
Under the heading, you never know what’s down the block. Above Ritmo Latino, the city’s best store for Latin music, is it turns out, a single room occupancy hotel, and it’s for sale. Only $4.5 million?
And 7×7 has posted it’s neighborhood issue. It’s video on the Mission is yet another reminder that we must get down to Zeitgest. Something our survey found as well.
Wheat Whimsy from Mission Mission.
Oh, and speaking of art, I finally made it to the Andy Vogt & Joshua Churchhill exhibit at Adobe Books at 3166 16th St., which is interesting for a whole lot of reasons. I had been thinking during my walk south on Guerrero about where the Mission ends and Noe Valley begins, how neighborhoods change.
Earlier in the week we talked to Sam Mogannam of Bi-Rite about how 18th Street had evolved from the place where he grew up and worked at his family’s store.
At any rate, with all of this going through my head, I walked into Adobe to see the backroom exhibit–a sort of shrine to the past, present and future of that space.
Turns out Adobe had cleared the backroom next to its gallery where Swan, an artist, mad genius, close to homeless person, had hung out for years. So, now Adobe will have the whole space for a gallery, but before they remodeled, they decided to stop and honor the space and its history.
It’s moving. And should be seen. It’s up until the 16th.
BTW, Swan snoozed nearby in an over sized chair outside the exhibit. He looked too peaceful to even try snapping a photo. Time moves on. Sort of.
Here are two snaps from the exhibit, but you can read more about it here.
