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Block party spectacular! The mural at 161 Erie Street (off Mission between Duboce and 14th) that was started by Banksy is being completed today by a group of local artists.
Show up between 11 and 7 and there will be food, tchotckes for sale, a “public greening” coordinated by Plant SF, and some seriously good electronic music.
Proceeds go to Root Division and the San Francisco Parks Trust. Full details here.
Heather Smith covers a beat that spans health, food, and the environment, as well as shootings, stabbings, various small fires, and shouting matches at public meetings. She is a 2007 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism and a contributor to the book Infinite City.
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