“Sunset Buzz” is a recurring column on changes, tidbits and other news from the Sunset. Got news? Send us tips at junyao@missionlocal.com.
Your longtime Sunset reporter Junyao Yang is on leave. As your humble graphics intern, I’ll be filling her shoes this week.
Worried about your chakras? Can’t decide whether or not to text your toxic ex? Recently inherited a million dollars from a long-lost Nigerian prince and want to know how to invest? Golden Gate Psychic on 2007 Irving Street is your newest neighborhood holistic haven with full-service reiki healing — and palm, psychic, tarot-card, and crystal-ball readings. Google Maps lists their hours as 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. — except for Fridays and Saturdays, when they work until 10:30 p.m. Stop by after a drink at your local bar!
Szechuan Cuisine at 1920 Irving Street will be closed for their annual leave from Apr. 1 to 30. Don’t think you can make it until May 1 without Mapo Tofu? Consider Mr Szechuan on 890 Taravel Street — or cross Golden Gate Park and visit Chef Xiong Kitchen on 2428 Clement Street instead. They are open until 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on weekends, respectively, making them great spots to satiate late-night cravings.
A reminder that 19th Avenue Street is closing for three weekends. Construction was originally scheduled to take 40 days, but has now been reduced to three weekends (including some Fridays and Mondays):
- Friday, Apr. 24 from 7 a.m. until Monday, Apr. 27 at 5 a.m. on Northbound 19th Avenue from Sloat Boulevard to Lincoln Avenue
- Friday, May 8 from 7 a.m. until Monday, May 10 at 5 a.m. on Southbound 19th Avenue from Lincoln Avenue to Sloat Boulevard
- Friday, May 22 from 7 p.m. until Monday, May 25 at 10 p.m. on Southbound/Northbound 19th Avenue from Sloat Boulevard to Holloway Avenue
Join Best Buddies, the self-proclaimed “world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and development disabilities,” on their Apr. 18 fundraising walk. The event is free. That said, walkers are encouraged to fundraise. Walkers and disability-rights enthusiasts should join between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. at Golden Gate.
Pay a last adieu to the grey-dirt lot abutting 1926 Kirkham Street. The 83-foot-long, 7-foot-long-wide road formerly called “Dirt Alley” was mistakenly bought by a Sunset couple last spring. As of Tuesday, the naming rights of the road was auctioned off for $140,000 — it will now be called “The Notion Way” à la Notion AI, the AI workplace startup.
The alley will also be repaved and painted as a tiled public-art installation
You may remember meeting Jay Pham, the owner of the Excelsior-based bar The Recovery Room, recently in Xueer Lu’s “My Excelsior” column. Great news. Pham’s newest venture, an Irish sports bar at 2319 Taraval Street called The Four Deuces, is now re-opened.
In a world where AI is taking over, a local bar is how you prove you’re still human, Pham told me over drinks at The Four Deuces on Thursday afternoon.
Not that there’s anything wrong with AI, Pham added. “I think it’s a wonderful tool.”
Finally, Mary from Noriega Street Cleaners — which closed at the end of last year, according to the tenant next door — is still accepting calls to 415-672-5387 from former clients looking to “pick up [their] cloth.” It’s not too late! Save that ugly Christmas sweater from extinction!
Is there anything that I missed? How did I do? Write to me at iryna.humenyuk@missionlocal.com.
