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Pride weekend is upon us, and clear skies are expected across the city. If you’re in want of plans, find our full guide to Pride here.
In the Outer Richmond, nine participating small businesses have put together special offerings and events for Queer Out Here on June 27. The “small business crawl,” mostly along Balboa Street, will include live music at The Eye & Hand Society, and the participating businesses will donate to different LGBTQ organizations.
The Butterfly Joint, a cafe and woodworking studio for kids at 4411 Cabrillo St. near 45th Avenue, will bookend the festivities, with a reading for children at 11 a.m. and a free live comedy show at 5 p.m. At the Balboa Theater, there will be a free screening of “Just Kids,” a documentary about growing up transgender during the Trump administration. Other businesses will offer special discounts. See the full list of participating businesses and events here.
The post office at 837 Clement Street near 10th Avenue has closed. It operated as a “Contract Postal Unit,” essentially a small business operating as a post office in partnership with the United States Postal Service. A sign in the window said its last day was June 18, and indicated that it was one among a number of other CPUs shutting down.
Westsiders may remember last year’s olfactory attraction at the Conservatory of Flowers, when the masses gathered and queued for a whiff of its locally infamous corpse flower in bloom. Typically, the flower only blooms once every few years. But we’ve got good news if you couldn’t fit a visit to the greenhouse into your schedule last year: the corpse flower blooms again.
Plan your visit to the conservatory (or watch the corpse flower bloom remotely) here.
After four years at 4601 Geary Boulevard near 10th Avenue, the ever-elusive high-end Japanese spot Noodle in a Haystack has closed. It was well-known (and well-annointed) for its ramen, but perhaps best known as one of the hardest reservations to get in town.
The restaurant’s owners told the San Francisco Chronicle last month that they’re planning on a new concept, and moving to Thrive City in Mission Bay.
Typically, such outposts are not mutually exclusive with operations in the Richmond, but 12 seats and a prix-fixe tasting menu were unsustainable, they said.
Previously on Richmond Buzz, we reported that Constance Tea was coming with Japanese stone mills to bring freshly milled matcha to the Outer Balboa corridor — a delicacy its owners say is the first of its kind in the Bay Area. Well, Constance is officially open for business, and has drawn long lines down the block.
