Hello readers: Happy Earth Day 2021!
Today President Biden committed to cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. Do we think the United States will reach the goal?
“It is the year 2021. The fact we are still having this discussion and, even more, that we are still subsidizing fossil fuels directly or indirectly using taxpayer money is a disgrace,” said 18-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg today in her video testimony to the U.S. Congress.
On a more local note, rumba band Dos Bandoleros will be performing tomorrow at Chile Lindo Empanada restaurant (16th and Capp streets) starting at 6 p.m.
It should be a fun time, and Chile Lindo is now serving beer and wine alongside the empanadas, the small mushroom one being a personal favorite of mine.
Today also marks the opening of an exhibit of new paintings from eight California artists at Ratio 3, a commercial gallery at 2831A Mission St.
Ratio 3 curator Haegen Crosby was busy and nervous getting ready for the opening today and didn’t want to go on the record discussing the exhibit with me on the phone, instead emailing me a quote from his press release:
“I admire each of these artist’s approach to the practice of painting; their work is interwoven with their everyday lives; it is a constant that inhabits—yet remains unencumbered by—the banal. I see these artists as members of a cohort with a shared vision: that everything can be a thing of beauty, full of imaginative space and potential…”
You can make an appointment to see the show yourself here. The gallery is hidden in plain sight on Mission Street near 25th Street.
I hope everyone is having a great Thursday! Here’s the news from Mission Local.
— Clara-Sophia Daly
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