From Art Zone 461 Valencia

EXHIBITIONS and SPRING SALE EXTENDED
We are extending our current exhibitions, “UN-TITLED a group show of gallery artists” and “Eileen Starr Moderbacher: new small paintings”, by one week to Sunday April 4. If you haven’t seen the shows or want to experience them again, please come visit.

Earlier Today
MUNI Drivers Attacked!

Supervisor Sean Elsbernd and the reprobates at SPUR have formally submitted their ballot measure to change the way in which MUNI drivers are paid. The intent is to force down MUNI driver pay to improve public transportation, but if the measure passes all of San Francisco’s problems will be solved. The Downtown Gang still needs 70,000 signatures by July to qualify the measure and even though “corporations are individuals,” their signatures don’t count. SPUR wants you!

Even Earlier

In the Mission Today

Happy Legal Assistant’s Day. Paralegals Global dance party today beginning at noon: drop what you’re doing, join with people all over the world, and DANCE. It’s conceptual, it’s public, it’s the 6th year and it’s FREE! You want more? Check out our events calendar and Rachel’s weekend roundup.

Adventures in Corporate Citizenship

Mission Mission calls our attention to a community fundraiser sponsored by Samsung. This Saturday you can dump your old computers, cell phones, TVs and other hi-tech garbage at Cesar Chavez School on Folsom from 10 to 2. Samsung does all the work and pays the SFUSD from the proceeds. One question: where does the stuff go after Samsung takes it?

Sun Tzu and the Census

After 9/11, the Prez famously explained the motives of the perpetrators: “They hate Us.” In a war between Us and Them, it sometimes pays to blur the boundaries. No slackers, the folks at the Census have come up with an ingenious way to do their bit for the cause: count Them as Us. Despite outcries from the Arab-American community, even if they check the “other” box and write in “Arab,” as many community groups advocate, the Census will still count them as racially white. Just like Latinos.

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