Sisters, walkers, and makers

Good afternoon! We’ve got a bunch of photos from the weekend for you:

• It was a glorious warm Easter day, celebrated in traditional ways by local churches and by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. See photos from yesterday’s very packed festivities at Dolores Park. And check out another portfolio from a Saturday walk through the Mission, featuring low-riders, Aztec dancers, and the going-away party at Alexander’s Shoe Repair.

• The local open-to-all hacker collective Noisebridge has a laser cutter that you can use to engrave your tortillas, a sewing room where a group generates AI designs and turns the patterns into quilts, and a retro arcade game built cooperatively by electricians, woodworkers, and coders. Noisebridge, on Capp and 18th Street, was founded in 2007 and remains a free collaborative space for makers of all kinds, stuffed full of tools and equipment. There are no formal leaders or managers, and decisions are made by consensus; new participants are encouraged to jump in with their own ideas and develop projects. While Noisebridge may not be, as one member suggested, “the last free space in San Francisco“––that would be the public library––it may be the only “do-ocracy.”

• As of now, there are no official updates in the murder of Bob Lee last week––but that hasn’t stopped a flood of opinions about what it means for San Francisco. ICYMI, Joe Eskenazi wrote a thoughtful piece on Friday about facts and feelings, and the problems associated with “politicizing this poor man’s death to buttress our preexisting worldview.” Many Mission Local readers had comments; take a look.

More soon,

Sara