Diamond Dave Whitaker remembers the first time he stepped foot into San Francisco’s city hall some six decades ago. “It was 1957, and I was in seventh heaven,” said Whitaker. At 19, he had just hitchhiked to San Francisco from Minnesota. Whitaker describes the half century since as a “long, strange trip.” “I sat right there, the benches were different...
Every day, Enrique Ramirez bikes from his Hunters Point home to Mutiny Radio and Café in the Mission to work 13-hour shifts, seven days a week, mostly without pay. Ramirez owns the café side of the storefront at 21st and Florida streets; the other half is a radio station. And he’s a partner in that enterprise once known as Pirate...
It’s cold. And it’s going to get colder tomorrow night, possibly dropping below freezing. Makes me wish I had heat. Why not try to warm up with some soup, then? The Kristin Hoppe, aka the Sexy Soup Lady, has started posting her sexy soup recipies on her new blog, the first is a tasty-sounding winter squash soup with apple, ginger...
By SHALWAH EVANS I was at Pirate Cat Café on Florida Street in the Mission District, San Francisco covering election day hype for missionlocal.org, and fighting back my own tears and hysterical laughter as people ran into the streets popping champagne bottles and shouting, “OBAMA!” My friend Justin Moore’s text message came in as I caught myself on the verge...
Pirate Cat radio broadcasting live from Pirate Cat Cafe. People are getting on the mic live to express their views and reactions to the election. So far most are Barack Obama supporters.
