In the Richmond

All about my neighborhood, the Richmond district of San Francisco.

Easy to be Kind to Be Kind Rewind

February 22, 2008
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I just saw Michael Gondry’s new movie, Be Kind Rewind, on opening night at the Balboa in San Francisco. Mick LeSalle for The Chronicle got it all wrong. It’s a mess of a movie, sure, but a wonderful mess of a movie, a tribute to movie-making, a nod to some of the wacky greats of all time–Ghostbusters, Rush Hour Two, Robocop. Something of a love note to Fats Waller as well. The movie starts off with Jack Black being his usual hilarious self, takes some absurd turns, and ends on a feel-good, bittersweet note, with a Woody Allen b&w...

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Weird Intersection: Art & Life

January 3, 2008
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On Friday, the day after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Pakistan, my husband and I saw Charlie Wilson’s War at the Balboa. The movie was okay, perhaps a bit too slick, but entertaining. The moment that was most interesting was when a collective “what?!” went up from the small audience about 15 minutes into the film, when Joanne Herring (Julia Roberts) goes to the podium to present Pakistani President Zia (Om Puri) with an award, beginning her speech with this statement: “President Zia did not kill Bhutto.” Benazir Bhutto’s latest book, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, will be published...

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San Francisco Zoo Investigation

January 2, 2008
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This from CNN today, in reference to allegations that Tatiana–the Siberan tiger who escaped her enclosure–may have been taunted prior to the attack: A source close to the investigation said the rock found in the habitat measured 9 inches, and a tree branch and pine cones were found that came from trees that were not near the tiger’s enclosure. Singer said zoo employees also alerted police to an empty vodka bottle in the car in which the young men came to the zoo. The two brothers who were injured in the attack have a police record, and have been...

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Deaths at San Francisco Zoo, Part 2

December 26, 2007
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Interesting coverage of the San Francisco Zoo disaster over at Big Cat Rescue. The Big Cat Rescue site begins with this article from Newsweek. Scroll down after that–interesting stuff. The Newsweek article speculates that the zoo’s new changes to the tiger exhibit, combined with human error (possibly because it was closing time on Christmas day), may have to do with the tiger’s escape. I love the San Francisco Zoo, and as I mentioned in an earlier post, I think the facilities for some of the animals–giraffes, lemurs, and “petting zoo” animals like sheep and goats–are beautiful. But the tiger...

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Zoo Death

December 26, 2007
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The person who was killed on Christmas Day by a Siberian tiger named Tatiana at the San Francisco Zoo was an as-yet unidentified 17-year-old boy from San Jose. Tatiana was killed by police while mauling one of the victims in the Terrace Cafe, which is located 300 yards from the tiger enclosures. The Terrace Cafe is familiar to anyone who has taken their children for rides on the Little Puffer Steam Train just a few yards away. Lora LaMarca, a zoo spokeswoman, said this morning that officials still have no idea how the animal escaped from its grotto, which...

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