San Francisco mayor and gubernatorial candidate (and goober) Gavin Newsom will be holding a town hall meeting tonight from 6-8:00 PM at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria. Town hall, eh? I hear that’s a really low-key way to spend an evening…
(Source: North Sac Beat)
Sac PD are out today in a sting to nab drivers who don’t stop for pedestrians at crosswalks:
Plainclothes officers will be attempting to cross between the white lines of crosswalks at different intersections in the city. Nearby, motorcycle officers and officers in patrol cars will be watching for motorists who don’t yield the right of way to the pedestrian cops.
Are plainclothes officers really needed for this? Couldn’t the pedestrians in this operation just be … pedestrians? I suppose it’s possible that would make it seem like they are “putting the public in danger,” though unless they are banning pedestrianism entirely until the scourge of right-of-way-refusal is smote from the land, they aren’t really doing anything either way, harms-way wise. Bottom line: stop for pedestrians.
In the upcoming September service changes for RT, my beloved Tahoe Park apparently drew the shortest straw and will be hit with 2 cuts out of 11 total changes.
I’m not really sure how Route 8 can provide alternate service to Tahoe Park as their routes (8, 37) don’t intersect.
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Every Friday August 21 through September 18, free concerts will continue in Cesar Chavez Plaza with a special series presented by Jerry Perry. The line-up will include Sacramento favorites including Kai Kln, Prieta, Shannon Curtis, Jackpot and The Golden Cadillacs. This is an all ages event.
(Via Sac Music Blog)
Readers of this blog — who have some sort of steel trap mind for my preferences as expressed over time — will know that Jackpot is my favorite local band. They play September 18 with multiple SAMMIES winning pop band Agent Ribbons and guitar god Mike Farrell.
The current run of concerts in Cesar Chavez concludes Friday with Sol Peligro, Retrograde Revolution, and La Noche Oskura.
I’m still not sure I understand the point. An increase in water use does not imply any water is being wasted. The population of our city keeps growing, and if energy producers are going to meet increased demand — and manufacturers are going to come out of this economic downturn — that’s going to mean more resources are used up. Can’t the benefit of the doubt be on water users and the onus be on the city to find ways to provide the water people need? There is more data that would be needed for this map to actually indicate any wastefulness. For example how do I know the Alsco linen plant isn’t doing 33.16% more businesses since 2006? And on the flipside, does anyone think Land Park has almost 20% more grass and water fountains than it did in 2006?
I think the most important issue here is that the City has not done anything to officially restrict its own water use, but is helping the Bee (by providing data) highlight private businesses who are increasing their use. As the data shows, many of the city parks are among the top users and show big 2-year increases. I’m glad the Bee appears to be backing off its original approach of asking neighbors to turn each other in for watering on Sunday. That’s not the issue. The issue is that if there is a water shortage there are better ways to combat it — metering, efficiency, incentives for conservation, increased supply — than by putting all the responsibility on homeowners.
I didn’t know there still was a Tenacious D! But apparently they will be replacing the Beastie Boys in the Outside Lands festival as the headline act on the last day.
The festival is August 28-30 and features, IMHO, a less-good lineup than last year. But that may just be me. Incubus? Tom Jones? Jason freakin Mraz?
The Sac Bee has a new “photo gallery” solicitation on the Web site — a “community reporting project,” they’re calling it — asking folks to send in photos (registration required to look at the photos) of “the city’s biggest water wasters.”
Include a brief description of the date and time the photo was taken and where it was taken, including street address and nearest cross street.
Sounds an awful lot like the Bee wants us to rat out our neighbors. I’m not sure where to start with this, but I think I’ll start with this: breaking the city’s watering rules is not synonymous with “wasting” water. One could easily follow the letter of the law in a wasteful way, just as one could water on off-days in a conservationist way.
Apparently Bill Clinton worked his notorious charm on Kim Jong Il himself and the journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee will be freed. The latest is actually that Bill Clinton has already left the DPRK but so far nobody knows whether the journalists were with him. Naturally we should all monitor Twitter for the real news about the situation, like this gem from Mandy V.:
Heckasac has a video of Sacramento psych/noise pop band Ganglians playing their song “Hair” on the immortal show “The Adventures of Pete & Pete.” That’s not exactly what’s happening — the video is a mashup of the Ganglians song dubbed over the original track by members of the band Polaris, who did most of the music for the show. (But if you have never seen the members of the band Ganglians, like me, it would have taken you 20 minutes, like me, to figure out what was going on. Good thing I was Ace Blogger on this one and not my usual Post Now Google Shit Later Hack.)
However, the Ganglians song could be from 1994 — it has a sort of California garage mid-90s vibe. It reminds me of Further, an LA band from that era. The Ganglians tune is probably not for everybody, but I dig it a lot.
Beckler claims to be “too old to have watched Pete and Pete” but you’re never too old to enjoy that show. I don’t think I’m younger than Ms. Heckasac, but also I don’t actually think of “Pete and Pete” as something of my past. It seems like one of those things that you’ve either never heard of, or you love it so much you don’t go a week without thinking about it. Right? Right? Anyone?
In the “Most Viewed Slideshows” section on KCRA.com at the moment: Children Found Alive In Trash Bin and Images In Baby Dismemberment Case. I hate to sound so preachy, but what the fuck is wrong with you people??? (Not you people, of course.)
I don’t really mean that. I understand the “rubbernecking” tendency that is burned into human nature. But isn’t there also an “avoidance of deep mental disturbance” tendency also? How does this stuff even get made into slideshows, anyway? Are those things auto generated or what? Wouldn’t somebody somewhere have to decide Yes this makes a good slideshow to push out to the Hearst TV affiliate sites (guessing there on how it works).
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