Tag: san francisco
-
Talking Heads sculpture
The latest temporary public sculpture in Patricia’s Green is “Talking Heads” by Russian-born Bay Area artist Oleg Lobykin as part of his Void & Substance series. The highly reflective stainless steel form is reminiscent of a drop of mercury hitting a surface, mirroring its surroundings for a brief moment in time. As you, the viewer,…
-
R-Evolution
Earlier this month the plaza across the Ferry Building at between Market St. and Embarcadero became the temporary home of R-Evolution by Italian-American artist Marco Cochrane. The metal lattice sculpture depicts a woman standing tall with her shoulders back and her palms facing out. It’s part of Cochrane’s Bliss Project series of sculptures and made…
-
Keys to the city
Not far from downtown San Francisco in the SOMA area is an alleyway filled with giant keys and locks sticking out of the ground. Though it may give you the impression that giants walk above us, this is part of an installation called Locks and Keys for Harry Bridges by Bay Area artist Mildred Howard.…
-
When RoboCop parodied San Francisco’s most infamous assassination
In 1978 former San Francisco supervisor Dan White assassinated mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. There’s a movie starring Sean Penn about it. What some may not know is the hyper violent comedy movie RoboCop from 1987 contains a sequence parodying this event. The movie technically takes place in Detroit, renamed Delta City (“The…
-
SFO Museum and Library
Tucked away in the corner of SFO’s International Terminal ticketing area between the food court and the Terminal A entrance sits the SFO Museum and Library. It’s built to look like a scale model of the SFO entrance hall from the past. Few seem to even know about this museum, yet they have small exhibits…
-
It’s not a Westfield anymore
Much has already been said about the downfall of the San Francisco Centre mall, but those of us who remember its most recent incarnation will recall the basement in the east half of the building (the former Emporium) at one time had the most upscale food court in the city. Westfield, the mall’s operator at…
-
Happy(?) Bell Riots everyone!
Things aren’t going great in California right now for the poor. Instead of being taken care of they’re being treated like prisoners, which is exactly what happened in the 1995 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Past Tense.” In the episode, Commander Sisko, Lieutenant Dax, and Doctor Bashir get into some sci-fi nonsense and…
-
I tried the weirdest 20+ year old health fad so you don’t have to
Remember oxygen bars? No? Well prepare to let me save you money on your, uh… time machine bills, because I’m about to explain this health fad that had run its course by the early 2000’s. Somehow there’s still an oxygen bar in San Francisco at — where else? — Pier 39. So of course I…
-
My own unique piece of BART history
You may have been on it, or you may have seen it go “rohr”-ing past you. What could it be? I recently purchased a number plate from a retired BART train over at RailGoods.com. This was the plate on a B-type BART train car — specifically car number 1648 — made by Rohr Industries in…
-
Inside San Francisco’s Cable Car Shop
Last week I was lucky enough to get a rare glimpse inside the workshop where the most worn out San Francisco cable cars are sent to be restored — if not rebuilt. This was part of a tour offered by Muni, San Francisco’s public transit agency, in conjunction with the non-profit Market Street Railway to…
About Eric
Travel, movies, comedy, tech, and whatever I find on the streets of San Francisco.
Contact: mrericsir “at” gmail.com
Categories
Recent Posts
- Full Queer Wrestling at Folsom Street Fair
- Immersive art…?
- Los Angeles 2026 wrap-up and stray observations
- Graffiti street art lesson
Tags
16thmission 24thmission ameritrip2019 art bart cats clarionalley comedy covid-19 dolores park europe film food graffiti greece gregg turkington history humor immersive los angeles mission movies muni munimetro murals museums Music nonchalance on cinema photos public transportation Rant restaurants san diego san francisco soma streetart television the jejune institute tim heidecker trailers travel videos walking tour wtf