Friday, September 19, 2008

MOZART & THE VIEW UP AND DOWN COMMERCIAL STREET

Tonight, San Francisco was insanely charming.

A surprise moment at the Gershoni biannual as Mozart, invoked by this spirited performer, suddenly interrupted our margaritas.


Opera at the Gershoni party from Indu Subaiya on Vimeo.

Later, this is what the Ferry building looked like in a quick as lightning glance down Commercial street, which intersects Grant in Chinatown.



And then the actual intersection of Grant and Commercial.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Saturday, September 06, 2008

PUERTO VALLARTA OFF SEASON

THE MOPED GANG

On a warm Indian summer night's walk to North Beach, we came upon a scene outside a Chinatown bar - a crowd of kids in hipster-nerd-sexy-schoolmarm attire milling around. We decided to buy a mai tai and hang out. We answered a nerd trivia question - Who is the Captain of the Starship Enterprise? - to get into a dark basement with a small but packed dance floor. Everyone seemed to know each other and we couldn't figure out how. We speculated - the same college? Some type of art-school fraternity? Nope. It's a San Francisco Moped Gang - the band were also members of the gang - and yes, then we remembered what we saw on the way in - lots of mopeds.