It's been another sunny week in the neighborhood, and while breaking news has given us an ... errr ... break this week, there's been quite a few rumblings behind the scenes.
Last weekend we brought you some history of the neighborhood—from when the freeway came down, to the parcels of land currently being developed today. Ever wonder who the Patricia of Patricia's Green was? Take a trip back in time.
Businesses come and go in this busy retail and dining neighborhood, and earlier this week we got a tip that Lustre Salon closed its doors. We reached out for more information, but haven't heard back. However, Yelp corroborates the story, as does a sign posted in their window earlier this week.
Incoming businesses to keep an eye out for include Project Juice, which may finally be opening on October 19th. Also Nojo, which has been closed since August while it transitions to new ownership, will be opening its doors for dinner at 5pm today.
Here's a few events happening in the neighborhood over the next couple days:
Friday
Party at MINE Je Ne Sais Quois
227 Fell St.
6-11pm
Host Description: POLAR JUNGLE//MINE//BRANDON DUNLAP present an evening of auditory and visual engagement. We welcome one and all to come visit our space for this one night! We'll be serving classic cocktails, sangria, wine, champagne, and home-brewed beer in a huge selection of vintage glassware and drinking based sculptures and hand made pottery. Outside, our patio will be open with our Mid Century Modern Furniture Installations and LIVE Video Projections by BIRA (Polar Jungle) once the sun hits the shade.
Art Reception: Judith Keenan Photography
SF Zen Center, 300 Page St.
7-9pm
Host Description (Judith Keenan): "I've been taking photographs since 1965. It has been a wonderful medium to express how I see the world. I spent six years living at SFZC's three practice places, and meditation really nurtured my ability to see what is right in front of me. I had a wonderful time printing the color photos with Taiyo Lipscomb, a Zen Center priest who was in residence for multiple decades."
AQUILO, with Oscar and Rare Monk
Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St.
9pm
Host Description: Aquilo are a musical duo from Silverdale, Lancashire, England. They use laptops and Logic to create dolorous downtempo electronica and ethereal R&B. Oscar Scheller AKA Oscar has cut a dash through indie music press in the UK and the US with his bedroom–recorded laptop pop over the past year, so much so that in January he announced he had signed to legendary British indie Wichita, home of Waxahatchee. Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the young turks of Rare Monk sound simultaneously like everything and nothing you've ever heard.
Saturday
Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings & Bill Stewart
SFJazz, 201 Franklin St.
7pm and 8:30pm
Host Description: One of the longest-lived and most virtuosic organ trios in jazz, the magical combination of guitarist Peter Bernstein, organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart take up residence in the Joe Henderson Lab for a four-night run. A trio equally adept at roiling bebop intensity, gentle ballad work and knotty fistfuls of funk, Bernstein, Goldings, and Stewart have been less active in the last few years, owing to the demands of their individual careers, so every new album and tour is cause for celebration.
The Journey to Arm Balancing
Yoga Tree, 519 Hayes St.
1:15-4:15pm
Host Description: Come and experience a sense of playfulness in these delightfully challenging poses, cultivating wholesome intelligence of the body. Arm Balances expand our inner sense of equilibrium and integration. With regular practice they develop lightness, strength, courage and agility; freeing the mind and body of limiting habitual patterns.
Last but not least, mark five Fridays on your calendar for the upcoming free Fall Film Festival, hosted by PROXY. The first screening, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, will take place on Friday, October 16th at 7pm. We'll see you there.
