June 2, 2007
Day Around The Bay
--Well, it's official -- Halloween in the Castro is done. We look forward to chaos this October 31 when people show up anyways and no one's expecting them.
--No African-Americans in the Bay Area in either jazz or classical music today. Yoshi's apologizes, the SF Opera does not.
--Good for Caltrain! They cited over 100 people who drove under the lowered railroad safety arms.
--Personnel turmoil at the Oakland Animal Shelter.
--You can follow more of Chron copy editor Alicia's Story (about her fight with cancer) on her Chronicle community blog.
--Chron political correspondent Carla Marinucci gets ripped for her negative John Edwards coverage. (we got the link from Calitics!)
--And local competitive eater breaks that Japanese guy's hot dog eating record!!!!
API Progressives believe! From today's convention. Also, Andy Ross in the background.
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Dear Rita: Please get off the racial thing with the opera singers as race had absolutely zero to do with Hope Briggs being replaced by Elza van den Heever. What the real back story is I don't have a clue, but it had nothing to do with skin color.
By the way, the opera "Don Giovanni" just ended and Ms. Elza had one of the most starry, Ruby Keeler in "42nd Street" debuts in San Francisco Opera history. She nailed a very difficult role and the audience went crazy. It was great.
Carla Marinucci is just unbelievable. That's a great link. You'd think she'd have learned something from 2000.
Mike: I know you are a fan of Elza, and you can be proud.
Hi Mike! Good to see you earlier today!
Just to clarify, I'm not saying in this Day/Bay entry that race had anything to do with the Opera's decision, just that the fact is that Hope Briggs (African-American singer) is not performing in the production, and that it was an interesting juxtaposition with the Yoshi's jazz piece today. No implications of racial discrimination or lack of talent by Ms. van der Heever were meant, and my apologies if it came across otherwise.
Let me think if I can think of some delicate way to put this, but I suggest that the radical faeries would have a way to keep the riffraff out of the neighborhood that weekend, a.k.a. "show us your -- " .. or would that just encourage it?