November 27, 2007
Day Around the Bay
-- You break it, you bought it. [N-Judah Chronicles]
-- Bang, bang: "Shot Spotters!" [The Snitch]
-- Psst. "Stifle yourself" is the new "STFU." Pass it on. [Chron Blog]
-- No fair! We wanna go to Point Reyes! [WhatImSeeing]
-- Is Yoshi's SF opening really going to help the Fillmore? Hint: no. (Also, how can a dead form of music revitalize a community?) [BeyindChron]
-- Ken, you are the father! [SFBG]
-- Late night pizza ban? [Examiner]
Image credit: N-Judah Chronicle's Flickr stream
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awesome! thanks for the link!
In regards to Yoshi's - My wife said exactly that as we were watching the 5 o'clock news.
The problem with Bay Area jazz is that y'all took the black out. Or perhaps its because the Bay Area (especially SF) has a relatively small middle class African American community. (Oakland fairs better, obvs.) Jazz continues to be huge in DC, and is still particularly big with African American families and middle class. But we haven't tried to whiten it up to a multicultural stew in the way that Bay Area jazz has. The opening of a new jazz club or a the start of a new jazz festival is still a big deal in DC. But we have the clientele that will support it. Our very own U street has in many ways owed its rejuvenation to a focus on its history as being a the Black Broadway and center of Washington's African-American jazz and theater history. And even has become the center for a good number of recent African immigrants.
Despite the importance of SF Jazz festival -- SF is seen by the Jazz community at large as not having held on to the African American roots of Jazz. Yoshi's, as good as it is, will only reinforce this.
wow brock, you threw me a curve ball tonite.
to date, in order to make the ranks of "day around the bay", ive had to post about: taking frank chu to a giants game, a mass thriller dance-party in dolores park, and finding a used condom on the T-Third.
and this evening it just so happens that you also appreciate our quaint sightings of a antique tugboat, a cow with a view of the pacific, and a little old lighthouse.
right on, dude. thanks for all the linkage.
I have a few Point Reyes shots if anyone is interested .. http://www.flickr.com/photos/katedollarhyde/sets/72157600153540021/
Hey, DC1974....what the hell do you think the Jazz Preservation District and Yoshi's is all about? Creating what you say you have on U Street. Don't for a second think that U Street has rebounded just because of a focus on its history...Yes, that played a role...but so did lots of upper middle-class folks moving into cheap real estate within walking distance of K Street and the White House...And the Whole Foods down the block from U Street didn't hurt things...Give the Fillmore thing a chance before you start spouting off and swallowing whole the Beyond Chron's latest complaint..Or stay at DCist. Aight?
I'm sorry, but Jazz a "dead form of music"? Why don't you research that a little more and then get back to us. Thanks.
Jas:
I had the same reaction. I don't think jazz is dead, but the article's point is that as a fancy jazz club where tickets run ~$40 a pop, this isn't the best way to get the neighborhood involved. It will just bring an influx of the well-to-do, which isn't so much redevelopment as colonization.
But Noe Valley was once a blue collar neighborhood, so what do I know.
Jas: I had the same reaction. I don't think jazz is dead, but the article's point is that as a fancy jazz club where tickets run $40 a pop, this isn't the best way to get the neighborhood involved. It will just bring an influx of the well-to-do, which isn't so much redevelopment as colonization.
But Noe Valley was once a blue collar neighborhood, so what do I know.