San Francisco and what to do in it

Ha! I've arm-wrestled a machine that arm-wrestled Chaki!

Kabuki looks nice but 3$ fee on weekends = MAJOR DUD.

you're paying for the privilege of mixing it up with PH crowd.

pls explain $3 fee?

this is how it's explained on the website:

"Every seat for every show is sold on a reserved seating basis. Tickets are available for purchase either on the web with print at home capability, at the ticketing kiosks or at the box office. We feel that offering this service relieves some of the stress of planning a trip to the movies, plus you get to choose your very favorite seat every time!
You have a choice as to when and if you need to pay for your reserved seat. There is no amenities fee Monday through Thursday for the first show time. After that, as the day progresses towards the evening 'prime shows', the amenities fee is anywhere from $1.00 up to $3.00. We're presenting a first class experience, with a state of the art theatre, no annoying television commercials, free internet wi-fi and real butter on our popcorn."

when we went to the counter last weekend and asked about it, we were told it was to offset the costs of 'running a completely green theater'. my gf was like 'oh, so you guys are off the grid and have solar panels on the roof?' and the agent was like 'erm, no...the floor you're standing on is made of recycled materials...' and we thought - 'wait a minute, we used to come here all the time and there was a perfectly good floor here - is he telling us that they removed the floor (and presumably junked it) and replaced it with a new one so they could charge us more for movies?'

they also explain it away by saying

- you can reserve your seats in advance
- they spent a lot of money on refurbishing the theater
- no commercials before the movie
- umm that's it

MAJOR DUD imo. so lame.

its a fancy theater, they charge more - what's the mystery

that is very, very strange!

but i like the reserved seating option, that's how they do it in other countries.

I think it's stupid. Nothing is dumber than trying to find your exact seat in a dark theater.

Plus it makes it harder to sneak into theaters at multiplexes.

this thread seems busier than the one in ILM. what should I do on the night of Saturday January 26? where do I get SF listings?

Flavorpill is pretty good. Also pick a copy of the Guardian.

going on a whirlwind jaunt to bay area for president's day wknd! dinner at chez panisse (the cafe upstairs, not the OG restaurant, which despite its place in the canon is a little steep for our budgets). amoeba! what else?

me and some other cool bands are playin a show Sun Feb 17th at the Hemlock if yr so inclined

first show since the baby? ours was so bad that we broke up afterward!

hey shakey ill be there! im playing at the elbo room on the 4th btw.

first show since the baby? ours was so bad that we broke up afterward!

?! aw, say it ain't so! yes this is first post-baby show and will also be smallest version of the band ever probably (only 6 people instead of 10 - no horns or array of analog synths, sadly). Nudity is totally fucking awesome tho, features both former guitarists from the Tight Bros from Way Back When.

chaki the elbo room is great - which band of yrs is playin...?

we're called DALTON!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalton_School

so I've been wondering if babies are allowed in bars

well we broke up for about two months and then came back in a better lineup. but playing out in public with that little sleep was so....weird. I felt completely alien and freakish like I didn't belong there and should have been home with my child (I should have, in retrospect).

babies are allowed in bars, but I wouldn't subject them to that volume of sound. our friends DID bring their baby to see us play 21 Grand though a few years ago...but they left pretty quickly.

oh I'm just kiddin I wouldn't subject our li'l one to the high decibels.

altho she does respond well to drone metal and dub reggae.

i made a reservation at this hotel -- anyone know it?

http://www.jdvhotels.com/carlton/

it has a "sir edmund hillary" suite! i didn't book that. :-(

Rooms looks cute, but I've never stayed there so I can't comment. Only hotels I've seen on the inside in SF are the Hayes Valley Inn (which is nice and cheap, but has shared facilities) and that Motor Lodge on Market and Sanchez (which is like a motor lodge anywhere, but obv a lot more gay friendly.)

I've been to Saha, the restaurant there, gb, and it was pretty good the last time I went.

Hi Michael White, sorry for yelling at you at 6am yesterday whizzing by.

I too have been to Saha, it's blandish, veggie friendly pan-Arabic. I liked about half the dishes we ordered there.

Hey, at least you weren't wizzing by, Steve...

The chef at Saha is Yemeni, I believe - good wine list, which is always nice. Among all the other places you're going to be near (ish) to, gb, is this very cheap but very delicious Turtle Tower, the very best phở place in SF, but you have to go early 'cause they close at 7:30.

yes to pho

Since you are right there you can also go to Brenda's for breakfast (see link above.)

is Union Square dead on weekends?

Not shopping-wise.

so there's foot-traffic, people hanging out, etc.?

Union Square is horrible why would you want to go there? it is never "dead"

I mean unless you have the need to shop at Macy's or Niketown or something

H&M has nice coats also its the only bart station i can access from the 38 easily.

Union Square is horrible why would you want to go there?

that was my impression before I'd been there, but when I walked through it, it was more attractive than expected, and seemed a decent place to stop briefly and people-watch

when they paved over the "park" in union sq. wtf??

? when was that? I don't remember there ever being a park there, I've lived here for 11 years.

yeah union sq is nothing spesh unless they changed it drastically from last time i was there

assuming that by "park" you mean grass and trees and shrubberies

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I assume s/he means the area that they filmed the opening of The Conversation which could loosely be called a park and which has changed a bit since they filmed that.

yeah, i mean it wasn't like grassy napping destination, but, they made all the "let's discourage homeless people from loitering here" changes that just made it depressing

There used to be a lot more grass until they 'renovated' it starting in '98 until that was finished in '02. It's a whole lot uglier now than it used to be.

dell OTM re: homeless

huh - shows how much time I spend there

i ate at Dosa this weekend. It was pretty good although overpriced for what it was.

we're going there on Saturday (couldn't get a reservation at Delfina, bah!) I like Dosa a lot, one of only a few places in SF where you can get South Indian cooking.

THE CHEESESTEAK PLACE BY MY HOUSE IS THE SHIT

Jay's, right...?

"i ate at Dosa this weekend. It was pretty good although overpriced for what it was."

I have never thought that about Dosa. I think it's pretty comparable with most good Indian fare in the city.

no the yellow one on divizz. jay's is good too but i prefer the vegie cheesesteaks there! the other one is real dead meaty good.

It's on Divis and Post, right?