there are literally hundreds of jobs that are dependent on nightlife in the area. these jobs include artists, performing, security staff, kitchen staff a much senators, lighting engineers, and so on. they drive wages from the nightclub and activity on 11th street. placing housing next to hot -- nightclubs create conflict. a single labour cost our business hundreds of thousands of dollars. -- neighbor cost our business. these businesses are a large part of the tourist-drawn neighborhood and their economic report can be given a fair count in the draft dir. -- eir. >> i am the executive director of the california music and culture association. we're a nonprofit that advocates for the entertainment and nightlife community. we're also very appreciative of of -- of the number of hours that have gone into this plan but we do have some concerns with inaccurate statements that we have found and identified in the er and we will urge you to amend the eir. the plan historically ignores nightlife venues and concerns about longstanding consequences on these venues including hist

we're a nonprofit that advocates for the entertainment and nightlife community. we're also very appreciative of of -- of the number of hours that have gone into this plan but we do have some concerns with inaccurate statements that we have found and identified in the er and we will urge you to amend the eir. the plan historically ignores nightlife venues and concerns about longstanding consequences on these venues including historically lgbt cultural sites that are not included in the eir, the eir fails to include and inaccurately categorizes and a number of venues especially along the 11th street corridor. we believe that if these venues are not included in the environmental impact report we cannot fully realize the impact of this plan will have on them. in the few instances where they are mentioned, the eir barely touches on the cultural as that -- except when it suggests the displaced sites can be honored with a plaque. with all due respect, the destruction of nightlife in lgbt space to pave the way for condos, leaving a plaque to name the destroyed space is n

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calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area food. we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come toge

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. >> i flew from ireland to be here. and be

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge?

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.et tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public library took notice and asked h

we all support a healthy, vibrant nightlife.ut we also support a safe nightlife that complements our neighborhoods and is not in competition with our neighborhoods. >> what are your thoughts on the city's economic development? what would you like to change about the approach to developing the economy? >> as a city, i do not think we have been good at creating jobs and economic development. there are things we can do to make life easier for businesses. businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. over the past few years, i have helped to eliminate dozens of fees that have been nickeling our small businesses to death. i have been pushing for more stimulus from city contracts. in the past, those would be awarded mostly to non-san francisco businesses. san francisco needs to do a better job of cultivating business innovation. we need to be the city that competes with silicon valley to attract clean tech, biotech companies. we can do a better job of nurturing creative industries. we need to create a better economy for our local artis

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for making this a reality. without you, it would not have happened. let's hear it for the volunteers. [applause] >> i have organized this for 17 years. together, we are the friends of the pink chronicle. we are trying to get the message out of what can happen. we are all wearing our print -- pink triangle t-shirts income robbery with those who were in it in concentration camps. there are reminders of hate and intolerance and an appreciation of what we -- of where we stand during pride weekend. it is to remind you of the hatred and prejudice of the past and that it still exists in some parts of the world. while we have a wonderfully tolerance city, it is not as tall or elsewhere. i would like to welcome congresswoman democratic leader nancy pelosi. [applause] the mayor of santa francisco, the honorable ed lee. [applause] former mayo

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. on may 12, sf posted a benefit for project insight. canadians supported the recreation programs are too sick children. >> learn more captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good afternoon. i would like to call this meeting of the public utilities commission to order. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> [roll call>> we have the mine july 10 meeting. any additions, corrections, or motions? >> seconded. >> those in favor? >> aye. >> the motion carries. public comments? this is a time for the public to address the commission for matters under howard jurisdiction but not under itthe item list. i have three cards. >> commissioners, i think that some of you were at pier 50 for the first session. may i address you all on some issues? in fact, just for you all to recall, the first one was -- how is the community, the bayview hunters community, go

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works he

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks. get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> i would like to bring on stage supervisor scott from district a who is going to do all the honors for us. introduce our special guests. our allies. hi, scott. >> happy pride, everyone. happy transpride. we're a lot of times we have different opinions and over the course of a year, sometimes we have different perspectives, disagreements, but this is the time of year when we come together as one community so that we can move forward together. and that includes the entire diversity of the we're community. please always know that i will stand with the transcommunity for employment rights, to end health care discrimination against this community and we are going to move forward together. now i have the great honor of introducing someone who i learned politics and how to be an elected official and that is our great snarkts mark lone. he has -- senator, mark leno. he has ta

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held a

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tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every thursday and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from it is a different feel from during the day, somethin

tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every thursday night at the california academy of sciences. there are certain things you can see every week you can go to the museum, visit the planetarium, and we bring in bars and a deejay or band. it is a different feel from during the day, something different every week. tonight , we have beer and music. -- tonight we have great beer and music. it is beer week. we have a dozen local brewers in african hall. we have a deejays to set up throughout the museum and a live performance at 9:00 p.m. tonight. >> what has been your favorite part as a participant or as an observer? >> my favorite part is to walk around the aquarium in to see people with a drink in their hands, getting to know maybe somebody new, may be looking for a day, or chatting with friends. there jellyfish. i mean, they are beautiful. >> the culmination of the animals. >> it is very impressive. we do not have this at home. >> tell us a little about some of the spider's we see here on display. >> at the california academy of sciences,

the nightlife at the beach shall lay. artificial turf, such as west sunset.t is what we are proposing. as you heard, this hybrid alternative meets the criteria about what the eir can consider. it should be considered and analyzed. by selecting the alternatives that were inadequate from the outset, the eir prevents people from being elected judge whether that would be a better solution. i would also like to say that we do trust in you as our elected representatives to do the right thing in these matters. supervisor mar and president chiu. i know you use the same consultants to promote this project, but we trust that you will be independent and maintain your integrity. i know you never received campaign contributions from one man and his wife. we trust you will make it good. president chiu: thank you very much. i should mention that there is a board world that prohibits comments being directed to individual members, so i'd like to ask folks that make commons to direct them to the board. thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, board of supervisors, and thank y

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.an get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s.f. >> everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. just live or work in san francisco and have a form of id. >> we started bank on s.f. six years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. we wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more low-cost, more successful to them and using chat catchers. >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city, but they're convenient locations come with a hidden price. >> these are big. >> i remember coming in to collect -- charged a fee to collect a monogram. >> people who use check catchers, particularly those who use them to cash their paychecks all year long, they can pay hundreds, e

a vibrant nightlife is part of why tourists come here. the kinds of people that are creative and entrepreneurial, that come here and live here, creating jobs in high-tech industries, it is part of why they want to be here. because of our restaurants, entertainment, and clubs. i want to stress that we know how much good that you do for the city and we appreciate it. often we make it difficult to be small businesses here. i know that there is a lot of bureaucracy. we are trying, through the entertainment commission, to find ways to streamline the process. we look forward to hearing from you how we might help the entertainment industry specifically. i know that often we focus on the negative about this industry. that is because that is mostly what we hear. complaints about noise and graffiti. obviously, we are camp -- concerned and are doing anything they can to make sure that our night life is safe for everyone to enjoy. i want to say that while we all need to work together to address those issues, we want to work to make sure that you are

i have also requested an economic impact study to be performed on the entertainment and nightlife industries. it is a very important economic and cultural sector in our city. we have never really taken a look at what it contributes to our economy. i think that is an important piece of information to have to guide policy making in the future. i have requested a hearing on the impact of historic preservation of other important policy goals in the city like creating affordable housing, having usable parks and libraries, etc. i want to look at how those different policies interact with each other. those are a few things i am working on. >> we are out of time. we will have to wrap this up. thank you so much for joining us. we have been talking to supervisor wiener from district 8. watch for the next episode of "need your supervisor." we will be back with one of our 11 city supervisors. ♪ >> there are kids and families ever were. it is really an extraordinary playground. it has got a little something for everyone. it is aesthetically billion. it is completely accessible. you can see how excited pe

nightlife scene is mourning a promoter who was killed on the shoulder of the vw parkway. his name was gary richards. park police say he got out of his car to switch seats with a passenger. that's when another car came by and hit him. the driver of the other car stayed on the scene. richards was a local representative for the celebrity-endorsed brand cirac vodka. >>> two siblings died of electrocution in missouri this afternoon. the 13-year-old girl and her 8-year-old bore were on a dock. at some point they got shocked. they were rushed to a hospital but could not be revived. the dock is wired for lights but it's unclear if or how it mall functioned. >>> in tennessee a young boy also died of electrocution while swimming this afternoon. two boys got shocked as they swam between two houseboats. several jump into the water to help them. they also got shocked. a 10-year-old boy died. several of the people who tried to help were taken to the hospital. the marina is closed while investigators try to figure out what went wrong. >>> a huge mess north of chicago tonight when a frei

nightlife suffers in the fact that there are a lot of restrictions placed upon it to make it safer. when you have a space that has no history of any problems, it seems to me that to start doing things like this, it could be a problem for other venues. if you are going to agree with it, i would not go against your wishes. it is kind of silly to offer an extended hours permit for one day per month. president newlin: we will open it up to public comment. anybody here? i'm sorry. the police department. i am trying to facilitate them. welcome. >> good evening, commissioners and members of the public. my name is lt. robert o. sullivan. the captain regrettably retired last friday and we already miss him. i wanted to thank publicly mr. renne, inspector van cole, bernadette robinson. they worked extensively. having work that they view for the last 15 months during the evening and during the day and having experience, the dynamics of the club at 550 barneveld and things that affect us, trying to provide public safety services, it is quite and efficient plan. it is doable. it is quite fair to

it has a lively nightlife but for the last year and a half, huge construction projects have beenier where. there are wider sidewalks, new bike lanes and better streetlights. >>> a suspect accused of sexually assaulting a woman on the capital crescent trail near the georgetown waterfront is still on the loose. u.s. park police say a woman was jogging alone last night when a machine taxed her from behind and choked her until she passed out. once the woman woke up, she started screaming and her attacker ran off. >>> baltimore county police hope these pictures will help them find the man wanted in the abduction of cal ripken, jr.'s mother. police will not say where the photos were taken. 74-year-old violet ripken was kidnapped on her home on tuesday and found safe near her home the next day. a $2,000 reward is being offered for tips leading to a conviction. >>> a 67-year-old man is facing charges for a stabbing at a maryland facility on new hampshire avenue in silver spring. a man had to get out of line to complete some business. another customer got angry when that man got back in the front

supervisor wiener: regarding the nightlife and entertainment position, as i know you know, earlier this year in my request, a rough study was released showing -- a study was released showing night live, not even a subset, this doesn't even account for street fairs and daytime entertainment. this is an understated number in an this shows our $4.2 billion to eight san francisco economy and produces around 50,000 jobs and $50 million in tax revenue. i think that's a very conservative methodology and i think these numbers are understated. what we have seen more and more in san francisco is that due to all sorts of factors, including but inertia and resistance in some of our city departments, not only lack of support from city government but sometimes hostility. we have seen some events that have gone away or one recently went outside of san francisco, so i was excited when the mayor announced his budget would include a position for night life and entertainment because when you look at the critical role -- you look in the market and navigating the different departments, it makes all the diff

. -- nightlife and entertainment are at the table and we do not continue to lose ground. i think there is more than enough work for one person. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor. we have discussed a number of different pieces to the department budget. it is my understanding the department is in agreement on the closeouts and recommendations. the area where the department difference is on the policy recommendations regarding the revolving loan fund. can we have a motion to except the budget analyst's recommendations? we can do that without objection? to the revolving loan fund, any thoughts? supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: i would like to follow the recommendations on the revolving loan fund. i feel we made the allocation earlier this year. not all the funds have been spent. i do think if there is an additional need at a later time, we can look at a supplemental. we did that in the current year. we're doing that -- doing that next year might be a way of doing that for the city's commitment to the demand. there are huge amounts of support we're giving the commerci

one of the issues in san francisco right now for the gay community is nightlife. one point i wanted to make about the eagle as it was is that the eagle was not just a gay bar. there are many gay bars. it was a gay bar that have international appeal and your people from all over the world to our city. the economic impact of tourism is often downplayed. having the eagle the way it was, under de- ownership -- gay ownership said something about the kind of club it was. if we are weighing who should get a license, this would be more -- sorry. it would be more important to keep it as a bar that began as a gay bar the welcome everybody as opposed to a bar that just happened to have the music or gay aspect as part of it. in terms of who should be able to have a license, i would like to say it would be more for the people that have held it previously and had a certain kind of appeal and to transfer it to others. i am sorry for being nervous. thank you. supervisor elsbernd: 80 very much. next speaker. >> my name is autumn haber. and here in support of the transfer of the li