and policing and public safety and nightlife associated with nightlife venues, sexual health and preventing violence in these settings and these are a number of themes the commission deals with on a regular basis and as a franciscan i think san francisco has a fair amount to say how we manage it and bodies like the entertainment commission are ways to engage the nightlife and entertainment communities in productive ways and improve public health and public safety, so you have the fliers that has the dates. it's at the mark hopkins hotel and it's going to start on may 28 and go through may 30. we've got a number of different speakers already identified mostly from the uk including researchers and trends and drug use looking at club dynamics at large events and we are putting together plenaries and one is focused on alcohol and one on best practices for manager large scale events and other scale events and we have been in touch with a lot of folks with experience on that to come and speak, so the registration -- we would love to have all of you there you can register on line and there is curr

we need to repeal the archaic codes that undermine nightlife. and we need to continue to support our great state senator mark leno in its never-ending quest for a call at that locality. [applause] but we have to also keep in mind that this industry needs to be more and more organized in order to have the political organization as one supervisor, or two supervisors, there is only so much you can do. please come and get more organized. my colleagues, david and my colleagues need to hear from you. build an alliance with the business community. one of the biggest champions is that california chamber of commerce. we know it is good for business. and please, organized with the neighborhood bars. there are so many great neighborhood bars in this city that could add that neighborhood element to political organizing. and when you are a district supervisor, it is one thing to have nightclub owners come to you. it is another thing to have neighborhood business owners like bar owners coming to you. we need to organize as a bar owner and that will move us in

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. >> when the new california academy of sciences opened in 2008, it quickly became one of the top tourist magnets in the city. part of the cal academies' astronomical success is the weekly nightlife party. >> i am joined by helen, who is here to school me on all the nocturnal activities that are getting ready to take place here. tell us a little about what we can expect to see at nightlife. >> we open up the doors every >> we open up the doors every thursday night at the california >> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31 years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. t

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. >> morning. >> good morning. >> good morning on this do you feel sunny day that we didn't anticipate. we actually would be outside celebrating if we knew it wasn't going to rain but we want to thank public housing to accommodate so you wouldn't be out in the rain. i am mayor lee new director of domestic violence services. today we have a mazing and important event and we are unveiling a critical center in this community. we will start off with mayors from our city and county mayor lee. please give him a round of applause. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. welcome to sunny dale, our hope sf site, our public housing site, a place we know that people not only want to survive but be part of the great city of san francisco so we are investing in people here. some months ago the police chief and me and others announced our effort to make public s

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. >> i am jeff idakia, and i provide legal representation to 20,000 people every year. it is our goal to ensure that we have the best legal representation possible. we started this nine years ago, to increased consciousness and awareness of the issues that affect public safety in criminal and juvenile justice reform. i am proud to say that this is the ninth summit. we take on issues like closing the california youth authority. and we in the confinement of youth -- young children in -- and the prisoner re-entry program and abolishing the death penalty. we take on three critical issues. the first panel has a riveting discussion about gangs. and reducing gang violence. on our panel are former gang members, gang intervention workers, police, public defenders, and researchers. we talk about strategies to reduce gang violence. i will introduce the keynote speaker in a moment.

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks. tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> a great man, is that what you called me? she has to be reminded. -- would you tell that to anita? i congratulate you and thank you for coming to san francisco. hopefully you also become a disaster --- we would be glad te to open up our minds and communities to receive ideas from across the country, if not the world as to how we can improve it. it never is about what just san francisco is doing. a lot of our ideas are homegrown. the ideas are transplanted and that is the greatness of our city. we're an international city. we want to show what ideas are coming out of the far east, china, malaysia, the philippines, singapore as well as all over from europe. perhaps from africa and south america. we can learn from that just as we have done with concepts like sunday streets where people take back the streets and start having fun in our urban communities and bringing out the c

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.ts online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> when there's good children's theater, it is good theater. if it is good theater, you would like it. even if it is for children that, is what i think. i know for the velveteen rabbit, i feel it is a story for kids and much older people. it is about being a young child and loving a toy or friend and it is also about what it means to get old. >>> in 1986 my son was 2. i decided i would like to adapt the velveteen rabbit. mind you, i had never read it as a child but heard it as a mother. my first time was a bedtime story recording. it was through that that i defined the theme and really determined how i was going to produce the story. is it true listening to it. when i made the dance i watched my son, since i have been taking him to live performances since he was 6 years old. he loved it when he saw his peers or when someone was reading to him or he heard language. early when the

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.ckets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv.

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. mayor lee, supervisors, come on up. and while they are doing that, let's get started. what a beautiful, beautiful day, give yourselves a round of applause. [ applause ] >> fantastic. this is like winning a pennant and how about those san francisco giants. i actually want to marco scutaro wanna be, but it's not going to work and today i will settle formality city librarian luis herr ra and i would like to welcome each and every one of you to our ceremony today. this is indeed a milestone because it's not only the beginning of construction to a new new library, but it's the end of the program, which means it's a long time coming. {$}[ applause ], what it means that this is the last project and i want to especially thank. north beach community for your patience, for your persistence and your perseverance to have the state-of-the-art library here in your neighborhood. [ a

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks.just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission to increase social, philosophical and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but

nightlife. forget hail ago cab or riding metro. >> we'll tell you about a service called d.c. hopper. we are checking in with tucker barnes in weather and julie wright in traffic. stay with us.  >>> welcome back. it is friday. we just entertain ourselves up here, don't we? taking a live look at the jefferson memorial right now. decent morning i would say because we'll have some sun. it will be as t there still. that is how it goes when it is november. >> and it's friday. we're a little colder at the moment. later today, mid 50s. you mentioned the sunshine. all indications are we'll have a nice start to the weekend and a decent weekend. we should be dry this weekend. we'll have clouds around sunday but we should be nice and dry so that is good news. people want to be out raining the leaves and going to football games. let's get to the numbers and let sarah think about how much yard work she has to do. >> tucker, you should go over and help her i don't i got my own project. i'm s

we have an opportunity to ensure that san francisco has the greatest and most vibrant nightlife of any major city in the country. i want to thank my colleague scott wiener for helping to showcase the importance of the other nine to five economy. the impact of all that you do has an impact on our job situation and local economy, and to highlight all of the great work that we can do together to ensure that the sectors that you all represent, the sectors that you work for, that you employ people for connaught is one of the greatest sectors in san francisco. i hope we will take the opportunity of the america's cup to showcase our clubs, our restaurants, our nightlife events. as someone who represents the broadaway neighborhood, an area of town that i used to spend a lot of time in when i was in my 20's -- but actually, very few locals take the time to head to the beach on broadway. our neighborhoods are coming together to say that broadway is open to the rest of the world as well as san francisco. i want to put san francisco back on the map when it comes to music. to make sure that we have

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,

calacademy.org/nightlife. we have details for the next few weeks. you can get tickets online in advance or at the door. >> thank you so much. thank you for watching culturewire on sf gov tv. >> also just to note, we welcome john haley here who is not at risk and he is acting on behalf of at risk today. >> i'm happy to be here. >> lastly, there will be no closed session for today's meeting. that item has been canceled. >> okay. >> item 6, introduction of [inaudible]. >> i was reading up on the coverage from the recent nacto meeting which is the national association of city transportation officials. and i know that we were well represented there. mr. reiskin was there along with other members of the sustainable streets division. i thought it would be good for us to get an update on what was discussed there. i think there are a lot of things we can learn from other cities that are going through the same challenges that we are with our multi-modal shift and goals. i know they recently came out in an urban streets design guide. [speaker not understood] c

many are complaining about the nightlife. the meeting will be at the library. >>> black friday is becoming more like black thursday and scores are now getting ready to open on things giving. >>> the area is deal with increased traffic which came with the area before the opening. . >>> welcome back, time now 4:53. officer james was shot by a carjacking suspect at franklin and pine back on november 13th 1994. he shot back and he was wearing a jacket. the incident supported a bill making it illegal to sell body armor to felons. >>> they are trying to enjoy a meal with family and friends and for others, it is the holiday shopping season and wal- mart and sears are opening on thanksgiving day which has a lot of shoppers excited. >> i will be standing in line just because, and i will be looking for clothes at the mall. >> not everybody is happy about black friday starting thanksgiving night. they started an online petition asking them hold the line for their families. the petition has 170,000 signatures already. >> par gone outlets

tonight women's hair case, men's accessories and an know that lets you plan out your nightlife. >> -- and an app that lets you plan out your nightlife. >> and why this flash mob was a teaching tool coming up. >>> this is fox 5 news at 10:00. >>> the holidays less than seven weeks away. that means the u.s. postal service is kicking it into gear. postal officials gathered in northwest today to kick off the holiday mailing and shipping season. >> this year the postal service will process about 560 million pieces of mail every day. during the holidays that adds up to 18 billion cards, letters and packages. we're going to -- and we will be delivering every single one because our 300 million customers expect nothing less. >> the postmaster expects december 17th will be the busiest mailing day of the year. he says the last day you can use express mail will be december 22nd. >>> we are kicking off a brand- new segment tonight profiling businesses or services we believe could be the next great thing. fox 5 consumer reporter laura evans joins us now with three businesses on the move. >> when yo

release in august, the song by the south korean singer and songwriter psy is a celebration of seoul's nightlife district. >> in japan, high speed connections and plunging hardware prices are bringing high tech ads to every corner of every day life, lucy craft takes a look. >> reporter: at this recent trade show, the new look of japanese advertising, signs loaded with nifty technology, stopped customers right in their tracks. >> like this come on for rose scented perfume, they are excited to hang out and shoe the pedal by interacting with products the thinking goes they are more likely to buy them. another device is a technology called aerial imaging, it makes virtual champagne through thin air, to grab eyeballs company have to get serious about fun and games. even if it means when their customers go to -- >> this game was deviced to build the brand of a go ta botal garden, motion sensors get customers to slow down and grab the roses. >> just push the air and it responds, says the creators, ads can be projected on to almost anything today or plastered almost anywhere. the super thin liquid cryst

>> i thought kearney street could use more nightlife and everything closes after that and there are a couple of businesses there and it's exciting that you're coming in and bringing vitality to street life -- not street life but walking in and out of your doors. >> thank you commissioner. we're pretty excited about that too and we will be in las vegas and los angeles after that as well. las vegas is a 70,000 square foot club. that is quite different. >> thank you. any questions from the public? yes. >> well good evening commissioners. i am also a long time 22 year resident and i want to discuss and also present to you i have seen a lot of positive changes in this one is a good one. during that time some 13 years ago there was a very cool selma chang high restaurant located there and it now closed and the lounge and if you remember and it's now closed. a great place to be to hang your hat and really the wind of the world and i want to show you my positive feelings about having this dining come to the area. as you also know even down on union street there is a asian street fair restaura

be a ban on you all former retail food trucks and to accommodate the location in the vicinity of nightlife businesses that may be located within a proximity of brick-and-mortar restaurants that may be closed after a certain hour. >> yes, good. >> does that accurately reflect it? >> yes. that motion is from commissioner dooley and i believe commissioner o'brien seconded. would you like to move forward with roll call? >> yes. >> commissioner adams? >> yes. >> commissioner dooley? >> yes. >> commissioner dwight absent. commissioner ortiz-cartagena? >> yes. >> commissioner o'brien? >> yes. >> commissioner white? >> yes. >> commissioner [rao*-eurl/]? yee riley? >> yes. >> that passes 6-0. >> >> next one, this is item no. 11. >> i move that we recommend this. >> would you like me to summarize what this does? >> yes. >> this is the ordinance that would establish mobile food facilities on private property within postsecondary institutions and medical institutions located in residential districts. >> yes. i second that. >> commissioners we have a motion from commissioner dooley to recommend approva

no. 2, there is a new way to enjoy nightlife in the district. the d.c. hopper is a shuttle that looks like a party bus with no alcohol. it takes riders around. it costs 10 to $15 each way. the shuttles run every 30 minutes fridays and saturdays from 9:30 p.m. to 3:15 a.m. >> no. 1 tonight, after five years of construction the new express lanes of the beltway are open to those willing to pay up. you need an ez pass or ez pass flex and that's tonight's fox 5 top five. >>> cruising into the weekend, looks dry, that's good. >> some sunshine as well in the forecast. today has been great. we're still a little below normal with the temperatures, but this is livable i think. this isn't bad and temperatures this weekend pretty much where we have been today, just in time for your accuweather forecast. we'll start at the big three airports now, temperature at national 45, dulles 40 and 41 for bwi marshall. let's check on some of these numbers. the temperature is dropping like a rock in frederick down to 28 degrees now, manassas 30 degrees, culpeper 34. temperatures

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. ♪ >> good morning. and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority finance committee. i am scott weiner, the chair of the committee, to my far right is commissioner elsbernd, and to my left. and to

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have been complaining for a long time about problems they blame on the -- they blame on the area's nightlife. >>> it is 7:11. many people love to eat crab here in the bay area but this year, the del cassie could come at a higher cost. right now this year's crab prices are still up in the air since experts say there could be fewer crabs in the bay. >>> we go from crab to talking about italy under water? how that european country is hoping -- coping with massived intoing including the city known for being surrounded by water. >>> political cliff-hanger. the election races that are still too close to call one week after the election -- after the election. happiness located? who owns it? who keeps it? if we fall down; if we fail; where can we fall back to, to that place where we are most happy? we think about these things when we make tillamook ice cream. the purer, the happier, the very center... of happiness. >>> 60s and 70s by the coast. looks good it today and tomorrow. >>> recovery efforts are underway in italy after heavy rains and strong winds left many areas under water. at least four pe

i think one of the biggest questions is we could be much better city for longer nightlife and later hours and mixing people in a social environment in different places. but would also be a lot better at introducing all the cities who flock our downtown and universities to our neighborhoods. which are really phenomenal and rich and have lots going on. and you know, so we are being successful. we could be a lot better. >> well, i think i can speak to this personally. i originally hail from chicago, illinois. i'm sure that will come as no surprise to people here, because i'm onto and with all the other black progressive paul's. [laughter] who run for office and make history. [applause] >> so i came here to attend boston university and made a commitment to not only contribute to my campus community but to connect to the larger city. in fact, that was why i had, i would ask him it was a financial package, too. harvard rejected me. and believe me, every time i lectured her i remind them, and i say and this a full circle moment? [laughter] i don't say anything. anyway, that was for aspects. but

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. >>> super bowl bid committee, which i'm excited and thrilled to say. [ applause ] >> we were waiting for the nfl's announcement. we got that tuesday. now we can talk more. i want to acknowledge chris kelly, pat gallager, jim wonderman, we are expecting ron conway and mary murphy to join us. i also wanted to turn the microphone over to mayor lee to talk about why we are here. that is to unveil our logo, social media campaign. we will have rich silverstein, the head of this amazing ad agency working the past month to come to this point. we are going to hear from the ceo of the 49ers, jet york as well. supervisor mark ferrell, who will be our key liaison to the board of supervisors here in san francisco i want to acknowledge mayor reeve and williams weren't able to make it. we are committed to the effort and our theme of bringing the bowl to the bay. that will be importa