#sfgate

[blackhiil]

DOVESSO + UPDATED SOCIALS

in honor of my 1 year anniversary of the og post

#dovesso #clarissa dovey #leonora lesso #lady lesso x professor dovey #dovesso social media au #lady lesso #professor dovey #clarissa dovey x leonora lesso #leonora lesso x clarissa dovey #professor dovey x lady lesso #professor clarissa dovey #lady leonora lesso #school for good and evil #sfgate #tsfgae #kerry washington #charlize theron

[soapdispensersalesman]

#Bandcamp #Bandcamp Union #Bandcamp Daily #music #music industry #capitalism #corporate greed #union #union workers #layoffs #laid off #writers #tech #edotors #editorial #staff #songtradr #epic games #sfgate #San Francisco #Oakland

[nerdsworld]

What did you sacrifice to go see Barbie? 👛🍧

This writer apparently sacrificed the comfort of his behind,went and saw BOTH the Barbie and Oppenheimer movie.

Thank you,Drew 💋

Saturday

07.22.2023

Update:

🍧👛🍧👛🍧👛🍧👛🍧👛🍧👛🍧👛🍧👛💋

#barbie #barbiemania #sfgate #thankyoudrew #barbie the movie #barbiemovie

[california-slow-take]

“I would speculate that he saw it as a city that symbolized the kind of tensions and optimistic future that he wanted to depict in ‘Star Trek,’” Bernardi says. “... Different people — different aliens, in other words — coming together, struggling together, on a ship, i.e., San Francisco.”

Over the decades, “Star Trek” has returned to and expanded upon its version of San Francisco. Helmsman Hikaru Sulu, played by George Takei, was born in the city. The original starship Enterprise was canonically built at the Mare Island shipyard. In 2161, the Charter of the United Federation of Planets was signed in San Francisco, just as the Charter of the United Nations was signed here in 1945, another San Francisco fact that may have endeared Roddenberry to the city. 

The Golden Gate Bridge has been destroyed and rebuilt in the series. When the crew of the Discovery visits 32nd century Earth, it makes a point of visiting Starfleet Academy in what looks like the Marin Headlands to hug a tree. And, in what I would argue is the absolute best “Star Trek” movie, the cast of the original series lands a Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park and spends 122 minutes gallivanting around 1980s San Francisco in order to bring a pair of whales to the future. (Though you, like me, might scream at the screen when Kirk and Spock walk through a “Sausalito” that is clearly the Presidio as they discuss how they’re going to get back to San Francisco.)

#star trek #san francisco #sfgate #bay area bias continues sorrry!

[transpondster]

#Bandcamp #sfgate #music

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday that she is running for Senate in 2024.

Why It Matters: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), 89, has not said if she’s running for re-election, but Porter will put significant pressure on California’s senior Senator to decide.

The Big Picture: Both of California's sitting Senators have not publicly said if they plan to leave their seats, but it is widely speculated that Feinstein will not seek another term.

• Feinstein in 2021 filed initial paperwork to run for re-election, but it was more of a formality, rather than an official announcement, per SFGATE.

• "In order to keep that account active, the senator has to maintain current filings with the FEC," Tom Mentzer, communications director for Feinstein, told SFGATE.

• California's other sitting Senator, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), won election to the Senate during the 2022 midterm elections, becoming the first Latino elected to represent the state in the Senate after being appointed to fill the vacancy left by now-Vice President Kamala Harris.

• Porter beat a Republican challenger during the 2022 midterm elections to secure a third term in Congress.

What They're Saying: "I’ve spent my career — both before and after being elected to the House — taking on special interests and delivering for working people, and I’m running for the Senate because Californians deserve a warrior fighting for them in Washington," Porter wrote in an email to her supporters.

• "California needs a warrior in the Senate — to stand up to special interests, fight the dangerous imbalance in our economy, and hold so-called leaders like Mitch McConnell accountable for rigging our democracy," she said on Twitter.

• In a statement to Axios, Feinstein said: “Everyone is of course welcome to throw their hat in the ring, and I will make an announcement concerning my plans for 2024 at the appropriate time."

• "Right now I’m focused on ensuring California has all the resources it needs to cope with the devastating storms slamming the state and leaving more than a dozen dead,” she added.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with comment from Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

#us politics #news #axios #2023 #Rep. Katie Porter #democrats #sen. Dianne Feinstein #2024 elections #California #SFGATE #Sen. Alex Padilla

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Welp, the first big “arm” of rain is pretty much past us now.  Wind is absolutely crazy.  Gusts of 85mph!  Was sitting at the kitchen table with roomie and his son, eating some lentil soup I’d made, and the first gust just whipped the building so bad it flapped all the screens on the windows/screendoors, and felt almost like an earthquake up here on the 3rd floor, it hit with such force the whole building shook!  I’m charging up phone/flashlight batts in case we lose power.  So far, no problems.  I went out to run an errand at 3pm and there was nobody out.  Hadn’t really started raining yet, at that point. 

#sfgate

[angrybell]

So this is from today’s SFGate. Why? They’re really asking “why?” like it’s truly unknown.

Because downtown is a shithole of homeless encampments, drug dealing, and other assorted crime. The SFPD is ineffective. The SFDA, despite the change at the top with recall of Boudin, is pale shadow of what prosecution office should be.

Add to that the ridiculous cost of the condos, the restrictions on driving downtown, and combine that with Muni which is never approaching it’s on time goals despite ever increasing salaries and benefits to its employees .

What they should be asking is why the condos are still priced like it’s 2007 or 2019, before people realized what a dump and bad deal living downtown is. All the people who had the liquidity and ability to have moved out of those condos because they realize those little boxes they paid so much for are only fun as long as you can leave them. They’re nicely appointed jail cells when the city and state decides to shut everything down - except for the politically connected - because of a virus that people usually survive, even without a vaccine.

#san francisco #california #sfgate

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[blackhiil]

DOVESSO + VALENTINE’S DAY POSTS

#clarissa dovey #leonora lesso #professor dovey #lady lesso #lady lesso x professor dovey #professor dovey x lady lesso #sge #dovesso social media au #kerry washington #charlize theron #dovey x lesso #sfgae #sfgate #sge movie #dovesso

[sfgate]

#Sfgate #Youtube

[waybackwanderer]

SF Gate: Promotion Index Feb 2003 Archived Web Page

#sfgate #2003

[msclaritea]

"Movie lovers were supposed to breathe a sigh of relief last week when Warner Bros. Discovery announced the un-firing of Turner Classic Movies head programmer, Charles Tabesh. This move was in response to a deafening howl of outrage from a passionate community that, increasingly devoid of quality options at the multiplexes, cherishes the long-running cable channel as a vital outlet for intelligent, well-crafted adult fare from a time when cinema ruled the entertainment roost. It kinda did the trick. Knowing Tabesh, one of the most respected film programmers in the world, would still be around to complement beloved classics with the deepest of cinema cuts meant TCM wouldn't become the "Casablanca"-every-other-day channel.

WB Discovery also continued to hype the programming/curation input of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson — which is a terrific PR win for embattled CEO David Zaslav but does little to move the needle outside of the industry. It's actually more heartening to know that creative oversight of TCM has shifted from Discovery veteran Kathleen Finch to Warner Bros. Pictures honchos Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. You'd much rather have the genuine film buff who greenlit "Seven," "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia" co-leading TCM than a reality-show-driven exec who lists "90 Day Fiancé" as one of her proudest artistic achievements.

But De Luca and Abdy are movie people tasked with restoring Warner Bros. Pictures to its former glory by making movies. They don't have time to manage TCM, nor does the Spielberg/Scorsese/PTA triumvirate. So if this group is genuinely committed to the survival of the cable network, and venerating the studio's vast, varied library, they've got one screamingly obvious option that'll allow cinephiles the world over to exhale.

A wolf in a movie buff's clothing

Warner Bros

If Zaslav is the classic film fan he repeatedly claims to be, he should be familiar with the observation, "It's no trick to make a lot of money, if all you want to do is make a lot of money." This saying applies to saving money as well.

Zaslav, who inherited a debt-ridden WarnerMedia when the company merged with his thriving Discovery, is currently in slash-and-burn mode to please shareholders and, perhaps, make the studio flippable somewhere in the near-ish future. Per his company's own PR, he's personally due nine-figure compensation if he more than doubles the company's stock price. So he's doing the easy part first: firing as many people as possible, and selling off assets (like half of its music, film and television catalogue).

It's filthy business, but Zaslav has his Hamptons reputation to worry about. Still, as ruthless as he promised to be when he seized control of WarnerMedia, he assured movie lovers that he was one of us. He valued WB's history. He fell in love with movies as a regular, middle-class kid growing up in Brooklyn, and dreamed of running a studio. He works from Jack Warner's desk in his office, where TCM is always playing in the background. He spoke at last April's TCM Classic Film Festival (alongside Spielberg and PTA), and assured the audience the channel's future was secure.

Prioritizing vanity projects

Warner Bros.

His first greenlight after the merger was to blow the dust off of Hamptons lunch-buddy Nicholas Pileggi's "Wise Guys," a gangster project that had been kicking around the studios since the early 1970s; attaching Barry Levinson as director (who hasn't made a commercially successful film since 1997's "Wag the Dog") puzzled several industry insiders with whom I've spoken. It was old Hollywood chumminess that reeked of rich white-guy back-slapping, and this was before Zaslav erased Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's already finished "Batgirl" movie. Shot on an apparent $50 million budget, the film is in post-production, and has a slated release date of February 2, 2024, although that could always change.

So when Zaslav cleaned house in June by firing five of TCM's top execs, while slashing the staff from somewhere around 90 to around 20, cinephiles were furious. You don't need an MBA to know that a personnel cut that deep is meant to hobble, not sustain. Zaslav didn't care; however, his Hamptons buddy, Steven Spielberg, didn't appreciate being used as a rubber stamp at the TCM Fest. A Zoom call was arranged, which resulted in an empty press release assuring viewers that the three aforementioned filmmakers would mind the short-staffed store. When absolutely no one bought this, Tabesh was reinstalled as head programmer.

Zaslav must make TCM whole again

Warner Bros

Though I'm amused that Zaslav has turned Tabesh into a rock star amongst movie lovers, he is but one man. Tabesh can't do what he's done so brilliantly alone. He needs a team steeped in every facet of film history to help him track down and license those obscure titles that nourish our desire for, ironically, discovery. Basically, he needs everyone Finch and Zaslav axed.

On a practical, strictly corporate level, this should not happen. TCM is currently only available on cable (streaming-wise, no one associated with the channel has anything to do with that embarrassingly shallow hub on Max), and cable is speeding toward total obsolescence. Its 70% profit margin is evidently meaningless to Warner Bros Discovery. If Zaslav hadn't so shamelessly dampened Spielberg's backside over the years, TCM could've easily been shuttered last year.

According to a recent Hollywood Reporter article by Kim Masters, Zaslav underestimated the widespread industry love for TCM (even Ryan Reynolds leaped into the fray). But what jumped out to me in that piece is that he was most miffed that outsiders "were telling him how to run his business," which is not the sentiment of a chastened man. Indeed, that he's still holding firm on the decimation of TCM's staff — which, to give you a sense of the petty scope of this brouhaha, was hastened by a $3 million cut in the channel's budget — suggests that he's still determined to win this battle. And if that's all he wants, TCM is living on borrowed time.

You bought it, you honor it

Warner Bros

What's his endgame? My most charitable read is that he'd like to have a boutique outlet that flaunts his prestigious industry connections, e.g. Scorsese presents "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." This is where the directors he supposedly worships need, as gently as possible, to remind him that in acquiring WB, he became a steward of Hollywood history. Name-dropping a handful of black-and-white movies as evidence of his love for classic cinema won't get it done. Sitting at Jack Warner's desk is the emptiest of gestures if you're disinterested in sharing his studio's output with the public.

TCM is small potatoes financially, but, as a reflection of the company's dedication to the art that made it what it is today, it's invaluable. You re-staff, eat that $3 million, and declare the channel off-limits. You run it at a (presumably minuscule) loss if need be. If Zaslav does this one, culturally good thing, and once he pays his writers what they're worth, his legacy might not be a disaster in the long term (though I know the short term is where his CEO ilk lives). He also might actually earn the love he seeks from the directors he purports to adore (which will make it so much easier for De Luca and Abdy to lure Christopher Nolan back into the fold, not to mention build out the studio's stable of top-tier filmmakers).

This isn't easy in our fiercely risk-averse age. Because while it's no trick to make a lot of money, it takes vision and fearlessness to make a lot of good movies. It is, however, financially feasible to show a lot of great movies 24/7 on TCM. 

Probably costs less than a summer of fine dining in the Hamptons — and, uh, which card are we using out there, David? Because that's an easy snip..."

Zaslav & Crew are deliberately killing 1000s of Hollywood jobs to hurt the economy and Zaslav gets rewarded with an Academy of Motion Pictures membership.

Academy officers[69]

President – Janet Yang

Vice president – Teri E. Dorman

Vice president / Secretary – Donna Gigliotti

Vice president – Lynette Howell Taylor

Vice president – Larry Karaszewski

Vice president / Treasurer – David Linde

Vice president – Isis Mussenden

Vice president – Kim Taylor-Coleman

Vice president – Wynn P. Thomas

Chief executive officer – Bill Kramer

Governors[69]

Actors Branch – Whoopi Goldberg, Marlee Matlin, Rita Wilson

Casting Directors Branch – Richard Hicks, Kim Taylor-Coleman, Debra Zane

Cinematographers Branch – Dion Beebe, Paul Cameron, Mandy Walker

Costume Designers Branch – Ruth E. Carter, Eduardo Castro, Isis Mussenden

Directors Branch – Susanne Bier, Ava DuVernay, Jason Reitman

Documentary Branch – Kate Amend, Chris Hegedus, Jean Tsien

Executives Branch – Pam Abdy, Donna Gigliotti, David Linde

Film Editors Branch – Nancy Richardson, Stephen E. Rivkin, Terilyn A. Shropshire

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch – Howard Berger, Bill Corso, Linda Flowers

Marketing and Public Relations Branch – Megan Colligan, Laura Kim, Christina Kounelias

Music Branch – Lesley Barber, Charles Bernstein, Charles Fox

Producers Branch – Jason Blum, Lynette Howell Taylor, Jennifer Todd

Production Design Branch – Tom Duffield, Missy Parker, Wynn P. Thomas

Short Films and Feature Animation Branch – Bonnie Arnold, Jon Bloom, Marlon West

Sound Branch – Gary C. Bourgeois, Peter J. Devlin, Teri E. Dorman

Visual Effects Branch – Rob Bredow, Brooke Breton, Paul Debevec

Writers Branch – Larry Karaszewski, Howard A. Rodman, Eric Roth

Governors-at-large[29] (nominated by the President and elected by the board) – DeVon Franklin, Rodrigo García, Janet Yang

#Zaslav #Warner Bros Discovery #DC #Killing Hollywood Jobs #WGA #SAG AFRA #TCW #GQ #GQ Efitor Welch #Movie Contract #SFGATE #CNN #CONDE NAST #Advance Publications #Billionaire Newhouse Brothers #WB Stock Owners #Stock Manipulation

[california-slow-take]

Cee told me that they believe that people go to Burning Man because they experience “something transformative” — the same thing that “deep meditators” and “people on mushrooms” experience. They call it “pure consciousness experience.” 

“You can have that anywhere,” they told me. People think they have to purchase a $700 ticket and travel hundreds of miles, they said, “but that's an illusion.” 

It’s hard not to wonder if “Burning a Man,” in its DIY, trademark-dodging glory, channels the original spirit of Burning Man. The event started out as a beach gathering in the 1980s — only a few miles away from the site of “Burning a Man,” at Baker Beach. Like the original Burns, “Burning a Man” is unofficial, unauthorized, and unregulated. 

In the future, “these regional burns will take over,” said Marshall Smith, 77, a retired city employee living in Russian Hill. “I think the whole thing in Nevada’s getting unsustainable, so you’ll see more of this going on all over the place.”

#burning man #bay area #san francisco #sfgate

[sanfrnacisconow]

Amazing Sunrise, San Francisco. … Great photo by @jmisterjayphotography … #jmisterjayphotography #streetsofsf #wildbayarea #sfgate #sanfrancisco #sanfran #mysanfrancisco #sanfrancisco_now #sanfranciscobay #sanfranciscocity #sfbayarea #justshoot #chasingsunrise #sunrisephotography #pier39 #bluehour #urbanandstreet #streetsvision #baybridge #thinkverylittle #7x7bayarea #dothebay #urbanromantix (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoU4RSAID28/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[sanfranciscoblog]

We're not through this yet.

A parade of storms is expected to bring more rain and wind to Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area into early next week and likely even leading into the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Flooding, fallen trees, power lines, mud slides and rock slides will continue to be a concern.

"We’re going to stay wet," Cindy Palmer, a forecaster with the weather service told SFGATE. "The storms are lined up right now. The Wednesday storm was one in a series. It’s a series of storms, one right after another, at least through the next seven days if not more than that."

#sfgate #san francisco #weather