(Junior Panthers)Holiday block parties are a smart idea. I hit the one in Hayes Valley last weekend, where various galleries and boutiques offered delicious drinks (cider with brandy!) and snacks, as well as discounts for folks doing their holiday shopping. This week there are two block parties coming up: tomorrow night the Western Addition has its art walk (on Divisadero between Haight and Geary) from 6 p.m. until "late." Then on Friday the Mission's "Get Local-- Give Local" batch of store dis
By Peter Jamison
This woman wants to sell you a corset.
Autumn Adamme, pictured above, is the owner of Dark Garden,
a corset shop on Linden Street in Hayes Valley. These days, corsetry of
the kind practiced at Dark Garden is a lost art. In fact, Daphne
Merkin, writing in T Magazine, the glossy Sunday style rag of the New York Times, recently lamented the absence of girdles and other forms of ironclad undergarments from lingerie shops in Manhattan.
This one really is worth a thousand words.Our thanks go out to San Francisco resident Laura Szewczyk for capturing the above expression of inauguration zeitgeist in Hayes Valley. (Szewczyk snapped the shot on her cell phone.) For an explanation of what may have driven this anonymous artist, click here.And check out SF Weekly online news editor Joe Eskenazi's examination of why we're really a nation of douchebags.
• It was an unapologetic week of eating, with a tear or two thrown in for good measure. New SFoodie blogger Mary Ladd was busted gorging on the tasty but little-known savory foods at Mission Pie. Meanwhile, Matthew Stafford downed a mai tai (or two) in anticipation of summer.
• We dropped our bag lunch in the bin and checked out two places still too new to have scuff marks on the baseboards or gum under the seats: Marino in Hayes Valley and Wexler's in the FiDi.
• SFoodie blogger Tamara
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