An SF Weekend of Fun: June 18-20

Friday June 18th

This Friday (as will happen every Friday this summer), I worked the de Young Museum's Cultural Encounters event. This week it was Friday Soirées with the Alliance Française to celebrate Fête de la Musique with live music by Eric John Kaiser on his “Pardon My French Tour 2010” and a strolling accordion player.

I spent my evening checking in the musicians and then working in the Artist in Residence Studio with Michael Horse and Kim Shuck. It was a lot of fun and I did a video interview with Michael about his background in acting and the meaning behind his ledger prints.

Saturday June 20th

We got a very early start on the day with an 8:00am rummage sale at a church in the Mission and got some awesome things. The best item by far was the talking hot dog condiment holder. Emily-I need you in San Francisco to have a hot dog and caprisun party with me. I began thinking of who would be interested in a party like this: Emily, Maggie, Liv, Sachi, Winn..not helpful for this coast right now.

After reviewing all of our awesome items at home (Ilya also got a Buffy the Vampire Slayer action doll), we headed over to Russian Hill to a brunch that my brother, Noah, was having at his place. So much yummy food and mimosas but I pretty much hung out with Kristen, Noah's girlfriend, since I didn't know many people and there was a lot of World Cup watching. I think sports are fun live, but I often lose interest when they are on tv. 

When I got too bored of the game we decided to check out the North Beach festival for a bit. It was pretty fun to walk around but it seemed like the main entertainment was the beer drinking (not really my thing). The evening was spent eating Thai food and watching Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I really liked this book but the movie went totally wacky after about 20 min.

Sunday June 21st

Ilya and I have started taking classes at a place called Burn SF (1043 Valencia St) that is a pretty intense workout. I was still sore from our class on Tuesday but I tried to power through and it helped that they make sure to have lots of Jelly Belly beans around. 

When it was finished we wandered around the Mission for Sunday Streets. I know that this happens in New York, but this was really so much better. A large portion of the Mission is closed off to traffic, there are yard sales everywhere, music and food is all over the place, and there are cool art bikes. Once man had a piano on his bike, others had bubbles, and a few more just blasted dancing music as they road around.  There was an excellent Brazilian group that performed with knives (video here) as well as some drummers and several guitar players.